Clapping

Cora started clapping while ago (March 16th), but we've had a hard time getting it on video. Here she is displaying her ball rolling skills and clapping too.

Outdoors

We made smoothies last Sunday and went outside to drink them. Cora didn't have any smoothie, but she did like the grass! Kevin says that we won't have to mow the lawn this summer if we take her outside enough to play. (Just so you aren't worried, the pieces of grass were so small Cora rarely could get them to her mouth, and when she could, we intervened!)

Stats

Cora had her nine month appointment with the pediatrician yesterday. She is 16 pounds 4 ounces, still in the 10th percentile. She is 27 inches long, so still about average for height. The doctor said Cora most likely wouldn't hit 20 pounds by her first birthday, so she'll be riding backwards in her carseat for a while yet! ... make that 'she'll be riding in her carseat rear-facing' -- not strapped in backwards!...

Stats

Cora had her nine month appointment with the pediatrician today. She is 16 pounds 4 ounces, still in the 10th percentile. She is 27 inches long, so still about average for height. The doctor said Cora most likely wouldn't hit 20 pounds by her first birthday, so she'll be riding backwards in her carseat for a while yet! ... make that 'she'll be riding in her carseat rear-facing' -- not strapped in backwards!...

One Noisy Flower

Cora and I play shadows almost every morning!

Cora's newest accessory-- her flower headband. She doesn't seem to mind it, and it was too cute for me to pass up in Target's dollar aisle. She's only pulled it off to eat it once! Cora has also been talking quite a bit lately-- she's got mamamama, dadadadada, yayayayaya, and nanananana down pat! She's also quite the little screamer, she especially loves to scream at herself in the mirror and to kiddies we pass by on our walks.

Cora was wearing wearing the headband when we took our family walk last night, and was yakking up a storm. One of the guys working on a new house we walked by remarked that she was sure a noisy little flower! She got lots of compliments from the neighbors too.

New Things

Cora has made all kinds of new discoveries in our house. She loves looking outside through our pack door to the patio (if you look closely you can see her drool mark on the window too!)

The computer cords are a favorite area too.... she likes to unplug! But now they are all blocked by pillows, so we're safe for a while till she figures out how to moves those. She also loves the scale-- must be how shiny it is, and she thinks it's grand when we set her on it-- it isn't a very reliable scale, but she's been weighing 16.5 pounds pretty consistently! We'll see how accurate it really is when we go to the pediatrician at the end of the month. Cora is still fascinated by doorstops, we've had to remove most of them in the high traffic areas, but she still likes to try for the one behind our closet door, but gets mad when she can't quite reach it because of the storage unit that makes the area narrow.

Cora is loving our walks more and more. It's so nice outside, there are lots of kids out playing, and she also studies each car going by very intensely.

Here is Cora with Auntie and Grandma feeding the ducks. Cora liked looking at all the duckies down in the lake fighting over the bread... and trying to sneak some bread from Grandma when she wasn't looking!

How much is that baby in the window?

Cora loves to look at herself! When she's in our room, she always makes a beeline for the mirror. She loves looking at herself in the mirror, on her blog, when we're on the webcam, and now, on the dishwasher and oven too. She thinks her reflection is pretty cute! Or maybe like the Baby Blues comic said yesterday, she's just going over to play with that other baby and wondering why there's always a window between the two of them!
I used to keep my makeup behind the mirror, so she always looks for fun things to play with back there, but since Cora has become more mobile, I had to find a new storage place!

A New Low

Last night Cora pulled herself up to standing in her crib several times... so this morning it was time to take the crib mattress down to the bottom notch! She is growing up so much!