Moeskau Sprout

I just uploaded a nice big batch of photos for your enjoyment.  They cover about a month-and-a-half of activity (maybe I should post more often…).  You can check out July photos, August photos, or everything.

Let’s see, while I’m here, I guess I’ll mention some things that are new with Cora these days:

• She started sitting up by herself 2 weeks ago.  She still falls off balance a lot, but can consistently keep herself upright for minutes at a stretch.  That core is getting stronger and stronger each day!
• Because of that, Cora finally graduated from the reclining infant position on her high chair into the upright “6-12 month” position.  That’s progress!
• Along those lines, we tried sitting in the grocery basket kiddie seat at the store last week and Cora was able to sit in it just fine.  This will make shopping much easier when it’s just me and her!  Our next “Cora sitting up” activity will be a restaurant high chair, although we haven’t tried it yet.
• She definitely knows her name, which is pretty cool.  You can call her by name and she’ll look up from what she’s doing in response.

• Cora has entered the infamous “grabby stage” where anything within arm reach gets immediately stuffed into her mouth and/or flung onto the floor.  It’s great that she’s learning to control her arms and hands, but they have quickly become lethal weapons!
• Cora loves music.  She not only goes to music class every week, but also goes with me to my piano lessons.  It’s pretty amazing that she just sits there for 30 minutes at a time without making a peep.  Even at home, I’ll sometimes put her in her exersaucer next to the piano while I practice and she’ll sit there and listen to me play (for a little while until she gets bored).  She also loves it when we sing to her — we can usually transform fussing into a smile by singing one of her favorite tunes to her (”Hello to Cora” being her favorite).
• Cora has already outgrown a lot of her 6 month clothes even though she’s not technically 6 months yet (still 2 more weeks).  She’s already wearing 9 month clothes and weighs about 16 pounds now.

So lots of interesting stuff going on.  Our next big adventure will be starting Cora on solid foods, probably in a few weeks.  Cora’s grandparents Dennis and Liz got us a baby food maker so that we can make our own food for Cora from scratch — that should be a lot of fun to play with.  Cora will probably eat even better than we do

In closing, I’ll leave you with my new favorite photo of Cora that I just took last week on our front porch.  I’m really pleased with how it turned out — the natural catch lights in her eyes (reflected trees, grass and sunlight) were really unique and really showed off her (still) blue eyes:

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