No hands!

Look Mom, no hands!

Norah just started letting go of things she uses to support herself.  I saw her do this with the tv stand and then she came over to me, used my leg to stand up and just stood freestanding in front of me!  

Norah's First Halloween

We had a fun Halloween with Norah.  It's a lot of fun to dress up your kid!  We carved a pumpkin with Norah the weekend before Halloween.  She enjoyed reaching into the pumpkin and cleaning it out.  She managed not to get too much pumpkin on her, though we did throw her into the tub immediately after.  We finished the actual carving after she went to bed.  Norah's Halloween costumes were given to us by Grammy Longpre and Auntie Janina, and she got to wear both of them.  We put Norah in the elephant for daycare since that was much more daycare-friendly with having to change her.  We took her trick-or-treating in the pumpkin costume, tights and all!  It was cool that night so the costume kept her warm.  We trick-or-treated just in our town home community, and hit about 10 houses or so.  Trick-or-treating didn't start until 6 PM so Norah was pretty tired by then anyway.  She enjoyed wearing both costumes and is so cute in them we might just have to throw them on her sometime for the fun of it!

Norah and her pumpkin have the same number of teeth!

Checking out all the treats!

Getting Around, Standing Tall

Norah is definitely mobile now since we posted the first video of her crawling.  Once she started crawling she would usually get around doing an army crawl with one leg up and one knee down.  She did this for a long time, and still does, but not as much.  At first she couldn't pull herself up on the coffee table and our stuff was still safe from her reach, but not anymore.  She pulls herself up easily using the coffee table, the gate we installed between the living room and the kitchen, a closed door, or her favorite thing....her parents!!  She likes to climb on us and use us for leverage.  She isn't walking, and usually won't try even when I assist her, but she's getting herself around and standing up using whatever is in her reach.  She has even started to climb our stairs too.