Pretty much dating back to a few months after Cora was born, Hyrum has become a cuddler (something he wasn’t really before, even when he was a baby). I love it! He will come to me when I am on the couch and say, “Mommy, let’s cuddle,” and I get a few minutes of cuddle-time in with my little boy. I treasure every cuddle, because who knows how long this phase will last!
After I had finished doing dishes one day, Hyrum calls to me, “Mommy, can you get the coin out of my mouth?” I thought it was a very odd request because he can certainly get coins out of his own mouth, but I went to help him. When I got there, there was no coin in his mouth. He had swallowed a penny! He was pretty distraught when I told him that I couldn’t get it out and that it had gone to his tummy. But I told him it would come out in his poop, so every day for a week he would go to the restroom and tell me, “the coin didn’t come out yet, Mommy!”
When I put Hyrum in his room for a punishment (the usual one in our house), after he had only been in there a few minutes, I hear him call out, “I don’t want to be in here forever!”
When Ryan was singing a song around the house, Hyrum starts singing the ABCs as loud as he can (drowning out Daddy) and says, “I’m a good singer too!”
Hyrum had his first soccer game! He mostly plays with his shadows, plays with his friend on the team, and slowly chases other kids around the field, but he enjoys it:
When we were having baby carrots with dinner one night, Hyrum requested syrup to dip them in. Hyrum’s nutritionist is always encouraging him to dip his foods, so I figured, why not? Hyrum then ate more carrots than usual, dipping them in syrup. It reminded me of Buddy the elf
On the way home from church one Sunday, I asked Hyrum what he had learned about in Sunbeams. He then told me the story of the crickets who ate the people’s car and how Heavenly Father sent the seagulls to eat them. Since I teach the other Sunbeams class, I knew he was referring to the pioneer story where the crickets were eating the crops and God sent seagulls to save their food supply. I guess Hyrum decided the story needed a little modernizing or something!
When Cora was crying one time and I was holding her on the couch to console her, Hyrum came up and told her, “It’s ok. I’m here, ‘cuz I’m your brudder.” It melted my heart! I hope he always remembers to be there for his little sister
This actually happened the end of March, but Cora took her first trip to Urgent Care after Hyrum slammed her pinky finger in the bathroom door. Her poor little finger looked so mangled, I was really freaking out. Like 15 minutes later it started to plump up again, but I had already called the doctor and they said to take her in and get an x-ray to make sure it wasn’t broken, because it can be hard to tell with babies. It was fine, of course. It is now all better and she only lost half her fingernail.
Cora has taken steps! She isn’t walking, but with a lot of encouragement she has taken up to five steps.
Cora likes to pretend to talk on the phone:
Cora likes to push cars around just like her big brother.
We found out in April that Cora is allergic to peanut butter. Ryan gave her a few bites of peanut butter cheesecake, and a minute or two later she started getting little hives on her face. After calling the doctor, they said to just see if it got worse (as long as it didn’t affect her breathing) and give her Benadryl if she needed it. It didn’t seem to get worse, and even seemed to be fasding off her face, so I didn’t give her any medicine and put her down for her nap. When I got her out when she woke up, it had defintiely gotten worse. She had a red rash all over her body and face, and one of her little eyelids was half-swollen shut! I gave her some Benadryl, and it got a little bit better, but the rash stuck around for a few days. Here is what she looked like the next day, even after 24 hours and Benadryl:
This month, Cora has learned to clap, nod, and point, and she does all three a lot. She also loves patty cake and will throw her arms in the air for “throw it in the oven!”
She loves to put flip-flops on like bracelets!
Cora has become quite the eater, which is great, but that also means I have to sweep her area of the dining room like three times a day! She also insists on using a spoon or fork, and is getting pretty good at it:
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