Today: Fireman, Trash Trucks and Imagination

We were blessed with beautiful weather today, so we spent our entire morning outside. It was much needed for all of us!

Fireman Cooper took care of lots and lots and lots of fires all over the backyard. Couldn't believe we were playing with the water hose in the middle of January. He asked me to get the pool out, but luckily the water hose ended up being enough water entertainment. He was so cute running around the backyard, putting out fires. We've been reading The Little Fire Engine (with Fireman Small) almost every day recently, and he kept acting out parts of the book...fire in the attic, helping the little girl. He would give me different jobs to do. Holding the hose, running to the pumper truck, getting more water from the hydrant, checking on the fire dog. We were busy, busy!

Fireman Austin kept an eye on things for us, too.

Fire dog Drake was ready for action.

Time for a lunch break, outside of course.

And, if our outside time couldn't have gotten any more fun...the trash truck showed up. I could do an entire post on Cooper's excitement about watching the trash truck each week. (In fact, I need to do that!) We heard the truck pull into the ally, and Coop ran to the gate, ready to hand over a bag of trash. Seriously...this is the highlight of his week, each and every week.

Heading inside for a nap...when did he get so big that he can ride on my back? He jumped on and I started making horse noises, saying "giddy up, giddy up!!" But Cooper asked me why I was being a horse because "We're astronauts! Blast off!!!" Love him.

After a good nap and dinner, Cooper walked by the kitchen table when he stopped suddenly and said, "Ah! A footprint!" while pointing to the floor. He proceeded to tell us that it was a dinosaur footprint and it was a clue. He pretended to have a magnifying glass in his hand and walked around looking for more clues. Then, he got his binoculars and after more clue searching, he found a dinosaur tooth! It was right in the middle of the floor...not sure how we had missed it.

This is the dinosaur tooth. Cooper asked me to hold it and "keep it an eye on it for me." I obliged, of course.

The next thing I knew, Coop is telling Philip they have to take one of his dinos to the dentist to fix his teeth. The dentist office was by the fire, so he and Philip got some tools and went to work on the dino.

(His binoculars.)

According to Cooper, this is the dino that's been walking around the house. Mystery solved!

The main theme that I saw out of Cooper today--imagination. Everything we did, everything we played with, even our conversations. His imagination amazes me on a daily basis, and I'm glad I captured so much of it today with my camera.