The Groothuis Family: One Year Old!

Friday, April 3, 2009

One Year Old!

Cooper had a wonderful birthday party on Saturday March 28, 2008 at McDonalds Play Place with lots of friends! I just haven't had time to put up pictures until now. :-/ Here is a little of what happened!

Time to explore the tunnels!

It was really hot in there.

Cooper stopped at every hole and knocked!

We were literally moving at a snails pace.

Cooper loved this ball. It was very hot in there also and it didn't help that some hispanic boy packing an attitude would not allow us to go down the slide. I reverted back to my childhood ways and tried to push him down the slide but the bugger wouldn't move.

Perhaps a proposal to Miss Emily?!

What a cute couple!

Cooper didn't want to wear his bib at first, but he was soon distracted by the cake!

~Happy Birthday Cooper~
Yes he did burn his finger on the candle :(

Mommy made me an Elmo cake!

Time for cake!

Hmm yummy!

He got the stabbing part down,

but then picked it off with his hand anyway!

Yay present time!

Thank you for the jammies Miss Nola!

Thank you for the jammies and crib sheet Kai'Dyn, Ashley, and Robert!

Thank you for the Cars book Miss Sam!

Thank you for the Elmo shape sorter Izabelle and Miss Danielle!

Thank you for the Elmo's World movie and the Little People's Bus
Ali, Emily, Shannon and Matt!

Thank you for my Sing and Learn Mic Miss Trisha!

At first he wasn't very fond of the idea of me giving him presents then taking them away, however he started to sign more after a few.

Thank you for my Tonka cars and trucks Isaiah, Noah, Tory and Dan!

Thank you for my shirt and hat and totally cool sandals Issac and Miss Ashley!

Thank you for my rockstar guitar Auntie Vy!

Thank you for my Elmo Live, and McQueen couch Mama and Papa!

Thank you for my outside play area (that will be pictured later) Nana and Grampa!
And Yay for me! (He really was clapping for himself!)

By this point he was pretty exhausted!

Of course he mustered up some energy to climb with Papa!

All the way to the top!

They went in the ball too!

Cooper was trying to get everyone's attention!

No fair, they got to go down the slide.

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ShannonApril 3, 2009 at 11:46 PM
What a fun party, Cooper and Emily do look rather cute together.
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Olivia SingletonApril 4, 2009 at 1:33 PM
I love it that you tried to push the hispanic kid down the slide! The mental image of that just totally made my day!
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he never ceases to amaze me!

Cooper loves to dance when the phone rings. I just have the basic tone that came with the phone but he knows that means Papa or Nana is calling and he's used to hearing them. He also always holds the phone up to his ear backwards and babbles into it when he plays. Recently he actually started holding the phone the right way and loves to pretend to have conversations with no one in particular! Today Fritz called and Cooper and I were dancing away in the living room when Cooper suddenly stopped, put his empty hand up to his ear and said "hello". Apparently he was done with the dancing and wanted to get on with the chatting. 5/11/09
Fritz and I were standing in the living room talking when I felt something on my foot. I looked down and Cooper had put my shoe there. I took it and put it back then started talking to Fritz again. A few seconds later it was back on my foot. I picked Cooper up to ask what he was doing and he started waving bye bye. I said "where are we going?" and he simply pointed to the door. I guess that was our cue that we needed to check the mail we didn't check yesterday. 4/26/09
This morning Cooper was running around the apartment and grabbed one of my socks off the floor. I said "Did you take mommy's sock? Where do socks go?" and he held the sock over his foot! He's also starting to cooperate more when I dress him. It's so insane how fast he is learning. 4/4/09
For Cooper's birthday he got a Sing and Learn Mic and one of the songs it plays is Old McDonald. Cooper walks around holding it and pressing buttons, but when Old McDonald comes on he says "E, I, E, I, O". It's adorable! 3/31/09
Coop is turning into a dancin man! Whenever he hears a song or you sing to him he moves his head from side to side swaying to the beat! The radio, the tv, singing almost any song! Sometimes he goes forward and backward like he's head banging. And Fritz is teaching him to move his hand like rappers do. Of course as soon as I pull out the camera the dancing is over. I'll get it soon!
Cooper is becoming quite the little helper. Today I was making our bed and Cooper pushed the pillow from leaning on the wall towards the bed where I was standing. Then I started stacking Fritz’s shoes in the closet. As I reached down to get the next one Cooper was already holding it up towards me. I proceded to start loading laundry into the washer. Every time I turned around Cooper was throwing clothes out of his laundry bucket. He was really trying to help me out today! 3/9/09
Cooper learned how to sign "more" recently. He goes around signing and saying what sounds like "more" and sometimes "I want more". He does it so often that I wasn’t sure he knew what it meant. Today he was at my parents’ house and he kept pushing his bottle away. My dad picked him up and Cooper pointed at the pantry and said/signed more. My mom got out applesauce and he got all excited. I guess he does know what it means, and where the food is kept. What a smarty pants. 3/8/09

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One Year Old!

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