Mother's Day

Happy Mother's day to me! (And all the other great moms I know!)

What have we been up to . .

"I can carry him!"

Dirty face

Bath time--he heard water funning and crawled as fast as he could to the bathroom and pulled himself up on the tub.

Assembing the dog house

Loves to swing

Its been pretty busy at our household this last few weeks. We have been trying to gear up for summer but it just doesn't want to show up. We have managed to play on the swingset and burn up some sidewalk chalk though. The new bike has gotten a few laps on it and we've attempted to teach Piper how to walk nice on her leash beside the stroller--but we need to keep working on that! She did learn to not walk in front of it or she'd be taken out. We have some new grass seed sown, the garage sale done, and spring clean up is this week; so there is a huge pile of junk waiting for the garbage guys to come. I have the itch to finish getting organized; but the time and energy sometimes come at the wrong times! We are making plans for summer; and hope to go buy some flowers today and get a pot or two ready for the steps. Summer vacation is planned at the O'Brien resort; as well as a friends big wedding this fall. Hopefully our summer will be filled with more fun that work and some great family times. We are excited to be spending this summer having fun and not working so hard on the house. There is still work to be done; but we'll juse deal with the outside 'fun' parts for now!

Graduation & teeth

Its been a busy chaotic week for us at our house; and I will try to post pictures and videos at some point soon.

• Saturday, Cooper's first tooth finally broke through! We had a crabby boy; and we have learned that Motrin is a good thing and makes him smile :) Also a snow day for us as we didn't have power for much of the day and the winds blew almost 70mph.


• Thursday, Paige's preschool graduation and first school program. Mom & Dad, as well as Rick & Jane attended. They sang some songs, did a skit, and were just very cute. I have the whole thing recorded! She is officially a kindergartener--as we got the results from screening back that same day. We'll get more info in August.


• Sunday (today) ran to Dickinson this afternoon to get some necessities and the Piper Palace. We purchased a kennel and doghouse--kennel is assembed and looks good. Doghouse is not assembled. Its a large kennel--a 10' x 10' so she will have ample room.




• Next Saturday the 7th--the garage sale. Our house is a mixture of neatly organized piles that are labelled; and messy boxes that need to be gone through! Its my goal this week to find as much as I can to purge!

Quick crawling video

He's on the go

This crawling stuff is easy! Its even more fun outside in the grass.

"What Mom? I'm not supposed to be pulling myself up on stuff?"

Big stuff

So, roughly the first week of April Cooper officially began to crawl. I think he snuck it in once prior; but that was when some consistancy showed up. Now all of a sudden this last week, he's figured out how to crawl to stuff and is up on his knees by it. I was okay with that; then on Saturday he crawled (rather fast) over to the box of diapers and pulled himself up and was standing up holding on to the box thinking he was the biggest stuff ever. I was just adjusting to the fact that he was going to be slightly mobile; and am so not ready for this. Miss Paige was no where near this early with crawling or pulling herself up. She was a content observer. Cooper is apparently not and wants to be where the action is. Boys :) He hasn't been the happiest camper the last few days as his teeth are still troubling him--lots of chewing and drool but still no signs of those chompers yet.

Crawling

Its been a busy few days and the biggest news is Cooper is crawling. He's getting a bit faster and going a bit farther each day; but so far he's resembling the tortoise and not the hare. I am okay with that. He did manage to crawl up to my legs and I swear he was trying to climb up my legs while I was doing dishes tonight. He has been up on his knees a few times with his hands on the edge of the toy basket; thinking he's pretty big stuff. I have some video and hope to post it soon; as I don't have any pictures of him crawling. He did discover the walker at Gramma Shelly's this weekend and thought that was pretty great. It was even better once big sister figured out it was fun to push him around in it. He also decided to really like the sippy cup we found in the cupboard and really thinks its fun to sip water out of it when he's in his chair. Too bad his teeth hurt so bad he's decided to not each any food though.

We decided to enjoy the spring day after work and we all played outside. Here's our cowdog loving her favorite cowboy.

Paige's 5th birthday

Today is Paige's 5th birthday. She is not feeling the greatest; so we are hanging out at home today waiting for the tummy ache and fever to go away. However, we had her birthday party on Sunday. Despite an almost birthday girl with an attitude; it was a good day. We had a 'Tangled' theme party. Paige managed to get a few Tangled presents--including the movie which she had been desperately hoping for. Mom & Dad got her a new bike which was test ridden around the house and works pretty well.

Happy Birthday to my peanut--thank you for a wonderful five years and we love you.