Fun with Deana and Dayne

On Wednesday, Cooper and I went to Manchester to spend the day with my best friend Deana and her son Dayne. Dayne and Cooper are 3 months apart so they always have a great time playing together. This was very true today!! It was so great to see them!! We love you guys!! Just a little FYI, Deana is pregnant with her second son and she is due the day after we are due. How fun is that!!! Hopefully our boys will be as good of friends as we are!!!

Zoo time!

We had another great time with our playgroup this past Monday. We went to the zoo. The children LOVED all of the animals. I think that the petting zoo was their favorite!

Cooper loved the petting zoo!!!

Feeding the goats!

Cooper and Jonas watching/talking to the birds!

Cooper, Heidi and Meghan holding hands ready to see the next animal!!

What fun!


This is most of our playgroup: Heidi, Jonas, Rebekah, Cooper, Meghan and Maggie. (Pia, Max and Byron were not here today to enjoy the wonderful wagon ride!!

Busy!! Busy!!

So far this week we have been very busy! Monday we spent the entire morning at the park with all of our friends from our playgroup! On Tuesday, after preschool and our follow-up appointment with the ENT, we headed downtown to the Aquarium, with Daddy and Grandma, to see the new attraction "Penguins Rock." Cooper did like the penguins, but only for about 5 minutes. As you can see in the pictures below, he was more amazed with the fish and the stingrays! However, he refused to touch them!! He just decided to observe instead. On Wednesday we again played outside all morning. Before Chris left for work, he filled up Cooper's pool and let the sun heat up the water (which never really warmed up and I thought was freezing) but Cooper did not seem to mind. He loved playing in the water and even braved the cold water from the hose. Well tonight we met up with some friends of ours, who are moving back into town, for dinner. They have a son Riley who is 5 days younger than Cooper and a little baby who is 3 months old. Cooper loved seeing and playing with Riley. It was lots of fun catching up with them!! We can't wait for them to move back to Chattanooga so the boys can play together more often! Well, that about wraps up our week. We hope that you all have had a great week too!

Cooper admiring the stingrays through the glass!

Chris trying to get Cooper to touch the stingrays (which never happened!)

Playing in the COLD water!!

Bubble time!

Exploring with his new water wheel! (He is just breaking in his new beach toys a little early)

Another warm day !!

Taking a break from the pool to play on the slide with his tractor!!

River Park

On Monday we went to Riverpark to play with Cooper's friends! As usual, he had a great time and I thought we would share some pictures with you! Enjoy!

Meghan, Cooper and Maggie



Cooper and Heidi playing baseball!!

Coolidge Park

On Monday Cooper and I met our playgroup down at Coolidge Park. It was much warmer today so playing in the water was lots of fun for the kiddos!! We had a picinic, played in the water and rode on the carousel. These are a few pictures from Monday.

Cooper and Meghan (his little girlfriend) rocking in the chair.

Me and my baby riding on the carousel.

Meghan, Heidi and Cooper having fun in the water!

Posing on the turtle.

Cooper, of course, playing with yet another ball!

Cooper and Meghan

Happy Birthday Jackson!!

We went to Jackson Mull's 2nd birthday party Friday night and we all had lots of fun! They had it at Scrambler's Alley Park and Cooper had a blast. Of course he wanted to play with all of Jackon's new presents and eat his entire cake, but I finally convinced him to one piece of cake and to play on the playgroup instead. Thanks Nicole, Benny and Jackson for a fun birthday party!The party theme was "Bob the Builder" so Cooper decided to wear Jackson's construction hat for part of the party!

Sporting the sunglasses that came in the goody bags!!

(This was the night before) Chris and I took Cooper to eat and then to play "ball" at Coolidge Park. The water was feezing, but Cooper was determined to play in it no matter what! As you can see, we did not play a lot of baseball!!

Sitting on the tires at the park!

Gym play time

My aunt and uncle own a gymnastic center in Ooltewah and we decided to take Cooper over there to see if he would like it. As you can see he did!! He had such a great time!! Climbing out of the pit after jumping off of the trampoline!

Hanging from the uneven bars!




Taking a break on some piece of gym equipment!!

Chillin' in the pit!





Mommy and Cooper "stuck" in the pit.

I do not recommend getting into a pit if you are prego. It is VERY TOUGH getting out!!

A quick update about Cooper and his eye infection. He is doing great and the doctor said that he could resume all of his normal activities!! Thank goodness because I do not think that we could keep him calm (whatever that is??) much longer!