Such a long time... So many pictures!

I don't really have a good excuse for the long hiatus since Nora's blog has been updated - just that we're a busy family these days! To make up for it, here are a bunch of pictures from the last few weeks.

Every morning, Daddy gets Nora when she wakes up, changes her diaper, and brings her into bed with Mama for her first morning nursies. After that, Nora likes to crawl around and see what mischief she can get into on the bed! She's learned how to pull herself up, and now our morning routine includes pulling up on the windowsill and checking out what's going on outside. Another new Nora trick is the newfound ability to get from her tummy or a crawling position to sitting up. The other day I came into the kitchen to find that Nora had made her way from the living room rug where I had left her over to the shelves on the far side of the kitchen where we keep some photo albums. She sat herself up, pulled an album of her baby pictures off the shelf, and was flipping through it! Very, very, very cute.


Nora still gets most of her crawling mileage in on her belly and forearms, doing a combat crawl maneuvor. But she can do a traditional hands and knees crawl when she wants to, which is usually on the bed or somewhere else soft. I think our hardwood floors aren't cozy enough on her knees to encourage her to do it all the time! But her latest trick is putting her hands on something that she can then push around while she crawls, like her mixing bowl in the next picture and her red toy box in the pictures after that.


Yesterday, we went to the annual Maple Festival in Hebron, a nearby town. Here's a shot of Nora enjoying her first helium balloon and Mama enjoying her (not first) maple cotton candy. Mmmmmmmmmm.
Nora and Mama are on the couch watching a squirrel outside on the porch. He hung out there for quite a while!
Here are some really cute sunlit picture of Nora enjoying a magnet that came free stuck to a bottle of salad dressing. Her favorite toys are always the free ones!

Pulling up on her chair.
We got Nora a push wagon toy at IKEA last week, and she loves to walk behind. It's a little fast for her to drive on her own, and would definitely result in a faceplant that way, so it's used with parental supervision only right now!
And she doesn't only like pushing it.... Riding's fun too!

Snuggling with Mama.