Our Baby Cora Turns 2!!

Well by the title you guessed it, Cora turned 2 this last weekend! She was so cute. When I woke her up that morning I said, "Cora it's your birthday and time for your...then I was interrupted with an extremely excited "Elmo birthday party!" Needless to say she was way excited for her birthday party and yes it was an Elmo party! I got ambitious and did an Elmo cake...the icing had to be started days in advance in order to get the color just right...we didn't want a pink Elmo. But the cake was suprisingly the easiest thing to do with the party! We had Elmo games and of course the hottest present topic was Elmo so she got lots of Elmo type presents. We were lucky to have the Carle, Felker (Columbia Felkers), & Walker cousins and Grandma Jani & Papa Otto and my cousin Jack even came over from Fort Riley. The day started out being a rainy/wet one, but ended up being nice and great weather for the kids to be outside for our Elmo games. We had Elmo light/Oscar light (Red light-Green light), Blue Grover-Blue Grover (red rover-red rover), and Elmo Says (Simon Says). The kids had a blast playing the games and of course loved the bounce house so generously brought by Aunt Michelle! It was the perfect day for a party! Here are some pics of the kids...

Here are pictures of the cake. It was cute because during the time of singing Happy Birthday to her she was singing to herself. Then if you look at the the upper left picture, this is her trying to do two fingers...she always says, "help me" as she still has a hard time doing her fingers in a two.

Our first game was Red light/Green light with pictures of Elmo as the red light and pictures of Oscar as the green light. The kids loved being able to run and the big kids had a hard time going slow to let the little kids win sometimes.

The next game was Red Rover or Blue Grover sticking to the elmo theme. As you can see from the pictures...the girls did a bit better than the boys!! :)

The last game was Elmo Says. Cora was Elmo of course and she loved doing all the actions!

Here are some fun pictures of the cousins that got to come and enjoy the party with us! Cora was so excited to play with all her cousins and we loved having them all here! Thanks so much to all you for making Cora's birthday so special! She really did have a great birthday!

I can't believe our little baby is growing up so quickly. She is quite the cute little girl. She is complete opposite of Kayley in that she is really not afraid of anything. She's loves adventures and of course that means she gets into everything! She doesn't just need one toy out, she needs all of them! But, she is also my cuddler. She loves to cuddle when she wakes up and when she goes to bed. I love these small moments with her and it makes me realize how quickly time goes by. Since she has been able to talk, she has always had this cute little raspy voice and I just can't get enough of it. She also loves to do anything her sister does, so she loves all the princesses and loves to play dress up. She is also so grown up now that she is pretty much all potty trained. We've got wetting down to a T and stay dry all day. Going number 2 is difficult for her at times so we often spend most of the day during the time when she should go without underwears on so that she will feel it coming and not have anywhere to go...it's worked so far once and we're hoping it sticks! We just love our Cora so much and our family wouldn't be the same without her!