Misc This Week

Our chickens are growing! Yep, still have four. The yellow one is from the original group and the brown ones are the second batch. Dennis lets them run around in the backyard when he is out there. I don't think I will ever get used to looking out my kitchen window and seeing a chicken running around the back yard! It is just too weird.
Playing in her dress up shoes.

She had a really bad diaper rash over the weekend, so to help, I let her 'air out'. So I didn't have a naked kid running around the house I grabbed her swimsuit cover up and put that one her. She walked around for awhile saying 'hiney hurt' in a whiny voice. It was sad, but so darn cute. And yes that is a syringe in her hand - she is on antibiotics, hence the diaper rash and it is one that I don't use. To keep her from grabbing the one with the medicine in it, she gets that one. But actually she threw it away the other day because it was broken.

Maddie never makes the blog, because she is hiding most of the time. I was giving her a bath the other night and she didn't try to escape much because the water was the lesser of the evils. Cora was standing in front of her pointing at her saying 'Maddie'. Maddie is terrified of Cora and runs when she comes in the room. She was ok with being in the sink as long as Cora couldn't reach her!

This week's updates and funny things:

*Cora is obsessed with my sunglasses for some reason. She pronounces glasses 'gasses'. She will wear mine for a little while and then give them back to me. It is just hard when I am trying to drive and she wants mine.

*She loves dresses now. Last week she wanted to put one on and I couldn't get it off of her. This weekend I was showing Dennis a couple of new outfits and one was a dress...she wanted it on and again wouldn't take it off. I had to forcibly remove it and she was pissed!

*She is asking for goldfish now, but it is more like 'go-iss' - takes a few times to figure it out, but I am getting it down.

*She asked to watch Elmo the other day. I said sure and asked her if she wanted to sit in the chair, she said no. Then proceeded to grab my hand and lead me to my bedroom. She stopped at the bed and said 'mommy's bed'. I put her on the bed and she scooted over and patted the bed for me to lay with her. Very cute and I thought I might sneak her into a nap since she didn't really get one that day...but no such luck. I was closer to napping than she was!

*After the birthday party on Saturday she sang 'Happy Birthday' the rest of the weekend. But 'birthday' sounded more like 'hee hay'. She also would start saying 'to Cora' - I guess she does know she has a birthday coming up soon!

*While playing on Saturday she put her purse on her arm and had her sunglasses on...would walk to the door and turn to me and say 'bye bye, see you later'. Cracked me up!

*We came home with a balloon from the party on Saturday and she was quite obsessed with it. I had to keep turning off ceiling fans for fear it would get popped. It did last the weekend and is flat and half deflated, but she still carries it around and holds it up to her face and says 'I see you' while looking through it at you.

*She is asking for chicken for dinner - which is disturbing some since we have 4 chickens as pets!

*When Tucker barks, she instinctively tells him 'STOP'. He doesn't listen to her any better than he listens to me.

*She insists on having a napkin at dinner and shoves her hand in your face if it has any speck of food on it. She is trying to be a clean freak like her daddy I guess. Great I'll have two of them ganging up on me!

*She loves her corn!

*She asks for 'cookie' and we give her a cracker - and she is fine with that. Poor thing doesn't know the difference yet!

*When sitting at a table, she will ask you to 'scoot' her up to the table.

*She'll say 'yummy' if she likes what she is eating.

*Butterfly is 'hi hi'.

Brynna's Birthday

After Gymnastics we went to Jumping Jungle for Brynna's birthday party. Cora had been wanting to go 'jump' all weekend, but it took her awhile to warm up to the jumpies at this place.
I changed her into her party outfit and she was ready to go.

Jump...jump

Daddy pushing Cora up to the rest of the girls.

Cora sitting with Emilee for the group picture. (My group picture came out fuzzy, so I didn't post it)

Emilee, Cora and Reagan eating pizza (Cora is reaching for the juice cup of course!)

Give Cora a balloon and she is happy for days...plus either sings 'Happy Birthday' or tells you 'I see you' while holding the balloon up to her face. Only issue we had is when Katie (our cat) was chasing her because the string was dragging. Katie fixed that and pretty much chewed off the entire string to about 6 inches long (from about 6 feet long).

Another birthday party down...and Cora's is next!

Big Show

Getting ready to go to gymnastics on Saturday. It was her last class of the semester, so we dressed her up in a cute leotard she got for Christmas. She looked really cute!

Cora and her bells. She was always very good about putting things away when she was supposed to. She learned a lot from this class - I am so glad we did it!

She followed directions really well too. She always did well with the sticks.
Opening circle with her class.

Showing off on the balance beam - touching her nose.

More multitasking (showing off) and touching her toes on the balance beam. She likes to swing from the bar and fall down.

She kept jumping up and falling down. Made me so proud since we have been coming all semester and this is all she wanted to do for Daddy.

Karina, Cora and Sarah. They are in this class together and are all three in the same class at daycare. Karina and Sarah are about 6 months older than Cora...but she holds her own in size comparisons!

A little boy was doing this before her and he got up for her to play on it and she just laid down. She did get up early that morning, so she probably was getting tired.

She just did a forward roll.

She loves the balls! When we pull in the parking lot every weekend, she starts saying 'ball' over and over again. The balls are until the end of the class! Yet, when she gets her balls, she has to have two and she just sits and holds them. I think she didn't want to play with them for fear of another child taking it from her. She would be first to put them away when told to do so too!

She got up on the stage a little prematurely...which is very unusual for my shy little girl!

Cora really enjoyed going to gymnastics every week - I hope she doesn't miss it too much this summer, but we have plenty going on, she shouldn't! We'll start again in the Fall.

Cora getting her 'stampers' from her teacher, Miss Jessica.

Play Time

I think Cora likes her new swing set! Can you tell?

Cora's Birthday Present

We decided Cora needed a swing set - she is ready and loves to swing. Plus she is outgrowing her swing on the porch. She loves slides too! So we have been looking for one pretty much since Christmas. Dennis fell in love with the one at Sams. I thought it was a little too big..and out of our price range. She is an only child - does she really need that big of a swing set?
I looked everywhere to find one that Dennis would approve of and I didn't win. He was building it, so I guess it was his problem. Here are some progression pictures of the building of it. I have to say it was done way faster than I imagined. He had help on a Saturday and got a big chunk of it done and he finished it on Sunday and during the week added the swings and slide.

Cora was checking it out. I didn't get a finished picture after the slide was installed, but the next post will have it in the 'playing' pictures.

This Week

Just some pics of Cora from the weekend and this week.

Talking on the phone like Mommy.
She got my cell phone away from me - luckily I had the keys locked since she was like a teenager texting!

Eating a snow cone at the park.

Cool

We went to the doctor on Monday to get her cough checked out since it has been 2 weeks. He put her on antibiotics to see if it would clear it up. So far so good - thank goodness! She weighed 30 pounds again, but we struggled to get that weight. She didn't want to stand on the scale and when I got her to she was holding her snack cup that was full! We also discussed the mosquito bites and he said that I could use deet on her now - Yeah! Now if I can just get the daycare to spray their playground.

Speaking of daycare, she was bit again this week. Nobody saw anything again which is irritating. And it was a big bite on her leg. I hope she is smacking the crap out of these kids when they do this to her. One of these days she is going to and I just hope she doesn't get in trouble for it.

Family Pictures at the Beach

At the end of April we had some family pictures taken at the beach. It was a very dreary day and very windy. Cora didn't want to be there either. Surprisingly, we did get some good pictures - I was impressed!

Cora wasn't the most cooperative subject.

She eventually perked up.

Jewelry

She knows what a cross is and will say it! She now likes to wear my necklaces...boy are we in trouble!

I forgot to add to the last post...

*When she says "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" - it is more like 'Bown Bear' and it is really fast.

*The other day she was standing up in the car and looked in the very back and said 'couch'. Then called the spare tire a 'circle'. Dang she is smart!

*She gets excited when we go to Target because the big red cement things in the front look like balls. She screams it as we are walking inside.

*She says 'wap' when she wants to sit in my lap.

*I told her I was going to make pancakes for breakfast. Well all she heard was 'cake'. Then started crying for 'Happy Cake'. Luckily she wasn't disappointed when she only got pancakes and not birthday cake!

*'Gasses' is for glasses - I am trying to get her to wear sunglasses so the morning ride to daycare isn't so horrendous - she gets really mad when the sun is in her eyes.

*Whenever we arrive at our destination (in the car) she says 'home' because when we go somewhere with Daddy he would always tell her 'We're home' when we would get home.

*She is finally saying 'MOMMY'!! I am so excited.

*She is giving kisses a lot more lately. She actually was grabbing my chin and pulling it towards her - I was laughing so hard she couldn't give me kisses.

*She calls Winnie the Pooh 'Poo Poo'.

My baby girl turned 23 months on Friday! I officially get to stop measuring her age in months! She is growing up so fast. I have already started calling her a two year old. And I just got used to saying 'she'll be two next month'. Now I have to say 'this month'! She definitely isn't a baby anymore. Pretty soon she'll stop wanting to give her Mommy kisses...