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.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Oh Mother!
Who says Cora is too little to give me a gift? This year, Cora made me a mother. That is the best gift I've ever recceived!
We were lucky to have Mia & the Grand Poobah here for Mother's Day Weekend.
One, Two, Three... UP!
With Dad and Mom both looking at Cora in this pic, it might seem like this picture was posed. It wasn't - this is pretty much how they look all of the time.
Cora caught her first fish... a shark!
Ready for the derby!
We were loading up for dinner, and this is how I found them. Landon wasn't going with us, so if you do the math, that means there were 3 adults and one baby. That left the front seat without a passenger. They rode around like this all weekend...
Happy Mother's Day!
I just love her expression in these pics when she laughs and reaches for me.
I got to sneak in a nap after church, since it was mother's day. I woke up to find Cora curled up with Landon under a blanket in the hammock. I am not going to lie - I would have preferred Landon's nap with Cora over my nap alone!
We were lucky to have Mia & the Grand Poobah here for Mother's Day Weekend.
One, Two, Three... UP!
With Dad and Mom both looking at Cora in this pic, it might seem like this picture was posed. It wasn't - this is pretty much how they look all of the time.
Cora caught her first fish... a shark!
Ready for the derby!
We were loading up for dinner, and this is how I found them. Landon wasn't going with us, so if you do the math, that means there were 3 adults and one baby. That left the front seat without a passenger. They rode around like this all weekend...
Happy Mother's Day!
I just love her expression in these pics when she laughs and reaches for me.
I got to sneak in a nap after church, since it was mother's day. I woke up to find Cora curled up with Landon under a blanket in the hammock. I am not going to lie - I would have preferred Landon's nap with Cora over my nap alone!
Our Little Beach Bum
We spent the weekend with Joy and Dennis in North Myrtle Beach. Dennis was a groomsman in our wedding, and Landon was the best man in their wedding, and we felt really lucky that they invited us to stay with them, baby and all.
What a nice, low key, relaxing weekend!
Helping Mommy pack for our trip. Cora is in a huge shoe phase right now. Hers, mine, Daddy's. All shoes are fair game, and if Cora spots them even from across the room, she starts crawling speedily towards them. We've never been people who put our shoes in the closet as soon as we come home... Cora is changing our habits.
So so tired from packing.
Cora and I woke up early on Saturday and slipped out for a nice beach run.
This was the first day that Cora spent a significant amount of time on the beach, and experienced different types of sand (dry, hot, wet, etc.). For Cora, it was like a smorgasboard of tastes... we haven't broken the sand-eating habit yet.
After the beach, Cora wouldn't nap. We tried everything, and so we finally just gave up and let her play. She was playing with Joy, fussed for just a second, and then practically collapsed on her chest. Joy was so sweet to lay there and let Cora nap on her... and so I snuck a nap too.
She looks so grumpy here... but she was being so silly right before this. In fact, she clapped for the first time while sitting on my lap under the umbrella.
What a nice, low key, relaxing weekend!
Helping Mommy pack for our trip. Cora is in a huge shoe phase right now. Hers, mine, Daddy's. All shoes are fair game, and if Cora spots them even from across the room, she starts crawling speedily towards them. We've never been people who put our shoes in the closet as soon as we come home... Cora is changing our habits.
So so tired from packing.
Cora and I woke up early on Saturday and slipped out for a nice beach run.
This was the first day that Cora spent a significant amount of time on the beach, and experienced different types of sand (dry, hot, wet, etc.). For Cora, it was like a smorgasboard of tastes... we haven't broken the sand-eating habit yet.
After the beach, Cora wouldn't nap. We tried everything, and so we finally just gave up and let her play. She was playing with Joy, fussed for just a second, and then practically collapsed on her chest. Joy was so sweet to lay there and let Cora nap on her... and so I snuck a nap too.
She looks so grumpy here... but she was being so silly right before this. In fact, she clapped for the first time while sitting on my lap under the umbrella.
Joann Kent & Linda Bradley McKee have been saying a nursery rhyme everytime they see Cora.
I had never heard it:
"There was a little girl, who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid."
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