6 Months Part II - Pretty in Pink

While watching a home movie of a coworkers, Nora took a very unusual evening nap.


We are currently looking into mass marketing his home movie. We could make millions.




Sundance playing with Nora.



So cute at our Angel Island picnic



Eating time is much more entertaining now for Daddy.

Not sure how it is for Mommy.


Tell me you're not smiling.



Sittin' up.


We put her in a box and she tipped over backwards.

Are we bad?

It took me a minute or two to find the camera and take the pic.




At Great America.

She seems always to be doing crunches or something in the stroller. Doesn't really sit back and relax much, too much to see I guess.
After she got the rhythm of eating she really started going for the spoon.

Here she's leaning in.



Here she's really leaning in.


Catching flies.

She's been in this stage recently where she ogles with mouth wide.




Isn't she...




Pretty in pink?

















Little outfit I picked up during the travels.

Apparently it took both mousse and a blow dry to get the hair down that day. But we wont do it again soon. Too many people missed her real hair.

6 Months - Hawking, Sitting Up, and Butter Nut Squash

Hawking: When I carry Nora around she tends to list forward wanting to look at the ground. This often turns into me playing Superman with her. The interesting part is she very alertly scans the floor like a hawk searching for food. But instead of food, Nora's is looking for objects to gum and drool on. I'm fairly certain she's thinking, "I'd like to get my mouth on that, and oh, that would be nice to chew on. And that too..."

Sitting Up: Not much before 6 months we wondered if Nora should be sitting up on her own. She hadn't done much of it; we hadn't actually tried much. So we sat her up and placed some pillows around her to ease her nose dives and the more frequent backward lunges. But she took to it like a champ, and really since, it's her preferred mode of being on the floor. We think she likes the better view and easier access to more toys.

Butter Nut Squash: Nora loves butter nut squash. Hates peas, and tolerates avocado and bananas. And when she's hungry we have to be careful about not having any sort of spoon out and visible, because any spoon to her means butter nut squash. And she is already fairly adept at letting us know when she is not getting something that she wants.




I liked her feet here.
















Classic Nora.



A little magazine reading time for the girls.




Uh Nora, it's READING time.




The day we found out Nora was ticklish.



LDS Church History Museum.





Mommy's portion of pic wasn't too flattering so we cropped her out per her instructions.











Coming home from full day in SLC.


Old Spaghetti Factory in Provo.


Chillin' with Mel.

At BYU volleyball game with our lil trooper.

It was way past her bed time.



Grand-
parents on baby sitting duty.


With Aunt Little Noodle

Maternal Instincts

Though Kara is not mortified of spiders, if I'm around I'm the one that is asked to dispose of any 8-legged unwanted guests. A few days ago Kara noticed a spider crawling on Nora. Not only did she swiftly remove the spider from Nora, she removed the spider by picking it up between her thumb and forefinger and then squashed it into oblivion.

She didn't share it in her recount of the story, but I'm sure she was thinking, "Not biting my daughter, Mr. Spider!" The clearest manifestation of maternal instincts yet.



I can't technically say that Nora gums everything anymore, now she tooths everything.

As in one-tooths everything.




With the shark in the lower left corner, this pic is right out of the Muppet Show.







Intent.

















Daddy en-courages fruits.






Intent.





Nora likes to suck on the bottom of our glasses.





Don't know if it's the cold glass, whether she thinks she's drinking, or whether she's just weird.



She's a Lil Godzilla on the magazines.



If it keeps her entertained for a few minutes, we are all for it.

Can't see the full effect of the mohawk, but it was sweet.
Mommy ran a 5k recently. She placed 2nd in her division.

Yes, there were more than 2 in her division.

There were 3, and she totally wasted the 3rd girl.