One Little Step

I tricked her, but she took one tiny step! She was standing playing with a toy and I moved the toy back about six inches and she stepped to get closer to it. I laughed and told her she did it and she was not thrilled with me and of course wouldn't do it again.
She stands up from sitting all by herself and will walk around holding on to everything...but just won't let go. Ugh.

13 Months Old

Ok, so it was yesterday...but hey, I am not too far off. :-)

She woke up early this morning and would not go back to bed, so she got to sleep in with Daddy. She loved it and didn't want to get up....hmm...reminds me of someone! She was snuggling up with him - I have to admit, it was really really cute (and Daddy loved every minute of it!) Since she was up a little earlier I tried the whole ponytail thing again. She fought me, but I got it in! Not sure how long it lasted, but it did make it until I took her to school. And...she had her shoes on when I picked her up today! That was shocking.

I have also discovered that she is saying 'uh oh', but it doesn't sound like it. She is saying 'eh eh' (like you are about to say egg). Strange, but its her world.

Little Things

Funny face.
I snuck a pony tail on top of her head. It isn't pretty, but it actually lasted through a trip to the grocery store and some playing time...about two hours. I didn't think it would last five minutes!

Cora shoving a handful of bananas into her mouth.
Cora's favorite reading spot...on Tucker's bed. She always grabs a book and crawls over to it. Some people like a quite chair...she likes a quiet dog bed...to each his own.
Animal Crackers! She has been introduced to animal crackers and loves them. She can't get enough of them. However yesterday she would eat the cracker, but the little (soggy/slobbery) piece that was in between her fingers, she felt the need to shove it into my mouth for me to eat. How sweet of her.

We went to Galveston for the weekend with some friends. It was fun, but I think the crowd stressed out Cora a little bit. She was VERY clingy to Mommy all weekend. She was fine as long as she was somehow attached to me. When we were alone she was fine and would walk along all the furniture and laugh. She never saw the stairs, so I didn't have to worry about it this trip. It was a good weekend to just get away and relax. She went on her first boat ride and hated it. Most of it was the life jacket, but she was miserable, so Daddy turned around and dropped us off on dry land.

She bit her tongue on Saturday with her shiny new teeth! Oops...actually bled for a few seconds too...hence how I knew she did it. I knew those teeth were sharp! She also was testing Mommy and crawled over to the outlet and touched it with one finger, turned to look at me and smiled. I told her no and she started shaking her head and still smiled while touching the outlet. The kicker was that there was an audience and she was testing me! Little booger.

Cora moved up to her new class today. Made me sad, but she needed to...I think she was getting a little bored in the old class. I am ready to let them provide her food too...but I found out today that I most likely will still be taking food for her. Some of the food they serve just sounds gross and they are serving some things I don't want her to eat just yet...like hot dogs...eck! And there is the chocolate chip cookies...um, hello? Plus I don't want her on juice yet. I know...I am a picky first time mom...whatever...my kid...my rules, right? She eats her fruits and veggies just fine right now, why ruin a good thing with junk? She had a hard time this morning, but did better after her nap. And part of all the whining could be because she was tired. So, tomorrow is a new day and hopefully she will do better.

I hope everyone has a wonderful week!

Shoes!

Anyone that knows my child, knows she does not wear shoes. She has a huge foot fetish...worse than her mother! She screams when I try to put shoes on her. Well last night I tricked her and put them on while she was in the highchair and couldn't see what I was doing. She wasn't thrilled but got over it and was fine with them on. We are also going to start working on keeping barrettes in her hair too. She is looking pretty scraggly by the end of the day. And I can't stand for her to have her hair in her face. Next is a pig tail on top of her head! :-)

I am trying to do better at updating the blog...

This and That

Cora has learned to suck the noodle into her mouth. She loves her pasta too! I was brave and let her feed herself chicken primavera...cleaning her up was the fun part. Ha.
I think Daddy is trying to make her a water baby since every time we have taken her swimming she hasn't gotten very excited like he thought she would. So he sent me to pick her up a baby pool and they tried it out. After her initial crying...which was probably more because it was close to dinner time...she did fine and even splashed some.
Daddy got a little overzealous with his splashing...

Big Girl Bath & Peek a Boo

We finally upgraded to the big bathtub. I was worried she would fuss about it, but she did fine. It helped that she got to play with her new bath toys though.

Cora has figured out that she can still open the cabinet that contains the tupperware. She pulls each piece out and hands it to you...or slides it all over the floor and gets it dirty.
Playing peek-a-boo with a tupperware lid.

She was making this face a lot last week. I think it has to do with her new top teeth that are coming in.
Cora is pointing at everything now...including my camera. She also keep sucking her top lip in her mouth.

Lake LBJ 4th of July

Going swimming in the lake!

Floating with Bradley.
Playing by Tucker.
Another morning of swimming. Since Cora wouldn't wear her hat, we pulled out the floaty with built in shade.

Aunt Brenda and Lisa watched Cora while Mommy & Daddy took a ride on the jet ski. This is what we came back to...she was still awake, but quite content swinging in this chair. I can't blame her, it always knocks me out!

Bradley playing bartender to those floating in the water.

Cora attempting to drink from a bottle of water...she was sticking her tongue in it.

Cora playing with Zack's puppy - she loved this little dog...he wasn't too sure about her though.

Pictures

Here's all my Shutterfly pictures:

April Pictures (I think these were already listed, but I didn't upload all of them)

May Pictures

Cora's 1st Birthday & 1 Year Pictures

June Pictures

They are unedited, so grab a snack and drink...set the speed pretty high too! :-) Sorry, I love to take pictures of my baby girl!

Miscellaneous

Watching her movie
Sitting pretty. She always crosses her ankles like this.
Banging on the window to get Daddy's attention.
Foiled! Dennis installed the child locks on Sunday and on Monday she was trying to open the cabinet!

Yogi Bear Part III

All that swimming wore her out! She slept like this for almost an hour!
Hanging out on the golf cart with Daddy.

Cora with Julie and Alyssa
Hanging out with the girls!
Mommy, Cora and Boo. She didn't like him at all. He tried to rub her head and that was the end of pictures!

Yogi Bear Part II

Going down the different slides with Daddy. She wasn't upset, but wasn't real thrilled either!

Yogi Bear Part I

Climbing the step in our trailer. She fell shortly afterwards......but it didn't stop her from doing it again later.

At the pool...not sure about it.


She warmed up to it, but kept her buddy and refused to keep her hat on!