Valentine's Day was great! If there's one thing we as a family know how to do, it's celebrate. A week in advance I set out a bowl of chocolates and told John that for every chocolate we took we had to write something nice about the other and put it in the bowl next to it. At dinner we opened up all the notes and read them. It was a really amazing experience. And I also decided to make a card. It was like being in fourth grade again - but better. I was pretty sure the boy I planned on giving it to liked me enough not to use it to make a paper airplane or try to eat the paper discreetly during our science lesson.
We went out for dinner the next night at our favorite Italian place Parma in Hillcrest and we got all dressed up. John got me some pre-flowers and I got him a box of his favorite donuts.
I like growing things and so the seeds were awesome. I just got a garden bed planter for our balcony. We did all the transplanting a few days ago and our balcony is so happy. All our plants are doing well except for our strawberries which I refuse to grow ever again. This my second attempt at growing them and this time gnats got to them. I guess I'm just not cut out for fruit. Oh well.
In better news... After a few 70 hour work weeks John caught a break and is in school. While he's in crypto school on the dry side of base he usually is home by lunch time! Since he's had all this free time he decided to take up hockey again. Today he got home earlier enough for free skate so we decided to try it out.
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Towards the end of it she was getting the skating motions. I have to say that it was surprisingly cold in that ice rink considering all the hearts that were melting at the sight of John and Nora skating together.
Nora is pretty great. I can't imagine spending all of my time with anybody else. Her favorite word as of late is "happy." When I get her out of the crib in the morning "happy!" When I ask her "How are you?" she replies: "happy!" When I put her in timeout she screams "happy!" I think she's just a super sweet happy go lucky kind of gal. Her favorite toys are her animal tree house and her stuffed monkey. Her favorite foods are white rice, berries, scrambled eggs, dried seaweed, and ice cream. She likes hearts. She can do an unassisted though haphazard somersault. Her dislikes are diaper changes, holding my hand, and getting her head wet. Her favorite game is "chase you." She has a talent for dancing, singing, pretending to read, and falling/miscellaneous injuring of herself. So who wouldn't want to spend their time with somebody this clearly awesome?
