A Day at the park (finally)

Since Cooper started walking when it was supercold outside and Nashville just decided to warm up a tad, yesterday was our first trip to a park. His class has been going to the playground all week and his teacher said he loved every minute of it, so we had high hopes for this excursion. Our hopes were fulfilled. Cooper had a blast swinging, sliding, running and playing ball. The playground is close to our house and has rubber surfaces everywhere (including cut-up tires that look like mulch). We officially love this park. We even saw our vet there with her family and got to talk about our other babies Fish and Chips who were home sleeping I'm sure.

I have a feeling I will be spending a lot of time here.

Cooper LOVES to swing.

Hmmm... grass.

Cooper with his favorite "ba".

Ready to go home.

14 months old

On February 7th Cooper turned 14 months old. A year ago I had just gone back to work and felt like a terrible person for abandoning my child every morning. Now we both love our routine of getting up and going to work/school and then getting to play and hang out on the weekends and evenings. Ultimately I wish I could stay home, but at the same time I see all the great things Cooper learns from 7 to 5 pm and doubt I could do all of that myself. Suffice to say, life is good.

At 14 months Cooper:

-Is a big, tall boy. We will get official weigh in at 15 mo. appointment on 3/12/10.

- Walks, runs, climbs, etc.

- Eats a three BIG meals a day and two snacks.

- Naps up to 3 hours during the day. His teacher says he's the first to sleep and the last to wake up. Kids can be running all around him and he stays sound asleep.

- Usually sleeps from 7 pm to 6:30 am.

- Loves his guitar.- Has a fifteen word vocabulary including mom, dadeee, ball (ba), dog, nose, and thank you (tattoo).

- Still has a head of curly, wild hair, which his mother refuses to cut eventhough there is a rat tail/mullet thing going on in the back.

-Loves having Mommy read him a book and loves to flip pages on her before she can finish. Favorite book: My Fuzzy Valentine (Elmo).

Life is really, really good. **The previous comment was brought to you by 8 solid hours of sleep.