Kiddie Update

Well, it's been a long time since the last entry. Not sure what we've been so busy with, but time sure seems to fly by. The kids are doing great. Cooper is growing up way to fast. His communication continues to improve every day as do his expressions. When you ask him to do something, he loves to answer "Nope, I'm too busy." Or he says something and you don't agree with him, he answers, "Yup, I think so." He's a little cutie.

Isabel is also growing like a weed. She's eating great and starting to dismiss her bottle at times. This makes me happy as I really enjoy the end of the formula and bottle days. We've just started some milk in a sippy cup with her, which she's currently contemplating. She's quite close to walking and has taken a few steps so far. Her standing balance is still pretty limited, so I'm sure it will be a few weeks, but Cooper is sure in for a surprise when she starts walking. I think that goes for me too! In the meantime, she' s happiest on the little push/ride toy. She loves the music it makes and can easily get on/off of it and ride it around. She also loves to push it and walk all around the house. I think when she starts to walk she'll be all over the place. She has two bottom teeth, and that's it for now.

We recently went to Sears to get their photos taken. We have a great professional photo of Cooper when he was about 9 months old that we love so we figured, we should get some of Belle too. We also have a gorgeous yellow silk dress that Carolyn, and I were both photographed in as babies. I didn't want Belle to grow out of it before we were able to get a picture. It was quite an eventful photo session and I was in a full sweat trying to get those 2 kids to pose. When Cooper was photographed at 9 months he was not yet crawling so it was a breeze to shoot him. Isabel, not so much. She was all over the place. And then trying to get the two of them in a shot was a whole other issue. Needless to say, we got some great pictures, and I've included a few here. Please note the lollipop in the picture of the two of them. Bribery is a parent's best friend. Hope all is well with everyone. We can't believe Thanksgiving is this coming week. But we're really looking forward to lots of family time! More photos to come from that I'm sure!

More Halloween...

On Halloween, again, we weren't sure if Cooper was going to be agreeable to wearing a costume, but he did, (with just a little encouragement). We decided to put Isabel in a costume that was a little more girly. I thought she was a sweet little thing until her great Aunt Sue called her a play boy bunny. Nice Aunt Sue. It was not a very nice day so we skipped the door to door trick or treating, and instead just stopped by all of the relatives house. And just from those 5 stops Cooper had more than his fill of candy. I never liked Halloween growing up, but I must say, I'm enjoying it much more as a parent.

(One more picture from Spooktacular)

Halloween

We have had a long Halloween celebration that started last Saturday. We carved Jack 'O Lanterns at home. Cooper didn't want his to have a scary face, he just wanted a "happy pumpkin." Then on Sunday we went downtown where Middlebury was having the second annual Spooktacular. We weren't sure if Cooper was even going to put on a costume as getting dressed into new clothes is quite an ordeal these days. He didn't want to wear the monkey costume we got for him, but he was willing to wear the Bob the Builder/Handy Manny accessories. Thank goodness we had some overalls in the closet. I think his "thrown together" costume turned out pretty well. He really enjoyed going from store to store and getting candy. He went straight for the lollipops as that's his candy of choice these days. Isabel made a pretty cute little tiger as well.