Right now, Cora is sitting on our bed, paging through the hymnbook, and singing. It's pretty cute. She makes musical sounds quite a bit, which makes me very happy. I've played my flute and guitar for her a few times in the past week, and I think she likes it. She really likes playing my guitar herself.
In this picture, she's showing off how she can stack a bunch of Legoes together. She's made stacks of up to 8. Sometimes she has trouble lining them up right and gets frustrated. I have to remind myself that it's developing her fine motor skills and her patience so I don't go help her.

Last Thursday was Josh's class Halloween party. (Though this picture is actually from the ward party.) Cora and I went for an assembly in the morning, then ran some errands, then came back for lunch and stayed the rest of the day. At the assembly, they had a teacher costume contest. Since our costumes all went together, we all went up.
Josh chased me (holding Cora) onto the stage, and I hid behind the principal. It was fun. :D We ended up winning first place! The prize was a Starbucks gift card. At first I was bummed because I thought we couldn't use it, but then I remembered that they have cocoa and cider. Now all we need is for the weather to stay cool enough for that!

The rest of the day was lots of fun. Josh's students loooved having Cora there. We played games, some educational and some just for fun. After school they had a Fall Festival, which we stayed and helped out with. We ended up being there until almost 8, which meant that Cora was up
past her bedtime on a day where she didn't take a nap. Needless to say, she fell asleep on the way home. We were pretty tired, too, so we just put all the stuff from the party on the couch.

The next morning, while I was on the computer, Cora got ahold of the orange yarn we had used for a craft at the party. This picture was the result. She can reach almost anything on the couch and a lot of stuff on the kitchen table, if we leave it too close to the edge. No more shoving stuff to the side of the table so we can eat dinner! We'll actually have to clean it off!

We bought these pumpkins to use for an activity, planning to carve one or two later and cook the others. We never did carve them. But here's a very cute picture of Cora bouncing on them. We never had time to go to a pumpkin patch, so this is the closest picture you're going to get, Grandmas!


This picture is also from the ward Halloween party. We ended up just eating some hot dogs and talking for a little while. They had some carnival games, but there were just too many people to make it worthwhile to take Cora through. They would have been too hard for her, anyways. We left before trunk-or-treating because we wanted to be able to go without hitting any kids in the parking lot. So that's all we did for Halloween. I'm looking forward to next year, when Cora's older and Halloween doesn't fall on a Sunday.

Did you notice how my hair was in rollers for my costume? This is how it looked Sunday morning after I had slept on the rollers. I thought that combing it would relax the curls, and it did a bit, but then they just got tangled up together. My hair was VERY poofy. It reminded me of pictures of my mom in the 80s. Josh took a video of me combing my hair, but no still pictures. Sorry.

Josh is still very busy with school. It's gotten a lot better than it was at the beginning of the year, though. He still has to spend a lot of time planning, but not as much as he used to. I help him as much as I can. I'm still Activity Days leader, and having fun with it. Last week I had to bring Cora along with me because Josh had conferences after school, and the girls were thrilled. An acquaintance from BYU has designed a Finnish phrase course as part of her Master's in Education, and she needed people to give feedback on it, so I've been working on that this week. It's really fun to review Finnish. I need to keep it up.

Well, it's time to start dinner! Cora's hungry!