Happy Birthday, Big Boy!

Dear Cooper,

You are two years old today, Big Boy. It has been two joyful years, two wonderfully joyful years. We are so in love with you....smitten would be the word. You are just so beautiful. So beautiful and so charming and so animated...oh so animated! You are a little light but a very bright little light. When you are around, everything is light. You make us laugh and smile, and you are constantly melting our hearts with those big baby blues.

You love being the center of attention, but you don't demand it which makes it so cute when you get to perform. You sing and dance and grin and giggle and say funny things constantly. But singing...singing is your specialty. You have a repertoire of about 25 songs...not even kidding. You sing yourself to sleep, sing in the car, and walk around singing as you play all day. I am convinced your little voice belting praises to our King is the most precious sound there is. I especially love when you sing, "Sing Hosanna to the King," "Joy to the World," and "Amazing Grace." Your voice is a gift to me. It brightens my day everyday and keeps me going when it's not so easy to keep going.

 You are such a blessing, Coop. You have no idea the light you have brought me. You are loving, affectionate, so friendly, and joyful to the core.

The Lord has truly put His joy in you. You have the joy of the Lord, and it's contagious.

This past year you and Carter have become big buddies. I always say you two are best friends and worst enemies. I never know what I'll hear from the other room....screaming or giggling. You play, wrestle, hit, giggle, hug, share, snatch, slap, help, tattle, etc... The best kind of brothers in my opinion. You keep Carter laughing, and he keeps you moving trying to keep up.

You love spiderman (spomoman), construction vehicles/equipment, cars, trucks, balls, trampolines, baths, basketball, all foods known to man, and Dixie, our cat, to name a few.

Here are some of the funny and super cute things you say:

"I yuh you" for I love you
"Shoo Wee" for a dirty diaper

"Chiway" for Chickfila

"Botball" for football

"Disaball goal" for basketball goal

"Spomoman" for Spiderman

"Poot" for Coop...although this has gone away recently. You can now correctly say your name which is a little sad.

"Drop you" for Don't drop me....not sure why you keep saying this to us. Did somebody drop you at school or church? Hope not!

"Deus" for juice
"Ewww nassy" for Ew, Nasty. Hysterical!
"Dit" for I did it.

Everytime we give you something, you say, "Thank you, you're welcome."

"Bass" for bath

"Wion" for Lion...lately you have been talking about a lion and telling us you are scared of the "wion" in your room. Hope you aren't having nightmares.

Something you request all the time is a "wide" which means you are asking to ride in the car. You absolutely LOVE to play in cars. You are obsessed to put it lightly.

You are also obsessed with "shoobrushes" and "toopaste"...oh my goodness, I love you to pieces, but you about drive me bonkers stealing everyone's toothbrushes and screaming bloody murder when we take them away from you.

You love to take your "biper" off and run around naked.

Imagine a lamb saying the word, "excavator"...that is exactly how Coop says it. Not sure what that's about, but it's super funny.

"Here go" for here you go.

"See you" for bye...accompanied by a wave of course.

So much more I could write! You are a chatty little guy; you talk and talk and talk.

You are also a passionate little booger! You have entered the two's and definitely have an opinion....and you want it to be heard! You can get loud about it too. You want what you want, and you are not happy when you don't get it. Thankfully, you seem to respond to discipline pretty well. And after you are disciplined, you always hug me and want to be held....so easy to reconcile with you. You are a soft hearted little guy.

I love your blonde hair, your chubby thighs, your button nose, your little tiny teeth, your irresistable cheeks, your beautiful eyes, your little fat feet...everything about you. You are stunningly beautiful....a work of God inside and out.

Coop, I am so very very glad God chose me to be your mommy. You are a blessing, a joy, and a bright light. I don't know what God has in store for your future, but I know it's a bright one because you are bright in every sense of the word.

Thank you for being so loving and simply wonderful.

You are my sunshine.

I love you so much,

Mama
Here is a look back at the past year:

Happy Happy Birthday, Coop!

Partaaaay!!!!

Coop turns two Wednesday!!!

Can you believe it? We are in full celebration mode over here. We had his party yesterday at Pat Lamar Park....GREAT place for a party!

We invited his little Mother's Morning Out class, and he was so excited all his little friends were there.

Here is his invitation:

Calling all Superheroes to swing by and play.

We’re celebrating

Coop’s 2^nd Birthday!

Join us for cake and ice cream at

Pat Lamar Park.

March 24^th at 4:00

*Bring your favorite riding toy.

The excitement level was through the roof yesterday with my boys! Spiderman mania! Everything spiderman, spiderman, spiderman. 

We kept the party simple with cupcakes, a pinata, and lots of riding toys. Total success! The perfect weather was the icing on the cake.

Tried to get a picture of them together in their matching spiderman shirts before the party...semi success.

Gotta love a fake smile for mama. Sweet boy.

Getting his candles just right.

We let him open one present at the park, and it was a hit! Our neighbor and Coop's big buddy, Mary Katharine, gave him this plush spiderman.

It was love at first site.

Of course he can fly.

The cupcakes.

One of the 25 riding toys there....Coop cried when this one had to go home with his friend, Jack. Gotta get that boy a trike with a bell on it.

Coop adores my brother, Chas. So Uncle Chas was definitely Coop's guest of honor. They have a special bond that consists of yelling, screaming, chasing, tickling, and scaring one another.

Birthday Boy....Can i freeze him right here, please?

Balloons in the whipping wind are too fun.

Pinata!!!!!

Scrambling for candy

Candy and Dorito face

Getting ready to "blow" out the candles. It was too windy, so we told him to pretend, and he did! Hahahaha!

He got so excited when everyone was singing to him that he had to stand up and giggle. He ATE. IT. UP! This little boy loves the spotlight. All smiles and giggles when he had center stage.

Our family...so blessed.

Since he didn't get to actually blow out his candles at the park, we reenacted it when we got home. We relit them three times, and he blew them out three times. Couldn't get enough.

One happy, happy birthday boy.

What a day filled with laughs, hugs and kisses, too much sugar, lots of pictures, family, friends, presents, and celebration! I love a good party, especially when it's celebrating my baby Coop Coop!

Another birthday post coming Wednesday...a tribute to my favorite two year old.

Picture Day Disaster

This morning was picture day at the boys' school. So like every other mom, I had their coordinating outfits picked out, their hair cut last week, etc...

So here's how the day went. Coop woke up with 100.7 fever. Ugh. So when I dropped Carter off, the director told me I could bring Coop back when Carter's class was scheduled so he could have his picture taken.

When I get there, I find out they decided to do group pictures this year! So Coop missed out on being in his class picture. Boo Hoo! But oh well, at least he will still get his individual picture and a picture with Carter, right?

Oh no. They go get Carter, and when they pull him out of his class and take him through a maze of unfamiliar hallways, he freaks out and starts crying hysterically. By the time he gets to me, he is all worked up, and Coop is now crying because he feels terrible and Carter is crying. I try to put them down for a picture, and it sounded like pterodactyls screaching and screaming. I could not calm them down or convince them to sit for the picture. Plus the wind the blowing insanely hard, so Carter kept saying he was freezing. So needless to say, neither of my kids got individual or class pictures taken! Why do I even try?!! Ahhhh!

Oh well. You gotta laugh to keep from crying. Very frustrating morning. 

I went from simply missing one class picture for one child to missing every picture for both children.

Oh the joys!

Keepin it real today, people.

Here's to next year's class and individual pictures....

Spring Break

I have been a little MIA lately as far as the blog goes. It's just been way too pretty outside to sit inside at a computer. We have soaked up every bit of this warm weather. Here are some pics of our spring break.

Lots of trampoline jumping of course.

We visited some friends in Memphis, and Coop got to blow out his first birthday candle. Many more to come in the next week!

A few walmart trips of course.

We got a new swimming pool! Swim diapers are too expensive to be used in the backyard.

Worn out.

Visited BB and Pawpaw.

Ate at Soulshine Pizza. Our favorite place in the world to eat.

Lots of baths with Spiderman bubbles.

My cousin's wedding

Water hose fun

Then back to school yesterday. My boys are at the most fun ages for a super fun spring break! Lots of memories last week.

I almost forgot...a pancake breakfast before church :)