Great Giveaways..Check them out!!

I have been on a mission these past few weeks to find C&H a water table for this summer, but I am not willing to pay full price! I just came across two different sites that are giving one away!! How cool would it be for me to WIN this for them?? I think they would LOVE it! Check out the great giveaways at J. Leigh Designs and Two of a Kind...Working on a FULL House!!!

Sprinkler Fun!

I recently bought the kiddos this precious 'Water-pillar' to play with this summer! We decided to try it out after dinner tonight!

Cooper LOVED it...as you can see!!!

Hadley liked it but cared more about getting her popsicle to come out of the package!!! Silly girl!!!

Hadley ❤'s her Pencil!

I swear this girl is so smart! The other day Hadley came up to me with a pencil and a piece of paper she had gotten off our desk in the study and sat down beside me and started to draw on the paper. We have never given her paper & anything to draw with, so I was floored how she knew what to do with it! So we sat there for a second...she let me write her name...and then she continued to scribble! She was so proud of her pencil!

Then she got up and went in her 'fort' and drew for a little while...still beaming cause she had her pencil!!!

I know the time will come, when either C&H will begin writing on things, but I didn't want that day to come just yet, so I decided to put Miss H in her highchair and let her draw away while I finished what I was doing in the kitchen! I gave her one of the crayons that the Easter Bunny brought her, but she didn't want it...she had her pencil!!! Seriously, how does she even know how to hold a pencil correctly???

Just look at her excitement...

...and that concentration! I love that tongue!!!

Since then, she wants to 'draw' with everything...from sticks

...to toys!!!

Wordless Wednesday-Beautiful Boy!

Someone is going to get hurt....

...if they don't learn to 'SIT & spin'!!!

The Little Things I Love!

Cooper,

I love how you PUSH anything & everything that will move!


I love how you love your silk blanket (& Sissy's if you can get it!)

I love those sweet dimples...

I love how you make this face when you aren't sure about the situation...

I love to watch you drink from a straw...

And I love your beautiful blue eyes!


Hadley,

I love how you are so attached to your 'b'...

I love how you will just walk up to someone & lean into them to show your love...

I love it when your piggy tails go crooked...

I love how you crouch like this while searching for sticks...

I love how you are so motherly to your babies & Barney...

I love how your face lights up when you see your Daddy & how you love to watch him work in the yard...

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”

Our Social Butterfly & Our Little Loner!

I swear, the differences in personalities of these two kids just amazes me daily. Hadley is such a little social butterfly and Cooper is so content playing with himself!! We got out this morning and ran to Toys'R'Us for a few things and even the checkout guy there pointed out that Hadley must be my social one & Cooper must be more laid0-back! Hadley has to say 'hi' and 'bye' to everything that moves and Cooper just lounges in the stroller and is along for the ride (most of the time!) Then we swang by the park on the way home. I had decided that if it was busy we weren't stopping since I didn't have someone else to help me chase C&H! But there was only one other family there, so I decided to just go for it! C&H did great & of course loved the park! Hadley was interested in the other kids and would go up to them & just start jabbering! In the 30 minutes we were there, it got rather busy and it was getting close to lunch/naptime so we decided to go.

Here she is checking out a little boy...

...and telling two little girls 'bye' as they left...

"Mom, look! Here comes a new friend to play with!!"

Little Stinkpot climbing to the top and scaring Mommy to death!

Look at that static electricity!!!

And Mr. Cooper could have cared less about who was there! He was in his own little world...playing in the mulch...

...and running to the other slides...

...and pretending to eat lunch...

...and sitting on the stools being his cute little self!!!

This picture cracks me up! He would sit on the bottom of the slide and get up and walk about 5 feet out, turn around and go sit back down...over & over again...clapping the whole time! Michael & I laugh all the time at little things he does like this! He likes to do things over & over again & I love these little quirks about him!

We had a great morning! I'm not sure what our afternoon entails, but I am sure it will be great with my two little rascals!!!

Sleeping Babies!

See what I mean about peaceful, sleeping babies?? I could stand there & stare at them all night!

Count Your Blessings!

Well, it's that time of the month again! No, not as in 'that time of the month', but my one week out of the month that I work from home. I tried to be more prepared this month by getting a few posts together beforehand, so that I don't neglect my dear ole' blog for a whole week. As I sat here tonight, typing away at the keyboard, I heard Cooper begin to cry. Normally, I would let him cry it out, but he seemed to get madder & madder the longer he cried, so I decided to go in and rock him a second to calm him down. I think it was God's way of making me stop my busy life & count my blessings! As soon as we sat down in the rocker, he was fast asleep on my chest. As I sat there rocking him in the dark, I couldn't help but think about April 2008. Two years ago this month, we were going through our second cycle of IVF...4-27-08 was our Egg Retrieval, 5-2-08 was our Embryo Transfer, & on 5-11-08 we announced we were finally expecting after almost 4 years of trying to conceive! As I sat there tonight rocking Cooper, I couldn't help but to reach up & turn on the lamp to it's dimmest setting, hoping not to wake Hadley, just so that I could watch him sleep in my arms, just so I could watch him clutch his blue blanket, just so I could watch him suck that blue paci, just so I could smell his sweet head and to run my fingers through those beautiful blonde curls...tears welled up in my eyes just thinking about how lucky we are! As I laid him back down in his crib, I couldn't help but to stand over Hadley's crib & watch her sleep too....what is it about a sleeping baby that I love so much? I stopped right then & there & counted my blessings...I thanked God for the two angels we call Cooper & Hadley. What could we possibly have done to deserve these two? We truly are blessed!

Recent Random Videos

I love Cooper's same reaction every time I blow the bubbles! Hadley wasn't too interested in the bubbles...

she was more interested in her fruit snacks!!!

I love to see them interacting like this! How awesome would it be to have a 'built-in' best friend...so special!

This may be boring to some, but I want to remember this sweet voice forever...even if I have no clue what she is saying!!

Wordless Wednesday-Ready for the BEACH!!!

Showing Daddy my new swimsuit!!!

Hadley's Expanding Vocabulary

Everyday Hadley is saying new things, so I just wanted to record them here so that I don't forget them! With some random, cute pictures added in!!!

• The other day after lunch, I had already cleaned up Hadley and was almost done cleaning up Cooper when Hadley walked up to me with her hands in the air and said 'ni-ni'. She ran to her crib and was trying to get in. I gave her her paci (which she has recently started calling her 'b') & blankie and put her in bed & she was out like a light! Poor girl was tired & she let me know...that was the first time she really 'communicated' with me...it felt good to actually understand what she wanted!

• That same afternoon after their nap, we were playing in their nursery. There is a drawer with some instruction manuals, small knick-knacks, & some baby ornaments that I had on a small white tree in their room around Christmas. They know they aren't allowed in this drawer, but, of course, its the first drawer they go for! Hadley had opened the drawer and kept saying what sounded like 'drink' over & over. She finally came over to me, got in my face, and said 'drink'. She does this when she really wants something & wants me to help her get it, so I walked over to the drawer. I couldn't imagine what she wanted out of the drawer that was a drink. I looked in to find a baby bottle ornament...she wanted a drink out of it...silly Mommy! So I gave her the ornament & she pretended to 'drink' it for the rest of the day! She cracks me up!

• She is always saying 'Hi Bubba'...you can hear her in the beginning of this video that was from today while playing outside!
• While we were outside today I blew some bubbles them...btw, I got C&H some 'No-Spill' bubbles at Target the other day...best thing invented for toddlers who like bubbles!!! She kept saying 'bubbles'! Too cute!

Look Alikes???

What do you think? I don't think I can deny them as my children!! This is me on my first birthday and Cooper & Hadley just a few weeks ago. Who do you think looks more like me? I know I promised to get some baby pictures of Michael a long time ago, and have still not done that! His mom has page after page of scrapbook pages from when he was a baby and I need to borrow some & scan some of the pictures off of them! We were looking through them the other day and talking about how much Cooper looked like him...I think he is just the perfect mixture of us two! I promise I'll get on that soon!

Where did my Baby Boy Go???

Look how big Cooper looks!! Where did my baby boy go??

How do you like the pink paci with the baseball hat...priceless!!!

Hi Daddy!

C&H enjoyed watching Daddy mow the lawn tonight after their bath. They are just too precious...I swear I could eat them up with a spoon!!!

Way Back When-nesday!

June 25, 2009

{6 1/2 months old}