A little "Me" post!

I ran my first 1/2 Marathon yesterday!! I am still completely wiped out but am very happy I did it.

My little trophy at the end really made it all worth it.



That and when were standing in line to get my "Finisher Photo" taken she said - "Mommy, I so proud of you!" and gave me a big hug. Everyone around us went "awwwww". It was a little bit of a tearjerker!

Oh the drama.

Nooo my/I want/ I don't want ________ followed by throwing herself on the floor.

This is a frequent scene in our house. She is mostly just this hilarious little sweet thing and then all of the sudden drama drama drama out of no where.

It cracks me up...when it isn't making me want to run away from home.

New skills -
~Knows her alphabet (can point to and name all letters)
~Can count to 13
~Finally figured out the difference between "my" and "I"

Favorite books -
~Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
~Fancy Nancy
~Leonardo the Terrible Monster

Favorite Songs -
~What's This - Nightmare Before Christmas Soundtrack
~Let's Get Together - The Parent Trap Soundtrack (or as she calls it the "alligator song"
~Manah Manah - (The Cake version)

And in the shocking category she HATES cereal. Who on earth hates cereal? I would only eat cereal if there were no rules.

Piano Prodigy

Cora loves to play all sorts of instruments - the harmonica, the guitar and bass, the drums and, of course, the piano.

(I promise Ellen, we will have her painting and sewing too!)







And one for fun!

Winter time fun!

Here are a few recent pics of the winter time here at our house.

Cora watching the snow fall.

Getting ready to walk to Papa and Wawa's

Decked out in snow gear.

In her Christmas dress.

Her very first bike. Can you tell she is excited?

Doing the only cool thing there is at Jantzen Beach.

As Peaseblossom at Mikenzie's Graduation Party.

Talking....and talking.

Cora has obviously been talking for a while now, so the fact that she is talking isn't that impressive. But what she has been saying is so.much.fun.

Example A:
(holding hand out flat)
Cora : Riiiilleeeey eat the apple.
Me: Are you feeding Riley (Mom and Rick's horse)?
Cora: Mmm hmm Riley eats hay and apples.
Me: You are genius!

Example B:
Me (and Mom, she can't pretend like she wasn't part of this): Cora, I don't want you to ever say this again but can you show Ninny how you say Douche bag?
Cora: Doooose bad.
Ninny (my mom): Can you say putz?
Cora: Putz!
Me: Okay last one, can you say wiener.
Cora: wiiieeennnnerr!!.....pause.....DADDY'S WIENER!!!

Good thing we were at a stop light. We would have run off the road laughing.

Halloween at the Hoyts

So I decided to torture myself and make Cora an Alice costume. Luckily it went really smoothly and she kept it on the whole time!





We also had a great time at the pumpkin patch.




In other Cora news she has had what can only be called a language explosion. She even says sentences! Her current favorites are "Airplane in the clouds" and "Goodnight Moon". She is also into labeling everything - Daddy's pillow, Mommy's shirt, Coco's chair etc. We love it! It is so much fun to hear her chatter on about what ever she sees. It isn't even annoying yet!!

Bye Bye Poops.

Totally immature! Cora is going to hate us! Enjoy!!!!