Ten Months Old

Nora is becoming much more locomotive. Over the past few weeks, we've watched her go from mostly rolling to get to what she wants, to cruising along furniture and walls, and army crawling on her belly. Still no actual crawling on hands and knees, and no teeth!

Milestones:

• Cruising along the walls and furniture
• Paying more attention to books. We can usually get in 2-3 words per page before she's turning it for us
  
• Eating a lot more table food - in fact, baby food and formula are quickly losing their appeal!
• Imitating sounds and babbling in what sounds like a conversation
• Getting into mischief, as you can see by the following pictures!
  

Happy Halloween!

Sunny Afternoon

Nora got up early from her afternoon nap, and I took advantage of the beautiful light in our bedroom and her sunny disposition! Hopefully it will last through the usual fussy dinnertime hour. If not - early bedtime for both of us :)

Reading Time

And now, back by popular demand...a blog post!

Nine Months!

The two biggest questions at this stage are: Any teeth yet? Is she crawling? Still not yet for Nora, but she is definitely developing her motor skills in other ways.

Milestones for the month:

• She is able to stand while holding onto nearby objects or people for support
• She is eating more and more table food - she loves tomatoes, beans, and yogurt
• Her verbal skills are developing. She is making conversation-ish sounding babbles, clicking her tongue, shrieking, and lately, growling like a baby Nazgul (so says Ben)
• Rocking back and forth on hands and knees

It seems our days of plopping her down and having her stay in one spot are dwindling! Additionally - is chewing on paper something babies commonly like to do? Nora is wild about any paper she happens to get her hands on. She will rip, tear, and one time, chewed it to a concrete pulp that got stuck to the roof of her mouth!

We hope you enjoy these pictures of Nora standing in her "tunnel" and the video clip of her shrieking in delight!

Eight Months

Nora is getting to be such a big girl: rolling and 'skootching' around, dancing in her exer-saucer, interested in friends, saying 'ma-ma' and 'da-da' indiscriminately, etc. Here are some shots of her on our first picnic in the mountains, and some play/attack time with Reese. She is more and more delightful to us!

Baking Cookies