If Only

If only every Sunday were like today. Nora is in the most amazing mood today - at least she was this morning and I hope it continues this evening. She's been such a ball of whiny, two-ness that I almost forgot what it was like to have a day like today. She listened. She ate (mostly). She drank. She played quietly by herself and stopped moving long enough for me to read a few books to her. She even slept until 7am AND she went down for her nap with no trouble. It was alarmingly nice and I hope there is more of it in the future. I'm telling you, today was AH-MAZ-ING.

To be fair, even though she has been a little bit TWO lately, she's also doing some pretty amazing things all around. I understand 99% of what comes out of her mouth and about 75% of it makes perfect sense. Her sentences are LONG, her tenses are frequently accurate and she's started to recount events in correct sequences and with context. It's quite lovely to have conversations with her these days.

She is not thrilled with the fact that I am working full-time now, nor is she thrilled that she's done with the pacifier, but we're managing both situations quite well. She's spending Tuesdays and Fridays on "Adventures with Abba" and that is going well, too. She has taken a moment to say "I'm mad because Momma goes to work" on a few occasions which is terribly heartbreaking but also impressive for her age.

Last weekend our family flooded Lancaster for a (belated) celebration of Nora's second birthday and a housewarming open house. It was so nice to see her interacting with her grandparents, great grandmother and aunt. Sam's grandmother got to see her dancing around the bima on Tot Shabbat and we got to see her lapping up the affection the family lavished on her. One of the prime reasons we moved east was so that Nora would know her family and they would know her - it was a thrill to see that realized.

This weekend we had an all too brief visit from Auntie Lindsay and Sam and I had a date - we went to a new-to-us restaurant and we played mini-golf for the first time in our entire almost 13-year long relationship. It was a blast.

Nora is sleeping now and when she wakes up we'll go to Loo-Cass's - here's hoping for an evening as nice as the morning.