Battle Wounds

Cora is crawling faster and faster every day! And she's starting to explore more, in addition to following me around the house. She loves sliding on her tummy on the tile too, and especially loves the coffee table-- which is bad because although it is pretty, it's a head bonk waiting to happen. She has some bruises on the crown of her head due to learning to balance and trying to pull up on things (she's not strong enough to make it up yet, she usually falls and bonks her head), and some roughed up knees too. She just keeps going though, and it doesn't seem to phase her much!

Cora's new-found "toy"

I think she likes the 'boing' sounds she can make with the doorstops! She seems pretty fascinated by them. Cora hasn't been nearly as interested in her baby toys since she started crawling and discovered all the other cool toys in the house-- like the phone charger cord, my make-up basket, and the garbage cans. I'm learning every day the ways our house is not baby-proofed yet!

Another way to play with the exersaucer....

Cora, Grandpa, and the Big Blue Ball

She gets around

Cora crawled for the first time yesterday! She must have wanted to impress her visiting grandparents-- she got those arms to move and got truckin'. She requires a lot of motivation for all that effort-- paper, a water bottle, a tower of blocks, but with the proper end goal, she'll show off her skills. Check it out in this video (the banging in the background is Kevin and Pata working on the basement). We better get that baby gate up! I don't think a pillow in front of the stairway is going to cut it anymore.



And, Cora also started making a new sound during Kissie and Pata's visit too! dadadadadadada. It's pretty cute. Now we have to get her working on mamamamama too!

Sweet Potato Make-up

Cora has been experimenting with blowing raspberries while I'm feeding her. She seems to think her raspberries are bigger, better, and much more fun if they are accompanied by green bean puree! Here she got an especially big blow into her sweet potatoes... that combined with a diaper blow-out got her an unusual mid-day bath, which she loves. Hopefully that won't encourage her messy behaviour!

Family Pictures

One highlight over the Christmas vacation was doing family pictures in Boise. It's so nice to have new ones with all the additions going on in the extended family!

Our little family.

Our big family!

Pata and Kissie. And they are coming to visit on Wednesday! We're so excited to see them, and shop, sew, work on the basement, eat, and play games together!

Won't you be mine?

Cora's stylin' in her V-day pj's from Queenie and Pata.

Cora checking out the teddy bear. She especially liked his ribbon bow around the neck, she spent quite a bit of time inspecting it.

Momma's sweetheart.
She's got skills! She's still figuring out how to use them though. Maybe she'll be crawling in the next few weeks. She can't seem to figure out how to get her hands to move, even if she does laugh at me while I try to crawl around by her and show her!

Also, we found out that Cora might be a UNLV fan! We took her to a BYU basketball game, and it was just too loud for her... she cried everytime BYU scored and the Marriot Center erupted in cheers! So Kevin and I took turns with her in the hall. It was a fun game though, but I think we'll wait 'til next season to try again and see if she's true blue or not.