Gaining Personality By the Minute

As Nora gets older (3 months now), she aquires, or is given by her adoring family, more and more personal traits, items, and nicknames. Because her general expression is one of wide-eyed wonder, we call her Baby Owl or Wol. Because she talks with her eyebrows and often scrunches them in puzzlement at us, we call her the Disapproving Chairwoman who is about to pronounce on our antics. Privately, I also call this her "Queen Victoria" look ("We are not amused").

Her parents have bestowed upon her a small whitish animal doll, which they call Cuddle Bear. I asked Jess why, and she said that "Every small child ought to have a favorite stuffed animal or blanket or something." They are doing their best to make this object indispensable to her.