Tulip Festival

We went to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point way back in April. I know, I'm way behind. It was a gorgeous day and the temperature was perfect. Matter of fact, perfect weather day, can you come back? We wandered around and took lots of pictures of the kids. They weren't too interested in that though.





These two pictures were my favorites of each of them for the day.

This will not be the last picture she does this in. And no, I'm not telling her to do that. All attitude.





There it is again. I guarantee you she was trying to boss those girls around. That's my girl.





What would a day be without a picture in a giant wooden tulip?

Trying to get one last picture before leaving.

Cooper at 13 Months

Cooper has been doing some pretty cute stuff lately. While downstairs a little bit ago he went over and grabbed the wipes and a diaper from the diaper bag and brought it to Carter. Carter smelled him and he was poopy. So Carter went over and got the mat to change him. Cooper sat down on the mat and waited to be changed. Pretty cute.

Savannah has some different tea sets with spoons. She'll occasionally pretend she's making tea for us and stir it up and bring it to us to drink. Cooper did this today. While I was at work Carter said that Cooper had a spoon and tea cup and was doing the stirring motion and then brought it over to him. It's crazy the things he's comprehending.

He likes to bring us toys too. Today he had those cups where you can fit each one into another. He was bringing them over to me and showing me what he did. He likes to point at things a lot lately. He started doing this one day by pointing at Carter and saying, "Dad". He'll occasionally point to Savannah if you ask where she is. He'll definitely look at me when Carter says "Where's Mommy?" But he points at lots of things and does OHHHH's and AHHH's. Tonight he was freaking out because Carter was making cookies and he loves cookies. He was pointing to them and screaming because we weren't giving him them fast enough. He does this with ice cream too. He is crazy about ice cream. He shrieks so loud. So loud.

He runs. And it is the cutest little run. And boy can you hear him coming. It's like he's stomping throughout the house all day. He gets into everything. Trash cans are a favorite. So annoying. And gross. He follows everyone around all day. If we go upstairs for a minute and leave him, he throws a fit until you come back down. It's like he feels left out or something. Maybe slight separation anxiety, but luckily he doesn't have any problem napping or going to bed. He gives random kisses (open mouthed on the check) and hugs. He's got three teeth now, with two more about to break through. He has been quite fussy with teething. Such a cutie though.

Far Far Away

Savannah was on a weird trip tonight. She woke up from her nap, had some dinner and would not leave Carter alone while he was trying to take tests for finals. I kept telling her to stay downstairs and she'd go up and start talking with him. She'd come down and tell me she wanted to go swimming. Swimming? Where? Then she comes down and says she wants to go to the castle. What castle? The castle. Honey, there aren't any castles around here. The one with Shrek and Fiona, far far away. Oh. Well, there are no castles around here. She started crying. I. Want. To. See. The. Castle. sob sob. So I sat there on the couch with her for a good ten minutes trying to explain to her that there aren't castles around here and that it's just pretend in Shrek. She's always talking about things being "pretend" so I think she just really didn't want to hear it tonight. So after our little talk she still wanted to go see the castle. Where am I going to go? Over there. What if that's the wrong way? Then over there. Alright, let me finish watching the last five minutes of this show and then we'll go in the car and see if we can find a castle. OKAY!! So, we drove around our community for about 20 minutes, and no castles. She wanted me to keep driving but I told her once it was dark we had to go home. It was almost dark. She had to come in and tell Daddy that she didn't find any castles. He wasn't surprised.

Sunshine= Shorts and T-Shirts & the Park

Cooper= The Cookie Monster

Now that Cooper's got ONE tooth, he's eating a little more stuff. This was his second time having a cookie, and as you can see, he loves them!! After this incident though, I decided he can only have them in his highchair because I don't want to clean up the carpet every time. Messy.










And I reallly only added this last one because I love that you can see all the golden in his hair. And his super long full eyelashes.

The Birthday Boy

How precious is this guy. And that's not a question, cause I already know the answer. It is seriously unbelieveable how fast this last year has gone. One minute he's this squishy little baby and now he's a little boy, running around everywhere and cutting his first tooth today! He sure is a sweetie though. I think we'll keep him. Eventhough he gets into everything and puts anything in his mouth.
> Saturday night we had a Monkey themed birthday party for him; (or was it more for us because he didn't seem to really care about much besides the cake) we had pizza, lasagna, salad, breadsticks and banana splits for dessert. Cooper had a banana cake with cream cheese frosting which Savannah totally dragged her fingers through at one point beforehand.

I'll take what I can get these days when it comes to a family picture.

Here's Uncle Steven telling Savannah to go hit each person with the sword. He really gets Savannah giggling and laughing with his antics. He's going to be a great Daddy here pretty soon.

Well, at least Cooper dug right in to his cake and really seemed to enjoy it. After cake he had some ice cream. Apparently he doesn't like chocolate ice cream. More of a vanilla guy.

Oh Steven. Steven Steven Steven. So this past week at work I saw that this little monkey note pad was on sale for cheap and it matched perfectly with the theme of the party. I really wanted to get it as a favor of some kind but I didn't have any games planned. I bought it anyway (along with some Junior Mints which a certain little girl stole and started eating) and said I'd figure out a game to play. Well, I never could really figure one out. Until early on Saturday. We had monkeys all over the house as decorations and I told Carter maybe we should have everyone count all the monkeys and whoever finds them all would get the prize. Not super creative, but it was something. Anyway, so I counted all the monkeys. Just me. Everyone went around and counted what they found and wrote it down. Well, I counted 15. Two people had 15, and Steven had 16. If Steven could prove to me that there were 16, he won. Well, he did. We had a monkey balloon with one monkey on each side. Well, I only counted one monkey on the balloon. So, Steven won and bragged about his winning of a little monkey note pad. He is so super competitive. So my quest from now on is to stump Steven.

Cooper also showed off his mad dancing skills at the end of the night. His favorite song to dance to is Lady Gaga's "Telephone" but it's on the computer which we moved upstairs, so he danced to Rihanna. I've got a video of him dancing but it's so long that it seems to be taking forever to upload on here and I just give up. I'll have to try again because it's so cute.

This was on his actual birthday, the 9th. We didn't do much that day because Carter had to close that night, but my parents came over in the afternoon and hung out and then we all went to In 'N Out for dinner and Cooper ate some grilled cheese and fries. He also had his first taste of pizza tonight. Like I said up top, he cut his first tooth today, so hopefully more will start coming in and he can have an easier time eating. He went to his one year appointment on Wednesday and looks great, but he's dropped to about the 5% in weight so he needs to eat lots. He's still about 40% in height and 50% head circ., but all around he's kind of little. Cute and little. It's been a fun weekend and now I'm off to eat leftover banana splits with the hubby.

**I totally forgot to even mention what he got for his birthday. LOTS of stinkin adorable clothes, a basketball hoop, baseball toy, an adorable homemade memory game, a fire truck, bubble blower and some other fun things. Now the weather needs to get warmer so he can wear his new wardrobe. Literally.

Easter Sunday

Here are the pictures from Easter Sunday. I don't have a ton of time lately and since Cooper's birthday party is today we're cleaning and preparing for that. We had a nice Easter though. The kids got some cute things in their baskets. We went over to my parents house for most of the day and hung out. We watched conference, did a egg hunt and colored eggs.

Savannah giving me her peanut butter cup. Yes, I will take that now.

This is such a funny picture but I love it.

Our finished eggs.