New Discovery

Cora usually hangs out in our bathroom and plays with toys while I shower in the mornings. This morning, for the first time, she was by the vent when the heater turned on. She loved feeling the warm air on her hands and face!

Rolling

Well, the beginning of last week, Cora figured out rolling! She's rolled both front to back and back to front before, but not frequently. But last Monday she took off! Now she rolls to get across the room, rolls to reach toys, and rolls back and back just for the pure joy of rolling! Cora is also making progress on crawling attempts. She lifts her tummy off the ground, spends a lot of time on her hands and knees, and rocks back and forth. She wants to crawl, but just hasn't figured it out quite yet.

Cora expanded her toy collection quite a bit last Christmas. Her favorite toys now include Leapfrog letters that she passes from one hand to another, musical toys that she loves pushing buttons on, and the blocks from a sorting toy. She's also shown 'girly' preferences already-- she loves a doll my great-grandmother made for me, and a doll my dad brought back from Japan for me when I was little.

Cora has tried a whole variety of baby foods now: green beans, carrots, peas, peaches, pears, bananas, squash, and sweet potatoes. She doesn't seem to like green beans much, but other than that she's pretty happy to eat anything and is usually frustrated that I'm not getting the food to her fast enough!

I keep thinking her upper teeth are coming so soon--since she keep gnawing on whatever she can get in her mouth-- and usually that's her fingers she's chomping on! But it may be awhile yet, I can't feel any real swelling in her gums yet.

We haven't been doing much in the way of exciting activities, it's just been too cold! Maybe next week will warm up a bit so we can bundle up and go walking outside!

A couple of Boise Christmas pics

After true Christmas in Portland, we were in Boise for New Year's, and did Christmas again with my family.
Thanks to my mom, Jen, Liz, and I got to do girl-bonding over pedicures. Unfortunately, mom couldn't come... but it's a great tradition we'll have to repeat with everyone next time!
Our pretty toes!

Daddy's little girl

Bathtime

Cora loves her bathtime! She especially loves her turtles that her cousin Emeline got her for Christmas. Cora watches the turtles float around her, studies them really hard, and makes a grab for one when it comes close. Once she's got it in her tight grip, she tucks it under her belly so it can't possibly escape. It's pretty funny to watch!
A couple of times she's caught more than one turtle, and while it doesn't last long, she looks pretty amazed at her capabilities!

After she has sat up and played a bit in the bath, we lay her down to give her some splash time. She can sure make the water go high with her arm and leg splashes! After she splashes and gets washed up, it's out of the tub, which makes her so sad she often cries (she especially hates being lathered up with lotion!) until she's all dressed for the night.