Nine months and new tricks

Norah is nine months old now, and is working on some new tricks. She's on the move as soon as we set her down- scooting/crawling, rolling, and walking (still with a little help). She likes standing on her own and even cruises from one piece of furniture to another.

On the move

She also likes to "help" Dan and I with the laundry. She can scoot over to our bottom drawers, pull them open, pull herself up, and then pull everything out of the drawer- all on her own. Dan and I were pretty impressed when she did it the first time, though it's admittedly a little less cute now that she does it over and over again- since it means we have to re-fold a drawer full of clothes.

"Helping" with the laundry

We just started giving her Cheerios a couple of weeks ago so she could learn to feed herself. At first, she had a lot of fun dropping every Cheerio on the floor, but she got the hang of getting them into her mouth pretty quickly. Dan and I cheered her on, and she seemed pretty proud of herself, too!

We're having so much fun with her as she's getting more active, and still can't believe how fast the time is going!

Swinging at the park

Happy Valentine's Day

It was a beautiful day here today, so we decided to spend part of Norah's first Valentine's Day at the park. It also gave us a chance to use her fancy new jogging stroller. Norah loved the swing and even got to go down the slide a couple times with Daddy. Now I'm looking forward to our Valentine's Day dinner, which Dan is cooking for me! I'm a very lucky girl indeed!

New stroller and shades


Slide and swing

Fun day with Mommy and Daddy

Scooting

In the last couple of days, Norah has been scooting around more and more. I think she'll be crawling in no time now (good thing we got those baby gates over the weekend- though we still have to actually install them!). Here's a video of her current efforts. We usually give her some kind of incentive to get started- a cell phone, remote control, or crinkly bag of chocolate candy usually does the trick:)