Cooper's 6 month pix

I love taking pictures of my kids.

It has been so much fun!

Cooper is such a handsome little boy.  I love these pictures.

Here's a fun one with Dexter....

These next 2 are typical Cooper.  Most of the time Cooper has a "concerned" look on his face.  His brows are always turned up.

In this one I don't know if Cooper is trying to eat the monkey or if he just fell over.

He's folding his arms....:)

Here is his "drunk" picture.

...And his bubble blowing picture.  He does this A LOT!

Thank you Krystal!!!!  I could NOT have done this photo shoot without you!

My little sleeping man.

 Cooper is SO cute!  AND he is an awesome sleeper.  Has been since Day 1.

When I put him down for naps or at night, I put the blanket over him and he grabs it with both hands and rubs it on his face.  He then puts his thumb in his mouth and goes right to sleep.  I know that some day I am going to be not happy about trying to get rid of that thumb, but right now he is stinkin' cute!

Ggrrr to blogger for not letting me rotate this the right way!

I love how he sucks his thumb.

Quiet means...

When Stephen came home from work yesterday, I was making dinner and he found Maycee like this:

She carried her booster seat from the kitchen to sit on the couch.  Then she found the ipad and kept herself quiet.  She wasn't under my feet while I was making dinner, so I didn't say one peep.

Funny church stories

Yesterday was the primary program.

I love the primary program.

This one, however, was a little different for me.

For the last couple of weeks Maycee has been really good during sacrament meeting.  I really don't know what the change was, but she sits quietly during the sacrament and will entertain herself the rest of the time.  That is not normal Maycee, but I am definitely happy about the change.  This particular Sunday her eyes were glued to the front of the chapel, where the kids were performing.

The first primary song that they opened with was "I Am A Child Of God".

Maycee was standing on her chair, and when they started to sing that song she sung along right with them.  As she was singing the first verse, very loudly by the way, I started to cry.  It made me feel like there is something that I am doing right.  I'm not saying this to brag, but being a mom is H-A-R-D and a lot of times I feel like I am not doing it right, so while she was singing that song it made my heart swell.

As the kids finished the chorus to their song they started the second verse, "I am a child of God..." all of the verses start that way.  Maycee started to sing as well, but when their words were different than the ones she knew, she kind of mumbled out and then started up again just as loud on the chorus.  Apparently I've never sung the other verses to her.

When church was over I carried Cooper in his car seat to go pick up Maycee from nursery.  All three of us were walking down the hall in a big cluttered mess.  The hallway gets pretty crazy after church and it was a little difficult to navigate while holding Cooper in the car seat and still trying to hold Maycee's hand.  Brother Olaso, in the ward, saw my predicament and carried Cooper's car seat for me to the doors of the church house, where Stephen was waiting for me.

Maycee doesn't know Brother Olaso.  The instant that he picked up Cooper's car seat for me she went crazy!  She started to yell at Brother Olaso, "NO!!  MY PEEKER, MY PEEKER!!!!!  NO! NO! NO!  MY PEEKER!!"

It was so funny and cute all at the same time.  She is very possessive of her brother.  I am very glad that she recognizes the "stranger danger" thing.  Brother Olaso let Cooper down, while he was carrying him so that Maycee could still touch him and see him.  That didn't stop her from yelling.  She yelled the whole time he was carrying Cooper.

Thanks Maycee for watching out for your brother...and thanks to Brother Olaso who still carried my child while the other was probably embarrassing him.

Legos

This was our activity on Sunday night.

Legos.

It was a lot of fun!

Cooper did a lot of staring and chewing.  Every time that he would get "comfortable" with a block, Maycee would rip it out of his hands and give him a different one.  He was pretty chill about it.

I don't know....I look really weird in all of these pictures.  We'll blame the photographer.  :)

 

Maycee was watching Stephen and me take all of these pictures and she had a request, "Picture with Peeker, Mom!"

So here are her pictures with "Peeker".

She's a little aggressive/possessive.

Cooper's 6 month checkup

Well, here we go.

The stats:

17.71 lbs - 50th Percentile

26.26 in - 25th Percentile

I'm not even going to say anything.

T.V.

Ugh.

Both of those kids were totally zoned out in front of that T.V.

I have a love/hate relationship with that thing.

Mommy Maycee

Maycee has been mothering Cooper.

 

It's probably been going on longer than what I have noticed, but it is hilarious.

 

Just the other day, I sat Cooper up on the couch while Maycee climbed up next to him.  Cooper happened to be sitting next to the Ensign and a couple of remotes.  This is what played out.

 

Maycee: "No Peeker!" (Yes, she still calls him Peeker) "No touch wemoos!" (aka remotes) "No Peeker! No touch books!"

 

This went on for a while.  While she was 'lecturing' Cooper she was shaking her finger at him.  I'm totally not even kidding.  It was so funny.  I really don't think that I shake my finger at Maycee...do I?

 

Today, Cooper was sitting in his Bumbo, crying.  Maycee went up to him and said, "Peeker, stop whying!" (aka whining)

 

I didn't really think that having two kids would be this funny.  It cracks me up!

I think I figured it out.

I think that my sewing skills are actually improving!

 

I got a tutorial on how to make a toddler skirt from a lady in my ward.  Here is the link.  There were a few things that I didn't really like about this skirt and so I went searching for something else to help me and found this.  I then added a couple of other things to create this work of art.

 

Isn't it adorable?!

Seriously...check out that hem.  Isn't it awesome!

 

This is going to sound really weird, but this is my favorite part.  The INSIDE!!  Doesn't it look amazing!!!  I am SO excited!  I love projects.

 

Isn't he so cute!

Roll over, roll over

Cooper has only rolled over once.

That one time that I blogged about.

He just sits in this really awkward side position and then refuses to move.

I sat there and watched him while he yelled today because I knew that he was going to roll.  But he didn't.  He just laid there and yelled at me.

Here is his "pose".  The picture just doesn't do it justice.  He is right there!  But he won't roll again.

Why am I worrying about my almost-six-month-old rolling?

Cooper, just do it!

Again!

Hot Air Balloons

Last night was the Spirit of Boise Hot Air Balloon Nite Glow.  Apparently they have been doing this for a very long time.  This year we packed up the kids and went with some friends.

There were a TON of people there!  Just looking at some of the pictures, you can see that the park is packed.

They started out with a Mickey balloon.

At first Maycee was unsure of what the balloon was.  You could tell when she finally understood.  Her eyes lit up and she got a big smile on her face.  "Mickey!" she said.

This is Maycee and Daphne.  They refused to smile for Stephen.  Or even really acknowledge him.  Maycee stole their goldfish crackers all night.

You can kind of start to see the balloons right here.

In the beginning, Maycee was more interested in the band that was playing than what was happening with the balloons.

Then they lite up.

And this reaction.

So cute!

And then Mommy and Cooper.

All in all it was pretty fun.  It was really neat to watch Maycee's reaction to things.

Here's to the Spirit of Boise!