Walk For Life

What an eventful day. It started this morning at 4:15am. That's right, read that as three hours before people should start their days. It didn't matter that I put Norah down an hour later last night to hopefully get her to sleep past 5:30. But she spited me by getting up an hour and half earlier.

After the early start, we went up to Como Park for the New Life fundraiser. It started out overcast, but turned out to be a great day (if you consider 85 degrees, 90% humidity, and no cloud cover great). We met Norah's birth mom there, as well as an uncle, 2 aunts, and 2 cousins. We had an absolute blast walking around the lake for the Walk For Life. Norah spent the first half in the stroller, but finished out strong walking probably the last half mile all by herself.

After the walk we spent about an hour just sitting and talking with Sarah and her family. It was fun to get to know them. And they got to see Norah running all over the park and playing with two cousins she had never met. Speaking of which, Norah has a pretty sweet setup. She's got grandma's, grandpa's, aunts, uncles, and cousins on Jamie and my side of the family. But she also has all those from her birth mom's family. Like I said, pretty sweet deal.

After all that fun, we all went to Snuffy's. I had never heard of it before, but it was great. It was an old-style malt and burger shop. After that, we headed back to Rochester. Only problem is that we got home and starting about 6:30 tonight Norah started puking her guts out. Luckily Jamie was in the leather chair, so no major damage, just don't plan on sniffing the carpet in front of the chair :-)

Norah and her "new" cousin Luke

Sitting with Sarah after the walk.

Her new cousin Olivia.

Giving cousin Olivia a good-bye kisses.