The Blanchard Family: Norah is 2!!

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Norah is 2!!

Norah turned 2 on February 5th! I cannot believe that she is already 2! Norah is such a crazy (and I mean that nicely!) :) little girl. She is so full of energy and has her own little personality. She still loves to be playing with and doing whatever Kyler is doing. These two continue to develop such a friendship together that I hope lasts for years to come. Norah is also completely in love with her babies right now. One of Norah's birthday presents from us was a baby carrier, like the infant car seat. Norah's baby rides around in the carrier all day, and has even taken a few trips to church for Wednesday night meals. :) She is VERY particular about her babies and everything has to be "just right" with them, or she gets very angry. For example, there are two babies she takes upstairs to her room with her when she goes to sleep. You have to ask which baby she wants you to carry because if you just pick them up, she starts to yell at you. :) The two babies then go upstairs, the one in the carrier, baby Zoe, goes in the baby bed, and the other one goes in her dresser drawer with its blanket. :) It is so funny though because you will often hear her going "shhhhhhh", "shhhhhhhh" as she is holding and rocking one of her babies. If you ask her what she is doing, she will tell you her baby is sleeping. Norah is also very into pretend play. I don't ever remember Kyler pretending this much when he was 2, but I think it's because Norah has Kyler to pretend with. She loves to dress up in her "doctor coat" and go around "checking" things. She often comes up to me and wants to "check my ears" or some other part of my body. :) Norah also LOVES to pretend to talk on the phone. If I am talking to someone on my phone, she usually also has her phone up to her ear repeating everything I am saying. Or you will see her walking around with her phone up to her hear talking to someone. :) Norah also likes to repeat you when you pray sometimes. In the evening either Erik or I will pray before we put the kids in bed. Lately, Norah will repeat the ends of phrases you are saying. She doesn't do it all the time, but when she does it is so cute, and you have to keep yourself focused or you end up laughing. :)

Norah's language development has grown a lot this past month. She no longer talks in third person or just with one or two words. Norah will now say things like "I need go get my shoes on", or "I go downstairs with daddy". She also will say "me", like "pick me up!". Her sentences are also getting longer and more complex all the time. She will put 6 or 7 word sentences together quite frequently and I am just amazed at some of the ideas she puts together. She is also recalling different events that took place in the past, not very often, but she is getting better. Norah is working on her colors. She gets them right about 90% of the time. She will miss one or two here and there, but for the most part gets them correct. Norah can count from 1 to 12 on her own. I know she doesn't really understand the meaning of all of those numbers, but she knows how the numbers go. She does understand the meaning of 1 and 2 though because she will tell me when she has two of something.

Norah still eats pretty much everything we feed her. Lately though, she hasn't like to eat meat that much. I think it's a texture thing, and the fact that since she only has her 4 molars, she can't get it chewed up that easily so she ends up spitting it out. She will eat burger though, especially if it's in something. It is not uncommon to see her eat better than Kyler at a meal. :) Norah still takes one nap a day, usually for about 2 to 2 1/2 hours. She usually goes down about 2:00 and wakes up around 4:00 or 4:30. I usually don't let her sleep past 4:30 though so she will still go to bed at night. :) Norah loves to sleep with her pacifier (aka her "mama) and her two blankets. She now only has her pacifier and blankets when she sleeps, so they are kept in her bed. At Norah's 2 year appointment she weighed 24.9 lbs (25th percentile) and was 33.5 inches tall (50th percentile).
Here are a few pictures of our two-year-old!