Adorable Girl

She is still snapping...no clapping yet. She was snapping at the dog last night. He wasn't impressed.

Here's my adorable girl.

And...we are seeing a little bit of growth! She has been sleeping on her belly at night and some at daycare. Ok, so it is very little, but it is progress!

She's going to kill me in about 20 years when I show her these pictures!

Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Hanging Out

Just a quick picture with Gavin that I took on Sunday.

7 Months Old

Can you believe Cora is 7 months old today? Time is flying by so fast I can't believe it. Most days I am still in awe that I even have a daughter.

Here are some more pictures that I took. We had a little photo shoot on Sunday and the pictures turned out great.

Snap Snap

Cora has learned to snap...ok, not fully, but she thinks she is. Whenever I play on the floor with her I usually end up calling the cat over by me and I do that by snapping and saying here kitty kitty. Well I didn't realize it, but she was paying attention and started snapping on Saturday. Nana noticed her doing it and we started paying attention. By Sunday we realized that she mostly does it when she is sitting by herself...then stops when we go to her. Little booger. It is like she is snapping to call us over to her. Quite the little smartie pants if that is the case...

Happy Monday

Just a quick post. Here's Cora with Grandpa - she got excited when she saw his glasses and mustache - more to pull and grab!
Daddy helping her stand up and play with her toy. She stands pretty well, but falls pretty easily too.

Lazy Days

Well we decided that the little mat we were using wasn't big enough for when Cora does start crawling. So it was either buy more of the bright primary color mats and line our living room floor or get a different rug. The cowhide rug just isn't practical for a 7 month old right now. So we all headed to Lowes and picked one out. It looks really nice in the living room and all the animals like it too! The tile is hard and cold so everyone is happy.

Here are a few more cute pics of Cora.

And while I was taking the cute pictures, Miss Katie got jealous and 'eclipsed' the picture while smelling the lens.

This and That

Happy Wednesday! Well Cora has really improved with the allergy medicine. She is sleeping like a rock and it is wonderful. We had a setback last night...but we also have learned a very valuable lesson in the process. We have a routine in the evenings when we get home...play...eat...play...bath...eat...rock...bed. Works really well. Well, last night Daddy got her really wound up after bath time and it took forever to get her to bed! And she woke a few times during the night. We will never do that again! It was really cute though - she was laughing at the dog. She just loves the animals.

Here's some pics from the weekend.


In her doorway jumper. She wasn't sure about it, but she did ok so far. It freaked the cats out because the couldn't get by her.

Nana came to see Cora...it had been too long since she last saw her.

My smiley girl...

Cora's new bathtub. She also has started chewing on her little duck. She sticks the entire duck's head in her mouth! Only the little beak is sticking out.

Chew...chew...chew. Still no sign of teeth...but I am not complaining at all!

Just hanging out last night.

Movin'

We are in big trouble! Last night I had set her up on the floor and she was playing while I was cleaning up the kitchen. I looked up after about five or ten minutes and she had significantly moved! When I set her up on the floor I always put a pillow down right behind her - it is on the left.


Another few minutes passed and she was like this...

Oh boy. She also went face first a few times while reaching for things. There is another little girl in her class that is a couple weeks older and she is everywhere! I think Cora is paying close attention to her and taking notes.

On another note, we took Cora to the doctor again yesterday for her stuffy/runny nose. I hit the end of my rope Wednesday morning when she was obviously very miserable (I'll save you from the yucky details). I am sucking her poor little nose all the time and our house smells like Vicks all the time. I called the doctor in desperation. He said it has been going on too long but said it wasn't an infection. He offered a few possibilities, but after discussion we decided to try allergy medicine. Everything I have ever been told or read says babies can't have allergies...but we live in Houston, and she is always at rock bottom when I am suffering from my allergies. He said it was the safer medicine to try, so we are going to try it for a week and go from there. We will probably go see an Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist before this is all over with, but I need to get her comfortable and sleeping better now. She took her first dose last night and did better so far. But it rained yesterday and knocked down a lot of the pollen in the air so who knows. I'll keep you posted.

We hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Updates

Would you believe I really didn't take very many pictures over the last week? Don't worry - I have the backdrop set up and will be taking many very soon!

Last week was busy - Dennis was helping cook for a benefit all week. It was just me and Cora for most of the evenings and she is more needy with Mommy and wants me to hold her or sit and play with her. Then Saturday night I came down with a stomach flu or food poisoning. Poor Dennis got thrown to the wolves and had Cora 100%, plus taking care of me in between. I didn't touch her from Saturday when I put her to bed until Monday afternoon when Dennis brought her home from daycare. That was so hard for me, but I really didn't want her to get sick too. And Daddy did wonderful!

Here's a few random pics that I did take over the last week.

Bananas - she wasn't too sure about them, but she ate them. However, now she spits her food at us. Yesterday she spit bananas and cereal at the teachers at daycare, then squash and cereal at me last night. She did eat all the peas though. Seems like she is becoming a picky eater like her Mommy...I am in big trouble!

Cutie with a bow in her hair. I put this bow in her hair just to mess with her and it stayed. I left it in for Justin's party and it stayed in the whole time. She never reached for it or anything.

Just hanging out last night - finally got to play with Mommy again.

We have started to put her down on her tummy some at night and she has started to roll over to her back. We are trying to get her bald spot to grow some hair. It is thickening up most every where else, but I did notice it is thinning out on the sides under her bald spot some. That was always the thickest hair. It is also looking more brown or dirty blonde (close to my hair color).

Hope everyone has a wonderful week!

Movin'

I am all about the action shots! Its as close as I can get to posting a video, until I figure out how to post a video on here.

You can't totally tell, but her right leg is out sideways almost to the splits.
And boom! She went forward.
Started to go backwards again...
but was too tired and wanted to take a nap instead.

Scooting

The whole idea was to work on her rolling over.
Don't get excited I helped her.
Then she started to scoot backwards...
Further and further backwards.
Wow! She was going for the blocks and didn't quite make it.

Green Beans

Ok...one more. I think you can tell by the picture that she liked the green beans. Have a great week!

Poor Baby

We have had a rough weekend. When I picked up Cora on Thursday she had lost the little light in her eyes and was just miserable. She had a runny/stuffy nose and cough, plus was hoarse. It was so sad. She had a rough night too. So I decided to stay home with her and take her to the doctor. We got some medicine and she did pretty well on Friday, but Saturday night she went downhill and Sunday morning was rough too. We finally got her to take a really good 3 hour nap and she seems to be perking back up and the coughing has subsided some. I hope it continues to go away. Our whole house smells like Vicks Vapor Rub right now. We have vaporizors going in her room and the living room. And on top of it all - I am having an allergy attack so it isn't helping any. This picture was taken yesterday - she is fine during the day, but nights and mornings are rough. The rest of the pictures are just some to get me all caught up!
Cora has figured out that if she pulls on the toys that are dangling down they play music and light up the bar over her head.

These are the PJ's that Daddy bought her for Christmas. One of very few footed outfits she can actually wear.

She got tired and fell backwards, hence the pillow as precaution. She was really trying to sit back up on her own, but couldn't quite do it.

She likes to eat the carebear's hair. Just like she does to my hair - she grabs and pulls it right into her mouth!

Whew! Okay - fully caught up again! That took a long time - thank goodness for that 3 hour nap Cora took today.

I hope everyone has a wonderful week!

Peas and Carrots

Some nice eating pictures...here's some peas.

More peas...

Carrots...being fed by Daddy.

We gave her a bottle of water and neither one of us were paying close attention and I turned around and she was holding it by herself.

Then I got to thinking I probably shouldn't be giving water to her in a bottle, so we switched to a sippy cup that is similar to a bottle and she did well with it.

Round 3 or is it 4?

The Saturday after Christmas we headed down to Nana and Grandpa's house to celebrate with The Dunlaps and Richters. Four of the six grandkids were there and of course we took a picture of them all together.

Chewing on Taylor's fingers...

I had to put it on her head to keep it out of her mouth.

Naptime on Nana...opening presents will wear a baby out!

Chase and Sydney being sweet.