Tea Party

Cora was sitting on the floor playing with her tea set while I was fixing her dinner. Katie walked up and sat down across from her. I told Cora to give her a tea cup.
Katie walked away a couple of times, but would come back if I called. Cora had fun.

Cora was having a conversation with Katie, too.

Tucker got roped into it since Katie got bored and walked away and wouldn't come back.

He isn't amused at all.

So, I bribed him with food in his tea cup...whatever works.

Few More Things:

*When she 'toots' she says 'I tootie'. It took me a little while to figure out what she was saying.

*Cora is obsessed with jumping. She has to jump all the time. In her bed, before I get her dressed, on her towel after her bath. You name she has to jump...and she always asks before she starts jumping.

*She likes to read the books by herself. She will just turn the pages and tell me what is in the pictures.

*She can just about sing the ABC's. She only gets stuck on 'lmno' and she just mumbles through it.

*She likes to count things...and unfortunately she likes to count my toes...and I can't stand for my feet to be touched!

*She can sing Twinkle, Twinkle - for the most part.

*She likes to play 'Ring Around the Rosie'.

*She also can sing Rock a Bye Baby - for the most part.

*She loves to dance and anytime music comes on, she will start movin!

More Updates...

According to Blogger - this is my 300th post! Wow! That is a lot of Cora!

After our trip to the zoo on Sunday, I had to fight her to take a nap. She played in her bed for a couple of hours. I had a severe headache and laid down when I put her to bed. She reached through the slats in her bed and turned the monitor on and off over and over again. She needed something so I went back in there and told her she needed about 30 more minutes of 'quiet time' and then she could get up. Well I woke up about an hour later and I ended up having to wake her up another hour after that. She was tired, she just had to be convinced she was tired. When she woke up her pig tails were pretty pathetic. I tried to fix one and ended up taking the other one out. She wouldn't let me fix the other one and I thought her bed head was pretty funny so I took some pictures.
Then she started jumping in her bed and it looks even funnier!

She was playing with her purse full of dress up stuff and wanted me to take a picture of her with her purple tiara on.

*Cora is really saying more and more multiple word sentences. It is really neat. She pointed to a glass on the counter the other day and said 'that's Daddy's cup'.

*Monday she actually said 'No, no Katie, its Mommy's shoes' when Katie was smelling my shoes.

*She is labeling everything - it is either hers, mommy's or daddy's...chair, cup, seat, hat, etc.

*She has to do it herself - it is either 'my turn' or 'my do it'.

*When she does it by herself (or thinks she does it by herself) she gets excited and says 'I did it'.

*Cora loves to pet the cats. It is usually Katie because she is more social. Cora will say 'I pet her' when Katie comes near. It is like she is asking me if it is ok, and once I tell her yes, she pets her and gets excited about it. I have to hold Maddie down for Cora to be able to pet her - Maddie is terrified of her.

*Cora loves to play with my make-up. She'll watch me put on my make-up and grab brushes out of the drawer and imitate me. It is cute.

*Cora is getting worse and worse about copying everything I do. It is getting so bad that she wants to eat the food off of my plate even if it is the same as what is on her plate.

*She is getting more and more bossy - will tell me to get 'up' or 'sit'. Tells Tucker to 'move' when he is in her way (or so she thinks he is).

*She tells Tucker to 'potty' when we go outside.

*If the door (or cabinet door) is left open, she'll tell me to 'shut it'. If it is the backdoor, she'll shut it by herself now. Dennis and I are both thrilled with this since he doesn't get the back door shut all the way half the time and I am prone to leaving the kitchen cabinet doors open. She is keeping us on our toes!

*She has discovered the train table at her school. They have it right inside the door and she decided she wants to play with the 'choo-choo' when we leave every day. I have to basically walk out the door to get her away from it.

*She has to climb in the car and climb in the car seat. She likes to buckle the straps about half the time...usually when I am trying to hurry up!

*On her favorite lovey 'Purple' (a small purple taggie blanket) she always has to hold the tag that has the 'sheep' on it. She used to ask where it was by just saying 'sheep'. Now, she wants to 'find it' and will shake the lovey so she can find it herself.

*Cora was standing in the pantry the other morning and I asked her to shut the door, she said no because she was 'shoppin'. I asked her if she had any money - 'yea' was her answer. I walked away and she ended up shutting the door with out buying anything.

*Cora was playing hide n go seek with Daddy the other night...but she just said she was going to go 'find Daddy'.

*She loves to watch tv in our bed ('Mommy's bed' or 'bed'). It is so tall that she can't climb up into on her own so she always has to ask. And then she gets nervous when sliding down and will get stuck and hang on her belly yelling at me to come help her down the remaining three or so inches.

*She has pretend lipstick and tells me 'do it', then says 'my do it'. She makes Dennis do it too...I just never have the camera close when he does it! Someday...

*Cora is obsessed with purses! If it has a strap and can go over her shoulder, it is a purse. First it was shoes, now purses...poor Dennis!

*She walks around and talks on her pretend cell phone...today she is talking to Grandpa. She likes to talk on it for a minute then hands it to me to talk.

*When a loud noise (my hair dryer, the blower outside, etc) stop making noise, she says 'yea'.

*She gets the pretend water sprayer thing from her play kitchen and acts like she is spraying me and says 'ew ew' while she is doing it. I don't know why...

*When going through the bedtime routine, I grab purple and blankie and she tells me to put blankie on my shoulder.

*Washcloth is 'waff-off-off' - it has taken me months to figure this one out!

*When I am on my cell phone she thinks it is a direct line to Nana because I usually put it on speaker for them to talk.

Houston Zoo

Sunday morning we headed to the zoo. I don't know what I was thinking...it is too dang hot to be going to the zoo this time of year! We lasted a little over 2 hours and Dennis and I were done. Cora perked up at the end, but she was very close to melting stage since we hadn't eaten lunch and she was due for a nap...even though she did sleep until 9am!

There are little bitty monkeys in this picture...I swear.
The animals were not cooperating for my pictures. This was a very orange monkey.

Daddy & Cora.

Looking at animals with Daddy.

Giraffe!

She liked the Elephants & Giraffes...but they were the few animals that were actually out and about.

Checking out the Elephants.

The bear was smart - he was hanging out in the water.

I don't remember what this animal is, but it looked like half a zebra.

We passed by the elephants again...

This was the view from the tunnel under the cougar & lion exhibit. The glass was really dirty so that is why the pictures aren't so great.

Sweaty Cora. She kept asking to go 'inside'...that usually means she is hot.

I think she liked playing on the playground the most!

Checking out the goats in the children's area.

She wasn't too sure about him, but she did touch him eventually.

You have to have a frozen drink when it is that hot! She ate some, but she kept telling us to 'eat it'.

She finally was walking on her own when we left. We kept asking if she wanted to ride and she would say 'no, I walk'.

Cora's 1st and 2nd Wedding

We had a busy day on Saturday. We all went shopping Saturday morning and I thought I would have a helper with Cora while I tried on clothes...I was wrong. He went to look for shorts for him and Cora went with me...I got the short end of that stick! Cora did well though - I put her in front of a mirror and she was good to go.
We went home and got all dressed up. We had two weddings to attend - one at 2pm in Liberty and one that evening in Kingwood. She took her nap on the way to Liberty like we planned. It worked out perfectly too. She was still groggy when we got there, so she sat quietly during the service.

If it is even possible, I think she is looking more and more like me!

She wanted me to take pictures and show them to her.

A few of the ladies were line dancing and she was watching close. She stood up and danced near where we were sitting for a little while and was trying to follow the steps. I finally asked her if she wanted to go out there and dance and she said yes. So, I told her to get Daddy to go with her...I am so mean!

She clapped when they clapped and hopped when they hopped.

She really wanted to go out in the middle of the dance floor with everyone else, but Daddy wouldn't go with her.

Penni came over and danced with Cora and she loved it. Cora thought it was neat.

She didn't want to leave...we almost had to force her to go.

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!