Thanksgiving 2012

We had a nice Thanksgiving.  As always, we ate a feast for lunch (Brownings) and dinner (Huffmans) and enjoyed visiting with lots of family.  Had a great long weekend, which included shopping, visits to Grandma Yogi, a kiddo birthday party, Christmas tree hunting/chopping, Christmas decorating, and a long-overdue date night to The Hard Shell.

Playing with Mr. Red/Uncle Red (the name is morphing)

Yummy pie and milk with Grandpa

Running from Aunt Amanda

Chillin' at the tree farm

"Helping" daddy cut down the tree

Something's funny

Loving the lizard thingy at Juniper's birthday party  (photo courtesy of Becky Brownlee)

Eating breakthrough

This will not seem like a big deal to most people, but it is.  Picky eating has been a struggle since Coop was 9 months old and he has an extremely limited diet.  No meats, veggies, pasta, bread...at all.

LAST NIGHT HE ATE A GREEN PEA!!!

Yes, it took bribery to be successful - but even that in itself is progress.  Attempts at bribery (a new matchbox car was the ticket last night) used to make him mad.  But last night, he put that pea in his mouth and CHEWED.  Woohoo!

Another Installment of Funny Talk

Some of the stuff coming out of Cooper's mouth has cracked us up recently:

- My personal favorite is "double drats" when something doesn't go right (thanks, Super Why)
-"Oh my goodness!"
-He instructs us to tell each other something.  "Tell Mommy to pick out book."  "Tell Daddy night night."
-Riding the in car - the ENTIRE trip - he says "big truck" over and over.  Any sized truck or SUV qualifies. Sometimes we are lucky enough to see a "dump truck" or "bulldozer", just to mix it up a little.

Fireman Coop

Halloween was a blast this year!  Fireman Coop got to wear his costume twice.

First was the Fall Festival at church on the Saturday before Halloween.  Cooper actually wanted nothing to do with his costume at first.  Luckily, we were able to bribe him with the real fire truck sitting in the parking lot when we arrived.  Once the costume was on, he was good to go and had a great time - checking out the truck, jumping in the bounce house, playing the games, and of course - scoring lots and lots of candy pretzels. (Yep, he picked pretzels over chocolate at nearly every opportunity.  Crazy child!)

On Halloween night, we finally got in some good trick-or-treating.  (This was his first time thanks to rain last year.)  Gigi and Papa joined the entourage, and we went to about 15 houses or so, exclaiming "ker treat" at the door of each one.  Back home, he got to choose 2 treats to eat (Goldfish...and a Reese's cup, naturally).  It was fun to see Cooper actually "get" the idea of Halloween for the first time.

So that sums up our Halloween 2012 adventures.  Here are some of our pics:

No fireman costume is complete without soot

Swinging with Gigi

Watching "The Great Pumpkin" - making his daddy proud

What happens if you say "smile"