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Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Christmas at MawMaw's

We celebrated Christmas at MawMaw's the first weekend of 2010 with the crew - MawMaw, Nana, Gramps, Uncle Aaron, Uncle Mike, Aunt Lura, Cassie, Seth, Uncle Chris, Aunt Stacy, Campbell, Uncle Dave, Aunt Traci, Hannah, Isaiah, Jenna-Claire, Jean & Ed Clark, Jeannie, Lee, Jessie and Allie. We missed you Heather and Madison!

We had such a good time hanging out with everyone - we need to have family weekends more often!! Thanks for all of the wonderful gifts - Cooper is so spoiled and blessed to have a family who loves him so much!!!! And so am I!!!!

Cooper not wanting to share Momma with Jenna-Claire.

Isaiah & Campbell

The Crew at the Dinner Table - minus Dave, Traci, Jenna-Claire, Cassie and Lura.

Seth & Cass

Aaron, Jessie, Seth, Cass, Isaiah, Campbell and Hannah

Cooper playing with his new Elmo drumset with Nana & Gramps!!!

Nana reading Cooper one of his new Elmo books.

Jenna-Claire and Cooper - future Partners in Crime (poor Isaiah)!

Maw Maw and Cooper

Isaiah & Uncle Mike

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

New Years Day Tradition

It's tradition that on New Years Day Grammy, Poppy, Corey, Cooper and I head to DC to see the National Christmas Tree and to have a nice dinner out. It's great because DC is dead and there are absolutely no crowds. We practically had the restaurant and tree to ourselves.

Also, this year on our way up to DC we made a pit stop at Occoquan so Cooper could throw his bag bag of rocks in the river and feed the ducks.

We had a wonderful time, the food was phenomenal, the tree was beautiful and the company was not too shabby either!

Here are pictures from our day -

Christmas at Grammy & Poppy's

We celebrated Christmas with Grammy, Poppy and Kalli on December 30th and 31st. We had a wonderful time hanging out, relaxing, opening gifts, playing games and eating lots of yummy food! Cooper even slept in a big boy bed for both nights - he went right down for the night and never tried to escape. Here are some pictures of us opening our gifts -

Grammy trying out her egg nog pitcher! Yep, she will be stewed next year. =)

Poppy and his new tailgating hat!

Cooper chewing on Vinko the Bear from his new dump truck.

Poppy helping Cooper open his gift. It was a Little People farm just like Maw Maw's!!

Cooper & Grammy - Cooper's stocking was filled with snacks - he loved it!

Poppy got Cooper a 50 pound bag of egg rocks. Cooper is in rock heaven!!!

Cooper giving hugs and saying Thank You to Poppy!!!

Grammy, Cooper & Poppy

Momma, Cooper & Daddy cracking up in front of the Christmas Tree

Smith Christmas

So this is Cooper's Christmas number ??? - I have lost count already and we are not even close to being finished. The kid is going to think everyday is a Christmas celebration and that he gets presents!!

We unfortunately missed the Smith Christmas get together this year - there was just too much running around this holiday season for us. Nana, Gramps, and Uncle Aaron were Santa's helpers ensuring our gifts got to the kiddies and Cooper's gifts got to our house. Cooper got some awesome gifts: a Dump Truck, Old McDonald Puzzle, ABC Fridge Toy, Elmo doll, Elmo Seek and Find Book, Sit and Spin and a Recorder. Thanks everyone!!! We really hate that we missed visiting with everyone and the sledding activities!!!

Here are pictures of Cooper opening his gifts:

Too Cute not to Share!

Kiss It

Whenever Cooper gets a boo boo like every other mother I tell him I will kiss it and make it better. The past couple of weeks Cooper has had the tiniest boo boo ever on his big toe and he talks about it and points to it all the time, even though he has a massive boo boo on his head at this moment. So, yesterday when I picked him up from daycare he had another fall and hit his head again. This time he pointed to his head and said boo boo so it must hurt pretty badly. I ask him if he wants me to kiss it and he says, "Yes" and I kiss it. Then he looks at my face and points where I have a wonderful zit and says, "Oh no Momma! Boo Boo! Kiss!" and then bends over a kisses my boo boo. My heart melted. He's getting to be such a big boy!!! Love him!!!

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Way to End the Year

We got a call from day care today stating Cooper had an accident and that we need to pick him up. This is what I was greeted by -

Cooper has the nastiest goose egg and bruise on his forehead. He looks like Frankenstein. I called the doctor and they said we needed to monitor him for the next 24 hours. Argh!!! So this is how we are ending the year another head injury for Cooper!

Air & Space Museum

On Sunday after Nana, Gramps, MawMaw and Brasco headed home we met Heather & Matt at the Dulles Air & Space Museum for the afternoon. It's a very cool place right in our backyard. I think Cooper was a little overwhelmed at first but he really liked the Space exhibits!