fall adventures!!!

Cooper just loves his fall pumpkin that our neighbor grew for him in her garden. ofcourse he wants to eat it but what doesn't go into the mouth!?!

believe it or not our little coop is already 8 months where did the days go....

at the beginning of the month we met up with some of our friends for a great fall day at the apple orchard and pumpin patch. Cooper loved the time there. he wanted to crawl over all of the pumpkins and didn't quite get why he was smaller then they were. he liked to beat on them. He loved the apples - one of his favorite treats to eat!!! It was fun to get out and enjoy the beautiful colors and time with our friends!

We are so proud of our little man! i think we have to be the happiest parents. Its hard to even imagine life without Cooper - we went to these same places last year when we were expecting him. I remember looking at the children running around and the little babies thinking 'what will this little person be like? will we be able to handle this? will he like us?' so many questions and here we are a year later so blessed with the best boy in the world. Everything he does is so amazing and we cherish it so much! He is such an easy going child - so laid back and loves to go everywhere. We just LOVE him!!! :)

1st famous debut!

So even though the article is stupid and completely doesn't display the great time we had on friday evening with our neighbors Cooper made his first debut as a local celebrity in the Star Tribune. Our neighbor noticed the star tribune was looking for people that were going to use their bonfire pits over the weekend as they wanted to do a story on it. So she replyed saying we were going to be using our firepit and actually had planned our fall block party. We blocked of the street and had about 75+ people come out for the potluck and had 5 bonfire pits out to enjoy the beautiful fall evening and fellowship with neighbors. We had a wonderful time and no one complained - though the story made it seem different... even still fun to get Cooper on the front page of the paper!!! I am now just waiting for the baby model agencies to call - how couldn't they with that face!!!

here is the link to the dumb story: http://www.startribune.com/local/30870774.html

always on the move

Crazy to believe Cooper is
already 7 months - well almost 8! He is on the move everywhere these days. He is very into his toys and can figure out what to do with each. He loves his Wood beads that wind through the metal. He knows just how to push the bead through. He also loves his ABC ball and Baseball tee. He has figured out to how crawl - well army crawl that is - his way over to his toy basket and pull out the toys he wants to play with. He also loves to go the the park and swing on the swings. He just laughs and laughs and laughs as we keep pushing him. He is such a sight to see when he is on the swing!!! As you can see from this picture below he crawls up onto the basket but then doesn't know how to get down. He ofcourse breaks into tears and we can't help but laugh at him. We know we know how mean are we...

Cooper loves to help out in
our garden or more so he loves to eat the leaves and grass around the area. Our big project last fall and this spring/summer has been redoing our flower box out front. It has turned out great! We also did veggie garden too. We are excited to teach cooper all about gardening and growing in the seasons ahead!
Coop still love his bathtime .

Auntie Ashley spotted a great bath chair (a circle thing he sits in and it keeps him upright) at a garage sale. This is his new favorite way to take a bath... he bring his rubber duckie and floating books and plays away. He was in there over a half hour the other night - we had to drag him out. He has also figured out how to take of his socks and leave them everywhere - just like his papa! He is 'talking' more and more every day - he says mama and dada - often in a babbling way but that is okay right!?!