Cora and Friends: Part II, Nana

Nana and Cora have been friends for a LONG time. She met Cora at the hospital, pretty soon after we met her ourselves! And she stayed with us for over a week, taking care of Cora, and of us as we tried to keep our wits about us in those early, foggy, groggy days - a task we managed with more and less success. As Mom will attest, I'm not the nicest person when I haven't slept. She cooked and cleaned and washed and rocked. She even stayed with Cora during our first venture out alone since she was born - this was how I found them when we got home.


Nice swaddle, Nana! I really appreciated having her there, especially since I wouldn't have been able to leave like that if it had been anyone else but her on duty!

Nana plays fun games and teaches Cora about lots of things.

Here they are learning about her feet in pretty early days.



Here, Cora and Nana investigate nature, learning all about plants and flowers. Nana knows the names of almost everything, and when she doesn't, she tries to figure it out. She's always the first to notice something new or beautiful, so I'm sure she's going to have so much fun with curious Cora.





Don't they look like they're having fun? I love those pictures - so beautiful.

Here she's learning to play piano and sing with the girls in the family


Clearly she's gifted.

Sometimes Nana is crazy. Here we have Cora wearing Nana's fuzzy socks as leg warmers. Clearly, Cora is okay with this silliness.


Sometimes she puts things on Cora's feet, sometimes on her head:


(Cora, just so you know, Nana will be a better help at learning to accessorize than I will.)

They play together and have so much fun!








Okay, so that last one didn't look like so much fun for Nana. But with a face like that, I'm pretty sure she's cute enough to get away with it.

Look, they're such good friends that they dressed alike for Christmas! This wasn't planned, but apparently their connection is so strong that they were both thinking the same thing.




Even my Grandmother got on the same vibe, apparently.

Nana is always so good about showing off pictures of Cora to anyone who is interested/unlucky enough to be nearby, so I thought I'd return the favor and show off the great shots I have of both of them. But then again, she's so supportive that she used to keep pictures of our cats at her desk, too. Obviously, there is no comparison between grandkits (as she called them) and grandkids, but clearly, this was a woman who was ready for grandparenthood! So Mom, after all that time of bugging me about grandchildren, You're Welcome!!

As you can probably gather, Nana seems to be quite smitten and I think the feeling just might be mutual.