Let me set up a scene that happened just now. I had to document it immediately so I won't forget:
The Scene: Cooper scoots up next to me as I'm on the computer drinking from my giant jug 'o water. He sneaks a big swig, turns towards me and says:
"Aaaaahhhhhhhh, nofing wike da taste of an ice code gwass of wada on a hot dummer's day...Don't you fink so Mommy?"
I looked at him in shock wondering where in the world he ever would have heard that. I can pretty much guarantee it wasn't something Mark or myself ever said in front of him because that's just not how we talk.
Once again, I feel pretty confident that I have the tv to thank for this. I think it has Ruby (from the tv show, Max and Ruby) written all over it. She drives me nuts but when it comes out of Cooper's mouth, a Rubyish phrase sure sounds cute.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Month #3
Little C is 3 months old! He sleeps more in the night (yay!), poops less (double yay!) and is interacting with us more and more all the time. Here are some pics to show a little bit of what our 3 Month Old is up to these days.
He does his best to pose for Mom.
He also has a serius side.
And puts up with a lot to make his Mommy happy while she tries to capture every moment of his babyness.
He's mastering the art of looking cute.
He smiles more. He even throws in a giggle and a coo now and then.
He has a new favorite toy.
He's much more alert.
He has a new favorite toy.
He's much more alert.
He does his best to pose for Mom.
He also has a serius side.
And puts up with a lot to make his Mommy happy while she tries to capture every moment of his babyness.
Thank-you Cruz for spicing up the past 3 months for us!
Sunday, October 31, 2010
1st Halloween
Lil C's first Halloween!! He was such a good sport and very instrumental in the pumpkin carving process.............
Helping us get a feel for the best Jack O'Lantern design.......
The finished product
Helping us get a feel for the best Jack O'Lantern design.......
The finished product
Thanks, Cruz for helping us make our best Jack O'Lantern ever! We're so very happy you are here to celebrate Halloween 2010 with us!!!
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Lil Punkins
Here are some sweet moments I captured this morning. Some snuggly shots that I had hoped to get at the pumpkin patch (we all know how that turned out). Truly, candid moments are much better. Plus I was able to enjoy them in the comfort of my jammies while sipping coffee and not mystery drinks. Cooper did manage to break Mark's favorite coffee mug though but that's beside the point......(Sorry, Mark...it was totally my fault)
Cruz looking at his Big Bro
Proud Brother. Happy that Lil Bro notices him.
Take my hand.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Thespian
I think we might have a future Thespian on our hands.
It's no secret (as I've posted many times before) that Cooper loves tv. What he loves even more than tv, is reenacting scenes from some of his favorite shows. His memory is amazing. I truly believe it has helped with his blossoming vocabulary. Which by the way, has exploded lately. I can have full on conversations with the little dude and I LOVE it. He'll recite dialogue from a show and play out the scene as if he's on stage. I need to try and capture some of this on video because it cracks Mark and I up every time he does it.
Lately, he's invited me into some of his scenes. I'm lucky enough to make a cameo appearance in his little world. Here's a short scene from a new show he's obsessed with, Dino Dan:
Cooper (playing the part of Dino Dan): "Mom, what is the dog barking at?" (He'll run up to me and wait for a reply)
Me (playing the part of Dino Dan's Mom): "I don't know, maybe the neighbor's cat."
Cooper: "Let me go check" (as he runs to the front door to look for the neighbor's cat---imaginary of course because we don't have any visible neighbors).
Me: "Hurry up, and don't be late or miss the bus, you have music class today."
Cooper: "Ok Mom, I won't"....as he grabs his french horn and runs across the room to catch the bus (we don't own a french horn so he uses a dump truck that he tucks under his arm).
End Scene.
Cooper is very persistent and insists on rehearsing this scene several times a day. I think we've rehearsed it about 10 times just this morning alone. He is tough. I'd hate to be his understudy. He's very dedicated to perfecting his craft.
It's no secret (as I've posted many times before) that Cooper loves tv. What he loves even more than tv, is reenacting scenes from some of his favorite shows. His memory is amazing. I truly believe it has helped with his blossoming vocabulary. Which by the way, has exploded lately. I can have full on conversations with the little dude and I LOVE it. He'll recite dialogue from a show and play out the scene as if he's on stage. I need to try and capture some of this on video because it cracks Mark and I up every time he does it.
Lately, he's invited me into some of his scenes. I'm lucky enough to make a cameo appearance in his little world. Here's a short scene from a new show he's obsessed with, Dino Dan:
Cooper (playing the part of Dino Dan): "Mom, what is the dog barking at?" (He'll run up to me and wait for a reply)
Me (playing the part of Dino Dan's Mom): "I don't know, maybe the neighbor's cat."
Cooper: "Let me go check" (as he runs to the front door to look for the neighbor's cat---imaginary of course because we don't have any visible neighbors).
Me: "Hurry up, and don't be late or miss the bus, you have music class today."
Cooper: "Ok Mom, I won't"....as he grabs his french horn and runs across the room to catch the bus (we don't own a french horn so he uses a dump truck that he tucks under his arm).
End Scene.
Cooper is very persistent and insists on rehearsing this scene several times a day. I think we've rehearsed it about 10 times just this morning alone. He is tough. I'd hate to be his understudy. He's very dedicated to perfecting his craft.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Pumpkin Patch Fail
Ever since the fall colors started popping around here, I've been anticipating (read: dreaming, fantasizing) about taking our boys to the pumpkin patch. The Oktoberfest Pumpkin Patch wasn't grand enough for me. Call me a pumpkin patch snob. We missed spending half of October with Mark due to his travel schedule, so I couldn't WAIT for this weekend to come. I envisioned spending time as a family, frolicking in the pumpkin patch and taking some cute photos of our boys and their first fall together. Sappy I know, but it's just what Moms do I guess. I want to soak in every little bit of what is going on and enjoy the fun stuff amidst the chaos and not so fun stuff.
Fast forward to yesterday. Poor Mark has been pluggin' away like a mad man on our basement project. He has basically done the ENTIRE project on his own all while trying to help me out, work, travel and do everything else that a loving Husband & Dad is expected to do. The basement looks fabulous by the way. The walls are up, painted and the electrical work is finished. Now the only MAJOR thing left to do is the flooring (FUN!).
Mark knew how much I wanted to head to the pumpkin patch and that Cooper was looking forward to it as well. So after Mark finished painting (the last thing he wanted to do on his weekend off), he came upstairs and announced "who wants to go to the pumpkin patch". Both Cooper and I answered at the same time "I DO! I DO!" as we did our Happy-to-Go-to-The-Pumpkin-Patch dance. And off we went.
Even though the pumpkin patch is only a couple of miles from our house, traffic was bumper to bumper due to the combination of fall color seekers, Oktoberfest and a Lumber Jack competition (yes, you read that correctly) that was being televised on ESPN. As we pulled out of our street we decided it was crazy to attempt to get caught up in the traffic and on a whim decided to hit the grocery store instead. Cooper was not pleased. Grocery store vs. pumpkin patch...which would you choose? We decided that we'd drop Cooper and Mark off at the park and Cruz and I would hurry and grab some groceries. Success! Cooper was happy and all was well when I picked them up. He hopped in the car happily when Cruz and I pulled up and immediately asked if we were going to the pumpkin patch now. The kid hadn't forgotten. We decided we'd head back home in that direction and see how the traffic looked. How bad could it really be? We only needed to go a couple of miles. Well, let's just say it took quite awhile to travel a couple of miles AND we now had groceries in the car (not smart).
We finally made it after driving about 5 miles per hour and Cooper seemed fine. Can you tell that I'm leading up (very slowly I might add) to a not so happy pumpkin patch experience? Mark and I were snippy at that point, Cooper was cranky and I could tell there wouldn't be any cute kiddos posing in the pumpkin patch photos. Mark and I both told Cooper to hurry and grab a pumpkin so we could get back in the car (luckily the traffic was heading in the opposite direction at that point). Cooper found a pumpkin and managed to find (and take a sip out of) an abandoned Big Gulp cup full of God only knows what. He only had it for maybe 2 seconds, but that's all it took. I don't even want to think of what could have been in that cup. Did you just throw up in your mouth a little bit as you read this? Because I do every time I replay it in my mind. Mark did a quick CSI investigation and noticed an empty Mountain Dew bottle right next to it. He assured me that it was probably just aged Mountain Dew and not some random dude's Jack and Coke. Because J&C would be my drink of choice if I had to deal with all the tourists and picky pumpkin patch shoppers. The Mystery Sip was definitely a sign that it was time to go (as if we needed another one).
Here are the pictures that I did manage to take. Notice how thrilled Cooper looks. Cruz slept through the entire fiasco and luckily Cooper hasn't gotten sick from the Mystery Sip. Ohhhhhhhh what a day!
Fast forward to yesterday. Poor Mark has been pluggin' away like a mad man on our basement project. He has basically done the ENTIRE project on his own all while trying to help me out, work, travel and do everything else that a loving Husband & Dad is expected to do. The basement looks fabulous by the way. The walls are up, painted and the electrical work is finished. Now the only MAJOR thing left to do is the flooring (FUN!).
Mark knew how much I wanted to head to the pumpkin patch and that Cooper was looking forward to it as well. So after Mark finished painting (the last thing he wanted to do on his weekend off), he came upstairs and announced "who wants to go to the pumpkin patch". Both Cooper and I answered at the same time "I DO! I DO!" as we did our Happy-to-Go-to-The-Pumpkin-Patch dance. And off we went.
Even though the pumpkin patch is only a couple of miles from our house, traffic was bumper to bumper due to the combination of fall color seekers, Oktoberfest and a Lumber Jack competition (yes, you read that correctly) that was being televised on ESPN. As we pulled out of our street we decided it was crazy to attempt to get caught up in the traffic and on a whim decided to hit the grocery store instead. Cooper was not pleased. Grocery store vs. pumpkin patch...which would you choose? We decided that we'd drop Cooper and Mark off at the park and Cruz and I would hurry and grab some groceries. Success! Cooper was happy and all was well when I picked them up. He hopped in the car happily when Cruz and I pulled up and immediately asked if we were going to the pumpkin patch now. The kid hadn't forgotten. We decided we'd head back home in that direction and see how the traffic looked. How bad could it really be? We only needed to go a couple of miles. Well, let's just say it took quite awhile to travel a couple of miles AND we now had groceries in the car (not smart).
We finally made it after driving about 5 miles per hour and Cooper seemed fine. Can you tell that I'm leading up (very slowly I might add) to a not so happy pumpkin patch experience? Mark and I were snippy at that point, Cooper was cranky and I could tell there wouldn't be any cute kiddos posing in the pumpkin patch photos. Mark and I both told Cooper to hurry and grab a pumpkin so we could get back in the car (luckily the traffic was heading in the opposite direction at that point). Cooper found a pumpkin and managed to find (and take a sip out of) an abandoned Big Gulp cup full of God only knows what. He only had it for maybe 2 seconds, but that's all it took. I don't even want to think of what could have been in that cup. Did you just throw up in your mouth a little bit as you read this? Because I do every time I replay it in my mind. Mark did a quick CSI investigation and noticed an empty Mountain Dew bottle right next to it. He assured me that it was probably just aged Mountain Dew and not some random dude's Jack and Coke. Because J&C would be my drink of choice if I had to deal with all the tourists and picky pumpkin patch shoppers. The Mystery Sip was definitely a sign that it was time to go (as if we needed another one).
Here are the pictures that I did manage to take. Notice how thrilled Cooper looks. Cruz slept through the entire fiasco and luckily Cooper hasn't gotten sick from the Mystery Sip. Ohhhhhhhh what a day!
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Look at that face!Not exactly what you'd call a happy pumpkin picker outer.
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I guess I'll take this one.
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Lesson learned: Not everything is Pumpkinerrific and picture perfect. Some moments and memories will simply have to be captured in my mind. Even if it's only how I wanted things to be and not how things actually turned out. Looking back, I have to laugh at the entire outing. At least we came home with some pumpkins. That actually turns the incident into a Pumpkin Patch Pass. Mission accomplished as we did indeed come home with pumpkins after all. That's what we told Cooper we were going to do and that's exactly what we did. I'm sure there will be happier pumpkin patch moments in our future. Until then, I'll just have to dream about it. Ahhhhhhhhh. I'm dreaming about it right now and it makes me smile.
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