Dress up with Lissa

Melissa (Lissa) is our next door neighbor and I went to High School with her. She came over this weekend and decided after a few glasses of wine that she would play dress up with Cori - here is the outcome of that.....All I can say is that Cori had a blast - but I don't know what to think of our daushound PeeWee!! Poor thing!!!

Cori's First Haircut 1-5-2008

Cori's hair was getting SOOO long but I did not want to cut it because I did not want her to loose her curls :( She is also MAJORLY tenderheaded and she was getting knots at the bottom. We went to a place called Cool Cuts and they sit in a chair that is actually a car and that has a steering wheel and they watch a movie. They had Dora in so that was FINE with Cori. I thought she might have a "princess" moment and she would freak out but she did so good!! There are still a few curls left at the end so I am pleased.

Cole Update

Just wanted to let everyone know that Colei s doing SOOO good. I will post pictures below of his awesome progress!! They still are not letting him have any food/milk yet so that is making him a little fussy - but we don't mind fussy as long as he is healing. Cori is wanting him to come home really bad. She asks about her baby Cole all the time!! Hopefully he will be home in the next few weeks. PRAY, PRAY, PRAY!!!!!
This is Cole 2 days after surgeryThis shows his incision - he is off the ventilator - PTL!!Look at how good he is looking

He is back to looking like himself here!! He is sucking on the pacifier like crazy but nothing is coming out.....

Where did December go??

Geez - it has been a crazy few weeks around our house! On December 13th we got a present better than anything Santa could bring. My nephew Steven Cole Mauricio was born. It was a LONG day and Tammie was in labor for 16 hours and had to end up having a C-Section. He is absolutely precious and Cori loves her cousin so much (more about Cole below).



We FINALLY got all the presents wrapped before our Christmas party with my mom's side of the family the Saturday before Christmas. SANTA (my brother) came to our party and the kid's loved it!! Cori even sat in Santa's lap this year. I thought for sure she was still terrified. She would not even look at a Coke can with Santa's picture on it. We had a BLAST!!







We spent Christmas morning with my parents, Christmas afternoon with David's family and back to my parents house for a Christmas night party. Cori got a million toys!! Santa brought her a kitchen and she loves making me things to eat! It is hilarious watching her play with all the food and utensils. We are very blessed to have such an awesome family and get to spend time with each other.





Then the not so good part of December happened. I got a call from Tammie (my nephews mom) Friday afternoon - the 28th (which also happened to be David and my 4 year anniversary). She was hysterical and needed me to come and get her and Cole and get them to the ER. (She can't drive - C-section). Cole had a MAJORLY bloody diaper. I was dropping Cori off with my mom because David and I were going on a date that night so I was in Sugar Land, at least 35 minutes away from her so she called an ambulance to come and get them. I got to Texas Childrens not to long after they got there. He went into emergency surgery that night because his intestines were in a bind. He had another surgery Sunday morning to remove 75 cm. of his intestines that were dead. His prognosis is very good. He got the ventilator removed yesterday and Tammie got to hold him. His tummy has not started making grumbling sounds, so they can not start him on food and he is not too happy about it!! I am going up again after work to check on my munchkin!! Here are a few pictures that I took of him on Christmas day!! Please keep him and our family in your prayers!!







We had a low key New Years and went to our neighbors, Juan and Melissa's party.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year and I will fill you in on Cole soon.

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving at the deer lease. We had tons of good food and fun. Cori went hunting for the first time with her daddy. It was so funny - I asked Cori if she wanted to go hunting with Daddy and she said "I no have no gun". It cracked me up!! David, Cori and I all loaded into David's hunting truck and started out to the field. We had not even made it through the first few gates and Cori was ASLEEP. She had not taken a nap because she was having so much fun so she konked out at 4:00. David dropped me off in a deer stand and Cori and him went on down the road to hunt. He stayed in an area where I could see through the binoculars what was going on in the stand which is welded on top of David's hunting truck. They finally got themselves situated for the big hunt and of course Cori had to go potty. So, David had her pee in the stand and it went into the bed of his truck - she thought she was so cool! They saw lots of "birdies" and "moo moo cows" but no deer. IMAGINE THAT!!! She had a great time and I love seeing her and her daddy spend quality time together like that. Thanksgiving night I went hunting and shot a doe. We brought the doe into camp and Cori wanted NOTHING to do with it!! So much for being my hunter girl - maybe next year!!

HORRAY!!!

I am going to write this and try not to jinx myself. Alot of you don't know that Cori had been sleeping in bed with us for a while until we got her big girl bed - did you think I was going to admit to that!! Anyways, I am please to announce that two nights in a row she has slept in her bed ALL NIGHT long!! The first week she woke up around 3:00 like clockwork - it was crazy. Then she moved to 4 then 4:30 then 5, etc. Thursday morning she woke me up at 7:45 and this morning was at 7:30!! YEAH!!! It is so nice to have your bed back to yourself.

Our house got broken into last week so David wanted her to sleep in bed with us again because it was scary, but we ended up putting her in her room and we were all fine. I only got up like 5 times to check on her because I could not sleep!! I kept replaying all of the craziness with the police and detectives that were at our house!!

If I don't get back on - hope you all have a great Turkey Day and I will post some photos of Camo Cori if we go to the deer lease!!

Cori's First Halloween - she had pink eye so we just dressed her up and took some pictures.

Her 2nd Halloween she was a Lady bug!!

This Halloween.
Didn't she make a cute Ariel!!