Noemi Playing

Not much fazes Noemi. She talks a lot, but rarely cries and usually gazes about with a look of pleasant interest on her face. Sometimes it's hard to snap a photo of her with a full-on smile since she's just sitting back, soaking in the world around her. We got lucky with a couple today, though.

Her helmet doesn't bother her at all

 

But she still enjoys a break from it now and then

Back to her usual look

Zora Being Silly

Zora was super smiley and talkative when she woke up from her nap this morning. Maybe it was the music we were playing. Or maybe she's just so stoked that she's this close to crawling. Any day now she's going to take the trouble meter up a notch.

Getting Ready for Thanksgiving

The girls had an exciting day today: art projects at school and their first mortgage re-financing!

Zora practicing her signature at the title company

Noemi looks stunned by all the signing of documents at the closing

They painted "turkeys" (aka peacocks) at day care. Zora's is on top, Noemi's on the bottom.

Election Day

At the polling station Tuesday morning

They looked 18 to the poll workers.

The New Helmet

Because of the flat spot on the back of Noemi's head, which the doctor referred to as "severe," we have a new piece of head gear in our lives.  She wears it for 23 hours a day and during her one hour of freedom we hose down both her head and the helmet.  On average, we're told, babies wear them for 3 months.  We have to go to the prosthetic and orthotic center where she got it every three weeks so they can check on her and make the necessary adjustments.  

Noey doesn't seem to mind it.  During the first couple of days, her head was quite sweaty; but now that she's adjusted to it, the view through the clear plastic is no longer of matted wet baby hair.  And now it's harder for her sister to nibble on her head!

Noey with our friend Leah

7 months today!

It's hard to believe Noemi and Zora are already 7 months old. The first few months felt like years and these last few months have felt like a few days. It's so much fun to feed them solid foods, to "talk" with them, and to watch them play with each other (which currently amounts to them rolling on top of one another and taking each others' toys away).

We recently got a new camera with the help of Aly (Katy's sister) and can't stop taking pictures. Here are a few cute ones (great tiger costumes courtesy of Grandma and Grandpa Evans):

In the double stroller at Liberty Park

Smiling

Zora eating cereal

Mowgli tasting Noemi

Rolling around on the floor

Zora at 7 months

Noemi at 7 months

Two tigers ready for the Halloween party at day care

Yum Yum Solid Foods

We started feeding the girls "solid" food about two weeks ago.  We've tried mashed up yams, green beans, avocado, butternut squash, and rice cereal.  During our first two attempts, I would say 80% didn't make it down either of their gullets.  Noemi, especially, still likes to help by grabbing the spoon and shoveling the food du jour towards her nose.  This afternoon, she just kept her mouth open showing off all the strange orange food on her tongue, like that was the final step of this thing you call eating.  Zora seems to have a slightly better handle on the chewing and swallowing.  But - it's all relative.