July/August/September Update!

Sorry the blog has been M.I.A for so long. I have a couple of great events to post about so this could be a long one! Cooper took a trip to St. Louis in July and had a great time. He got to spend some time with family and ride a horse, visit the zoo with Grammy, Grandpa and Uncle Kevin, and he got to visit Grammy Great and Grandpa Great!

Daddy and Cooper in St. Louis

Grammy Great, Cooper and Uncle Dave

Having TOO MUCH fun on the trampoline!

Seeing the horse

Visiting Grandpa Great

Riding the horse (I was told he LOVED this, didnt want to get off)

Grandpa, Uncle Kevin and Cooper at the zoo

Ridin the horse with Uncle Dave

at the zoo with uncle

Seeing the monkeys!

 

In August Cooper celebrated his 2nd birthday in style! he had a baseball party complete with cracker jacks, cotton candy, popcorn and of course a hot dog bar! He had a great time and was so happy that everyone was able to come celebrate with him, especially his Grammy, Grandpa and Uncle Kevin!

Cooper's cake

A perfect Cooper baseball cake!

He loved all his books!

Riding in the truck Daddy got him!!

looking at all of his books with the kids!

Blowing his candles out!

Eatin that yummy cake :)

His concessions stand banner

All-American Baseball decorations

Cousins

Baseball cards, seeds, cracker jacks and cotton candy!

His spiderman scooter from Momma!

Lastly, we have has such a jam packed summer that Bampa and Nana wanted to do something fun with Cooper so our most recent fun activity is we went to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo! This zoo is located in Colorado Springs along a Mtn side. This zoo is so cool because it is more interactive that most zoos. Cooper and I got to feed the giraffes and we we very close to a giant turtle, birds and kangaroos!

Checkin out the griaffes

Feeding the giraffe

Momma feeding the giraffe



Woo fun!!

He loved it!

Checkin out the animals!

Ridin on Bampa's sholders

my handsome boy!

The Giraffe's!

One Busy Baseball Boy

Cooper has been a busy body this summer. With a new wake-up time of 625 I'm not sure how hes still going full blast at 830 every night? Cooper has been spending his day with Stacey Trujillo, at her out of home daycare. She has Abbie, age almost 3, Ben 9 mos, and then she watched Cooper and Cole 18 mos. With this gang Cooper is entertained! Cooper and Abbie make perfect playmates weighing in at about the same size :) Stacey has the kids doing all kinds of fun activities like colored rice, timeout bottles, and ziploc bag painting! I know there is no shortage of fun in that house!

Cooper usually gets picked up by Nana (my mom) every monday-wednesday and they have bonded over this, they sing on the car ride home and then get home and play! Cooper spends most evenings in the backyard playing in the sandbox, his kiddy pool, riding in his car, sliding or swinging or he hangs out in the front yard with all of the neighborhood kids trying to get them to play with him.

His evening routine is now perfected, after dinner we take a tubby, he plays for a little while or watches some cartoons, and around 830 its time to brush his teeth, read 3 books, pray and go Nite Nite. It has been going over smoothly.

On thursday I drop him off with the Trujillo's and Andy picks him up that evening, he keeps him overnight thursday and friday and they have a good ol boys time until Saturday evening.

In every spare moment Cooper has he would like to be batting, pitching, throwing and  "gloving" baseball! If it isnt clear I think this boy LOVES BASEBALL! I have been trying to plan a birthday party and I had all of these "themes" and then one day while we were playing baseball I thought "DUH! a baseball party!!" its his most favorite thing right now and hopefully in a year it will be his favorite so he can start playing! I'm ready and prepared to be a sports mommy! And I have a feeling Andy and Grandpa Richard would be THRILLED if Cooper played baseball! :)

This coming week for the 4th of July Cooper will be taking a trip with his daddy to St. Louis to visit the family! I know he will have an amazing time and everyone will be so thrilled that hes grown so much! Mommy will miss him oh so much! 5 days without him will be hard, thankfully my good friend Kelley will be in town and I will have plenty to keep me busy! :)

Riding a Tricycle!

Wearin' Bampa's Shirt

In his new favorite robe :) 

My adorable baseball boy!

Lefty

Gettin into trains!

Superstar form! :) 

Playin on the IPad with Nana

Batters up!

Swinging at Nino's Grad Party!

Some pool time :) 

He liked those goggles lol! 

My Summertime Boy

I know a little boy who would rather be outside than inside, I know a little boy who would rather be filthy than clean, I know a little boy who loves to cool down on a hot hot day!

Lately we have had some rainy cold weather but just before it came in we had one super hot day, of course Cooper wanted to spend that day outside and knowing his rash seems to flair up in the heat I decided what better time to put out the sprinkler to stay cool! He was pretty unsure about it but the cool water kept him cool and kept his rash from flaring up! He enjoyed his day in the sun!

Avoiding the face! 

Hurry run!!!

Just his backside!

Going in for the ball!

Right in the face

Not liking that too much

Very mad, I had to literally go in and get him out, he wouldn't move!

All wet!

Warming up!

Back out there!

MOM its getting me!

drying off in the sun!

little feet :) 

some golf time!

some sand time!

Cool dude!

Such a cutie!

Yeah...I'm cool!

In other great news, Mommy got a new job starting Monday the 21st! I will be working for Provident Construction as a Project Coordinator! I am super excited to see what this new journey brings! As for mister man, it will be an adjustment but a good one, he will be staying with good family friend Stacy who has a daughter and son and watches one other little boy so Cooper will have new buddies to hangout with! We are looking forward to what the future brings! Things are going great and we are super excited for a great summer, Nino Steven will be home, Andy and I's friend Garret will be moving out for grad school and I'm sure many fun adventures will be happening this summer!!! 

A special goodbye to Uncle Brian who is leaving the Colorado mountains for Chicago soon! We will miss him dearly, (Cooper will have no one to learn bad habits from :)