Visits! And Photoessay on Water.

Mem came to visit!!! Yay! Grandpa and Meme were here too, but we didn't get a picture of them. Nora was too distracted by eating her hand and looking out the skylight... Later on, Great-Aunt Trina, Great-Uncle Steve, and cousins Alex and Max came by too. It was a great day of visiting family!

This is my current favorite picture of Nora. She looks so curious, which she certainly is these days!

Nora really wanted Mama's water glass...

So we let her try it!
Lapping water like a kitten.
It's exciting to drink out of a big girl glass! (And Nana just pointed out to me that if you click on this picture to see it bigger, you get an uncoerced view of Nora's teeth!)
And, it makes your chin really really wet.
And your shirt, and your overalls...

And finally, a picture of the teeth (good thing we have a digital camera - you can't imagine how much film we would have gone through trying to get this shot)! Both of Nora's bottom central incisors are in. (The white spot on the left side of her gum is just from my finger pressing there, it's not another tooth.) She's not actively--or painfully--teething again yet, but she does spend a lot of time chewing and chomping on anything she can get her hands on, and she's a little drool factory. You can see her upper incisors under her gums, but they're not close enough to start breaking through quite yet.