busy busy busy!

We've had a very busy month! Beth was sick for the better part of November, ending with 8 days of high fever, which fortunately broke right around Thanksgiving. Shortly after that, we caught a stomach virus. Nora got it first, then I got it about 3 days later and Beth got sick almost a week after Nora. Luckily, it was only one bad night for each of us, but Beth really didn't need to be sick again.

We've been spending the past few weeks keeping busy. On Thanksgiving weekend, we did the Nashua Holiday stroll and had a blast. We also had Nora's Advent Spiral of Light, which was beautiful. I spent the majority of the time in the hallway outside the room playing with Beth, but fortunately Nora was the first child to make the trek through the spiral!

Beth is now (just over) 16 months old. She's doing wonderful. Loves to stack and unstack cups, blocks and coasters. She enjoys her sorting cube and loves racing up and down the hallway playing chase - especially with her sister. She has had a word explosion recently. Some of her words are "there-she-is," "I-want-that," banana, strawberry, cup, plate, coat, hat, shoes, nose, please, thank-you, more, daddy, No-wah, help, more, up, potty, poop, chicken, book and purple. I didn't write most of them the way she pronounces them, but strawberry sounds more like barburry and chicken sounds a lot like shichen.

Nora continued to be a wonder. She loves Bluebell, but has made it very clear that she doesn't like school. It took us a while to figure out, but she calls her original preschool "school" and clearly isn't interested in going back. We are touring 2nd Nature Academy after the new year and will need to decide soon whether she'll continue at Bluebell or if we'll switch her to the closer preschool program! Nora has really explode in her imaginative play, which I believe is partially due to her time at Bluebell and partially because she's now 3. She loves to dress up, dress (and especially undress) her babies and goes on all sorts of adventures in the house. She'll get on her horse and ride out to fairy land or the grocery store and then she'll come home.