Stealer of my heart...

I wrote down something that my dad said to me once. I was leaving, probably with my car loaded-up to head back to UTK, when he said, "So long my babies. Stealer of my heart, and half my groceries". It made me laugh so hard that I wrote it down, pinned it to a pillow in my sewing kit, and I see it everytime I pull the kit out of the closet (which, admittedly, is about twice per year, almost never to actually sew anything but mostly to find a safety pin to keep something mended until Mom comes to visit...).

Anyways, our tiny valentine stole our hearts this year!

Mia made this little monogrammed dress for Valentine's Day. I had trouble catching her for a pic, but her initials are monogrammed across the front.

 I came across these matching shoes.

Cora consistently stacks blocks by size - and she notices if you add one of mismatched shape in the middle.

Your eyes aren't deceiving you - her legwarmers are mismatched here. It was crazy sock day at school, and fortunately, Grandma M had just sent a couple of pairs of funky legwarmers our way.

Walkin' a mile in Papaw Jim's shoes...

On Valentine's Day, I treated Cora to a huge Elmo balloon from the grocery store. As you can imagine, Elmo was her main squeeze for several days. Here, we had just arrived home from the grocery store and she tried to pull Elmo into her Cozy Coupe. Are we bad parents? Rather than running to help her, we grabbed the camera to capture her fight to get Elmo in the car with her.

The next day, I had meetings and Landon dressed Cora for school. He's learned to snap a pic when she is wearing something tht will make me cackled.

 These boots (Vintage Reese) are on the verge of being too tight for her feet, but she loves them!

Grandma M got Cora this dress over Christmas Break. Today was the second time she has wore it - but today, when I went to get her dressed, I found her bloomers still attached underneath the dress. Oops! I was trying to get a pic of the front her, but this little lady was very still through church (we were able to stay in the pew almost the whole time), so she was on the go, all the time, once we came home.

Today, over brunch with the Groeber's, we were discussing the gender of Messal Baby #2. They joked that we were going to be the people to keep our kid's gender neutral as long as possible (like the story that was recently in the news about the family that didn't reveal their child's sex for 5 years). Have you looked at the way Cora is dressed lately?!?!? Nope, there isn't much unisex about this kid! In fact, I was cleaning out Cora's crates of clothing in prep for the new baby. The newborn size gowns and onesies were mostly gender neutral. Beyond that, in all of Cora's clothes and all of the sizes, 0 months - 18 months, there is only enough gender neutral attire to fill ONE under-the-bed size storage box. That's it. Everything else is super girlie.

Maybe I should be wishing for a girl!