1 year old

I cannot believe it has been an entire year since this little boy joined our family. It has been so much fun to have this sweet little boy in our home. Here are some of my favorite pictures from his first year.

Heading home from the hospital.

1 week old

Cooper’s Blessing

A little chat with Daddy.

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Happy Birthday Sweet Little Boy!

The day of his birthday, he decided he was going to walk. He has been crawling less and less everyday. I am amazed at how much he has changed in the week since he turned one…and I am hoping he will slow down just a bit.

Happy Birthday Coop!

Bye Bye Baby Mullet

This baby boy has been growing a lot of hair. My kids LOVE to get it wet and style it crazy.

Aaron had been wanting me to give Cooper a haircut for forever. I just couldn’t bring myself to do it for a long time. I finally decided he was starting to look a little on the wild side.

Post Hair-Cut

He looked so much older to me, it was a little bit sad. We do think he looks a bit more clean-cut.

Trouble

Here we go again. I just got one little boy old enough to not be quite so destructive to my house, and now this little one is just getting started.

We have to lock him out of Carson’s room, or he will unload all of the books off of the bookshelf.

We had to move the barstools out to the garage because he kept knocking them over and hurting himself.

All bathroom doors have to stay shut, because he likes to fall into the tub.

He has broken two DVD players.

I had to move my plant to higher ground.

He has certainly gotten busy over the last few months.

It is a good thing he is so sweet and cute, it helps us tolerate all the mess he makes.

9 months old

We are having a hard time at this house believing how fast nine months has gone by. This boy is everywhere now. He wants to crawl up and stand next to everything, but is having a bit of a difficult time figuring out how to get back down. We have officially reached the stage where no matter how hard you try to keep them safe, they still hurt themselves every 20 minutes or so.

I still have no idea what to do with his hair. It is getting long, but it still wants to stick up like crazy in the back. I am worried if I cut it, it will ALL stick straight up. Paige loves to get her hands wet and spike it. I am not quite sure it is my favorite style.

I heart these blue-eyed boys.

Cooper has been my only baby that hasn’t hated the feel of grass. I thought he would just hang out on the blanket, but he took right off.

My boys and teeth

We have been waiting and waiting for these little teeth to pop through.

He would not sit still for me to get a very good picture, whenever he opened his mouth wide enough, he would bounce up and down so fast, I couldn’t take a picture fast enough! We think these 2 pearly whites make him look quite cute.

The day that Cooper cut his first tooth, Carson was trying to take these trios apart with his teeth….

and ended up like this. He came running out to me saying “My tooth is loose!”

He was a little bothered by the blood, but excited at the cash left by the tooth fairy.

Coopers favorite toy

I used to have this little basket of cute wicker balls.

He makes a bee line, when he sees I have cleaned them up.

We are down to about half of them, because after he plays with them for a while this is what they look like. A little before vs. after shot.

Growing way too fast…

This little boy will be 8 months old this week. How does that happen? All of a sudden he is sitting, not fitting into his car seat, and becoming mobile.

He also has grown in some very unruly hair. The back of it sticks up and will not lay down for anything. His dad thinks he needs a trim, but I can’t part with that sweet baby hair yet.

Inch worm

Cooper has decided to try army crawling. (Sorry about the terrible noise in the background, we were having a movie birthday party in the basement!)

Future Hacker???

I didn’t even realize this little boy could get out of his cars seat. I guess with the right motivation anything is possible. He was a little crabby, so I put him in front of the computer with a Baby Einstein movie on, this is what he was doing when I walked back by!!

Six Months

I don't know where this last six months has gone. I cannot believe how fast this little man is growing. He is rolling, drooling like crazy, and making a lot of noise.

He is the sweetest thing ever. We are loving having this little guy around.

He loves to laugh and play with his big brother and sisters, he is so patient with them carrying him all over the place (he is a big boy for them to be hauling around!)

We love how this boy has a smile for everyone.

I heart his chubby little arms and fingers.

Cooper always has something in his mouth. Sometimes it is a paci, other times a whole fist, my personal favorite is one finger in the corner of his mouth. He will grab anything he can find and try to get it in his mouth.


We kinda hope he quits growing up so fast. We are having quite a lot of fun with a little guy in the house!!

Cooper

This baby is growing up too fast, in a couple of weeks he will be 6 months old. I cannot believe how fast this is going. Here are a few of my favorite photo's.

We are loving having this little guy around.

Feels like Spring...

We had such a warm, sunny week. It felt wonderful. Carson decided it was nice enough for a picnic. While I was feeding Cooper a bottle on the porch, Carson set the three of us up with a picnic. He got a blanket, a left-over sandwich for me, and a bowl of ice cream for him and I. He even brought the whole 1/2 gallon outside, and scooped it for us. What a sweet little date.

He loves this ice cream scooper. It is from Aunt Sherry, and it has a pig head on the top. If you fill it with batteries it will make piggy noises at you while you use it.

Lovely.

Cooper was happy. This photo is not figure flattering. The angle of the car seat does a number on his double chin.



My lunch dates.

When it was time for school to get out, we took the baby on his first outdoor stroller ride, to pick up the girls from school. Once they were home, they had to change into summer clothes. They claimed they were roasting.

This picture is a compromise. Paige was quite bummed that I wouldn't let her turn the sprinkler on under the trampoline. I told her we certainly couldn't run through the sprinkler when we still had snow in the back yard. She decided she would have to be content wearing her swimsuit outside, just not getting wet. I did let her have some cookies to make everything all better.

And with the feel of spring, we must have some spring cleaning. Thanks AJ for a tidy garage!