Heat Wave

This week's heat wave brought out the pool. Cori will spend hours in here playing.

This is how Cori wets her hair - ha ha!

Happy Birthday Corinne!

Today our little bird turns 2 and in some ways, time has gone super fast. In other ways, there are moments when life had slowed down long enough to bask in the pure emotion of the moment. Our little baby is really not a baby any more, which leaves me with a mixture of awe and joy and sadness. To say Cori is loved though would be a huge under-statement!On Saturday we had a small family party to celebrate. While the weather was less than cooperative, we had a good time with lots of balloons, cake and presents, and lots of smiles and love! Cori woke up that day with a low grade fever and napped over 3 hrs that day before the party. Thankfully she seemed to rebound a bit right before the gathering.

I love that you can see the natural curls in the back of her hair in the above shot! They only come out when it's humid or after bath time.

Cori loved being sung to, and she was much more interested in opening gifts this year. After she tore into each gift, she'd proclaim "Open!" and she wanted to play with it.
Sadly we had to shuffle her back to another gift time and time again, much to her disappointment. She really wanted to play!

"You mean I can't play with this right now either?!
Not cool, Mom - not cool!"

Though Cori had a rough evening and night with another bad fever, she seems to be slowly on the mend. We have a doctor's appointment tomorrow to check her stats and make sure this isn't something beyond a virus running its course. Special thanks to everyone for the birthday cards & wishes for our little girl! She sure is loved, but most of all, by Mama & Dada! We love you baby!

Decisions, decisions

Time is going quickly and soon we'll be breaking ground for the new house (most likely early July)!! In a few weeks we get to pick out all the fun selections, everything from cabinet colors to lighting options to paint colors and flooring. We've been driving around looking at some of the homes our builder has completed prior, thinking this would give us some ideas for exterior color combos that we like and do not like.

Here's the front contender - it's a combination of a light grey siding & roof with a dark blue door and shutters. We'll have the stone and white vinyl porch like the picture shows, so it helps tie it in for us.

Further proof that time is flying.... Cori's second birthday party is this coming weekend! We're really enjoying this age and can't beleive our little bird is no longer a baby! Party pics to come!

binkie

Sometimes one binkie is just not enough...

Not sitting pretty

I'm not sure what I expected, because Corinne is a toddler after all. Cooperation is relative. But yesterday's escapade to the mall for pictures resulted in only 6 picture choices out of 100 taken. And she was only smiling in one of them. I love where we went, but it seems that they just aren't doing a great job of capturing our darling girl's personality!

Sadly, none of the pictures turned out in her silk dress from Nordstrom's. Maybe she'll wear it to Aunt Kacey's baby shower this month...

This is the only one I liked. Just like last time, the only decent one came as a result of physically containing her in a box. Ha ha!