Learning

We are loving Cora's new tricks, and she seems to be developing new tricks almost daily. Her little brain was particularly active the day after mother's day. It was like she woke up with new neurons firing.

She was suddenly babbling, and now dadadadada is the music we hear in our house.
She caught-on to "touch and feel" books, and now eagerly reaches for the pages, especially"Little hands love soft, cuddly bears" and "That's my kitten! It's tummy is so soft" (two of her very favorite lines).
When I left her at daycare, she had recognition that I was leaving and started to scream.
All new tricks for Cora, and all appearing overnight.

Other new tricks in the past month:
She is starting to take a couple of steps while holding on to furniture.
She is crawling through and under things, like through her exersaucer and underneath tables.
She discovered the spicket in her bathtub, and loves to sit under the water.

With every new thing that she learns, we celebrate.

Our little sack of potatoes doing her morning calisthenics.

We are so happy to see Farmer's Market season return. Last summer, I looked like I had stuck one of those watermelons under my shirt.

It was one of Cora's first times to try watermelon, and I was snapping a pic of all that she had captured in her bib. When I opened her bit to snap the picture, her little hand followed mine and she started grabbing pieces out and eating them.

Makes sense - I ate about a half a watermelon a day during the last month of my pregnancy.

Hanging in the pool with Amy.

If you look closely, you'll see the foreboding teeth in through the window. Don't get too scared... it was just Luke Cangelosi hanging out with Pearl on our back porch. Cora was fascinated.