Chad, JoAnna, and Cora Bischoff

New challenges of a growing girl

2012-01-24T15:14:00.000-07:00

Cora is growing up more each day she is such a little girl now, no longer my little baby. Last night I showed her Photo Booth on our computer and before I knew it she was taking pictures herself. She thought it was pretty funny. I love watching her learn new things.

With all this growing up we are facing new challenges that I would love to hear anyone advise on.
First is nursery.... She doesn't like it unless mom or dad are in there. I know this is common but is there a way to help her like it?

She is also trying to decided if she like one or two naps. We are mostly doing one but sometime she only sleeps for a short time for that one and then is no the happiest little darling for the rest of the day.
Today I needed her to take 2 naps so I put her down for a morning nap and she ended up playing with her baby for over an hour until I went in there and took it away so she would fall asleep, Is there a rule or suggestion as to toys in the crib? I have let her the past week or so cause she either sneaks them in there or else is really excited to have a toy to play with. It hasn't been a problem until today, and even today it wasn't a problem it is fun to hear her jabbering to her baby and monkey learning to play by her self.

That's really the only problems or questions I have she really is a great baby overall and I just can't help love her silly happy face.

Our Baby

2012-01-06T14:15:00.001-07:00

So it has been awhile since I have posted so to update you on the most exciting news first, Our baby.
I am currently 22 weeks and feeling pretty good. This pregnancy has been a bit rougher on my then Cora was but I have been feeling good the last few weeks and just need to remember to stay away from sugar because it makes me sick if I eat to much. You would think that would be easy to remember that if I eat to much sugar I throw up but for some reason my brain has a hard time comprehending it :)

About a month ago we got an ultrasound to see how our baby is growing and it looks like Cora is going to have a little SISTER to play with. We are excited to have another little girl. It also works out great in the fact that we won't have to buy any clothes because they will both be born in May, good news :)

I don't think that Cora understands a whole lot, but she does know that there are pictures of the baby on our fridge and when I ask where the baby is she will point at my belly... or her belly... or anyone's belly. But I think she will be a great big sister.

Here are a few pictures (sorry they are bad quality, I don't know why really.... but better than nothing)

Here is me at 22 weeks

This is our baby girl's feet at about 19 weeks.

The ultrasound tech couldn't ever get a good 3D picture of her face so this this what we did get a good picture of... I guess it may just be her best side (jk) :) Here is her little bum.

The New Exciting Stuff

2011-10-19T16:30:00.000-06:00

We have a new little alien growing in my belly and will be here around May 7.
Here's to hoping that it isn't as big as its big sister.

We couldn't be happier and are looking forward to not being sick any more :)
We went to the doctor last week and she said that everything is looking good.

Everyday funness

2011-10-19T16:14:00.001-06:00

I don't have a lot else to say since Labor Day except we have been having a good time enjoying the beautiful weather and playing with loved ones.

We have been hanging out in Brigham City folk...

This is Cora helping Grandma Bischoff water her pretty flowers

Smelling the pretty flower. Grandma has such an amazing green thumb

Playing outside of our apartment.

There is a huge cherry tomato plant that Cora loves to go pick a few green tomatoes off and play with. I don't know what is so great about it but it has entertained her for hours over this summer.

She also loves to wear my shoes, if we are inside she puts them on and waves bye-bye and tries to open the door.

This is Cora at the Logan Library the other day. They have a fish tank there that she loves to look at all the fish and just laughs

Conference weekend we had the opportunity to live in luxury. The Bischoff's had a timeshare at the Marriot Mountainside Hotel in Park City. It was so much fun. I went up on Thursday with my sisters Emily and Rebecca and their kids and my mom. Then my sister Emily Ann joined us on Friday for some swimming in pools like this...

It was great.

Here are Madalyn and Ava playing in the playroom. Again I didn't take many pictures so this is as good as it gets here.

Then on Friday afternoon Chad joined Cora and I and we spent the night there again with more of the Bischoff crew.

Thanks again for letting us participate the the luxury :)

These next pictures are probably Cora's favorite part of the day... Breakfast.
When Cora wakes up there has never been very many fun good morning snuggles, she gets right to business. She wants food! And does she ever wake up hungry. So breakfast only includes quick foods like toast, oatmeal, eggs, cereal, and pancakes (if the batter is ready and pan is heated up). I love eating breakfast with her every morning.

This is her favorite meal, pancakes with syrup that she can dip dip in and a smoothy. There has yet to be a morning where she eats fewer pancakes then me. I don't know how her stomach handles it but she really can eat 2 or 3 big pancakes.

The past few days she had been sitting like this, her knees propped up again the tray and squatting instead of sitting. It seems to me like her legs would fall asleep but she doesn't mind it.

Washington

2011-10-19T15:53:00.004-06:00

I guess I should start playing catch up....
So this is Labor Day weekend. On the Wednesday or Thursday before the weekend Chad had a great idea to take a road trip out of Utah. So we decided to go and visit our friends Jordan and Andra in Kennewick, WA.
We left Friday at about 4 and drove to Boise where we stayed the night in a hotel. We got there at about 10, Cora had no idea where we were and was excited/tired/crazy we tried to put her right to bed but it was very unsuccessful... due to the fact that there wasn't anywhere for us to go that she couldn't see us and I was nervous that we would wake other people up.
So at about 12 with much frustration we decided that we would just hang out in Boise the next day and then go home because it would be a good vacation if she never slept so we stayed up for a bit longer until she finally fell asleep in bed with me.

You would never guess that she was crying her eyes out about 10 minutes before this picture, so we decided to let her get in the tub and she couldn't have been more happy.

This is Cora making a mess/exploring the hotel room at about midnight.

The next morning we woke up and decided it wasn't as bad of a night as with thought at the time and that we should carry on! So after a fantastic Continental Breakfast (my favorite thing about vacations) we hit the road.

Cora did great in the car occupied with toys and binkys and treats.

She did great for the most part.... we had our hard times. (this was about 2 hours away from home)

We got to Kennewick on Saturday at about 3:00 then hopped in Jordan's Car and drove to Portland... hindsight- dumb idea. If the drive there wasn't enough we added a 6 hour drive (3 there/ 3 back) to see Portand for about 1 hour.

It was a long day lets just say that.

Sunday was great. We went to Kennewick ward and then had a nap due to the back sleep that was due to a cute baby girl .... :)

Then went and walked around the Kennewick Temple Grounds it was beautiful.

Monday we got up early and headed back home.

It was a good trip but it is nice to sleep in your own beds that everyone is use to :)

I didn't many/any pictures except this one of Cora and Chad in Portand.

It is Official

2011-08-24T11:09:00.003-06:00

Yesterday I got some exciting news....
I get to teach a class up at USU this next semester.
I wasn't looking for work but my good friends up in the Math office (Linda Skabelund) are always looking out for me. They were looking for another Adjunct teacher and asked if I would be interested. I told them I would be interested depending on the time/days. So they asked what would be best for me and I told them evenings so that Chad could be with Cora.
Then a few hours later I got a call back and they said that they decided to open another evening class and if I would be willing to teach it.

So I am now the teacher of Math 1010 section 25 Monday and Wednesday 6:00-8:00

I guess it is a good thing that I got my degree :)
Here is proof :)

On A Roll... Now for Cora

2011-08-19T21:27:00.000-06:00

So this is the 3rd post tonight! I know, I know a little out of control but you may notice a bit was lacking the the aforementioned posts... Ranting/bragging/boasting/boring you with information about the one and only Cora Jo Bischoff. :)
Well here it is.
She is now 14 (almost 15) months old. I love spending every day with her and I really think she gets more fun each day. Today she made me laugh all morning she was being so funny. Thinking she is sneaky, trying to get the smarties and run away. Unfortunately for her we have a very small apartment; she can't hold in her laugh when she is being sneaky; and her mother follows her around almost constantly for company and laughs :)

A few things she loves:Feeding her baby and/or taking care of her baby. She is going to be a great mom she plays with her baby about 80% of play time.

We have been going to the Logan Aquatics Center every Saturday morning (which she LOVES) and last week we took her down the slide, we couldn't keep her away from it until we left and there was much crying once in the car. She was so cute, she would get so excited and laugh the whole way down.

She loves her daddy. We go outside and wait for him to come home from work and she just says Dad dad and runs to him when she sees him. But then usually runs away to have him chase her.
She also loves to give kisses to mom and dad. (We don't object to it)
Going for walks/runs. Especially if it to a park with a slide and little kids to watch
Playing the tub and sink
Climbing up on things and scaring me when I realize she is there

Here are some pictures to satisfy those who fell asleep reading the above post :)

This was a little pool party at our apartment. We had two little girls right by us.

We love her

Great Neighbors and Friends

2011-08-19T21:09:00.000-06:00

Have I ever mentioned how much we love living on Dee Ave?
Well here I am now saying it. I love it. Not only it is a great apartment, free heat, great location, great yellow counters. We have fantastic neighbors.
I am lucky enough to live yelling distance away from a good friend from high school, well two good friends from high school Shay and Michelle.
They being the good people the are invited us to have a hobo night with them.
We went up to Michelle beautiful cabin and cooked our selves some tin foil dinners and they were yummy.

It was a great fun. Michelle taught Cora how to "cut the pickle... tickle tickle" and she still will only do it with Michelle. She must have some magic fingers :)
Again we have great neighbors and friends

The Past 2 Months

2011-08-19T20:56:00.000-06:00

So I kind of have an excuse for not posting for so long... Our computer died. But thanks to great neighbors and friends we had a laptop to use (Thank You Shay and Michelle) and now a new computer (Thank You Lo). We now have a desktop and I quite like it. It makes me feel like I am more wasting time when I am doing just that... wasting time. But that is not the purpose of this post.
It is an update.
It has been a great 2 months. Chad hasn't had any school and so our weekends were school free! Yahoo. Unlike tonight, which is not school free :(
We attempted to go camping a few times. We even bought a huge eight man tent that Chad (6' 3" Chad) can stand up straight in almost all the way out to the side. Needless to say it is huge. And camping with my family we the smallest family had the biggest tent. I doubted at first but after being able to stand up and rock Cora in it I had nothing but praise for that tent. But back to the camping, we went up twice and the first time I got a few hours of sleep in, while in the car and the second time we came home at 11:30 cause someone wasn't going to sleep. But it was a good idea and now we have a great tent to in theory go camping.
A good thing that did happen at the river was lots of floating. Chad started a tradition of 10:00 pm float. The pictures below show that, They liked it so much they went like 8 or 10 times. My excuse was that Cathrine had my swim suit so I could participate.

We had family in from Michigan/Wisconsin in and had a blast with them. But unfortunately I am a terrible person and didn't get a single picture. But we LOVED having Brian, Lexie, and their family here. We miss them already.
Some sad news we finally sold my beloved moped. I got this treasure my freshman year of college and loved it ever since. It has many fond memories and I was sad to see it go. But it went out of our lives along with many of our house hold items thru a garage sale we had with my mom. Chad's Minimalism paid off :)

Happy #3

2011-06-26T16:13:00.000-06:00

Today I am accomplishing a great Feat I am making a post that is not only a month past but it is happening today! Today is our Three Year Anniversary. I can't believe that we have been married for 3 whole years.

I couldn't be happier with the man that I have chosen to spend the rest of eternity with and am so gratefully that he was willing to be bribed into marrying me. He is such a hard worker and I love to watch him work and see him flourishing in the role of the provider for our family. He is a great husband and a fantastic father. Cora and I are so lucky to have him as our man.

We celebrated our #3 yesterday because today is Sunday and Sunday all ways gets over taken with meetings before and after church and tired baby and tired parents. So Chad set up a surprise date for me Saturday afternoon.
We started with lunch at McDonalds (classy I know) then so relax time then Chad and Cora went to start the surprise while I stayed home and bummed around. Then Chad came back with out Cora and a Canoe on top of our car. We went up 2nd North and there is a little dock that you can go off and just meander around the river. It was fantastic. It felt like we were in another land :) There were all kinds of birds every where and we even saw a baby fawn. It was great. And Chad didn't yell at me for not knowing how to paddle :)
Then we went to our favorite restaurant, Tandoori Oven, and had Butter Chicken (our favorite) and went and picked up Cora at my mom's. Then finished off the night playing kinect with Cathrine and Lo.

It was a great day.

Good Morning Independence

2011-06-06T08:53:00.000-06:00

Cora loves yogurt and loves to feed herself and I just couldn't resist. So here is our morning so far.

Tidbits about April and May

2011-06-02T08:52:00.000-06:00

It is June already, Wow. Due to the lack of Internet and my laziness I haven't posted for a while so here are a few pictures to give you taste of what our April and May was like.

Baby Animal Days, It wasn't actually THE Baby Animal Days but a week or so after but the animals were still babies and we loved it.

Cora has been helping me cook/wash dishes in the kitchen. This is her helping me make some carrot cake. It turned out fantastic by the way. It you are ever looking for a good carrot cake recipe I would suggest making this one. Especially the cream cheese frosting, If you ever need cream cheese frosting make this one (its the same recipe but its just so good) :)

Here she is again with all her flour glory

(Sorry a few of them are sideways) Here is Easter Cora didn't really get the whole race after the eggs idea but she did love chewing on the basket and sucking on the wrapper of a piece of candy. Yeah we are cruel parents that would let her have candy yet :)

Some of the Bischoff cousins on Easter just hanging out under the counter.

Cora and Daddy in their Easter Best.

Patrick, Cora, and Grandma Phillips on Easter Sunday. Cora sure loves these two they take good care of her.

Grandma Phillips was kind enough to do a Easter Egg Hunt exclusively for Cora unfortunately the previous hunt and the Bischoff's house wasn't prep enough. She still didn't know what to do and the grass was still a bit of a unknown and not so delightful.

We purchased a King Size bed. I can't believe how huge it is! I brought Cora in with us one morning and she feel back asleep and she just looked so tiny. By the way I think this is the only time that she has fallen back asleep with us, she is kinda stubborn like that.

Cora has started using sippy cups, This day she was pretty excited about it :)

Cora likes to play in the cupboards and one day she sat in this bowl so we made a little ride for her out of it. She loved it.

I had to add this one I was taking pictures of the above "ride" and this is the last one that I took. Lets just say the ride was fun until your hands stay in the bowl and your face hits the floor. I just thought it was funny

There were also a few big events in May that I will post about later such as Cora's First Birthday and our trip to Michigan. But for now this is what you get our Tidbits.

St. George and Other Happenings

2011-04-21T12:00:00.001-06:00

We have been loving the few and far between days of sun here, I can't wait for it to be consistent. To escape the rain and snow Cora and I took a quick trip to St. George with my fabulous sisters, Cathrine kindly asked us to drive down with her on Thursday and then we came back with her on Saturday morning. It was such a fun trip, Thanks again Emily Ann for letting us crash your spring break. It was filled with lots relaxing and playing with cousins. There ended up being 6 adults (5 girls and 1, 98%, man :) ) and 11 kids. We stayed in my sister in law's parents house that was between renters so there wasn't any furniture or stairs so Cora just roamed free and did what ever she wanted. It was again so fun.
Cora even did pretty good on the drive no break-downs or hours of screaming which was pretty good for being strapped down for 6 hours each way. We were excited to get home and see Chad, Cora was excited to see her Daddy and gave him a big hug when we got home.
Here are a few pictures from the trip.

On the Drive down.

Puffs banana bread and water helped keep her happy the whole trip. Who knew one baby could make such a mess.

Cora walking out side the house in the warm sun.

I thought she looked so big in this picture, She is growing up so fast.

Still not sure about the grass

This is at the St. George Temple Visitors Center. Cora kept her arm like this for most of the time Elliot was asleep, She loves all her cousins.

Cora's first time seeing the Christus, Ignore the dirty face, she was eating treats to keep her happy.

Just relaxing on the temple grounds is was sunshine


This was actually a few days after we got home but that is how we both felt after we got home on Saturday :)

Cathrine and Emily have a lot more pictures of the activities that we did perhaps I will get around to posting those sometime too.

Other than that Cora has defiantly mastered the task of walking and walks every where now, even down the stairs which quickly turned into a falling down the stairs... time to practice going down the right way. Luckily she was fine and doesn't even have fear of the stairs, unfortunately.
Here is a video of her dancing/falling/walking.

Now for the random pictures...

Cora got a baby doll from Tyra that came with a backpack and she recently found out how to wear it and loves to wear it. She will bring it to me to put on and just walking around with it on for like 20 minutes. Every once and a while she will reach back and pull on it thus making herself fall down but she thinks it is funny so I don't ask questions :)

Here she is eating some pears that I bottled last summer. I love feeding her those pears and peaches It makes me feel so domestic :)

And here are a few to end Wishing you a Happy Easter.
Love,
The Bischoff Family

Cora's 10 Months

2011-04-07T08:06:00.000-06:00

I have very talented older sisters named Cathrine and Emily. They were kind enough to share that talent with me.
We had another photo shoot when Cora turned 10 months old. Both their talents and mine are on display :) They took all the fantastic pictures and I made all the outfits.
They did a great job but it is really that hard to get a cute picture of this sweetheart :)

Thanks again Emily and Caddy.
Here are the pictures for your viewing pleasure. :)
Emily took the ones by the window in the black and white dress and Cathrine took the rest.

I love this laugh.

Random Pictures

2011-04-05T08:13:00.001-06:00

Life here at the Bischoff Home has been pretty good.
Most of you know but since about December Cora has as one ear infection after another. My best guess is that every time she gets a tooth it somehow causes an ear infection to come in with it. She has had 5 or 6 ( I don't remember) antibiotics to get rid of them. I don't like giving her medicine but I am grateful that we live in a time that we have antibiotics to cure these small sicknesses.
At her nine month check up she had lost some weight since the last time we were in so she was put on a very strict diet of eating a lot more :) Which proved to be harder than expected because she get very distracted while nursing... Even when it is just me and her she somehow hears ever sound and has to see what it was. But she is gaining weight again and is at 20 lbs and 4 oz.
She is now 10 1/2 months old! She has been taking steps for about a month now but just the last few days has really taken off walking. She walks all over our apartment, it is my favorite how she turns around it is a very wide turn and she is still a bit wobbly but defiantly gets around.

Chad is still busy with work, school, and his church calling of ward clerk. We are both excited for summer to really get here so we can spend time outside. I have been keeping busy with Cora and sewing what ever my little heart desires :) I really enjoy making things for Cora to wear and to create something just out of fabric, it is so fun. Also love looking at other peoples blogs to see what they come up with, there are so many talented people out in this world.

This towel was made for Cora when we went to California this past summer, Vivian, a lady from Chad's mission made it for us. We are a very spoiled family to have so many wonderful people who love us.

This is Cora's favorite place to play she gets in there and takes all the bowls and pans out.. fun fun fun :)

This is what I found one day when I came home from a meeting. Both taking a little Sunday nap.

Here is Cora in one of the dresses that I have made for her. I am excited that she is now walking so that it is easier for her to wear dresses :) Because I LOVE putting her in dresses and now she won't get mad because her knees are stuck in the fabric. :)

Cora also likes helping me sew... or she just loves the thread spools. I don't know what it is about them but she loves them.

The two people I love most.

Just a quick family shot.

Sorry I don't know why it is turned... But also another past time of Cora's taking all the garbage bags out of the box.

This picture was on her 10 month birthday, her first piggy tails :)

My new hobby

2011-03-14T16:12:00.001-06:00

I have decided to try something new...
The past new months I have taken up a new hobby of sewing and really enjoy it. I am now taking it a step further I have started an Etsy shop.
For those of you who don't know what an Etsy shop is, it is a website that allows you to basically have your store online.
I don't have a ton of stuff on there but will slowly build up my stock. I would also LOVE to do custom orders if you like the style of the dress but would prefer different colors and/or size.
I don't know how successful I will be but I'm not really doing it for the success. I just thought it would be something fun to try and see how it works out.
So go ahead and take a look and let your friends know about me :)

Just click here to preview my site, or on my Banner below.

My shops name is Ms Blue Eyes. Named after the person who has inspired me to create all that I have... Cora Jo.

Super Tuesday

2011-03-01T11:46:00.000-07:00

Yesterday morning was not such a great day, by 11:00 all I had accomplished was to spill Cora's bananas all over our carpet, spill my pears/pear juice all over our kitchen floor, poor quality clean up of those, no cleaning of the weekend tornado, and a nap for both Cora and myself because of the waking up every 3 hours the night before.
The afternoon turned out to get a great time, Cora and I had the most fantastic day at the dollar store right in front of our home and a great walk on the semi warm day.
I think all the lack of energy from yesterday morning come in a flood this morning. It is 11:30 and I am just going to give myself a public pat on the back, here is a list of all I have accomplished this morning:
Cleaned our fridge- there was a unknown smell coming from it for the past week so I had to find the source, I took everything out and cleaned it I still am not sure the reason for the smell but I think the smell is gone or else I'm just use to it now :)
Replaced 3 burnt out light bulbs through out our home.
Cleaned/scrubbed our sink AND tub- I hate cleaning the tub/shower.
Cleaned up the usual mess.
Got myself cleaned up and ready.
Made dinner for tonight- lasagna
Cleaned up the dinner mess- (why do you have to do dishes 4 times a day? )
and Gave Cora a bath and got the residue of like 3 days of food out of her hair :)

I am quite happy with the morning and so is Cora. :)
Cora helped me clean the fridge was in hind sight was a bad idea but we got through it then she went down for a nap for the sink/tub/mess/my shower/and some of dinner. I was on a roll and wanted to finished dinner so I just let her play and roam around checking on her every few minutes.
The picture below is how she spent the last 10-15 minutes.

Can I just say it is going to be a good day. And a lot more sitting on my duff and playing with Cora this afternoon. :)

Lots of Cora

2011-02-08T11:57:00.003-07:00

We have been going to all the Aggie basketball games, Cora likes them for the most part. Sometimes a.k.a. anytime after about 8:30 she doesn't enjoy them so much. But has been fun to go to the games. Cora loves playing with all her toys you can see most of her favorites in this picture.
Her doll with the bottle- the only word that has an action associated with it is 'kisses', and the doll gets a kiss every time she is played with.
Noah the Arc- Cora cousin Truman gave her this for Christmas, it is so cute, It comes with pairs of wood animals that go in and out of the boat. They are dragged all over the house.
Train- You can't see this one but it is a train that has 3 balls that go around and around, Cora likes to grab the balls as they go around and then suck on them. It presents a problem because there are 3 balls and she only has 2 hands... when she has one in each hand and the last one is going around you can see the struggle of what to do...
The Rings- You can see the stand for these but these are for sure Cora's favorites, She carries them around everywhere! When she wakes up the first thing she does when I set her down in the living room is grab one and crawl around with it in her hands.
The could pretty much be considered a toy... the Cupboard. Cora gets in and pulls out all the bags. and plays with the crock pot and bread maker that are under there. I should probably put more appropriate toys under there. :)
Eating food by her self. Cora loves to feed herself pretty much anything whether it puffs, bananas, grapefruit, paper, string, or tissue.
Again with the cupboard. The look on her face says enough
Playing with Daddy. This was Chad trying to make her happy when she was breaking down one night. She has been having separation anxiety when ever I leave especially when she is hungry, tired, and I walk out of the room or get up from the table to grab something. Its kinda cute.
The other night Chad was doing homework for the Masters of Human Resources that he started this past month so Cora and I went to the DI. And we hit the jack pot, this little table Cora loved it from the second she saw it. And there was a YM/YW group there that gave us a DI dollar! So it was even better :)
Last of all here is video of Cora's newest trick.
I have no idea what it is but it is cute.

And now my blog is officially all about Cora. She is just to cute nothing else really matters. :)

Quote

2011-02-02T21:38:00.002-07:00

I read my Friend McCall's blog the other day and she posted this Poem/quote that I really loved.
So here I am putting it on mine.

LEST WE FORGET
She came tonight as I sat alone

The girl that I use to be...

And she gazed at me with her earnest eye

And questioned reproachfully:

Have you forgotten the many plans

And hopes that I had for you?

The great career, the splendid fame

All wonderful things to do?

Where is the mansion of stately height

With all of it's gardens rare?

The silken robes that I dreamed for you

And the jewels for your hair?

And as she spoke I was very sad,

For I wanted her pleased with me...

This slender girl from the shadowy past

The girl that I use to be.

So, gently arising, I took her hand,

And guided her up the stair

Where peacefully sleeping, my babies lay

Innocent, sweet and fair.

And I told her that these are my only gems,

And precious they are to me;

That silken robe is my motherhood

Of costly simplicity.

And my mansion of stately height is love,

And the only career I know;

Is serving each day in these sheltered walls

For the dear ones who come and go.

And as I spoke to my shadowy guest,

She smiled through her tears at me,

And I saw that the woman that I am now

Pleased the girl that I use to be.

Author Unknown

Also a picture I took today in honor of my bestest sister named Cathrine's birthday! Happy BirthDay Caddy. We love you!

Spare Time

2011-01-20T15:16:00.003-07:00

I am pretty sure that Cora knows when I need/want to get something done. I know this from today's experience. I wanted to go up to Campus to see Chad at a Health Expo thing going on that he was helping with. And since we don't really have many things to do/see I thought Cora and I would make a date out of it.
The morning started good and was going as planned until Cora woke up from her nap early, I thought she would sleep until 12 then I would feed her and we could go up to Campus. Unfortunately she woke up at 10:30 then wanted to eat at 11:30 then we ran a dessert over to the church for a funeral, I thought it was still to carry on with our plans, Cora was a bit fussy but I could handle it and she would be happier when we were out and about. But then she fell asleep on our way over to the church.
From there I decided to go home and let her get a quick nap in, since she hasn't been taking naps longer than 2 hours, then we could still make it to the expo....
Well here I am bored out of my mind still waiting for her to wake up :)
I have watched a movie, cleaned the house, fixed a dress for her, and wasted as much time on the internet as i care to.
She is going on 4 hours of sound sleep. I would normally love this any other time (and it is still pretty good today) but I thought today was going to be an out and about day....
Oh well. She should be happy when she does wake up.
Here are few videos I took last night.

Sorry this post ended up being longer than I expected. Now you know my whole day :)
Also it is a beautiful day outside, I have my windows open right now and I love it (I also have my heat on so maybe I should close them )

December Happenings

2010-12-27T15:09:00.005-07:00

December has been a fun month we have kept busy with Christmas and just watching our sweet baby girl grow.

At the first of this month Chad received a promotion in the Human Resource Department at USU. He is now in charge of the Benefits for all the benefited employs. I am so proud of him.
He has been doing both jobs this whole month but soon will be doing only the benefits, which will be good to not have to do so much. He is really enjoying it.

Cora is now 7 months old, at her 6 month checkup she weighed 18 lbs 2 oz. and was 26 1/2 inches long. She surprises me everyday! About 3 weeks ago she stared rocking on her knees she practiced that for a while and finally started crawling about a week later.
Last Wednesday Ken and Mary Ellen were over at our house and Cora just crawled over to the couch that we were sitting on and put her hands up and pulled her self up and took a few steps towards us. It was crazy, she had only been crawling for like a week.

And as for me I am busy with Cora and Chad :) In my down time I have taken up the hobby of sewing. I have been meaning to post pictures of some of the thing I make, maybe I will get around to it sometime soon.

We had a great Christmas, Christmas Eve was spent at my Mom's house with Part the Phillips Crew (we missed Brian and Toph and their families). Then Christmas morning we drove over to Brigham City to spend Christmas Day with most of the Bischoff Crew (we missed Bruce and his family). It was lots of fun until about 7 o'clock when I started to get really sick, come to find out I had Mastitis but couldn't get prescription because no pharmacy was open until Sunday morning. We ended up staying in Brigham that night due to me laying helpless on the couch. Then to really top off the night Cora's first tooth popped through. Although we didn't know that was the reason she cried from 2:30-4:30, until the next morning. So we had a very eventfully Christmas night.
We are so gratefully for such great families and friends and the opprotunity we have to live so close to most of them so that we can visit often. Thank you all your love and help.

Now for the pictures.

Here is Cora in her Christmas Dress... She was the cutest baby at Church (all bias left out :) )

Cora defiantly loved having presents under the tree. Mostly because they were so fun to suck on.

These PJ's are so cute, they make Cora Jo into a little present. So after her bath one night we put her under the tree.

Here is her first present from Grandma Phillips, she was excited about it even though she may not look it in this picture.

This is Cora enjoying Grandpa Bischoff's antique train that goes around their tree every year.

Cora loves to play with her Uncle Patrick, they are good buds.

Here are a few videos of Cora pulling her self up and Crawling.

Eating, Crawling, and growing

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Cora is getting older and bigger every day. I can't believe it, she is now eating green beans and carrots and loving it.

She was sick for about a month and a half and is finally over it and feeling all the way better. First she had an eye infection then a week later we went back in to the doctor to find out she then had a whole pool of infection that was affecting her eyes, nose, ears, and throat. So we got an antibiotic, once we finished that on she was ok for a few day then started feeling sick again so we took her back in for the third time. Then to find out she still had a sinus infection so we got another stronger antibiotic. Now we are finally done with pinning Cora down and shoving medicine down her throat.

She is also getting up on her hands and knees and rocking and every once in a while face plant it trying to move forward.

I shot this video last week after she was eating. She makes this face when she is both mad and excited. We love her more everyday.

On another note my greatest sister named Emily Huff took our family pictures a while ago and here are a few of our favorites.