January in Review.

Aaaaand January.

- Pizza record store day! We went to the Pie and Randy's Records with Kay and Andy (Brian's sister and BIL). Norah was moderately impressed. (see above)

- We started the process of apartment hunting. I think we only looked at three places? It felt like more than that, because apartment hunting is the worst.

- I went to a baby-wearing meeting. Norah out-chunked most of the babies there and also had the biggest poop explosion ever. Her onesie actually vibrated from the force of it. So amazing.

- Norah seems to hit milestones a bit faster than expected. True to form, she hit her 4 month sleep regression at 3 months! Smart girl. I started sleeping with her on the couch to get some sleep and on the weekends Brian joined us on the air mattress. Family sleepovers!

- I went back to work. There were tears (only mine, Norah was fine) and some creative carpooling the first week due to my stupid-ass car being the worst thing that ever existed. Poor Brian was pulling over an hour of commuting each way and we had to leave the house by 6:30. Nightmarish. Anyway. Norah was a champ and adjusted quite well to daycare. And I was a champ and didn't cry at seeing the terrible state my desk had been left in by my replacement. I am writing this in March and can say that going to work now is super normal. And it's nice to have a span of time where I'm not getting spit up on or having to entertain someone while I'm using the bathroom. However, I sure miss that Norah Bee allllll day long. I'm so lucky that I only work three days a week. It's kind of the perfect set up for us.

- Because of the horrible, terrible, no good car situation, we decided to be grown-ups and get a car from a dealer instead of whatever wierdo on KSL wanted to take our money. It's a 2005 Camry, so not fancy by most people's standards. But it's by far the nicest car Brian or I have ever owned, so driving it makes us feel way more upper middle class than we actually are.

- We had a cereal taste testing night. Everyone brought some cereal to compare and we ate away. Our findings were that most people preferred cocoa pebbles to cocoa krispies, and that the Kroger version of lucky charms was really not great.

- Norah had her four month appointment and we left it feeling like unfit parents after finding out that she had eczema, should apparently be sleeping through the night, and had to be referred to a physical therapist for torticollis. We have since resolved or mostly resolved all those issues, and now I realize it was so not a big deal. Buuut at the time it was a huge bummer. Luckily, Norah was able to reassure us with her gummy smiles.

-  Every once in a while our friend group will split and have girls/guys nights. This past one we ate at Blue Lemon and did some shopping at City Creek. Oh and went to Hatch's! If you haven't had their hot chocolate, you should. (How's that for a catchy slogan?)

- I cleaned out my closet and got rid of approximately one crapton of stuff. It was really really refreshing.

- Did you know how full you can get from a pizza buffet? I do now, thanks to our outing to Brick Oven.

-  The gang from Pineview 34 hung out one last time before Amanda returned to her homeland of Idaho. It's a shame it was so tricky to get together this past year (I blame all the babies) because those girls are some of the best girls.

- We took Norah on her first trip to Ikea and she slept THE ENTIRE TIME. I'm talking the drive there, eating at the cafeteria, walking through the showroom floor and the buying floor, and the drive home. It was nuts. The anticipation must have just been too much for her. While there we purchased two lamps, to replace the one that tipped over and crashed into the sliding door due to an unfortunate combination of my decluttering and a cats napping spot.

Norah's first day with Jeorgi! I was so relieved she was doing well at daycare.

Cereal night!

New car! It's so uncool how much we love it.

I get as much cuddle time in as I can on my days at home.

Tagging along on a photo shoot at Wheeler.

Another picture from Jeorgi. Happy girl!

Hamming it up for her monthly photo shoot.

Finns! I want to eat their eggs benedict every day.

The best picture of Norah ever. She was so disgruntled to wake up at Winco

One, two, three, and four months!

Norah meeting all the old roommates and Dakota.

Norah got an exersaucer! She likes to scream at this bird.

And she is unsure about trying on headbands.

December in Review

You know the drill. What we did in December!

- Went on a family date to Kneaders and to see the lights at Temple Square. Norah slept through it, but I still think she had a great time,

- Witnessed a chai latte explosion. We had some chai latte mix and milk heating in the tea kettle and apparently let it go a minute too long. It literally exploded out the top and the spout. Like, it hit the wall that was four feet away. My response was to stand there dumbfounded while Brian turned the stove off. So I'm good to have around in times of crises. Later on I was cleaning all of our cooking utensil things (spatulas and the like) that had been splattered and I was like oh yes, we used to use these tools for the preparing of food. How nice. I felt like an archaeologist. (having a baby has made us quite the drive through aficionados. Working on it.)

- We had a super social five days in a row where we hung out with different people every night. (Does that sound braggy? Please know that we have gone a solid three weeks without hanging out with anyone besides each other. Sooooo) On our first night home and alone I think we sat and watched tv and didn't move all night. Introverts gotta introvert.

- Celebrated Friendsgiving! The food was so great and Norah spit up on EVERYTHING.

- We celebrated Jamilyn's birthday with our favorite Thai food and a literal cheese cake. (As in, a cake made with layers of cheese.)

- We put up the Christmas tree. Norah even slept for a little bit so I could help. (And three weeks later we put lights on it. And by we, I mean Brian.)

- Had a lovely taco brunch with Brian's sister and her family. They are funny and I like them. (also just go to Taqueria 57 if you haven't already because good crap. Eveyrthing they make is amazing.)

- We tried three times to make sweet potatoes correctly. We finally succeeded and I think it's because we danced around to a K-Ci and JoJo song while they were cooking. ("Crazy." Obviously.)

- We did our traditional Christmas Eve of getting hot chocolate and driving around to see lights followed by Christmas tacos. Norah was too excited for Christmas to sleep, which was a new tradition.

- We got to have Friendsmas on actual Christmas day which was weird and cool.

- My family came down the day after Christmas to celebrate and we had Hotel Christmas! We stayed in a cool suite downtown for two nights and introduced my parents to Tucanos. They were super on board. We ate all the meat. And it was good.

- We managed to celebrate a third holiday with our friends in December. New Friends Eve consisted of an appetizer meal, Die Hard (do not get me started), champagne cake and a baby who stayed awake for the whole party! It was a great start to 2015.

- Norah basically got cuter every day in December and I tried my best to document it.

The best thing that happened this month was the three weeks that Norah slept through the night.

The worst thing that happened this month was when her sleep regression hit and she stopped sleeping at all. Zombie Lacy for days.

Friendsgiving! (Also I'm aware that re-naming all the holidays and sticking the word 'friends' in them is at best lame and at worst hella annoying. However, I won't be stopping. Not ever.)

The best around.

Cats AND babies like Christmas trees. Is a thing I learned.

Norah and the bear her great-grandma made her.

3 months ooooold!