Right Now

I wish that I walked around with a camera and a video camera around my neck at all times right now. Cooper has so much personality and says and does the cutest darn things every single day, and I want to capture it. All of it. Every single little detail of every thing he does. From his smile and his voice to his concentration on things and independent playing. I could just sit and watch him all day. And, actually, there are times that I will stop what I'm doing to just watch him and absorb him. (Reason number 857 why I'm glad I'm home with him.) I don't know what I would do if I were missing out on these times.

This is a picture of us from the park this week. He wanted to try the big swing and loved, loved it.
Oh, and he wore his sock glove the entire hour we were at the park. I kept asking if he wanted to take it off and he responded with, "No thank you." (You can see his sock glove on his right hand in this picture.)

Cooper Funnies

Run Like Mama
Cooper found my iPod and asked me to put it on his arm so he could, "go run like Mama?" I tightened it on his arm, turned on some tunes, and off he went. "Bye bye Mommy. I go runnin!"
He walked very slowly and carefully so that the ear buds wouldn't fall out. But kept telling me he was "running like Mama."You Go Timeout, Dinosaur
I walked into the hallway to find this in Cooper's timeout spot.Cooper told me that Dinosaur bit his finger, so he was sent to timeout. I reminded Coop that he shouldn't just leave Dino there and that maybe he should go have a talk with Dino about biting. So Cooper went over to Dino, bent down and said, "No biting, Dino. Biting bad. You bite my finger, you go timeout. Ok?" Then, he picked Dino up, gave him a big hug...

and a big kiss!

I asked Coop if Dino apologized, and I was told, "Dino say sorry for bite." This is exactly the routine we do when Cooper goes to timeout, and I love that he didn't leave anything out--getting on the same level with Dino, talking about what he did was wrong, getting an apology and then making sure to give a big hug and kiss!

Hide-and-Seek

Where's Cooper? Coop decided to hide from Philip one evening and found a comfy little spot.

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Christmas 2010

More 2010 posts to come. Slowly, but surely.

Stuck Inside--Ice Storm 2011

Thunder ice storm. Who knew something like that even existed? It was loud and it lasted for what seemed like hours overnight. When we woke up...again...in the morning, the entire city was covered in ice. Seriously. Two inches (or more) of ice. We were iced inside, literally, and Philip didn't go to work (we couldn't have gotten the gate open or the cars out even if he wanted or needed to get to work!), so we had a Team Lamb Fun Day.

The white might look like snow, but it's not. It's ice. Cold, hard, frozen ice. Oh, and it was 14 degrees outside. Brrr.
How to survive being iced in with an active two-year-old:
Make a yummy breakfast
Introduce Toy Story 3 (Coop loved it!)

Make a fort. Pretend the fort is a car wash and drive your car through over and over. And over and over.

Build a fire and make s'mores. Yum-o!
Play and play and play with all the trucks and tools you can find.
Cooper was begging to go outside, so I bundled him up and braved the cold temps. He lasted about 10 minutes before asking to go back inside.

Even Drake was getting a little restless. How do you play fetch with your puppy in 10 degree weather? Open the door, throw the ball, yell fetch, and watch him run while you stay toasty warm inside!

This was all on our first day of being iced in. On day two, Philip stayed home from work again and we repeated all of the fun from day one. On day three (today), the natives were getting restless. Philip braved the roads and only slightly slipped his way to work while Coop and I slid over to Jackson's house for some MUCH NEEDED play time. Now, at midnight and the beginning of day four, it's snowing buckets outside. We have over an inch at this point! We might actually be able to have a fun day outside tomorrow!