Little Seal

Cora tried her first fish, salmon, at dinner tonight. It was a success! She loved it, clapping after each bite we gave her. (Sorry the video is on the dark side!)

Cora's Fast Facts

Favorite foods: kidney beans, peaches, string cheese, and bites of anything mom and dad are eating at the time. And dirt. She still likes eating dirt. When will this go away?????

Favorite way to get around: WALKING! We didn't see her crawl all last week. Now if she could only go down the stairs....

Favorite toys: doll stroller, blocks, books, shiny buttons, phones, and anything she can climb and stand on -- and scare the bejeebers out of mom

Favorite activities: playing in her swim pool, horsing around with dad, going on morning walks with mom and the other neighborhood moms and babies, standing by mom's flower planters and scooping the dirt out onto the patio... one handful in her mouth, one handful on the patio. Needless to say, her outside time is heavily supervised.

New skills: Saying daddy when we look at pictures of Kevin when he's at work, drinking exclusively out of a sippy cup... And this is an old skill, but it's so cute and I forgot to mention it earlier-- when we sing "If You're Happy and You Know It..." she claps her hands. So cute!

Cora tried her first fish, salmon, at dinner tonight. It was a success! She loved it, clapping after each bite we gave her. (Sorry the video is on the dark side!)

Favorite time of day: When she hears the garage door open and sees Kevin coming home from work. What a daddy's girl!

Sunday Afternoon

Kevin snuck a tiny nap in between all his meetings today. Cora decided to read the newspaper instead.
Of course, we fit lots of good play time in too! We wanted to go out on a walk, but it's just too dang hot outside. Cora and I attempted one while Kevin was at his fireside, but it hadn't cooled down enough yet. Oh well. Maybe we'll be out of the 100 degree weather next week! It's been so long since the high was below 95...

Update

Cora and Kevin on the morning of Kevin's first day or work at his new job. It's been a week and he loves it already!
Coleman, Anton, and Cora.

We had a GOPB baby get-together this weekend. In our office, there were three of us who were pregnant all at the same time-- these babies were born within 6 weeks of each other! They had fun playing with toys while we visited and ate.

Water Week

We spent a few days in Boise last week, mostly playing in the water! We went waterskiing for a day, played in the pool, and played in this water fountain in downtown Eagle. It was so much fun! Cora is a big fan of the water. She loved the fountains especially, we went there twice. She spent most of her time at the lake on the beach playing in the sand and watching the other kids. (Which was good because her little neck isn't quite long enough for the life jacket to be comfortable for her--she looked like a stuffed marshmallow!). It was a very fun break. Cora and Daddy. Cora walks more than crawls now! But we were hanging on to her just in case.

Sometimes Kevin and I weren't walking with Cora fast enough... she'd just go in circles around us!

Waving 'hi'.