Big Bird & Elmo's biggest fan!!!!

Cooper's Changing DayCare

Now that I am working 4 days a week from home we decided to move Cooper to a day care that is closer to the house. Friday, July 31st was Cooper's last day at ChildTime - he got sent home early because he vomited after lunch. Poor little guy! I wanted to take pictures of him and his little friends on his last day, but since I had to pick him up early they were all napping. So we will have to go back and visit - because I definitely need pictures of him and his partner in crime (PIA) Jack. However, I did get to get a picture with Cooper's Ms. Loretta! Ms. Loretta is from WV and started at ChildTime the exact day Cooper did when he was only 10 weeks old. They have a bond - he adores her and she adores him! As you can see in the picture the poor little guy didn't feel too well.

Cooper & Ms. Loretta

I really hated leaving ChildTime it was a decision that I struggled with - do I remove Cooper from a place that I am comfortable with, where he had received top notch care and they loved him as if he were their own for utter convenience? Corey and Mom helped me with this question, they said everyone will love Cooper, how can they not fall in love with him. Which is very true - he is a very outgoing, sweet little boy that is very lovable!

So, we have decided to try a local daycare by the house. Today is Cooper's first day - I am really nervous!!! Corey and I dropped him off this morning and he did great! Instantly started playing with his new friends and waved bye bye to us when we left - no tears for Cooper. When we got to the parking lot I cried a little - I have been with him non-stop for the last week and half so letting him go was a little hard for me today but I know he will do awesome!

Daddy and Cooper this morning getting ready to go to the new daycare.

Videos from Busch Gardens

Special thanks to Aunt Jeanie for these wonderful videos!!! I had a blast watching all the videos of Cooper!!!


Cooper & Nana playing in the Sesame Street water park. Cooper is the mad man in the hat!! He absolutely loves water!!!!


If you listen closely you can hear Cooper scream for Elmo and Big Bird (even though Big Bird was not part of the show nor on stage) during the Sesame Street concert. He is obsessed with Big Bird and Elmo!!!


Cooper afraid of life size Bert!!! Wonder if he would have been afraid of Elmo or Big Bird?

Videos from Water Country, USA

Busch Gardens

Sorry for the large number of photos, but there were so many great moments captured that I couldn't pick which ones to post. We had a great day!!!

Special thanks to Lee for being the photographer - Great Job!!!!

Allie, Campbell and Isaiah waiting in line for a ride.

Nana & Cooper in the Elmo water park - Cooper loved it and Nana got soaked!!!

Cooper and Nana with Bert - Cooper liked him far away not close up!

Allie, Isaiah, AJ & Campbell waiting in line for Elmo drop zone.

Ready to Ride

Allie & Cooper playing in the water park! Allie will do anything for her lil man - even get drenched!

The Elmo water park crew - Isaiah, Allie, AJ, Campbell, Nana & Cooper (Jeanie & Lee were attending the strollers and taking pictures & video.)

Campbell, Allie & Cooper at the Forest of Fun!

Isaiah and his "Ride" - (aka - Jessie)

Hannah, Jake, Aunt Stacy & Campbell - Nice Hats!!!

Isaiah riding the dragon ride by himself!

Stacy & Chris

Ashley & Jessie

The gang watching the Sesame Street show with Cooper.

Daddy & Cooper watching Big Bird and Elmo show!

Dave & Isaiah

"Shoo birds"

Nana & Cooper riding his very first ride!!!

Nana & Isaiah

Hannah & Isaiah

Cooper & Isaiah

Ashley, Allie & Jessie - exhausted after a long day!!! So, ready for bed!

Water Country, USA

Here are pictures from Friday at Water Country, USA:

The Crew (Ashley & Allie were MIA at this point, but don't worry we found them!)

DaDa and Gramps helping Cooper down the water slides!

Cooper absolutely loves the pool! No fear of water.

Cooper having a blast! The more he went under water the bigger he would smile!

Uncle Dave & Isaiah in their water socks!

Nana drying off Cooper. His lips were quivering but he still wanted to go back in!

Aunt Stacy, Cooper, Uncle Aaron and Campbell

Cooper's feet were pruned by the end of the day!

Weekend Recap - Annual Family Weekend

This weekend was our annual family trip to the amusement park. We usually do a day at Kings Dominion but we decided to make a last minute change of destination and length of time due to the small number that could attend. So, we headed to Water County USA and Busch Gardens for the weekend! The group consisted of - Jeanie, Lee, Jessie, Allie, Ashley, Chris, Stacy, Campbell, Jake, Dave, Hannah, Isaiah, Aaron, Brooke, Nana, Gramps, Corey, Cooper and I.
I think I can speak for everyone when I say we had a blast!!! Can't wait to do it again next year!!!!

Have you started your Blog yet?

At work Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 are heavily discussed topics, so the other day at work I received this email from a working group member - pretty interesting...

To say that Blogs are catching on is an understatement-especially when you consider the following stats for just one blogging platform: WordPress.com for one month: June 2009

*388,580 blogs were created.
*5,845,417 posts were published.
*411,540 new users joined.
*5,800,941 file uploads.
*3,633 gigabytes of new files.
*810 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
*8,330,617 comments.
*6,841,633 logins.
*1,245,935,191 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 1,245,882,985 on self-hosted blogs (2,491,818,176 total across all WordPress blogs that WordPress tracks).
*2,153,176 active blogs where "active" means they got a human visitor.
*1,447,021,840 words.


These are just stats from 1 blog provider - there are many out there. Can you imagine the metrics if it were to include all of them?? Pretty impressive indeed!

So, have you started your Blog yet??? I strongly recommend to all you non-Bloggers out there to get on the stick! Days, Weeks and Months pass quickly before our eyes and with everyone's busy schedules we don't get to keep in contact like we want to or should. Blogging is an easy fix for this. Granted we don't want it to be our only form of contact with our family and friends but it helps when time keeps passing us by faster and faster and our schedules get fuller and fuller.

JK Wedding Phenomenon

Not sure how many of you have seen this video yet, but I luckily stumbled upon this on Facebook and absolutely love it!!! I can't help but envision our wedding party doing something similar - it would have been a riot with the characters that we have as friends! Love you guys!!

Posting Videos

For some reason, the past month or so I have had issues uploading my videos to blogger. Videos that are 45 seconds or less are the only ones I can post and even those take forever to download and process. So, I have decided to try YouTube...

Sorry for the large number of videos that will be posted in the next couple of days.
However, I know some of Cooper's favs will appreciate them!

Mastered the Slide

Bubbles & Elmo - Can life get any better???

Dancing Machine

Water Day in the Backyard

U-V-A

Daddy's Mini Me

Sprinklers with Nana & Gramps

Missy's Baby Shower