Mothers Day Out

Cooper did great at Mothers Day Out this past Tuesday. I dropped him off and he was a little resistant but once he saw a toy he was gone. no crying at all YEAH!!! He was worn out when I went to pick him up. here are some pics of him that day

Wednesday we went and met up with Coopers little friend Addison at pump it up and played. Cooper loved it. they had slides and he just went up and down up and down.

Then on Thursday we went to Canton with two of my friends from work and Cooper was so well behaved. I was really worried because he usually does not want to just sit in his stroller. But he did and was so good. Then we came home and got cleaned up and took Cooper to his first RoughRiders game. We only got to stay 3 innings because a bad storm blew in and so we left. It was ok because Cooper was getting so tired. He did like watching the game tho. Cooper and his daddy watch the Rangers game together all the time at home and it is like he only time that he will sit still for a bit. So here are pics of that. Have a great weekend.

My little Ring Bearer

Last weekend August 22nd my little sister tied the knot. Her wedding was absolutely beautiful and she was such a beautiful bride. We are so happy to have Jacob in that family. So we had a very busy week before the wedding of getting things done. Cooper was such a trooper during all the events. He was a good little boy during all the decorating. Then Friday night we had the rehearsal and so Cooper got to practice walking down the aisle. Well he wanted nothing to do with the job of the ring bearer. He did not know the flower girl so we had to do some fast getting to know her before the big day. So we had them play a lot together and Cooper warmed up to her quickly. Then on the big day he was all dressed in his tux and ready to walk. My dad told him to take his pillow to me and off he went walking down the aisle with the flower girl. I was so proud of him. Then we went to party at the reception. Cooper loved to dance. We had been working on dance moves for weeks and so when he heard the music he was all over it. We spent the next day recovering from the event.

Cooper has finally started saying more words. YEAH!!!! I knew I was not going to remember all the words he is saying but here are a few. he loves to say ball. He says ouch, yes, thanks, mama, dada, uh oh, eye. I know there are a few others but I can not thank of them right now. I need to start righting this stuff down. Cooper is growing taller everyday. He can now close our doors in the house. We got him a basketball goal a few months ago and he could hardly reach the rim and now he has no problem. It will be fun to see how tall he is at his pedi appt coming up. Cooper has also been blowing lots of kisses. It is so fun to watch him blow kisses to me when I am driving out of the drive way to go to work.

Cooper and I have a lot of fun things going on this week. Tomorrow Cooper has his first day at Mothers Day Out. I am excited and nervous all at the same time. I will have some fun pics later this week.

We are also going to Canton this week and I cant wait. I have been wanting to go for months now but have been busy every time. So I am ready to spend some money.

Trey and I booked a trip finally and we are going without Cooper. He is going to stay here with his Nana. It will be a short trip but we are so ready to just get away for a little while.

That is it for now. Have a great day

personal shower

Alicia and I got to host a personal shower for Sara on august 8th and had a great time doing it. She got alot of great things that I am sure Jacob will love. :) here are some pics of the night.

This is Alicia, Reagan, Sara, Bonnie, and me. All the bridesmaid and bride to be

Best Friends

Ok so some Cooper pics and update. Some things that Cooper does now or has been doing that are so cute are: we taught him how to blow kisses but he just puts his hand to his mouth and leaves it there. he loves to dance. if you turn on some music he starts to bounce his legs we cant wait to get him on the dance floor at Sara's wedding this coming weekend. he is such an independent little man. he wants to do everything by his self. he has been letting me sleep in the mornings after working all night and he is actually being really good and not getting into stuff. thank goodness for the disney channel. i was so determined not to just let him sit in front of the tv but i have been sooooo tired lately from working full time hours that it is just what i have to do to make it thru the day. cooper can point out his body parts and your body parts.. he has been doing this for a long time now. we quit gymboree this month. it was kind of sad on our last day. Cooper really loves to go but they moved locations and i got tired of driving that far. Cooper starts mothers day out on sept 1st. at first i was not sure if i was going to be able to go thru with it but lately i have been so ready to have a day to myself to sleep, clean, or run errands. oh who am i kidding i will be sleeping that day. i have lots of sleep to make up.

we have been having a horrible time with cooper and eating. he used to be such a good eater and eat whatever i made for him. not these days now he has decided that he is going to throw his food and just refuse to eat. how long does this stage last? i cant think of anything else fun that cooper has started to do lately. we are still working hard on our talking. here are some cute pics taken over the past couple of weeks. sorry for the ramblings thoughts that is just how its going to be this post.

Cooper loving some cheese dip at dinner one night. one thing he will eat is chips and dip

These are pics of Cooper and his little friend Addison at the mall playing they had a blast

Addison (Coopers friend)

Cooper loves to play with our shoes.

Cooper and I enjoying our ice cream

I am not sure if I posted about Cooper's bad haircut that he got not to long ago but we took him to get his haircut with Trey and the guy messed up the back of Cooper's hair bad. So I have been praying and waiting for his hair to grow back before Sara's wedding (he is the ring bearer)

Well it has grown out and so I took him back to cool cuts for kids and got his new hair cut. It turned out sooooo good. We got that baby hair that was on top of his head cut off so no more baby hair. sad i know but i love the new look


These are before church this past sunday

Several Things to Blog about

We had Sara's Bachelorette party last weekend and had fun celebrating with her. We went to Austin for the weekend and stayed out at the lake. We also went and floated down the river. We had a lot of fun hanging out together just the girls. Here are some pics

Then this past week Trey was out doing the yard and found a big frog. Well not to big but bigger than what we usually find. So Trey got Cooper to come out to see it and play with it. BOYS!!! Cooper did not know what to think about it. He did not want to touch it and the frog kept jumping out of Treys hands and at Cooper and he would jump back it was so funny.

CIRCUS

Today we went to the circus. It was Coopers first time to go. I have great memories of going to the circus when I was little and so we started the tradition with Cooper. He had such a blast. He did sooo good, I was really impressed. I think his favorite part was the little ponies. He was eating his goldfish at the time and really wanted to feed them his fish. It was the cutest thing. He was mesmerized by the lights and colors. We will for sure be back next year.

This is an excited little man on the way to the circus

Pa oh how I will miss you

This morning I got the phone call that no one ever wants to receive. My mom called while I was finishing up work and told me that my grandpa (Pa) had gone to heaven. I still can not believe that he is gone. I just keep thinking about how I will never go to their house and see him sitting in that chair smoking his pipe. There are so many memories that keep running thru my head about him. I do know that every time I smell the scent of a pipe I will always think of him. He was always making jokes but could be very serious very quickly, like when we (the grandchildren) got in trouble. My grandpa leaves behind my beautiful grandmother Ma and his 6 children and his 12 grandchildren and his 4 great grandchildren. We all loved him so very much and will miss him everyday that he is not here with us. I know that he is in a wonderful place and has peace and that helps with the pain of him being gone. We will see him again someday and will rejoice in that. Please be in prayer for my family and I. See you later Pa I Love You very much.

Rash and July 4th

Cooper's Roseola Rash

Last week was a very hard week at our house but ended with some great fun with family and friends. Last week Cooper got sick again. He developed another high fever and was just miserable. The fever lastes for 3 days and the pedi said that he just had something viral and it had to run its coarse. Cooper finally broke the fever on Tuesday night and I thought oh good we are done. No, that was not the case. On Wednesday morning Cooper developed a rash all over his body. I think that he is trying to get all the viral rashes out of the way one month after another. I am pretty sure he had Roseola. I dont know where he gets this stuff, he stays at home with me. The only thing I can think of is from his gymboree class. Uh dont parents know that if your kids are sick do not bring them to class. So since Cooper was contagious we had to cancel our BBQ on July 4th. So we got to the end of the week and my best friend Kristi came up to see us and spend the 4th with us. We had a good time hanging out and shopping. On the 4th we went to see fireworks in Plano. This year Cooper watched the fireworks. It was fun to watch him just stare at them. Then Sunday we went to my parents and had a cookout and let Cooper do some sparklers. That is a summary of our events last week and our holiday. I hope everyone had a great 4th. Here are some pics