We are in so much trouble!

The pictures say it all. She did all these poses on her own...Lord help ups in about 12 years!

Sick Girl

Wednesday morning Cora woke up with 102 fever. No other symptoms, but she can't go to school if she has fever. So, I stayed home with her. She was acting normal all day, but the fever was there. Very strange.

I snapped some pictures of her playing fetch with Tucker.

Here's a couple in mid throw.

Then she picked up the big ball...Tucker was running from her. I had stopped taking pictures by this point and was unloading the dishwasher...by the time I looked up to see what was going on (after Tucker whimpered) I died laughing! Poor Tucker was hiding under the kitchen table so the big ball wouldn't hit him in the face!

Saturday we had a full day planned and Cora again woke up with a fever. Can you tell she was sick? Ha!

I cooked a pizza for dinner and she wanted to use the mitts on her hands.

Sunday morning she woke up fever free...hopefully it will hold!

Walton Reunion

We had a little reunion of sorts with the Walton side of the family on Sunday at Mom's house. She put it all together and got everyone to come. We all just showed up! It was a great visit with everyone and Cora got to see some cousins she had never met before.

The Newlyweds made the occasion too - Eric & Pennie
Cora had a ball with Taylor, as always.

More playing with Taylor and Nana's kitten.

Cousins - Cleo and Nancie (aka Mom, aka Nana)

All the kids playing - Taylor, Brendan, Cora and Megan.

Miss Megan - she looks like the Waltons...

Cora and Uncle Eric

Brendan - He looks a lot like Daniel...and we figured out part of it is that Daniel has this same outfit!

Megan, Cora and Brendan waiting for lunch.

Cora getting sugars from Nana.

Can't have people over with showing them the 'feeding of the fish' in the pond!

Jenni, Claudia, Carol, Laura, Lee and Vi visiting.

Cora getting time with Grandpa, however she is shortening that to 'Pa' some lately.

Brendan crawled up in Grandpa's lap and jealous made a bee-line for him. That is her Grandpa!

Claudia, Cleo, Laura, Lee and Carol

Gillian, Braden, Michael, Jenni and Megan Reardon.

Grandpa and Cora waiting on the swing.

Braden and Michael.

The Reardons and the Reardons (Aunt Vi & Uncle Jim)

Sisters - Vi and Nancie

Cousins - Vi, Nancie & Cleo

Cora - she slips in every once in awhile! Funny story about the visit - we were watching some old videos of Nan when she was about Cora's age. Everyone kept commenting on how much Cora looks like Nana. Then Lee (Laura's husband) walked in and glanced at the TV and then looked at Cora. He was amazed. With that and how much Brendan looks like Daniel...I think his exact words were 'you guys have some freaky genetic stuff going on in your family!'

Cousins - Gillian, Megan, Brendan and Cora. Brendan was done taking pictures, as you can tell.

This is Cora telling me 'done' after taking all the group pictures. She wouldn't look at the camera anymore and was trying to look me in the eye. It was very funny.

Cora trying to climb Daddy

Another Cora Cutie picture

Brendan giving Cora a hug goodbye. She was annoyed he was interrupting her dinner. And we kept telling him to do it over and over again so I could get a good picture!

Painting & Dancing

Cora and I were finally home on a Saturday for the first time in over a month, so I thought we would use some of her birthday gifts. We pulled out the markers and paint and went to town! She had fun and has asked to 'paint' every day this week.
She didn't want to do the 'finger' paints with her fingers...it is 'messy'. So she used a brush instead. I made her get messy though - we did hand prints at the end.

She was annoyed with my picture taking!

She was dancing with my keys for some reason...and I took pictures!

More dancing...

Silly face!

We had a fun Saturday - just us girls!

2 Years Old

I took her 2 year pictures at Mom's house on the river. She wasn't really in the mood, so I didn't get very many good ones. I might try again this weekend, but we'll see.

Updates:

Height 33.5 inches (I think she was closer to 34)

Weight 32 pounds (she was less than that - she was holding her water cup!)

*When she wants you to pick her up she says 'I carry you'

*Blueberries is 'boobies' - I am working on this, so hopefully it won't last too much longer.

*Necklace is 'nessess'

*Bracelet is 'bace-et'

*She thinks it is funny to fight me while getting dressed.

*She has started to head-butt me and it really hurts me and she just laughs.

*She tells Tucker to 'hush' now after hearing Nana tell her dog that.

*When Tucker does something wrong, she tells him 'bad dog!' and will usually be looking at him and pointing to him.

*Cora loves fruit - berries, grapes...but no melons!

*'No Want It' - means she doesn't want it

*'No...No....No' - very loudly until I acknowledged her, she is trying to hand me something she doesn't want anymore. I am trying to work on this and tell her to go put it away, which she is doing.

*She is still a big Mommy's girl - working on it, but it is so hard!

*Shoes - she is still obsessed with them. When she was stuck on one particular pair, I would try to explain to her that they didn't match her outfit. So now she will ask me if her shoes 'match' before putting them on.

*She is good at taking her shoes (sandals) off and can sometimes get them on by herself.

*She told me the other morning on the way to school that she needed to 'potty'. As soon as we walked into class I told the teacher and she took her in there and said she pottied a little bit.

*She is starting to pretend a little bit. She'll talk on her phone and now is pretending with her tea party set.

*When Tucker sneezes, she is blessing him now too.

*I have a habit of telling Cora that when Dennis is gone he is working. Also, when he is outside mowing, I say he is working. So when he isn't here and I tell her Daddy is working, she says 'mowing?'. I think she thinks Dennis is a lawn boy!

*On our way home from school she talks about going home to see Tucker, Maddie and Katie.

*On Fridays one of the houses that we drive by on the way home always has a pink moonwalk out in the yard. Cora sees it every time and yells "JUMP!" and talks about it the rest of the way home.

*One morning she was happy about being in school and when I kissed her goodbye she pointed to the door and said 'work'. I was so thrilled.

*Cora is asking for hugs and kisses on her own. She will ask for a kiss after I put her in the car and will throw a fit if I don't give her one...even if I have already gotten in the driver's seat!
*We are trying to get her to say 'ma'am' and 'sir'. Usually that's all she says...when I correct her to say 'yes ma'am', all she says is 'ma'am'.

*When I am trying to get her to say a few words together, she ends up saying only the last word, or only the last syllable. For example, 'Open this please' comes out 'please'. And Saturday she shortened Grandpa to just 'pa'.

*Cora says Koozie as 'kooiez'.

*She isn't scared of thunder and usually if it is loud enough, she'll say 'ooohhh' or 'whoa'. I guess that is better than being scared.

*When in the car and you hit a bump or go through a dip a little too fast, she'll say 'whoa' and sometimes will ask 'again?'.

*Cora is obsessed with phones. She has numerous play cell phones, plus I'll let her play with the home phones. Well Dennis found some old cell phones and took the batteries out and let her have them. She doesn't play with them much because she says they are broken since they don't make noise or light up. But the funny part is she has it set in her mind that one of them belongs to Dennis's friend, Tommy. She will pick it up and say 'Tommy's'. She used to call him Thomas for some reason too.

*Cora is mesmerized by our friend's daughter, Alex (she is a few months older than Cora). We saw them at Reid's party and I told Cora who she was. Well we saw her in Galveston when we were down there. Cora knew right away who she was. Then later than night they came to our house and Cora's face lit right up when Alex walked in the room, she pointed at her and told me 'Alex' - it was like it was someone famous or something. It is so funny the way she acts around her. Not to mention she does not know names very well (she gets that from her Daddy!). I also showed her a picture of her on the computer the other night and asked her who it was - without skipping a beat she answered 'Alex'.

*Cora has started saying mm-mm for 'no'. It was bugging me to know where she picked that up from...until I started realizing that both Dennis and I do that! Oops.

*When I say 'Dennis', Cora repeats me and will call him Dennis instead of Daddy. She sometimes will say it out of the blue on her own. It is cute.

*Cora is counting better and gets to 10 by herself, but sometimes gets stuck on 4.

*She is singing the alphabet more often and almost gets through it on her own.

*Cora knows just about all the colors, but when I ask her what color something is, she answers wrong about half of the time. When I tell her no and she knows what color it is, she will answer correctly. She doesn't like to show off I guess.

Misc Over the Weeks

She makes us so proud sometimes...Daddy walked into this one and grabbed the camera. I was reading a book to her to get her to sit there longer. Still no luck, but we are getting closer!
I was in the shower one Saturday morning and Daddy got her out of bed and fed her breakfast. I came into the room to see her nice hairdo. Her hair was getting in her face and this was the solution.

I was working on the computer and she got real quiet...she got into the pantry and pulled out a box of spaghetti and was breaking it into little bitty pieces.

Cora really likes to scribble on paper. She got some really cool note pads from a friend of mine and colors on them just about every other day. She will ask for 'paper' to color. I found some gel pens for her to use too. Even though her name is on the paper, she still asks you to write her name. (She points to the paper and says 'name'). The other day she pointed and said 'A'. I wrote the A and she tried to copy it!

Cora loves her strawberries! I cut up a package of strawberries for her to eat after dinner...I think I ate two and she ate the rest!