Happy Easter 2011!

Great Grandma Bobbie and Cooper

The (older) Huffmans

The (younger) Huffmans

The Easter Bunny

The Brownings

HUGS

STAIRS

Almost 14 months!

Cooper's growing faster than we can fathom.  Here's what he's been up to lately...

-Playing outside as much as possible. When he's not outside, he likes to stare out the window.

-Playing ball. We have a house full of toys, and that's pretty much the only thing he wants to play with.

-Being tickled.  Under the arms and the bottoms of his feet are his tickle spots.

   

-Going to the doctor, thanks to 4 ear infections since January.  He'll be getting tubes this Friday - hopefully that does the trick.

-Getting his 2nd haircut.  He cried the entire time, but the nice lady managed to cut his hair anyway.

-Snuggling all of his soft toys.  It's the sweetest thing to watch him hug them (but he has little interest in hugging humans yet!).

-Saying "Hi ki-ki" and chasing the cats around the house.

-Cutting lots of teeth. We've lost count, but he has at least 10.

-Weighing close to 25 lbs.

-Drinking from a sippy cup like a champ (finally) but still preferring baby food to most finger foods.  It's a slow work in progress.  Clearly, he's not hurting for calories.

Happy 90th!

Last weekend we celebrated my Grandma Yogi's 90th birthday!  Most of the family was able to get together for lunch at Firebirds.  Cooper does great in restaurants so far - we just kept feeding him and he was happy. As you can see, he and Grandma entertained each other quite a bit.



 



Little Explorer

Cooper has explored lots of new things since his 1-year birthday.



Sitting in a mountain of toys (a.k.a. what happens when you have Christmas and birthday 6 weeks apart...)



Getting some much-needed fresh air with Daddy



1st visit to the Children's Museum - loved looking at the fish



Making the cow "moo" over and over again



Deep in thought on his 1st train ride at the museum



Learning to walk in the grass



Showing off some new tricks



"Picking berries" with Eliott at the Children's Museum



Playing with Daddy

Staring out the window - his new hobby

In other updates, Cooper is walking very well, though still holds hands in the air for balance.  He's very tentative and cautious to try new things but eventually embraces them.  He weighs 23 lb. 9 oz. and is 30 in. tall - finally 50/50 for height AND weight!  Thanks to constant teething, he has 8 teeth now.  And he loves, loves, loves being outside and anything related to nature.

We're looking forward to the adventures that will come with warmer weather - swimming, playing outside, and the beach!



Happy 1st Birthday!

Even though Cooper's birthday is tomorrow, it seems fitting that his birthday post should take place during the Superbowl since his birth occurred after 30 minutes after kick-off!  We have had a wonderful weekend of celebrating our little man, starting with a family party yesterday.  It was loosely safari-themed (as his whole 1st year has been...perhaps for year 2 we will pick a different theme!). So happy that nearly everyone in the family could make it.  What a special day. 

Cooper took a marathon morning nap and we had to wake him up when people started to arrive.  We had a delicious BBQ lunch and then Cooper opened his mountain of gifts.  Lots of fun toys (dancing monkey was the big hit), sippy and snack cups, clothes, $ for the college fund, plus his first red wagon.  Our gift to him was some fun bath toys, and we'll be doing a parent/child swim class at the YMCA together starting in March.  Then we sang "Happy Birthday" and let Cooper dig in to his piece of cake...in which he had absolutely no interest.  So no messy cake smashing pics for this little guy (neat freak, perhaps?).  Jason put together an amazing slideshow that was playing on the TV.  So neat to look back at those photos and see how Cooper has grown.  It was a wonderful party and we are so thankful that we could celebrate with our family.  Cooper seemed to have a genuinely good time.  He loves hanging out with his family and is always good for flashing a big grin at anyone who will play with him.  Even though he won't remember his party, we will enjoy telling him about it someday.

Looking forward to year 2!



Smiling for the camera

 

Adorable cake (outsourced!)



Kisses from Great-Grandma Yogi

Staring contest with the dancing monkey

Checking out the cake situation

Goofy hat that we should have known he would hate

"Happy Birthday to You..."

P.S.  Nice job, Packers!