Ham--no, not the food

I see Geron in Cora more and more everyday, specifically this past Sunday.  Some may disagree, but I believe most would say we had a miniature Geron strutting her stuff at our cantata rehearsal Sunday afternoon.  Our regular nursery worker had an emergency, so Cora joined us in the sanctuary for our Christmas cantata rehearsal.  She visited soprano after soprano after alto after alto for the first part of practice.  Then, some innocent bystanders(people waiting on family members who were in the choir) watched her for us.  At some point, Cora escaped their laps and made her way up onto the stage, behind her daddy who was directing.  She walked back and forth across the stage, stopping every once in a while to make faces at different choir members.  Classic moment of the evening--a soft durge suddenly sprang into a bright, lively tempo.  Immediately Cora threw her hands over her ears and stared at everybody. She looked up and saw Geron directing (waving his hands, as far as she was concerned) and started waving both hands as if to the direct the choir as well.  We all cracked up.  At the end of one of the pieces, Geron asked me to go to the keyboard to run parts and saw Cora going there as well and quipped "Cora, will you go to the keyboard?"  I was afraid she was going to try to help me play parts, too, but she was good and walked away.  I think my favorite thing she did that night was during a rhythmic exercise with the men's sections.  Geron said "The-Love-of-God" and Cora repeated loudly "Uh-guh-buh-Dah!"  SHe hasn't quite gotten the consonants down, but her vowel sounds and rhythm matched his perfectly!  We knew before she was born that she loved music.  And now we know she loves to mimic her Daddy, too.  (PRAY FOR ME)

Who is this little girl? And what have you done with our baby?

New Discovery

 

Oh what is this bump on the front of my face? 

Its smells yummy things for which I say Grace.

Mommy says its called a nose. 

Its round and on bottom it has two holes. 

I find a surprise in one of the holes. 

I taste it, its yummy

But daddy says "Gross!"

I like this new thing mommy calls my "nose".

My fingers fit in it.  Now how about my toes?

 

(Any resemblence to the book entitled The Holes In My Nose" is strictly coincidental.

Any resemblence to Cora is strictly intentional.)

Update

Cora got her twelve month--almost 13 month--shots today. Everyone in her doctor's office seems to be crazy about her.  I just assumed they went gaga over all their patients, but the nurse told me today that they actually have some favorites and Cora is one of them. Sweet!  Cora showed off her latest trick today--walking. Everyone cheered for her and she seemed to be pretty proud of herself.  She weighed in at a whopping 25lbs and 4oz and is still 29 inches long. Her nurse said she'll probably start losing some weight now--which means bye-bye cute little pot-belly and roly poly legs.  I hope she keeps her chubby cheeks for awhile.  As for her shots, she took'em like a pro.  Well, she cried about a minute, maybe, but dried up pretty quick and started cutting shines, as my dad would say.  She now has pink eye, too, which came from the same virus that caused her rash and fever earlier in the week.  Doc gave us some drops for her eyes, though, so hopefully it will clear up pretty quickly.  While I don't want to see her doctors and nurses as often as we have been, I really do love them.  They are so good to ALL of us. 

good times

sorry for leaving you hanging there.  For those who asked--we answer "yes, we're feeling better."  For those who prayed,  THANK YOU so much.  My left eye seems to have cleared up and my right eye is almost there.  I've probably got one more day to endure.  Geron seems to be doing well and didn't get the eye crud afterall.  Cora acts like she feels fine, but she has a rash all over her little body.  WHAT ARE WE DOING WRONG HERE?  She has a doctor's appointment tomorrow to get her 12 month immunizations, but I don't know if thats going to happen or not with this rash.  This will be the second time we've missed getting them if they decide not to do it.  Her last appointment for the shots was scheduled the week she ended up in the hospital with the kidney infection. 

 

Good times, though.  We went to a birthday party tonight and everyone had a good time.  Our new pastor's daughter turned 11 today.  We LOVE her!  She's really good with Cora and has such an encouraging heart.  Sweet girl.  Cora had fun.  They have 4 children, 2 girls and 2 boys and Cora is crazy about all of them.  Matthew, who's 7, is the coolest in her eyes.  There's just something about a boy with dimples that makes her heart go pitter patter.  ha! 

 

Cute moment of the day:  Cora tried to walk on hardwood floor in socks.  She did the splits.  (Our daughter's a gymnast, who knew?) Yes, she's okay.

an apple a day PLUS 3 bags vitamin C drops, 6 ibuprofen, 2 bottles pedialyte, etc...

Around our house, we like to play a game called "Who's turn is it to be sick?"  This week, everyone wins!!  Cora had been the running champ for awhile with the kidney infection and then ear infections, and we finally got fed up with it.  This past week, my eye started bothering me and I summed it up to allergies.  Yesterday, however, the whole left side of my head began to hurt.  After a lumberjack's night of sleep, I decided to stay home from work and call doc.  "Congratulations" said Doc.  "You have conjunctivitis(pink eye) and your tonsils are swollen."  So, I went back home and slept the rest of the day away.  (z pak and drops were on their way) 

Meanwhile at GCN...
Geron had taken me to the doctor's office, back home, and went back to work.  As he sat in his air-conditioned office, he began to burn up and break out in a sweat.  Walking down the stairs to go home, he began to feel weak in the knees.  He debated going to pick Cora up himself, but did so anyway.  When he returned home, he fell asleep and hasn't awoken since.  I hope he's not waiting for a kiss since we're both contagious. 

 

And to top it all off,  Cora decided she would run a fever and have her belly covered in a rash. 

No news as to what the other two family members are suffering from as of yet, but I'm sure Cora has won once again. 

Walkin'

It finally really happened today, It's like someon flipped a switch or something