New Bath Time Fun

Bath time has officially become EASIER!! Most nights they take separate baths. But when Trent is gone at night I can now put them in together! I love it. Cooper is a crazy man in the tub.















As you can see here, he is SPLASHING alot! He loves playing with the toys and he loves hitting the water. When I got him out last night his eyes were red because of all the water he had splashed in them. He scoots all around the tub. I kept having to move him back because he'd push Madison into the front corner of the tub.
I think both kids would stay in all night long if I let them. :)

Track Meet

We went to our first track meet this year...and Cooper's first track meet ever! They both did great! Madison found Trent right away and walked around with him for a long time. He was trying to set up the timing camera for today. She had to help. Cooper hung out in his stroller, playing with all of his toys. Then we went to visit Ms. Cheryl in the press box for awhile. We got to eat dinner with Trent and then we headed home. They were only doing field events last night. Today was the running events but it's raining so we aren't going.

The Week of the Young Child...

Madison and Cooper's daycare does this every year. I can't really remember what it's for, other than celebrating the kids! They dress up and do fun activities all week. I sent my camera a few days so that we could get some pictures.

Monday they wore sunglasses (Cooper wore some too but they didn't take any pictures of him with my camera)



Tuesday was flip-flop day but I had to keep my camera because we had a 1st grade program that I had to take pictures of!
Wednesday was hat day. Cooper was really sick on Wednesday and we were taking him to the doctor so I forgot to leave the camera out for Trent to take.

Thursday was pajama day!




Friday was cowboy/cowgirl day. Madison looked SUPER cute. Cooper wore his overalls. I meant to get them both bandannas but forgot until Thursday night.



Madison had so much fun dressing up everyday. She was always so excited!

These are pins they made for us to wear! Cooper will smile at anyone but Madison's looks like a mug shot!

Cooper is 7 months

Taking his picture is getting harder. As you can see, he just wanted to eat the paper. He succeeded. For some reason, he got real sad at the end. I guess he was tired of me trying to get that perfect picture. :)


I'm a little behind on this...

Cooper is officially closer to the one year mark. It is CRAZY how time is flying by. I know I say it every month but I just can't believe in 5 SHORT months our baby will be ONE!

He is continuing to be such a sweet, SMILEY baby! He smiles ALL the time. He smiles at anyone and anything. He is such a good boy. I do think we will have our hands full when he's mobile. He is very interested in things and already tries to get into anything within arms length.

In the past month:
-He is still sleeping the same. He goes to bed around 8pm and wakes up between 6 and 7am. Every once in awhile he'll wake up in the middle of the night for a bottle but that doesn't happen very often.
-He can sit by himself. He can't get into the sitting position by himself, you have to sit him up but once you do he stays up. He can catch himself if he gets off balance.
-He is eating puffs and cheerios
-Eats cereal or oatmeal for breakfast, 4 cubes at lunch and about 3 cubes at dinner.
-Still has 6oz bottles every 3 hours.
-He loves to play with Madison's blocks. You can sit him on the floor next to the blocks and he'll play forever!
-He got his first haircut. The worse is the cowlick right in the front! It's HUGE.
-It's officially hard for us to go out to eat at sit down places. We went to Cristina's a week or so ago and it was miserable. We were at a small table so that didn't help. Anything within reach ended up on the floor- napkins, forks, sweet-n-lows, the whole container of TORTILLAS. Even if we thought he couldn't reach it, he could! It was interesting to say the least. Now we make sure we have plenty of stuff for him to play with and eat. :) We will definitely be limiting our eating out, especially to sit down places. Taco Bueno here we come!
-Madison tattles on Cooper :) I smile but really it's not funny. I dread the days to come if this gets worse. Right now it's not bad. It does make me smile. The other day he was laying next to her in our bed just hitting her over and over. She tattled on that..."Mommy, Cooper's hitting me" in a realy whiny voice. We are trying to explain to her that he's really not hitting her. Siblings.

Really, we are very blessed with our two sweet kids. Cooper is such a good boy. He's so stinkin' cute. Madison is such a great big sister to him. She continues to be his other mommy!

Easter

We had another great Easter! Madison enjoyed waking up to her Easter treats from the Easter Bunny!



she even took Cooper some of his treats! What a sweet big sister.


I tried to get a few pictures of the kids before church (You never know when they are going to get dirty).



After church we went to Trent's Grandmother's house, Nanny Vest. We ate lunch with the family and then the kids had an easter egg hunt! She has 17 great-grandkids. That's a lot of kids hunting eggs.



Trent and his cousins



Nanny Vest and Cooper


She was so tired. After the egg hunt she sat by herself and ate her candy.


Nanny Vest with her 17 great-grandkids!

After the Easter Egg hunt with the Vest's we headed over to Van & Kathy's house. Abby and Cooper (Pennington) were waiting on the kids to get there to have another Easter Egg hunt. Trent had been telling Madison "when you hunt eggs run as fast as you can and grab as many eggs as you can." Well, she did just that. She took off sprinting and she got so many eggs. She had such a great time. Cooper was sleeping through this egg hunt so he didn't get to be in any of the pictures. He was there :)


Here she is again, siting by herself eating her candy. :)



Madison, Ethan, Abby, Kailyn, Cooper (our Cooper was sleeping inside)


Madison and Abby had SO MUCH fun playing together. They would take turns bossing each other around and neither seemed to mind. At one point Abby came and told her mom that Madison put her in time out. We asked her why she put her in time out and she said "because I said shh". They were quiet comical. We enjoyed visiting with family and watching Madison have so much fun. It was a long, fun day!

Cooper gets a hair cut

Cooper had his first haircut. Trent did it. He was 'blessed' with Trent's hair issues. He has a HUGE cowlick right in front and he's got either a double crown or something else going on, on the back of his head. We also think his hair grows to one side, also like Trent's. Needless to say, he has issues! :) Good thing he is so stinkin' cute.
His hair in the front was getting pretty long. He was ok with the haircut at first but quickly grew bored. He did not enjoy sitting still. Trent got as much cut as he could. It looks tons better. If you aren't aware, our sweet boy is into everything. If anything is within arms reach he has grabbed it, thrown it or knocked it over. :)
Here are a few pictures of him getting his hair cut!

all smiles


HUGE cowlick with long hair!


trying to entertain him with lots of toys


gettin' tired of sitting still

My growing babies...

Cooper LOVES Jack...Jack loves Cooper (and Madison) too! He's so great with them.


My sweet, sweet kids!





she loves to watch her 'shows' in my room (it's either Barney or Dora)


giving her baby a bath, using Cooper's bath chair


crashed! He is so tired when he comes home from daycare.

They are both growing and changing so fast! We are always entertained and NEVER bored! We are definitely blessed with two VERY sweet, easy going, enjoyable, lovable, and funny kids!