Five Months!

Yesterday Cora turned 5 months old!  Amazing!! At 11 lbs and 6 oz, she is cuter then ever, but is cutting more bottom teeth (she already has her two bottom front ones) and is so fussy and upset lately.  Poor thing.  

Cora also started day care with Miss Ruth last week, where she goes Monday through Wednesdays.  Ruth watches one other little boy named Sam, who is darling and is three months older than Cora. Sam is such a happy, smiley little boy!  Ruth is GREAT with the kids, and works really well with Cora and her special bottle.  It's really, really hard leaving Cora with a stranger, but Ruth is great and I go visit Cora on all my lunch breaks to check in on her.
Really, I think Cora is fine, I'm just the one that needs snuggle time and miss her like crazy :)

Here are a few photos and videos from this past week.  

Miss Ruth Day Care

Grocery Shopping!

Playing with Henry!

Bath Time!

Colorful Colorado!

Welcome to Colorado, Cora Azalea!  

The Rio, Horesetooth, The Pickle Barrel, CSU & 2342 Valley Forge Ct. are only a few of the awesome spots Cora experienced and visited this week in momma's hometown of Fort Collins. She was so happy to visit (and meet!) with some of her very favorite people!

The Beahms came down from Nebraska the first part of the week to meet little Cora, and she loved them so much (including their adorable dog Oliver!).  

Aunt Marisa and Uncle Mike came later in the week and spent lots of time teaching Cora about beer and other crucial life lessons.

Nana and Pop loved snuggling and playing with little Cora as much as they could. Nana and Cora take some great naps together! 

We've had such a wonderful time and are already so sad to say bye to everyone :(  It always goes too fast.

 

The Beautiful Beahms.

Dad hooked us up on an awesome tour!

Easter Baby Bunny 

Snoozin' with Pops!

Packing up! 

Little America!

On our journey to Colorado with Buddy and the Grand Po-Ba,
Cora had her first big adventure at Little America! What fun! 

Thank you Po-Ba and Buddy for driving us safely to Colorado.
We will miss you!

Cora, mom and Sinclair Sam.

Family pile (minus dad and zoe).

Cora riding Sinclair Sam. 

Scary stuffed penguin in the middle of Wyoming!

Carrots, Colds and Temporary Good Byes

It's a sad evening tonight- tomorrow Buddy and the Grand Po-Ba will be heading back to their homeland of rainy Kentucky after spending a wonderful two-months in sunny Idaho. We will miss them an awful lot, but luckily they will be coming back in June for a couple months again! 

Cora and I didn't have to say our goodbyes quite yet though because tomorrow we will all caravan down to Laramie together where they will then continue on to Kentucky and Cora and I will go down to Fort Collins to visit Nana and Pops, Cindy, Terry, Laura, Michael, and Marisa and Mike! Nat (who is currently in Europe again for work) will fly in to meet us. I can't wait for Cora to meet Mike and the Beahms and I'm so excited to see my family! I just hope the car drive goes okay ...

Before this past week slips away, below are some photo documenting this week's adventures. It was a big week because Cora ate her first solid food- some organic carrots, which she hated at first, but I think it was our mistake to give it to her during her witching hour. I let her try some again later in the week and she did much better, she just made some funny faces and spit most of it down her chin and onto her clean clothes.  

Cora also got her first cold (and so did I, and I hope mine was worse because it was pretty gnarly). Being sick and taking care of a sick little one while Nat was gone was hard. The night was the hardest because I couldn't take NyQuil or anything because I had to get up every few hours to take care of my needy little bug. I don't know how single mommas do it .... 

We are both on the mend though (I hope!) and are ready for some down time at Nana and Pops.

We also took Cora to (I think her first?) outdoor concert at River Run of Willie Nelson's son. She did great and loved all the attention from half the town! It makes me so excited for summer when we can take her out and about to all the fun things this Valley has going on in the summer.  

Okay, off to bed to rest up for our big adventure tomorrow! 

Hanging Out.

Hanging out and showing off her arms.

Hanging out on the raft.

Hanging out at the concert with Dad.

Hanging out at the restaurant with Dad.

Hanging out in her "To-Go" box.

Hanging out with Mom.

Hanging out naked.

"The Machine" is hanging out before it goes away forever.

"I will NOT show you my new teeth!"

Hanging out with Po-Ba.

"Okay, here are my new teeth!"