Want an Update??

Good! Because I finally have time to write one! TONS has happened since I last really updated you guys. My first semester of Nursing finally ended a couple weeks ago. I made a B which I'm pretty happy with considering lots of people failed and I got sick right in the middle and got really behind. I got dehydrated in spite of drinking an appropriate amount of water and was passing out so my doctor admitted me to the hospital. This was at the end of October and I still don't have any answers about a cause. As long as I keep Powerade handy, I'm usually ok now though.

Now for the update you really want! Cooper! My baby will be 2 this month. I really can't believe its been almost 2 years since he was born. It went entirely too fast! He can count to 3 all by himself now! I hope to get this on video to post soon. We'll see how that goes.. He knows blue and green and doesn't seem to care about any other colors. He has been speaking in complete sentences for quite a while now. I swear his vocabulary is larger than my husbands *snicker* He amazes me everyday with how smart he is and how fast he learns. It seems like just yesterday all he could say was mama and dada.

He is outgrowing most of his one-size cloth diapers, which means I get to buy more!! I'm kinda excited about that, but I found a much cheaper way to do it. And its going to get its own post :)

It wouldn't be an update post without a recent picture so here are a couple!

This was our Christmas card picture. If you look close his horse is pretending to be a reindeer, but his antlers blended into the tree :)

Here is Cooper playing in the snow on Christmas day! We had our very first white Christmas here in East Tennessee!

Happy New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
(Its sparkling juice lol)

Christmas Presents & Birthday Invitations

The first picture is my favorite of Cooper's Christmas presents. It's a toddler-sized backpack with a picture of Noah's Ark and it's personalized with his name! He got this from his Mimi and Poppy(my parents). Even though it's toddler sized we are using it as our diaper bag. It's just too cute not to!

The second picture is the invitation to Cooper's first birthday party! I can't believe we will be celebrating one year with our little man in a couple weeks! It has really flown by! But more on this later... We will be having a Pooh's First Birthday themed party. If any of you have any party suggestions I would love to hear them! I'm especially drawing a blank on the menu! I'd like to do finger foods. I figure a cheese & cracker tray and fruit & veggie tray is a good start, but other than that I'm clueless. So let's hear some suggestions!

Christmas Happenings!

If you have been reading you know that we have a family bed. Cooper has never been asleep in his own crib. Well after Daddy waking him up at 6 am to open presents, taking about an hour nap, and getting back up to go to Papaw & Nana's across the road, Cooper was Christmased-out. He fell asleep and I carried him home. I decided to try and lay him down because he was OUT. I laid him in his crib and not a flinch! So at almost a year old, Cooper slept in his crib for the very first time!
Cooper got a tricycle from Santa! He loved it! We had to hide it so he would open the rest of his presents!
I hope everyone else had a great Christmas, too!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Merry Cooper's 1st Christmas!
from Jerry, Keshia, & Cooper

Happy Cooper's First Thanksgiving!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!
from Cooper

Christmas!!!!

Its bad when you can hide your baby's christmas presents in his crib and know he won't see them! Cooper has never spent the first night in his crib. He actually has never even napped in it. He spent about an hour in his pack and play the first night he was home, woke up to nurse and we've had a family bed ever since. I swore up and down before he was born he would never sleep with me. Co-sleeping was not a conscious choice me or Jerry made. Cooper made it for us. And now looking back at how close it made us and all of the bonding time we wouldn't have had otherwise I don't think I would change it. Although I would definately have inforced him napping by himself instead of always being held for naps. Most nights we love our family bed!

Cooper's First Halloween!!!

Cooper was a pumpkin for his first halloween. And I may be a little biased but he was the cutest pumpkin I've ever seen! We started at 1 pm because we had so many places to go. Everyone wanted to see him of course! He trick-or-treated in 3 different towns and went to a fall festival. He had his first sucker too! He was so sleepy when we got done. He crashed on the way home. For one day my little pumpkin really was a little pumpkin!