Weekend up at the lake

Cooper and I went to the lake this weekend while Rob stayed home to study and go to Ian's birthday party. We had a lot of fun. We went fishing with Grandpa, Grandma and Fish. Cooper was really great in the boat except for trying to "touch" the water. At one point I had him just by his waistband. He liked steering and touching everything. He definitely is my son. He liked touching the worms, leaches and fish.

We also attended our first sheep camp at the Gatt's. Cooper liked all the animals there and wanted to pet them.

Kaylin turns 1!

Kaylin turned one today! It's hard to believe it's been a year. It was a great party with a lot of people, great food and thankfully great weather! How cute is she?
Kaylin once again proved the difference between her and her crazy "monster" cousin. While Cooper had cake everywhere... Kaylin was very delicate and hardly got cake anywhere.

Christy asked if Cooper could get messy. Of course he could! Like I really had a choice? So he helped Kaylin eat some of her cake to show her how good it is.

Coop's one year stats

We took Cooper in for his one year well baby appointment and here are his stats:

Height: 33 inches (off the charts percentage wise)
Weight: 26.10 pounds ( in the 90 percentile)

It's amazing to think he grew 10 inches his first year and gained 16.2 pounds.

Kaylin's sleepover

The night before Kaylin's birthday party she had her first sleepover at our house.


The kids took their first bath together, Cooper didn't want to share his toys and ended up splashing Kaylin most of the time.

Both kids (and me) were pooped by time we left to go to the party. It was a lot of fun and I can't wait for her to stay over again. Even if she does wake up at 5:00 am. :)

Birthday

Even though we had a party, we couldn't let Cooper's actual birthday go uncelebrated. At daycare Miss Christy has a party for each of the kids. Unfortunately Cooper had a virus so he didn't go to daycare. We had both sets of Grandparents and Rob's Aunt Jodi (who was in town from CA) over for dinner, more presents and cake. We could definitely tell Cooper wasn't feeling 100% last night, he didn't eat any cake. We also took a new family picture in front of our house. We hope to make this a tradition, it will be interesting to see how Cooper and the tree grows.

Weekend at the lake

We headed up to the lake this weekend and were lucky enough to have both kids up there to play. Mom and dad brought Kaylin up so Christy and Adrian could have a well deserved break. Here are some fun pictures of the kids.



Grandpa with his babies

Rob teaching the kids to play slots

Four Wheeler rides were their favorite!

State Fair

Since I didn't go to the fair last year I definitely made up for it this year. One of my co-workers gave me free tickets to Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley at the grandstand. Since Rob doesn't like Country music mom and I went. We had a great time! The weather was great, the concert was great and the people watching was awesome. I don't get to do much people watching with Rob, or at least comment on it.

The next day we took Cooper for his first time.

You would be surprised how hard it was to take this picture with Rob taking the picture.

Happy Birthday!

Because Cooper's birthday falls the day after Labor day we decided to have his birthday party the weekend before. We were very lucky to have so many people show up for his party. I think we had about 25 adults and 8 kids all under the age of 3.

Cooper had fun playing with his two big guy friends Harrison and Henry and sharing all his toys. He also shared his Exersaucer with Conner and he loved it. Baby Liam also came to help celebrate.

He also had fun playing with Abby and Kaylin and liked Abby's hat. We were also really lucky that Madeline was there to help us. She handed us presents and helped Cooper open a lot of his gifts.

Then came it was time for cake. I wasn't sure how Cooper would do since we don't normally put a full cake in front of him, but he did really well until he got frosting in his eyes. Here are some of my favorite pictures.

After his bath Cooper showed everyone his new trick. He loves toliet paper.

By the end of the both of us were popped out.

Cooper

Here are some new pictures and updates of Cooper:

He is such a big boy now, this was taken in the middle of the lake. The other kids (Aries and Akaya) were swimming and Cooper wanted in on the fun. I think he is almost ready to battle tube with daddy!

Cooper is teething (I think) again and wouldn't eat anything we gave him except for corn on the cob. He loves it!

He loves to climb up on the couch to sit with us. The other day he used my face as a stepping stool because he can't quite make it up himself yet. He also still loves the remote. Last weekend at the cabin he had the remote and pointed it to the TV and kept looking back and forth to see why it wasn't working. Little did he know he had the DVD remote.

We took this picture for our friend Dave who gave us this shirt for Cooper to wear. Unfortunately after it was washed it became a belly shirt before he could wear it. So we put it on his bear instead.

Kaylin

Both of the kids have grown so much lately I figured I would share some of my favorite pictures of my niece Kaylin with everyone.

How big is Kaylin? SO BIG!

Busted for playing with a dog toy.

She loves the water!

Crazy hair