Sniffles and uh-ohs

Now that the family health status is back to normal, I believe it’s safe to blog. Unfortunately, the plague started with me and ended with my father in-law with Stacey running a close second. Hardest part about the whole thing was hearing the little one struggle. It was obvious the coughing was painful, and the breathing was far from effortless. Oddly enough, she was able to sleep through the night with cold/flu and diaper rash. How did we luck out there? To my credit, I installed a second bath into our daily routine for the sick days the included a vapor bubble bath/soak. To Stacey’s credit, she had it stocked and on hand I think before Kori was even born for this very occasion. I asked her the other day if there is EVER a time where she doesn’t think of EVERYTHING. The reaction on her face led me to believe she thought I was insulting her but the message was received. Anyways, we made it 7 months sick free with Kori. I know we are fortunate because a lot of parents can’t say the same. Let’s just hope it’s not the beginning to some trend. Although it was nice knowing we could remedy whatever Kori had, we’d rather NOT have to wear the hero cape.

Shortly after her symptoms come and gone, the little one was back to her exploratory ways of pinning Riggles to the ground, chasing cats, playing in the dog bowls, and CLIMBING STEPS. WHO IS THIS GIRL? The other night I was just following her around when she came to the big staircase. Any other time I would of picked her up and give her the ole 180, but I was feeling curious I guess. This tiny little thing climbed about 6 steps all by herself. I had her back in case she fell but she really didn’t even need me there. Scary but pretty impressive. Feel free to comment if this is normal for a 7 month old. Don’t get me wrong she’s not flawless. I’ve seen her take some pretty nasty spills and pull a chair on top of herself. Haha! I realize this probably sounds like we never watch her, but we all know it can happen in the matter of a blink.

Aside from all that, there isn’t a ton to share. Some new found pleasures are a ride in the golf cart, bubbles (can’t decide if I like them for her or she actually likes them), Julie Chin (Channel 2 Meteorologist), drinking from an actual water bottle, shoulder rides on her old man, and outlets. I know!

In nature, fathers are known to eat their young. Is it because they’re delicious? No. It’s because they want to give their female… bear, giraffe, what have you… the honeymoon they never had. Just to be clear: I don’t condone eating your kids, although I sure as heck know why giraffes do it.

~Phil Dunphy

We obviously don't have any sick pictures to go along with the post so I here are some recent fun pics

She has a new found love for the laundry basket....luckily those are clean clothes

 Playing in the snow

 Loving the cheese puffs....and pigtails :)

Two Toofs

The second toof officially broke through. We are so proud. As far as teething (toofing) goes, I believe we’ve followed protocol; frozen wash clothes, teething rings, soft ice in a little mesh bag, etc. But sometimes you got to dig deep in those painful moments and get a little creative; queso, lemons and limes, icing, and my personal favorite, corn on the cob without the corn. Yeah, you’re welcome for that one parenthood. She gummed on that thing for a solid 45 minutes that night. Keep in mind those were just dabs of icing and queso. We weren’t spoon feeding her those things.

On the crawling side, she is pretty much anywhere and everywhere. I think my mother in-law said Kori followed her all the way from the living room to the laundry room which is a decent hike. I really get a kick watching her develop mostly because you can tell she’s so proud of herself. The time she rolled over for the first time was hilarious. Maybe Stacey can throw a few clips on here. You’re probably saying to yourself, “Wow! They got the first time she rolled over on video?” My answer is, “Yes! We did because we are super awesome parents.” She was also grunting like crazy which sort of gave it away. Back to the crawling thing though, I’m not so sure she is content with just crawling since she has already started trying to standup. In fact Stacey walked in on her today after a nap and she was standing up. We have yet to see the pull up in person, but I'm sure that will come in the next day or two.  Well not much to boast about past that, folks.

Life is good in Tulsa. These days all you can ask for is good health, steady income, and cable TV with DVR. When you look at it that way, the Cowley’s can’t complain much. We got to spend some time with our OKC friends recently which is always refreshing. Hopefully, we can make some more time for them in 2011. That’ll do it for me this week.

Ok it's been really hard to upload videos (especially with a blizard going on outside) so I'll post a few random recent pics to hold you all over for now. --Stacey

Bathtime in the sink....probably her best smile we've caught on camera in a while (by the way we see this face all day long but when cameras or friends come around she likes to make them work for it)

                                 Again a face we see all the time.....she LOVES being upside down

     

Ugh, if someone can tell me how to rotate pictures on here I would love it.  I take pictures the right way on the camera and I can edit them on my computer but when I go to post them they turn out sideways.  Anyways this is the first day of the blizard, she was so curious about what was going on outside.

She's really been attaching to us lately so on a snow day and us walking in and out of the room all the time I finally put the baby bjorn to use and she LOVED it

And had to take a pic in the snow....but the wind was blowing so hard we couldn't keep our eyes opened

 Definately random but I thought I would post a pic of Kori's cute little cousin Bailey (about a month and a half ago)....by the way I (Stacey) makes these skirts if anyone wants one :)

 

“Yeah, he gives me a hard time. But that's the deal with a father-in-law. The key is I never let him see just how much it devastates me.”

~Phil Dunphy