Cooper likes his "nigh nigh" time!

Yesterday I stopped by my parents for a visit. While I was there we were playing in the room they have set up for Cooper where he also has a toddler bed. He climbed into the bed, put his head on his pillow and pulled his blankie over himself. It was possibly the cutest thing I've ever seen. Then he proceeded to stay in there and actually take a nap.

Today Cooper kept running around grabbing his blankie and saying "nigh nigh". I was originally trying to get a video of that when he started pointing to body parts. He's becoming quite knowledgeable when it comes to those! Here he's showing his eye, nose, ear, tummy, foot, mouth, and then saying "nigh nigh".

Shortly after this we went into the living room for a snack and Cooper asked for his book. Here he's "reading" while eating his snack. It also sounds like he starts to sing "abc"

Utah weather...

...resulted in Cooper's first rain boots!

Great food and friends!

So I'm about a month behind with these pictures, but they are super cute so I thought I'd put them up even if they are late! About four weeks ago we went over to Shannon and Matt's house to have a bar-b-que with their lovely family.

Fritz and Cooper playing in Ali and Emily's helicopter.
Swinging on the swing! Blurry, but he's still smiling!
Yay time to roast marshmallows! Cooper wasn't too concerned with the roasting, just the eating!
Cooper playing house with the girls and getting lots of love!

Big boy bed!

So I thought all of the redecorating was complete until Cooper had a little mishap last weekend. He took a tumble out of his crib at Nana and Grampa's house so they went a bought a toddler bed. Since he will have a toddler bed when he sleeps there I thought we should probably get him used to it while he is at home also. I was a little bit concerned about the placement of the couch so close to the window (Cooper is a climber-see previous pictures for room layout) since he would be able to get out of bed and play in the morning, so yes, I rearranged his room again. Here is how it will be for awhile!

We're still getting used to the new bed being so open. Cooper does fall out occasionally at night, but it's a lot shorter of a fall then from a crib. We'll just have to keep working on it!

On Tuesday we went to Lowes to get Cooper his cool new town rug! He LOVED this shopping cart! Why doesn't every store have them?
Yesterday we went to Toys R Us to look around.
Cooper saw the Ghostbuster car! He basically acted like it was his.
Then he got a picture with the HUGE Geoffrey on the truck!
Momma's boy.
Here is my happy boy playing in the living room.
Just being a ham!

Big boy step stool!

Cooper LOVES to brush his teeth. When you say "let's go brush your teeth" he rubs his finger back and forth in his mouth and runs to the bathroom. Usually I set him on the toilet so he can watch himself in the mirror and he loves it. We decided recently that we wanted to get him a stool so he can step up to the sink and get his brush wet on his own and everything. He also loves this new "big boy" thing. He's growing up so ridiculously fast it's scary, but I love to see how grown up and independent he is becoming.

I wanted to document Cooper partaking in "big boy activities" because yesterday I saw something that struck me as silly. I was watching Nanny 911 and on the show the mom was brushing her 7 year olds teeth. I realize that young kids can't quite brush their teeth very accurately (which is why I go over Cooper's with a wash rag) but I think you should let them at least get used to the routine and have some sense of independence. But this lady wouldn't even let her 7 year old hold his tooth brush. Strange.

Here is my 15 month old brushing his own teeth!

Here is his big boy stool!
He thinks he is pretty cool!
He loves to look in the mirror!
But his favorite is holding his brush under running water!

Redecorating complete!

I was out of town for a week in Washington and have been trying to get back into routine. Needless to say I've neglected writing on here and never got around to posting those pictures of Cooper's room. Since I've been back I also rearranged mine and Fritz's room and I will be posting those pictures now also. Over the next few days there will be lots of updates and even more pictures!

I didn't make a video of the before :(
Here is looking in through the door.

(On the blue puzzle pieces I'm planning on putting pictures of Cooper's family that lives out of state, or country so that he can get used to seeing their faces!)

Here is his crib!
When he still had the mobile and bumper pad.















Rocking chair and night stand.















This has all my scrapbooking stuff in it.
It sucked when I had the random urge to scrapbook and Cooper was sleeping.

Since it's getting hot we've been opening Cooper's window so moving the crib away seemed like a good idea. I also wanted my scrapbooking things more accessible. And because of the way I moved the living room around I had nowhere else to put this part of the couch.

Our bedroom
I've been racking my brain trying to find a way for our bedroom to have more open space. It randomly came to me a few nights ago, it only took 9 months of living here.

Looking through the door.















Our bed is ridiculously big.















Our bedroom didn't have much space.































Our closet is ridiculously small.

Here is our bedroom after. There is a little bit more room and I'll have to do some picture moving but here I like this way much better!

I always get these random impulses to switch the furniture around. All of this was done by myself while Fritz was at work, however, I did get help from our neighbor moving Fritz's desk. I didn't want to break it. Hopefully I can live with it this way for awhile. I don't think I could do anymore heavy lifting for awhile.