Thursday, December 25, 2008

Christmas Day

All of my family came up to our house for Christmas Day. It was great to have everyone together!
Grandpa gave Cora a fire truck - she loves all the noises it makes.


Cora got lots of musical instruments for Christmas! Nana got her a keyboard and The Taylors got her a xylophone.
Laura Grace waiting patiently for her turn...Chase and Taylor...we laughed at this picture because they are sitting so close together - we were calling them Kissing Cousins. They were not happy with that at all! :-)


Daniel and Cora chilling out watching Elmo.

Daniel and Cora eating their lunch...sort of. Cora didn't eat much and Daniel only ate his carrots I think.
Cora was pooped after all the opening of presents...Nana is really good at getting her to sleep too.
I got Laura as little Strawberry Shortcake doll....because Laura reminds me of a little strawberry shortcake with all that red hair!

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Misc Christmas Week

Cora tore up a bunch of red tissue paper and left it all everywhere. Grandpa walked in the room and asked who made the mess and got her to clean it up...well most of it!
Daddy teaching Cora what to do with the empty tube of wrapping paper! She was a quick learner!


Christmas Eve...getting ready to go to bed.

Ok, so I guess I suck her nose a little too much! But she lets me 90% of the time...poor kid has allergies, what do you expect!

Monday, December 22, 2008

Christmas w/Wolfords

We celebrated Christmas with Dennis's family the Monday evening before Christmas at David & Jennifer's new house. Cora got some great gifts and lots of books, which she loves! I am excited to get some new reading material...Goodnight Moon is getting a little old. :-)



Peyton really liked the tutu I made for her! It was her first gift to open and it stayed on her the entire time we were there!
Kathy had little purses made out of some of Jerry's old ties he wore all the time. It was really neat and something we will treasure always.


Nice view of her lovely black eye...it got darker as the week went on.

Cora and Peyton had fun playing together.
Luckily we didn't have to go far since we spent the night at Nana's. Cora was pooped after opening all those gifts!

Sittin Here Together 2 by 2

Aunt Kristan was singing this song that her and Daniel learned in Kindermusic and Cora was very interested.
Sittin Here Together 2 by 2...
Sittin Here Together 2 by 2...
Sittin Here Together 2 by 2...

Rise Sugar Rise...
As you can see she really liked it!
Thanks for teaching that to us, Aunt Kristan! And thanks Taylor for making it fun with Daniel.



Taylor Kids Photo Shoot






We were doing a photo shoot of my sister's kids since Daniel turned 2 in December. I think I got more good ones of Laura!





18 Months Old


Ok, so it isn't until next week, but we already went to the doctor since I was off this week.
Height - 32 3/4" - 75%
Weight - 27# 11 oz - 90%
Head - 19" - 90%
She came home Friday with the lovely black eye you see in the picture above. She fell on the playhouse that is in the classroom. She loves it and she is a klutz. Unfortunately this picture was taken on Saturday morning and it has progressively gotten worse. I think Tuesday was the darkest, but I don't know. It has one part that is a lovely shade of teal. Nice.
Okay, well to update...about two weeks ago I received a call from the daycare that Cora received another bite. This time to her face. Supposedly by a 'new biter'. I was very upset since it happened on her face. When I picked her up it didn't look like a bite, but there was a very noticeable bruise on her cheek. I called Daddy to let him know and he kicked into high gear - aka protective daddy mode. I was later told that he had made an appointment with the director and I could come if I wanted. Ok, so I am the one that drops her off everyday and picks her up most days...yes I think I'll be there. Well the meeting was rough. Dennis got his point across numerous times and it was well known to everyone in the room that he was less than pleased with the director. We found out that she is leaving and the new director was in the meeting with us. The new director knows me and I have been pleased with her since she has been there. She was great in the meeting and seems to be making an effort to keep Cora there. I checked out a couple of other daycares to move her, but we are going to hold off for now. We all decided to move her up to the next class even though it is a little early. Give her a break from all the biters. I thought we would just slowly move her up, but she did so well they moved her the first day. It has been a great move for her so far (minus the black eye of course). She is really trying hard to start talking. She says the usual - Mama, Dada, down and more. Now she says 'mo' for elmo, cracker, moo for cow. She also will repeat a lot of things I say but doesn't use the word consistently. She can say Tucker if I do, but not on her own yet. With all my family in town, she is learning who everyone is.
Cora finally spent one night away from Mommy! We took her to my parent's house a couple of weeks ago for the night while we went to a Christmas party on the north side of town. She was awesome for Nana & Grandpa - never cried once. She was very excited to see us when we picked her up...but wouldn't get more than a few inches away from me...and has been that way ever since. Not sure if it was totally worth it, but she did well and that makes me feel good about leaving her.
Well I got as caught up as I could today - I'll post Christmas pictures soon - I have a million!

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Christmas w/Nanno & Papa

We celebrated Christmas with Dennis's Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles and cousins on the Sunday before Christmas. There were about 50 people there in all! I think the great grand kids are about to outnumber the kids and grand kids combined.


Cora and her cousin Tate...he's about a month or so younger than her.

Cora really needed to take a nap, but all the rooms were occupied and there was way too much action going on for her to sleep...so I decided to take her to Nana's for a nap. Well, we had to wait on the visitor that was coming by tractor!
The surprise visitor...
The only way we could get a picture with Santa was for him to sneak up behind her.

Of course I am still in the picture!
Most of the little kids (and some parents) with Santa.

There was a major paparazzi in the yard when Santa showed up!
And the rest stayed n the porch.
David, Santa and Dennis
Nanno and Papa and their kids.



Eyes, Ears, Nose & Toes

Cora loves to sit on the front porch. It has the perfect height step for her to sit on. Saturday morning we were working around the house and she wanted to go outside, so we did.Since she was sitting so pretty in her unmatched play clothes, I figured I would capture all the body parts she knows so far:
Where's your nose?
Where's your eye?
Where's your foot?
Where's your mouth?
Where's your ear?
Where's your hand?
Sitting pretty.
Ok and this one was classic - she was filling her diaper. She was working hard on it.