Cooper

My Cooper! I couldn't imagine life without him. Cooper is the sweetest boy and the biggest trouble maker. I get scared every morning when I go to get in the shower because I have no idea what I will find when I get out. There are some days I swear they invented time-outs just for him. I will get after him and then sometimes punish him and he will say he is sorry and then smile out me with that mischievous grin of his (by they way he gets it from his Dad) wrap his arms around my legs and say, "but you still love me Mommy." How do you stay mad at that? Cooper is always making us laugh he found this Batman mask at Wal-Mart and begged until I gave in and bought it. He wore it the whole day he only took it off to eat, brush his teeth, and take a bath. I had to take it off him when he fell asleep. He has rediscovered his cars and has to have Mack, lightning, Chick, and The King in order to watch the movie. According to Cooper they like to watch themselves. Cooper is always saying the funniest stuff too. The other day Jeff was teasing him and he finally had it, and yelled "stop it Dad your putting nuts in my brain." (instead of saying your making me nuts)
I love my Cooper and I am glad the Lord has blessed me with him. He is such a fun kid. Not having any brothers of my own I learned fast that boys are different. Kaylee is calm and always willing to help. Plus she is usually clean. Cooper 75% of the time can't hear me, he is always busy and I swear he is a walking mess. But, he loves to struggle with me still and he is a night owl sometimes he and I have midnight ice cream dates. Cooper is fun and full of life, like I said before my life would not be the same without him. Cooper I love you! Mommy.

Ironhide

We were driving past Maverick when we saw their kick start truck parked there for display. Cooper was so excited when he saw it. He is a huge transformer fan, so in his mind it was Ironhide. I couldn't believe how huge this truck was, and it looked even bigger with Cooper standing next to it. They let Cooper climb inside and check it out. Both him and his Dad said they need a big truck like that. I asked Cooper if that was a cool truck and he said yes but, "Mom I don't think that is the real Ironhide." I love that kid! Cooper will say the funniest stuff. He makes sure life is never dull at our house.

A Day of Bowling

Jeff finally had a day off. I mean a real day off, he wasn't called in or asked to come and help with something. So we decided to get a hamburger and do some bowling. It was a blast! Cooper was so funny he was more interested in pushing buttons on the ball return then he was in bowling. Kaylee was so serious about it she was just determined, she is a funny kid. As for Jeff and I, we were really bad. I think next time we will just stick to playing it on the wii. I guess I shouldn't be so hard on us after all it is all about having a good time and that is what we did. I just enjoy having days were we get to do fun stuff as a family, it seems like Jeff always has something going on but, he is so good about coming up with fun things to do with the kids when he is home. I am so grateful for the fact that he does try to put his family first. I know it is hard sometimes with his job but, he try's so hard and when he is busy with work I try to keep the kids busy and make sure they know that Daddy loves them and he works hard to take care of us. I also make sure they know he is working hard to help other people too. My kids our lucky they have a great Dad!

Children's Museum

K-9 School is over!

Yea! Jeff is finally home and no longer making that trip to Salt Lake every Monday morning. I loaded up the kids and drove to Salt Lake for the graduation. We stayed with Jill and Kevin, so the kids got a chance to spend sometime with their cousins. Saturday Jill and Kevin took us to The Gateway to the Children's Museum. It was so much fun, the kids really enjoyed themselves. They even had areas for Dalton to play. Cooper keeps talking about the helicopter. They had an old life-flight helicopter there for kids to play on it even had a radio tower with a intercom system. But Cooper loved hitting the button to make the helicopter sound like it was taking off. We had a fun weekend but, then again I love anything that gives me a break from cooking and cleaning. I can't decided what Jeff is going to miss more; the traffic or the drive every week. I almost forgot to mention that Duke was P-S-P-1 certified which is the best you can get! Jeff is now thinking maybe he wants to get his instructors certificate, thank goodness that will only be a few days here and there!

Big Backyard

The kids live in the backyard now that Summer is finally here. I get a kick out of Dalton he will get on top of the fort turn around then scoot on his belly until he hits the slide then he shoots down the slide. He will then stand up and because he still drools the sand sticks to him and then he looks like he had eaten a sand sandwich. The weather was so hot one day that we hooked up the sprinklers and let the kids run through it. Dalton wasn't sure at first but, quickly began having a good time. The kids were prunes by the time they were done but, at least they had fun.

Disneyland 2007

Disneyland was so much fun this year. The lines were short through the whole park. It was fun being there for Halloween too. I wasn't really thinking when I bought the kids costumes, I found a cute monkey costume for Dalton and Cooper wanted to be Superman so Aunt Jill grabbed him a costume. Mom and I made poodle skirts for Kelsee and Kaylee. She informed me that she loved her grand kids but, her sewing days were over. Mom found cute white t-shirts and had Renae sew a letter K on them for the girls, they looked so cute.

I was worried that Cooper was going to be upset when he found out that we would be gone on his birthday. We had his party a few days early but, he was not happy to leave his new presents though. He also informed us that next year he would like to go to Sea World for his birthday. We tried explaining that we were there on vacation not for his birthday but, you try arguing with a 3 year old.

Kaylee loved the High School Musical show and they even picked her to dance with them, she was even picked to be the helper at Woody's Round-up. I think the Highlight of the trip for her was when we went to have dinner at Goofy's Kitchen. They had a variety of characters come and visit our tables and they would stay for a long time. Sleeping Beauty came to visit, and she taught Kaylee and Kelsee the secret princess hand shake.

Poor Dalton decided to cut four teeth while we were there and he gets a little sick when he cuts teeth, and boy did he get sick. We were standing in line for Nemo and he threw up, Then while we were waiting for everyone to get off Splash Mountain he had a blow out. He just had a ruff time but, he was a good sport. He wasn't fussy or grumpy he just was a good boy.

We got in line to meet the little mermaid and when it was our turn Kaylee ran right over but, Cooper turned flaming red and covered his eyes, even for the picture. Nothing we did could get him to put his hands down. Of course being the tease he is Jeff had to give Cooper a hard time about his girlfriend Ariel.