Baby Nora: 11 month update!

I've found the magic ingredient to getting my baby (soon to be toddler... sniff sniff) to hold still long enough for my camera's shutter speed.... a play pizza cutter! Every child should have one (Nora is lucky enough to have a big brother that has one and keeps it stored away on the floor, right in our walking path into the kitchen). She loves anything that she's seen her brother play with, anything!

This past month has been busy, but fall always is. We cram-pack our weekends with anything outdoors we can think of now that the weather is nice! We went apple picking and to the pumpkin patch, which Nora loved both. She watches her big brother frolic around, but takes it all in. She loves being new places, looking around, watching others and will even crawl around herself, venturing out to explore. My favorite thing about getting out and doing anything, everything (!), is watching my babies experience it. Everything is so fascinating, which makes me relive it all through a fresh perspective and I realize, it is amazing, this is really fun. That's life, right?
This month was a big one for Nora-bean, too. We were having a really hard time getting her to eat anything remotely solid, well - we were just doing it wrong! We kept trying to give her baby food with little chunks in it and she wasn't liking it. So, we ventured out and gave her REAL food, like turkey burger, peas, cheese, chicken, beans (etc etc) and just cut it up really small. Or let her munch on crackers and bread that dissolves super easy. Anyways - it took, it clicked, she LOVES it all (well, most of it... we're still working on the veggies...).
Physically, she is free-standing, sometimes just standing up right in the middle of the room with no assistance. She'll walk around holding on to our fingers or something steady - but she hasn't tried to walk on her own yet, she'll sit right down with a giggle if you try. But the girl can crawl, she is speedy, so no issues getting around. :)
She graduated from the infant room at school, into the movers room. I can't believe that happened already. She has some of the same teachers Liam did - it's so surreal (how are we already here again?!). She is wearing pretty much all 2-pieces now (vs. onesies) and her Freshly Picked moccs almost everyday (we need to get another pair...). She loves to flip through board books, make sounds with instruments, sing and babble to herself, watch her brother, cuddle, play with my jewelry and laugh. She is the smiliest baby I've ever seen - she's so fun to be with.
So now... now I have to plan her first birthday party. Well - the planning has started, and actually, invites have started to go out, but I'm in a bit of denial. Nora a one year old? Doesn't make any since. In my head, I'm still on maternity leave, cuddling with her everyday, going to Target and on walks waiting for our boys to come home...
{Nora's outfit: Shirt; Jeans; Shoes}

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