Nora is 10 months

    This month I didn't even realize Nora was 10 months already until the 22 when someone was asking how old she was at a family orientation day at Riley's school. I said "she is 10 months?" in disbelief that I didn't realize it until that conversation. Whoosh. It has been crazy with the garden, cloudy eclipse day, and getting ready for Riley to start school.
     Nora is amazing! I feel so happy to be her mommy and get to watch her body and mind grow. She has been crawling since shortly after the reunion so probably right around the beginning of August.  She gets around the house very quickly now and can get pretty much any thing she wants.  I love the way the face of a child lights up when they accomplish something new and they know that its big and exciting.  She has also been eating just soft chopped up food since the same time too. Bye-bye making baby purees. She also eats things better when they are seasoned well, she knows the good stuff. None of this just steamed veggies stuff. 
    She loves to swing and play with the big kids.  She also thinks it is hilarious when she is crawling away and I call after her saying her name in a funny voice.  She starts laughing madly and crawling really fast.  She loves to give me big, wet, open mouthed baby kisses and laugh some more.  So I guess we like the full spectrum of emotion in this house. Laughing and crying, often in the same 10 minute period.  Life is pretty good.

Riley starts school on Friday so we have been getting ready for that by getting supplies, attending a new family open house then meeting her teacher and seeing her classroom. Her teacher is really nice and I am not worried about her at all.  The next post will be Riley's first day of kindergarten.