Father's Day! 10 Months! Visit from Auntie KiKi!

Cooper Standing!

TOO cute! 

Auntie KiKi

Mumford & Sons Concert Kelley and I went to

Me on our hike!

Kelley on the hike!

 Cooper and Andy were not able to spend Father's Day together but Grandma and Mom made sure to make it a special one with a special little photo shoot!!

Cooper also turned 10 months old on Father's day and he and I  had a visitor from KC. Auntie KiKi came to visit for 4 days, her and I went to a concert, went on a beautiful hike, and even got some shopping in...we hug out with Cooper lots and had tons of fun! Cooper has started crawling and he has not slowed down! He is starting to stand up on things all the time and its only gonna be a matter of time until he is standing and walking around!!

I had a great time making some fun arts & crafts with Cooper, we did some more tie dying (black and white) and I made his favorite cardboard box into a firetruck! I cannot wait until Cooper can help me and make his own arts & crafts!

Its amazing that a year has almost gone by, I am looking forward to Cooper's 1st Birthday!!! But first we have another fun adventure to look forward to...Aunt Diana's wedding in St Louis and a trip to Lake of the Ozarks! Stay excited for future pictures and entries!

Cooper...Future Fireman?? 

Happy Father's Day Daddy!!!

Andy's Father's Day card!

The Cooper Adventures

Daddy was in town this week and he took Cooper and I on some fun adventures!

First we visited the new house in Golden! Then Steven Busch joined us on our way up to Colorado Springs where we met the VanArkel's!!!! (they were in town for a coaches conference and to run the Garden of the Gods 10 mile!) When we arrived we took Matt VanArkel with us to Garden of the Gods where we walked around the park, watched the mountain climbers, did a little climbing ourselves and took some pictures! After that Steven had been dying to go to a place called "The Incline" which is an old train track that goes straight up the mountain for 1 mile, Matt and I only made it so far before turning around and heading back down...BUT Andy, and Steven carrying Cooper in the Baby Bijorn made it all the way to the top and back down the 2 mile trail!!! Crazy boys! (Cooper took a little nap on the way up!) After the hike we meet Coach and Jo for some dinner before heading back home!!

Other than that Cooper has been a mad man, he has been crawling now for about a week and I am already finding him all over the place, like the dog kennel, eating dirt, and sitting in the bathroom?! Crazy kid! He is also entertained by the most mundane of things such as paper, magazines, boxes, and spoons! He could play all day with silly things but his best friend is Winston who he follows around all day, and Cooper is so fascinated by all of Winston's toy of course!

Andy, Cooper and I at Garden of the Gods

Gettin a little rock climbing in

Best Smile!

Cooper asleep at the top of "The Incline"

Cooper and Mommy under the balancing rock!

Cooper and Daddy!

Cooper and Steven headed up "The Incline"!

Matt, Steven, Andy, and Cooper

Steven and Andy rock climbing!

Cooper and Mommy

Garden of the Gods

Where's Cooper? In the kennel with Winston!

Where's Cooper? In that box! 

Peek-A-Boo!

Ridin his car! 

Vroom vroom!

Memorial Day Weekend and the Pool!

Memorial Day weekend Cooper got some special visitors! Grammy and Grandpa came to town! They recently purchased a house in Golden where Andy will be attending school next year and they came out the check out the house. Cooper got to hangout with them for the weekend and they were able to see the house and take a gander around Golden. The weather was so nice that Cooper got to hangout in the yard all weekend and he loved playing in the grass and in his swing!

The weather kept up all week and Cooper and I have been able to make it to the pool a couple days as well! I did not know how he would like his first pool experiance but he ended up loving the water! He didnt cry and he even kicked his legs as though he was swimming! He spent a couple hours in the pool monday and I think he would have stayed in longer if I didnt get him out! We went again yesterday but it was a little bit cool due to the wind so we did not last as long! Cooper is definitely a little fishy and he loves to play with his friends Sasha and Peanut!

Playin cars with Grandpa

Cooper and Grammy

Checkin out the backyard

asleep in the swing

Playin in the grass

crawlin around

Grammy, Grandpa and Cooper

Hmm, whats this stuff?

Smiles

Cooper and his parrot

Vroom Vroom!

So much fun!

Cooper loves swimming!

Cooper and Sasha

Cooper and Mama

FUN!

Cooper and Peanut