1st Week of Cora

Cora is one week old today! We've learned a lot in one week! The first being, who knew girls clothes would be so much more complicated than boys clothes?! With boys clothes, if the pants have square pockets on them that are next to each other, they are most obviously back pockets. Below we have a picture of Cora on Monday before going to her first pediatrician appointment, notice the pants... Once we got there and I was redressing her I noticed the tag.. I had her pants on backwards! The second picture is of them on correctly!





The second thing we've learned is about the color pink, which will be becoming our new favorite color soon. Our house has now been infested with it! And there is no end in sight for many years! Unless we turn her into a goth baby.. do you think you can find black clothes for babies? I'm sure there is a website out there somewhere! Unfortunately in the picture she is wearing a sleeper that was from Caden days.. and gender neutral.. but really the blanket says it all! Rob says there is one good thing about it, we will always be able to tell her socks from the boys!



We took all 3 kids shopping at the LL Bean outlet and Babies 'R Us on Tuesday. We learned that squishing 3 kids in the back of my Escape is totally do-able, but in the store the boys decided it would be great fun to run around like hellions playing car wash through the clothes racks. Cole tried on shoes and tried making himself part of the window display. We were those parents.. very embarrassing!

Wow! She really does look big next to her belly cast huh? She certainly can scrunch into a little ball.. but really I still can't believe she was living inside me!!

This is the blanket my work gives all the babies born into the company! It is Caden's favorite blanket, and was carried everywhere earlier in his life, now it stays in bed. We cover Cole with his every night, he however has no attachments except to himself (thumb, belly button or neck!). I am sure Cora will be getting great use out of hers as well!

Today Cora had her first "Girls Only Shopping Trip"! Grammy and I took her to the mall to get her some clothes to expand her wardrobe a bit! An empty bank account later, we headed home to get the boys. But she now has a ton of cool clothes, and the cutest bathing suit!! Rob says it shows too much skin! Good thing we didn't get the bikini!!

Cora is one lucky little girl (although she might not think so!), her brothers will be very protective over her we can already tell! She receives one million kisses a day from both boys. Right now she still needs a body guard from Cole, since when he's not kissing her he's whacking her with something, poking her, giving her toys (at least he's sharing!) or trying to share his snacks or milk with her. We thought the newness would wear off, but they are still all about her!

For some reason this picture didn't make the slide show we sent out.. but it definitely deserves special recognition!! My Mom and Caden put it together for Cora, but the even more special part is that the bootie vase the flowers are in are from when I was born! How cool is that?!!