Now being pictured (Cont. from Cooper's birthday presents)

As the weather in Utah does not remain consistent and tends to linger more on the crappy side, Cooper's birthday present from his Nana and Grampa was not set up on his birthday. Instead it was set up last week and we made a trip to see it on Tuesday.


Here it is...
Papa and Cooper playing
He tried with Papa and no slippery shoes


Cooper thinks he is just hilarious!!
Here is what his toy has!
It has a wheel!
A slide!
(That he uses to go down and up!)
A ladder!
(Thanks Nana, these shoes are slick!)
Two climbing walls!
And a fort underneath!
Grampa took a turn supervising.
Cooper liked the big tree in the neighbors back yard,
he did not like the planes that kept flying over which resulted in us ending our play time.

While this all happened Tuesday and the weather was nice, here is what Cooper had to wear to go with Mama and Papa to check the mail today.
Sweatpants, a long sleeve shirt, a hat and his coat that we already took off.
He also brought along his own keys!

A few updates in the land of Cooper!

Cooper has discovered a new fascination for keys. It's probably my fault for letting him carry them when we walk to check the mail and letting him play with them as a distraction when he is less than cooperative in the store. That being said, he now knows just what they do and likes to try and put them where they go.

"Thanks for my first car Uncle Clayton"


Cooper is also big enough and old enough to ride facing forward now. He prefers his much better than facing the back. Now he rides a lot quieter as he looks around.

Cooper got to try his first ice cream cone last Tuesday. Since his mommy loves ice cream so much we have to get him used to random trips for 50cent ice cream!
He caught on pretty fast and seemed to enjoy it!
After it was done he practiced sticking his tongue out.

Apparently Cooper is part monkey or maybe this is just typical boy behavior, but he climbs on EVERYTHING. I can't turn my back for a second. I stand in the bathroom brushing my teeth and he basically does pull ups on the sink. When I'm doing dishes he holds onto the counter and tries to walk his way up the cupboards. If I leave him alone in the living room for even a second he climbs up onto the couch. So needless to say I wasn't too shocked when I returned from changing the cd in the kitchen and found Cooper doing this in the living room...
Just the day before he was caught climbing up the outside of his crib at his Nana and Grampa's house while in the process of a diaper change...
I don't know what on Earth I'm going to do with him...
Luckily when he crashes, he crashes hard
(in the land of sleep of course!)

Since Cooper received his "one week" mohawk his hair hasn't been cut. It has remained in the state of a disheveled mohawk for nearly two months. This time I'm the one that opted for a trim, as it was beginning to look like a rat tail in the back. Here are a few before and afters.
This is the shirt Opa brought back from his trip to Germany! It fits me now!!
Nothing good is going to come from this look...
Here are the afters! We used his binki because he was pretty scared and he definitely took advantage of having it.

Just another day in the park

Sadly the weather never seems to want to cooperate with us and no matter how nice it is every other day it seems to always rain on Tuesday and Wednesday when Fritz is off. Last Sunday it was really nice and the neighbors wanted to go to the park. Of course Fritz had to work so just Cooper and I went with them. Cooper had lots of fun playing with Kai'Dyn!

Two cool dudes at the park!
Cooper is always a little scared at first.
He was okay once Kai'Dyn joined him!
Yay Kai'Dyn!
As previously stated in a past post here is Cooper on the "blue blob". Turns out it's a dolphin!
Kai'Dyn sliding!
Cooper really liked the dolphin this time at the park. He kept returning to it.


He didn't like sharing it very much though.
He didn't want to share the slide either. We'll be working on that.
Something about him behind bars he finds hilarious.
While I found this girl horribly annoying, Cooper played peek-a-boo with her.


Turns out it's hard to get pictures while swinging, plus it was bright, but we did the best we could. Thanks Ashley!
Cooper was very curious...
And had lots of laughs...
He even paused for a picture with mommy, which he doesn't do often.
Kai'Dyn found something his dad was saying very suspicious...
The little guys ventured over to the sand for some fun.
Kai'Dyn took his hat off and Cooper automatically picked it up and tried to put it back on his head for him. Of course when I tried to get a reenactment on video Cooper didn't want to go for round two.
Ashley and I were finally able to get both swings at the same time so the boys could "swing together".


The boys were pooped and enjoyed a bottle in the shade.

Very unknowingly we must have adopted some hispanic children along the way. They followed us everywhere, asked us for food, and when I went to get a wipe they proceded to take over my seat in front of Cooper.
Cooper loves looking through his stroller window now. He thought it was pretty funny!
On our way home we got stopped by Trax.
Cooper was very confused...
Yay we made it home!!!
We missed Papa dearly but we still had fun at the park!
So naturally Cooper was covered in sand and pretty dirty so I took off his clothes and went into the bathroom to prepare a nice bath before his nap. When I came out to get him this is how I found him. He didn't seem to notice me and just kept relaxing while I grabbed the camera and took a picture.
He is a very silly boy!