She keeps growing!

Last week Cora made leaps and bounds in her foot coordination and hand-eye coordination. She was lying on her back in the floor gym and using one foot to pin a dangling lion that plays music against one of the "arms" of the floor gym. She figured out that moving it just enough or pulling on it made it play music. It was absolutely fascinating to watch her work on it. She was totally focused on the lion toy and purposefully using her feet. There was no fast movement, kicking, jerking or anything. Totally intentional movement. Amazing.

Later we switched the lion to hang more over her head. It took her a while to figure out that she could grab it with her hands and get the same effect as she was getting with her feet. I'm actually not sure if she was trying to make it play music or just trying to eat it because once she got a hold of the lion (first by the tag, later by the tail) she was pulling with all her might toward her mouth...which was wide open, ready for a bite! Is it obvious that we find Cora to be incredibly entertaining?

Well, that happened on Wednesday. Then on Saturday she rolled from her back to her tummy for the first time!! She's been going from front to back for a while, but this was a first for her. When she's on her back she often will roll just to her side and get stuck, kick her legs trying to get over and then roll back to her back. Each time she does this she rotates about 45 degrees. After about 10 minutes or so she's almost rotated a whole 360 degree circle. The craziest thing is that she at night in her crib. (We're not sure if she does it in her sleep or wakes up and does it but Brad and I don't hear her...) I'll put her in her crib with her head one way at night and in the morning when Brad gets her up she has her head on the other side of the crib, or she's perpendicular to the way I put her down. Kinda funny and kinda scary.