10 Months old!

Cooper turned 10 months old last week! I am wanting to slow the time down until she turns a year old...it is just coming too fast! We had a great week last week with Granny visiting and then Kiki and Pops visiting this past weekend. Cooper is so close to walking and is doing a great job of standing on her own and walking along the furniture. One thing for sure...she is ALWAYS moving. She just never stops!

She is also eating so much of what we eat. We just cut down or mash up what we are eating and give it to her and she will eat anything! This is new to us. :) We are thankful for a great eater!

We went and had her finger pricked last week for her blood test. Not fun for Mom to do with her!

Randy also wants me to mention that she has turned into a Daddy's girl this month. :) He was out of town a couple of weeks ago and since he has been back, she has been pretty attached to him. It's pretty sweet.

But I think I'm still her favorite. :)

Well, that title may go to her big sister. She wants to be where Kendall is, she wants to play with what Kendall is playing with, and she thinks anything Kendall says or does is hysterical. I love my two little girls!!

Happy 10 month birthday Cooper! Let's make these next two months go real slow, ok?

Beach Baby!

Cooper is loving the beach these days! We are going out there about once or twice a week to play and she seems to have a lot of fun. These pictures are from when the Hundls had their beach house a couple of weeks ago and we went out there to have dinner with them one evening and go down to the water.
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!

Rain...finally!

We were so excited this week to finally get some rain! We have been in such a bad drought and needed the rain so badly. The girls and I were home by ourselves all week with Randy hosting at youth camp, and Wednesday after it rained we went outside to play in it for awhile! Kendall was very excited to get to wear her rain boots, jacket, and play with her umbrella!

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!

The Best Daddy!!

We had a great Father's Day weekend spending time as a family! Randy left to be the host at a youth camp Sunday afternoon, so we went to church and then came home and cooked him a nice Father's Day lunch - chicken parmesan! He worked on Friday because he stayed home with the girls while I was gone on Thursday, but on Saturday we went out to eat breakfast, came home to rest for the afternoon, then went swimming with the Sanders that night and cooked out!

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!

We love you so much Randy and are so thankful for the wonderful Daddy you are! I am so thankful to be doing this with you and could never have dreamed all those years ago that we started dating that you would be such an amazing Dad to our girls. I love you so much!!

Cooper's week with Gigi and Peeps!

Cooper enjoyed Gigi and Peeps' visit last week, too! One thing I was nervous about with this class all day every day was missing Cooper's breakfast and lunch feeding. I thought I would miss dinner too, but we were dismissed every afternoon by 3:30 so I was home by 5:30, just in time for dinner! Gigi, Peeps, and Grandma Dane took great care of Cooper and she did ok with taking a bottle for those first two feedings of the day. She didn't love it, so I am thinking that we are going to try to just move straight to a sippy cup...we'll see how that goes...so far she just likes to play with it!

Cooper didn't get to sleep out in the camper like Kendall did, but we did all go to the beach Tuesday night! Some days she loves getting wet and putting her feet in the sand, but this night she didn't really want much to do with it. I tried putting her down to see if she might want to play...

...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!!

Why I am never sad naptime is over...

I love getting this sweet girl out of bed every day!!

But when she is standing up like this, I have to tell her, "Stop getting so big!"

I love being her Mommy!

Memorial Day...

I found some pictures today from Memorial Day that I never posted...oops! Sorry Coop! Some of these were on Kendall's blog, but I loved the ones of Cooper with her friend Reese.
We went to two cook-outs on Memorial Day - the first one was at the Beams' house for lunch, and the second was at our friends the Peart's house for dinner and a going away party for the Blocks.
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! :)