Almost Crawling & a New Granny Square Quilt

Nora turned 7 months a few days ago.  June 23rd.  Coincidentally, it was also a year since one of my grandmothers passed away.  I thought about my grandma and I missed her -- but I am also looking forward to the day when I will see her again.

This baby has been scooting around on the floor for a few weeks now.  She'll roll, do a push-up and push herself backwards.  She has backed herself into a few interesting places in our living room.  Alan was studying German on the couch, looked up and found her underneath a footstool--with her little head popped out.  The past couple of days -- probably on/around the day she turned 7 months -- Nora has been able to right herself on her hands and knees, and then rock back and forth... like she's building up momentum to blast out of her stationary position.  Although I said that jokingly, it's rather true.  She IS going to take off and not be a little baby anymore.  Writing this and listening to Iron & Wine may not be such a great idea -- I'm probably feeling more sentimental than usual.  But it's true.  Babies grow up so fast.  So fast!

In other news: in my spare time I have been working on another granny square quilt.  I found the idea on Etsy and I am shamelessly copying the idea.  It looks beautiful and I just hope my attempt will turn out ok.

This is their picture, and here is a link to the Colorful Afghan Blanket that you can buy on etsy.

The past few days, Nora, Alan & I have been enjoying some (limited) time outdoors.  Today we grilled some hotdogs with some friends (rather they did the grilling).  Here's Nora and Dad:

I love this cute little dress -- we found it at a local used clothing shop for children's clothes. 

I love this little smile!  :-)