Easter

I'm out of order in my recap, but here's Easter. Or the highlight of Easter, which for Cooper was the chocolate in the plastic eggs. As soon as he'd find one he wanted to crack it open and eat what was inside.

Same with the Easter basket, we had to open all the goodies right away.

House Guests

I still need to fill in the last month, so here's another catch up one. My mom turned 60 earlier in the month, and one of the surprises we arranged was that my brother, his fiance and her two boys came to town to help celebrate. They stayed with us, which was very nice, the extra commotion was fun, Brad and Jake are the greatest kids, and Cooper loved trying to keep up with them! (And wearing their shoes) They also brought along their new puppy, and even in the stage of leaving puddles all over the floor, he is so darn sweet it was easy to overlook the naughty things he did!

Catch Up

I seem to have missed the last month of posts! Until I can get a few more pictures posted, here're a couple of my growing-like-a-weed boy. He had his 2 year check up a couple weeks ago, I think the first check up that didn't involve any shots! Getting weighed and measured seems to be traumatic enough for him, so the no shots deal was quite alright. The doctor said they normally stop adjusting for his 'preemie-ness' around age 2, so they're counting him with the big boys now. He is in the 25% for his actual age group, which is the highest he's ever been, and now they'll just consider everything catch up. The doctor wanted to know what words he says, and I got a little bit of a look when I said that one of them was 'coffee'. Cooper goes with Travis most Sunday mornings when Travis goes to get a cup of coffee, so he had to learn the lingo. Incidentally, his word for coffee sounds exactly like his word for tractor. Car rides are filled, and I do mean FILLED, with pointing out trucks, buses, tractors and motorcycles. I think its almost harder to understand him now that he's talking more, because he tries so hard to get those words out and we just can't understand all of them. He's also gotten the idea down that you're supposed to string words together, and has become a total chatterbox. And chatter he does! He is growing so fast, its amazing to see not only the physical changes, but the way his mind works is so fascinating.