Cora is 7 months old! Well... 7 months and 1 week to be exact, I'm a little behind we had a busy week last week prepping for the apple picking party (pictures to come!). Back to Cora! Still our little ray of sunshine! As happy as can be just about all of the time! She is starting to become mobile! No crawling, but she is a whiz at going from sitting to her belly to get something out of reach! And she can spin like a top on that belly of hers! Sometimes we think she's going to take off like a helicopter! She is bound and determined and doesn't give up! She is much like an inch worm right now lifting her butt up and
scootching forward! She's a great eater and doesn't turn her nose to anything which makes dinner time very easy. She eats puffs and can pick them up but hasn't quite figured out that she is supposed to put them in her mouth! She just drops them off the side of her tray. So for now we pop them in there for her. Her favorite food right now is yogurt.. of course! What kids isn't?! And
Stonyfield has these great new yogurts that are 3-in-1 meals.. yogurt with a fruit and a vegetable mixed in! We are actually contemplating getting them for Cole.
As far as playing, she'll play by
herself for hours! She loves taking things out of bucket type containers and then putting them in. She also LOVES peek-a-boo! She holds anything she can find over her face.. bib, random kid shirt on floor, etc. and then puts it down all the while with a giant smile on her face! I really do need to video it!
Cora still sleeps well and will sleep through the night a few times a week still, when she does wake up its around 4 AM, and once she eats she'll go back to bed easily. Sometimes she wakes up only because she's wedged herself in corner and can't get out, or if she's rolled on her back but is too close the edge on her left side (she only rolls to her belly in the left direction!) and she can't get back to her belly, which is her normal sleeping position. And she naps great.. once you see her rubbing her eyes you bring her to her crib and not a peep out of her! She rolls over and takes a nap.
So here she is!! 7 months old!
She's determined to get everything and anything! Looks like we need to be sure we clean under the couch!
Rob and I were in the kitchen getting dinner ready while the kids were in the family room. I looked in and Cora was COVERED in blue.. I almost had a heart attack, there was a puddle of blue drool on the floor under her and blue tracks where she'd been spinning! We had no idea what she's been chewing on! What we found her chewing on looked like
playdoh, but since there is no
playdoh in that room that couldn't be it.. in the end we think it was a piece of blue paper that
Caden has, although we never saw any of it in there prior to. This is after we stripped her down and fed her dinner, and washed her face and hands.. I kid you not her mouth was BLUE, if it had been red it would've resembled a wolf chewing on a
carcass of some sort! You can see a little bit still around her mouth but the food helped it come off.. her hand was a different story! It came off the rug fine, her shirt for some reason didn't fare as well!
And here she is pulling up to her knees on her music table!! Wearing her apple picking overalls she borrowed from Charlotte's stash! (The little red dots are apples!)
Saturday was our 3rd Annual Apple Picking Party! We had fabulous weather! We congregated at our house and feasted upon all things apple and pumpkin! We had pumpkin whoopie pies, apple cheddar soup, apple crisp, apple pumpkin muffins... and the list goes on. Mmm.. fall has the best food! Then we headed off to the orchards.. all of us except Caden, Rob and the Sevins.. the kids had a soccer game (we didn't get the game schedule until after we had already set a date for the party.. glad we didn't switch it to Sunday or we would have got rained on like last year!)
Cora LOVED Danielle's apple.. or any apple she could get her little hands on!! She shaved off bits of apple with her bottom teeth and chomped away on them! It was hilarious! And when you'd take the apple away she'd open her mouth waiting for more and pull it towards her!+September+2009.jpg)
The apple picking families!+September+20091.jpg)
Gavin and Heidi.. I just couldn't resist the excellent color of Gavin's sweatshirt!+September+20092.jpg)
Enjoying the hayride
