Christmas w/Seelys

We celebrated Christmas with our friends, The Seelys. It has been awhile since we have seen them so it was a nice visit even though it was short.
Cora and Peyton
Cousin Bella

The girls

Cora checking out her Tinkerbell bag. She knows it is hers because she could read her name on it.

She got all kinds of dress up stuff - and she was most interested in the shoes!

We went to the neighbors house and found Nana & Grandpa there! We visited with a few old friends that haven't met Cora yet. It was good to see them.

Watching the boat parade from a higher vantage point.

Cora, Peyton and Sarah. Sarah made dresses and purses for the girls and they were a big hit with the girls!

Snow Day!!!

The news guys talked for about a week about a chance of snow - and it actually happened! Dennis was gone to the hunting lease to he missed it all. It snowed on Friday - it was neat and short lived. From the news reports, Pearland was one of the places that got the best hit with 2.5 inches. Ours lasted until Saturday so that was neat too.

Cora said she 'can't like snow'. I carried her into the middle of the backyard. I told her we were going to take some pictures. She didn't want to have anything to do with it. Well she wasn't cooperating so I told her she was going to have to walk back to the house if she didn't start smiling. She was all smiles after that!!

She's no dummy...that was a long walk!

Tucker looking at us like we were crazy.

Tucker was not happy with the snow, but he had to go potty bad on Saturday morning and the snow was still there.

Thanksgiving in Comstock

Well he did it - he got me to Comstock again this year. He suckered me and invited my parents. I knew Nana would enjoy the time with Cora so we went...plus she helped with her in the car.

We had a picnic lunch up on one of the canyons.

Cora eating her PB&J.

The polka dot horse.

Another shot of him. The spots were brown on his body and black on his legs. It was pretty neat.

Monique trying to feed carrots to the horses. They thought we were crazy.

The view from the top rack of the jeep...

The other view from the top rack.

Horsing around

Getting the jeeps loaded to go hunting.

Pre - Thanksgiving

We spent Wednesday before Thanksgiving at Aunt Laurie & Uncle Mike's house with all of Dennis's family (and my parents too). I didn't take many pictures, but here are a couple.

Cousins - Peyton Wolford, Cora and Hope Hunter.

The kids playing.

Ginny and Braden

Fruit Loops with Daddy

For some reason, Dennis sat down and ate a bowl of cereal with Cora. It is noteworthy because in all our years together I don't think I have ever seen him eat cereal! Cora thought it was funny too.

Dress Up

We were taking family pictures and I still wasn't sure what dress she was going to wear so I had her try them all on. Well I was calling it dress up, so she started digging in her dress-up clothes and put on her tutu and 'panties' by herself.

She didn't want to put a shirt on though!

I finally got one on her and she put the glasses on by herself too...as you can tell.

Updates

Just some more candid shots...eating a grape.

I have really been behind on updating this blog! I have a million things in my head to post, but of course can't remember them all while I am posting. Here's some and I'll add as I remember.

*We are struggling with Cora's 'I do it' moments. She has to do everything herself...get dressed, hand me the brush, pick her ponytail holder, turn on the water, turn on the light, etc. It is crazy and totally out of hand!

*She has to hold the bottom of the cup when you are getting ice or water out of the fridge door.

*She is asking for syrup on her pancakes now, she used to eat them plain or with just butter. Daddy is so thrilled about this since he has a HUGE aversion to all syrup & honey & anything else sticky.

*She is responding a little better to time-outs than she does spankings. When she gets real whiny or crying for no real reason, I have taught her to 'suck it up'. I am not proud of this, but it really works well, so I am sticking with it.

*We have been having 'Girls weekends' while Daddy is hunting. We go shopping, gymnastics and have had a couple play dates. She has been really good while he is gone and we have had fun.

*I discovered that she likes Honey Mustard dressing for dipping her chicken nuggets. If I eat fast food, it is usually from Chick fil a. She wouldn't eat it much before, but now that I found this out she eats it up.

*She will ask for ketchup now too. I hate ketchup, so she is pretty lucky when she gets it.

Cora's New House

I got a call from the daycare one day that Cora had gotten into an ant bed and had a few ant bites. Well when I picked her up she had a ton of them. And once the swelling went down we discoverd she had about 50 bites. It broke my heart that she went through that. The teacher was so apologetic. I lit into the director a few times over it. It didn't help that she had school pictures that week and I had her wearing a short skirt and no tights! I think she has learned to watch for ants now. Anytime she sees any type of bug - she screams and points it out.
She does this more and more - it is very wierd.

Miss Alicia brought this little house to Dennis to give to Cora. He brought it home and she loves it! I think our cat, Katie, likes it too - she hides in it pretty often.