Life With Cora :: 9 Months

It's like tradition...  I gotta say this: WOW!  So old!  This month, Cora has been out of the womb as long as she was growing in the womb.  It is weird thinking that she is so old, but I also feel like she has been around forever.  The last nine months have been so awesome getting to know this little human being and see her experience the world.

Cora has become a master crawler!  I'm pretty sure she would win a gold medal in the sprint part of baby olympics (if that existed).  She can really get moving and I've been going crazy cleaning, getting rid of stuff, and making sure she can't get into anything.  Hoarders should not have babies.

Cora has been pulling up and cruising around basically right after she turned 8 months old.  She really loves to play by herself so I mostly watch her move around the living room pulling up on different furniture.  She loves exploring (always holding a small toy), playing with the dog, getting all of her toys out, and finding anything in the room that could be potentially harmful (ooooh, look!  A dime!).

We've really stepped up our solids game.  I think her favorite thing right now is cheese and cheerios.  Now that the doctor told us we should pretty much be giving her anything we eat, there are so many things that I'm excited for her to try.  A couple of weeks ago, I gave her some sushi (broken up, duh) and she loved it!  Hopefully next month I can report some other fun foods she's tried during the upcoming month.

Hopefully I'll get the nice camera out soon and take some better 9 month pictures like I did when Cora was 6 months.

Happy New Year Friends!

We went with the New Year card since I was a little busy during the holiday.  I sent them out a couple weeks ago and probably everyone that reads this little blog received the card, but I thought I'd share it anyway.  Please don't judge my photography skills (or lack thereof) I just wanted to get a quick picture to share.  We like to keep it simple so here it is:

I kept the back plain with a picture of the three of us and plenty of room to write notes.

I'll be back next week with some 9 month pictures of Cora and hopefully some other stuff.

Life With Cora :: 8 Months

Big month for Cora!  I'm going to officially label her a crawler!  She is moving around like crazy.  I used to be able to sit her down and run into the other room to grab something... not anymore.  I love when she crawls over to see me and occasionally give me 'kisses' or bite my nose (don't know why she does that, but she has done it multiple times then laughed so it must be a game she plays with Daddy)

Cora is pretty good at playing by herself.  She crawls around exploring the living room and spends some time playing with each toy scattered around.  Occasionally, she'll crawl back over and 'check-in' with me and get a cuddle or small feeding in.

Cora and Clove are obsessed with each other.  Cora is always crawling/climbing over to the puppy and really interested in whatever she is doing.  Clove likes to keep an eye on Cora and sneak in kisses.  They always make sure they are close to each other whenever they're playing.  It will be fun to see how their relationship is when Cora is a little bigger and they can run around and play with each other.

We have upped our 'solids' game this month.  She was only eating a handful of foods (we were just lazy and the boobie juice was enough for her), but we have started to introduce quite a few different foods and some rice biscuit things.  Cora has a new trick where she pretends to hate her food (blinking her eyes and opening her mouth: see here) and it makes us laugh.  She realized we're laughing at her face so she has really enjoyed doing it some more and making us laugh hysterically... such a little comedian.

Cora celebrated her first Christmas (pics here and here).  We had a lot of family events and she loved almost every second of them.  Towards the end of the events she would get clingy to Mommy and Daddy, but still wanted to observe everything that was going on.  Cora got lots of toys and clothes from our family.  We just got her a couple outfits, two books, and a little doll

This month, I found out that Cora means 'Filled heart' and Jean means 'God is gracious' or 'gift from God'.  I know, I know... We probably should have looked up the meaning of Cora (Jean was set no matter what) before we named her that, but it is fun to find out that is the meaning of her name especially since she really feels like she is a gift from God that has filled my heart with happiness every second that I look at her.  ... and I'll go ahead and end with that.  Luv dis baby!