Kendall, Ethan, and Ella had fun swimming in a little tide pool,
and Cooper decided to try to eat some sand for the first time.
She was pretty interested in the wet sand and what happened when she put her fingers in it!
But then she was done, so she crawled over some seaweed to get to Randy. 
She had sand everywhere!
I love these two!
And I love living so close to the beach!
I held Cooper the whole time, but I managed to take a few pictures of her!
She had fun watching her sister jump in the puddles!
We had fun getting a chance to get out of the house and splash in the rain! 
I didn't realize it until we met Randy at church Sunday morning, but he wore a baby blue shirt and the girls had on their baby blue Easter dresses! I tried to take a picture of the three of them together...but it is just not easy to get everyone to look at the camera at the same time!
...but she told me real fast that she wanted back up.
So we all took turns holding her! She loved playing with Peeps and his bottle...
...and laughing with Gigi!
We had a great evening at the beach and were so thankful for how well Cooper did last week. I don't want to leave Randy out either - he switched his day off to stay home with the girls all day Thursday by himself and they did great that day, too! The house was even clean and the dishes were done when I came home - so impressed! So thankful for my family who is supporting me in getting my masters and helping me with the girls!!
But when she is standing up like this, I have to tell her, "Stop getting so big!"
I love being her Mommy!
The Garrett's were at the Peart's that night, too, and both of their girls are close in age to our girls - Jillian is two months older than Kendall and Cooper is about 6 weeks older than Reese. We put the two of them on a blanket to hang out and they were so funny together!
Reese is very expressive with her hands - Cooper got positioned right in front of her somehow and she just kept playing with Cooper's hair!
Kendall took some time to pose with her sister, too. 
We are thankful for sweet friends and fun times playing together! I hope to catch up some on blogging this week - I was out all week last week taking a class in Houston, so hopefully there will be lots of blog posts this week on both girls' blogs! :)
I went back and looked, and we bought Kendall diapers right before she turned 7 months for the first time. We have been so blessed and don't take it for granted!
Cooper had her doctor's appointment yesterday! It was my first time to take both girls by myself (I usually schedule Cooper's appointments for Tuesdays or Thursdays when Kendall is in school) and they did so great! Kendall enjoyed talking to Dr. B and only interrupted a couple of times. :) 
I told Dr. B that we have been blaming things on teething for months now and we were so curious for him to look and see if her teeth were going to be coming through soon. He looked and said, "Not even close!" Ha! But he did say we could keep using it as an excuse for fussy behavior! Love it! :) He checked back and said that Kendall had four teeth by the time she was nine months, but that some babies don't get them until around a year, so Coop is totally normal.
For her sake and our's, we are really hoping those teeth come soon!! Poor baby - some evenings she just seems like her mouth hurts her so bad!
She feeds herself...so well...can you tell? :)
We're done with those for awhile though....they didn't really love her back!
I could NOT get you to sit still today for your pictures! You are such a wiggle worm and you are hardly ever still!
You are starting to stand by yourself! So far it's just for a few seconds, but you are getting so brave and are wanting to let go of things a lot more often.
One of your favorite places to hang out lately is at Kendall's play kitchen. You pull out the drawers and open the cabinets and will sit there playing with the food and dishes for so long, just as happy as can be! You also love sitting in front of the fridge, playing with the fridge farm and the letters. 