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She wants to eat everything that we are eating, and if you try to sneak some food that she can't have by her, she'll shoot a glare in your direction. When she is in a position to (like if she is playing on the floor and I am sitting on the couch eating), she'll crawl over, pull up on your legs, and say "Bite!".
We were eating at Taco Mamacita on Sullivan's with Jose and Jessica yesterday. We had just come from the beach, and I had overshot Cora's lunch by a bit. I ordered a piece of cheese and some beans for her immediately, but the waitress (not familiar with babies?) brought out our salsa, guacamole, and chips first. I started scooping guac onto chips and letting her have it, but was worried that the salsa verde was too spicy. I had Cora sitting on the table right in front of me (maybe I'm not familiar with kids either?), and before I could stop her, she lunged forward and put both hands in the bowl and had one in her mouth. I don't think that she loved it, but she didn't seem too upset either.
She likes to feed us. When eating, she often holds out her food to offer us a bite. Sometimes she'll actually let us eat it. Other times, she jerks her hand back quickly and smiles. This morning, I gave her for breakfast a plum and a peach (which both ended up being a bit sour), a banana, and the soft parts of an everything bagel with some cream cheese (she eats everything, I tell you). When offering me a bite, she consistently let me have the plum and the peach (both items she had deemed to sour), but consistently gave herself the bagel and banana. She gets that behavior from her daddy!
She is a complete and total beach bum. If you've seen her lately, you'll know that her skin has easily become sunkissed. I promise she is wearing SPF 50 for every significant sun outing (for example, I do not put sunscreen on her to go to the mailbox, but I always put it on her if we are hanging in the baby pool or going for a run after 8AM) but she is naturally a little brown berry. She is totally in her element in the ocean's edge, and loves to sit where the water hits her waist, letting the waves wash up against her. She often crawls towards them, sitting down when a bigger one is coming and throwing her hands up in the air. If she deems herself to deep (e.g., if a wave splashes her face a little) she instead squats and holds onto one of us and stands to greet the waves with the same sort of raised hand enthusiasm. She is definitely entertaining the beachcombers.
The same is true at Splash Island. (I am not sure why I never have my camera at the water park, but I usually have too many things to juggle to try to juggle pictures.) We've been to Splash Island several times this summer, and Cora gets more comfortable each time. She puts her face in the water on her own, and is starting to kick her legs behind her when we hold her under her arms. She likes to be set at the top of the baby slide, and then pulled down the slide on her bottom (in fact, when she reaches the bottom and we pick her up to let the bigger kids have their turn, she squirms and lunges for the slide until it is her turn again). She seems to like to sit off to the edge of the medium size racer slides and watch bigger kids come down (for example, when Landon and I took Amy with us last week, she loved watching Landon and Amy organize races between them and two other kids). She also likes to sit on top of two kick boards and be guided around the lazy river (which is really little more than a lazy whirlpool, as it isn't very big). She can only do the lazy river when Landon goes with us - she is too squirmy with me. I think that she is just more comfortable with Landon when in anxiety provoking situations, which is very primal.
She has a new nemesis: the duck that we use to cover the spicket in her bathtub. When allowed to roam free (aka, when not forced to sit in her suction cup seat) she stands, extends both arms, and lets out a tribal yell as she leans in to attack the duck. She lifts it's hat (where bubble bath can be poured in) to see if it has a brain; she turns and twists it to see where the water is coming from, and then she goes in for her kill, tugging it off of its spicket and swinging it in the air.
She has learned to get only 1 puff out of her snack pod at a time (which is a significant advancement in our ability to entertain her - before she would shove her whole hand in, causing them to fall out by the tens). She is standing on her own for 15 to 20 seconds at a time, and when she doesn't think about it, she is able to multitask while standing on her own (drinking from her sippy cup, for example). She has several words that she repeats after us (duck, dog, mmmm), a few that she says on her own (mama and dada, especially when she doesn't like what we are doing), and some that sound eerily like us ("no!" in a very sharp tone. ouch.). If she is fussing in the car, Landon and I both start humming or holding "Ahhhh" for several second. We usually get anyone else who happens to be in the car with us to join us. When we become quiet, Cora, with a very confused expression on her face, is often making the same noise in a very soft voice.
Can you tell how much we enjoy her?
I keep a small clear box of finger nail polish in the floor of my closet. Remind me to move this to the "safety locked" cabinet under the sink...
She loves black beans...
If I have high heels in front of my closet, Cora finds them.
She was so sleepy here!
You can't tell it, but she got so dirty while eating that I actually went and changed into a robe to pick her up. My little cuddle bug!
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