Raise Your Hand if You Like to Sleep

The first picture is from Nora's first night in this big world of ours. The second picture is from when she was about 1 month old. The bottom picture is from a week ago. I probably don't need to point out that her pose is nearly identical from picture to picture. Even her ultrasound photos had her arms up next to her ears.

As you can see, she likes to sleep and is very capable of getting comfortable.


So the beautiful and sound sleeping Nora did not live up to her peaceful sleeping photos last night. We had a rare rough sleeping time with her last night/this morning. She fell asleep around 9 pm last night while nursing and slept soundly till about 3 am. I woke up to her hungry noises, got her out of her crib and brought her to bed with me. She nursed herself back to sleep as per usual. What was unusual about today is that she woke up again at 5 am nearly screaming.

Little Nora had horrible gassy tummy pains and between her crying, it being 5 am and the sheer unusualness of this early morning outburst Virgil and I were hardly able to manage. After about an hour and half of trying to burp her, trying to comfort her, trying to find a position to hold her that helped and didn't make her unhappier we were out of options to try. So we decided to go for a drive and see if a change of scenery and some motion didn't help lull her back to sleep. We laid her down on the bed and started getting dressed ourselves to go out. By the time we were done putting on our jeans we noticed she had stopped crying and seemed to be falling asleep. We crept over to the bed, peered over and watched as her eyes got lower and lower and lower until she fell asleep. We then collapsed into bed for a blissful 3 extra hours of sleep. 

Look Mom - I can stand! Or at least lean!

Since learning how to use her hands recently and getting the neck strength to hold her lovely head up Nora has found her Baby Einstein activity center to be a lot of fun. She stands/leans and scoots around trying out all the fun toys on the center. Her favorite activies include gazing at the sun and the star and deliberately/accidentally hitting the buttons to make the duck quack, the dog bark, and cow moo.





She's still sorting out her hand eye coordination and her manual dexterity to use all of the toys like the ball counter/mover thingie, but those skills will come soon I'm sure. In the meantime, look at this smile!

We took her to the Dr. on Friday to get some little scaly patches on her chest checked out. Big surprise, but Nora seems to have inherited some of her daddy's bad skin. Hopefully OTC cream will keep her from itching and flaking too much.


While we were there we found out she weighs 17 lbs now. And Friday was her 3 month birthday! She continues to be above average just like all the children in Lake Wobegon.

This was two weeks ago at the Missouri Botanical Gardens. Nora enjoyed the glass, trees and flowers. But she especially enjoyed napping in her stroller while walking through the climatron so V and I could check out all the glass art sculpture. 

3 months old

Virgil and I have spent a lot of time today trying to figure out how to customize his website virgilwatson.com to make it more attractive (even though all the Nora pics are pretty cute) and make it easier for me to edit and add comments. Lets just say its not going well. Hence the blog.


I will update this with the goings on of the very busy and very special little Nora Belle to keep all out of town family and friends updated.


The little angel is waking up from her nap... time to run!