We signed Cole up for gymnastics with the school because we thought that he might enjoy doing something a little different one morning a week. He absolutely LOVES it!!! At the end of each session, they have a parents watch day where you can come and watch and take pictures of what they have learned throughout the past 16 weeks. It was so much fun to see him so excited about something like this, and I think that the best part for him is that he gets to ride a REAL school bus once a week.
We call Cooper "Moop" because sometimes he likes to cry...A LOT. Here is a pretty cute pic of him one day though, when he was just chillin' instead of crying.
Here are just a couple of pics of the boys snuggling in Cole's bed this past weekend.
We did it! We finally got Cole (and Cooper someday) their very own swingset. It sounds so easy, but takes soooooo long to put together. Daddy and Papa did a great job (with a little help from some good friends to get it in the back yard), and Cole LOVES it! I'll post some "playing" pics later.
In April, Cole and mommy got to go on a field trip to Deanna Rose with his school. We had a great time getting to see all of the animals, and can't wait to go back with daddy and Cooper!
Easter was a little different this year, but we tried to do all of the normal stuff and celebrate like my mom would have wanted. Cole go to participate in 3 egg hunts this year. One at the church, one at school and of course the egg hunt at home where we hid over 250 eggs!!!
Baby Cooper arrived on March 29, 2010 at 4:23 p.m. He weighed an impressive 8 lbs 13ozs, and measured 20 inches long. Big brother was quite happy, but was more interested in his new Little Einsteins rocket. He thought Cooper was cute, but not very exciting :)
In the early hours of February 12, 2010, our family lost the most amazing woman in the world-my mom. Every day is hard without her, but we are managing to survive with the help and prayers of many good family members and friends. Not a day goes by that I don't think about her and shed at least one tear. I know that she is watching over us, but I wish with all my heart that she were here if only for just one more day.
Here are a couple of pics from Cole's Valentine's Day party at school. He did a great job handing out his Valentine's to all of his friends!
Last night we spent a little time working on Cole's cutting with scissors. He is doing such a great job of holding the paper the "safest" way, and his cuts are getting so nice and straight. It's a lot of fun to watch him because he has such a good time working on it and he wears the same "concentration face" that Scott always wears when he is really focused on something.
We have officially reached 30 weeks, so in 10 weeks or less, Cole will be welcoming his new baby brother Cooper. He is very excited, and we just know that he is going to be the best big brother EVER! Doctors appts are going well, and it looks like everything is exactly as it should be. We still have lots to do to get ready, and it seems like time is just flying by!
We thought that it would be fun this year to make a gingerbread house with Cole, but in the end we decided that a gingerbread "train" was more up his alley. It wasn't perfect, but we had a lot of fun trying, lol.
We are happy to say that Cole did MUCH better this year with Santa. When we got there to see him, he told me that he wanted to just "look at him" for a minute. We did, and then he seemed just fine with the guy in the red suit. He even sat by himself once and told Santa what he wanted for Chirstmas-SUCCESS!
This year for Cole's school Christmas program his class did a song about elves so they all wore little elf ears while performing. He looked so cute up there with his class, but unfortunately he got a little shy and wasn't a fan of singing in front of everyone.
In November we celebrated Cole's 3rd birthday, and it is so hard to believe that he is already 3-yikes! We had a lot of fun because not only did his cousins from here get to come and celebrate (and all the adults), but his cousins from St Louis also got to be here since they were already in town for Thanksgiving. We had a little party, and though he LOVED blowing out the candles, he still doesn't care much for actually eating the cake. After everyone had cleared out from the weekend, we went to Chuck E Cheese's with just Scott, Cole & I and had a GREAT TIME playing all the games.
The really big story about him turning 3 was that he came to us that morning and said that he was ready to throw away his binkies AND he no longer wanted to wear pullups at night. We were cool with the pullup thing because it had been a LONG time since he'd had an accident overnight, but we were a little sketchy about throwing away the binks. Daddy was smart and lined the trash can before he tossed them-just in case. After a few hours of playing freely (and mommy shedding some tears about how big he was getting) he settled down for nap, and rethought the whole "no binky" thing, lol. After a little while of mommy trying to talk to him, daddy said that if he wanted to get them from the trash, that was fine, but he had to get them all on his own. Needless to say...we still have the binks when we sleep. Oh well! There are worse things :)
This post is a little late, but Cole had his first dentist appt a few months ago and we are happy to report that he is cavity free!!! He is doing great with brushing his teeth (although he is not always a fan), and he did an incredible job at the dentist. He just sat there in the chair like a big kiddo and let the hygienist do her thing. Great job Buddy!
So we decided to head back down to Scott's dad's for Neewollah this year so that Cole (and Scott & I) could walk in the kiddie parade again. We had so much fun last year, and since Scott's sister was up for Queen this year, we thought that it was the perfect year to go. Since we were walking with him, Scott and I decided on dressing up again (okay, I decided, and Scott was like "sure"). This year we chose The Cat in the Hat, and it turned out great! Cole had a lot more fun throwing candy this year, and he looked great as The Cat in the Hat (and mommy and daddy did a pretty good job as Thing 1 & Thing 2, lol)! The weekend was lots of fun, and Scott actually drove down during the week for a night to watch the Queen's coronation, which was especially cool since Cole's Aunt B was crowned Queen!
