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COOPER!!!

HE MOVED!!!!

This little boy has been so lackadaisical about moving, so any type of movement is quite a big feat.  Even his rolling is done out of sheer must.

...

Last night...

Cooper got on his hands and knees and...

ROCKED!!!

I was so proud!

To make things even better...

HE SCOOTED BACKWARDS!!!

I am ONE proud little mommy.

Kindness

Mondays are grocery shopping days.

I'm actually coming to enjoy this chore more now that I have kids.  I know that is weird, but I do.

Today was a little sad for Maycee.

She is getting a little more freedom at the grocery store.  Sometimes she gets to get out of the cart and walk next to me.  For the most part she does pretty good!  Today she was helping me pick out some frozen veggies.  Unbeknownst to me, her little fingers were crunched inside the door when I opened the freezer to get out her corn.

As I shut the door I saw the pain on her face and then came the wailing.  I felt SO BAD!!!  We sat on the cement floor of the grocery store and held each other as she cried.  An older woman walked up to us after we'd been sitting there for at least 5 minutes and started up a conversation with Maycee.

"Are you excited for Christmas?  Have you been a good girl, so Santa can come?  Is this your little brother or sister in the cart with you? (Cooper was covered up and asleep) You are such a pretty little girl."

Maycee just sat in my lap and stared at her.  But she stopped crying.

The old woman sat with us for a minute and then went about her way.

I am so happy to know that there are still kind people out there.

Set up

We set up all of our Christmas stuff last night.  Minus the lights on the house.

We first set up our Little People Nativity just before the kids went to bed.  I am SO glad I bought that thing.  It is so neat to watch them play with it.

After the kids went to bed Stephen and I put up the stockings, the tree, and the rockin' awesome train that runs around our tree.  It looks amazing!

Already this morning we have had fatalities.  Maycee has lost one of the baby Jesus' in a different nativity scene.  She has also eaten one of the gingerbread men off of the Christmas tree.

Those things are four years old.

She immediately spit it out on my carpet.

The train has also been derailed numerous times.

Cooper LOVES the train.  We sit him right in front of it as it goes around.  Every time it comes up to him, he gets a big grin on his face and flaps his arms.  It's so cute.

Thanksgiving!

Wow.

Crazy Day!

For the first time in my life I made Thanksgiving Dinner.  (When I say "I", I mean me with Stephen right there holding my hand while I was freaking out and he was running around doing 'honey do's'.) It was quite stressful.  But we made it through.

Just before we put the turkey in the oven and rubbed it down, Maycee caught sight of the bird.

"What's that!"

"It's a turkey,"  Stephen said.

Maycee and the turkey became immediate friends.  "Hi Turkey!" she said.

I didn't have the heart to tell her what was going to happen to the bird.

All goofing aside...I love the Thanksgiving Holiday and the purpose for which we have it.  I don't know how to really put all of my gratitude onto "paper" with out it sounding super cheesy or giving a big list, so I won't.

I am SO grateful to a Father in Heaven who loves me and takes care of me.

Whoops

I was changing Cooper's diaper this afternoon.

He had poop all the way up his back, so I lifted his legs up to get him clean.

I looked up at him and noticed that he was wincing.  I then noticed that his little stream had drenched his shirt and was spraying his face.

That was one of those 'pause-and-try-to-figure-out-what-to-do' moments.

It was kinda funny.

Another Mom Card

Yesterday I received another mom card.

Maycee threw up all over me.

It was so sad watching her throw up.  I hate throwing up and watching her just made my heart break.

Poor girl.

Honestly though, it was disgusting.  The smell, alone, almost put me over the edge.  Cranberry juice and eggs were spewed across my couch.  I didn't think I was going to get it out, but thanks to the Internet it came out very easily.

How did we survive before the Internet?

Nursery Bully

Last night was our Relief Society Tuesday night meeting.  I brought Cooper with me.  I sat next to a sister who moved into the ward within the last six months.  She commented on Cooper's 'chunk-e-ness' and I said that he was almost as heavy as my 2-year-old, Maycee.

The sister I was talking to stopped me and said, "What is your daughter's name?"

"Maycee."

"So your daughter is the reason that my daughter screams whenever she goes to nursery.  Your daughter is mean!"

...

I was appalled.  I know Maycee is a bully.  Apparently it is a lot worse than I thought it was.

I apologized profusely.

AAHHHHH!!

I don't know what to do.

Maycee is

That girl is hilarious.

I love to watch her spunky little personality pop out...everywhere.

I'm forgetting to write down all of these neat little things that she says and does, so here is a boat load:

1.  A few weeks ago we went to Diary Queen with Kenna and Marc.  On our way out a couple who was just coming in to the restaurant opened the door for us.  Just after Maycee walked out of the door she turned to the couple and said, "Thank you!" and proceeded to walk to the car.  This was unprompted.  The couple was quite flabbergasted.  They looked at her and said "You're welcome!"  That was a proud mommy moment.

2. On Thursdays, the trash is picked up by the garbage trucks.  Maycee loves to watch them.  This past Thursday Maycee and I bundled up (because it is now stinking cold!) to watch them outside.  After we watched them 'do their thing' we walked back into the house.  Maycee turned to me and said, "Mom, that was cool."

3.  Maycee pushed Cooper off of the couch.  After she hugged him.

4. After church today, I strapped Maycee into her car seat and she said, "Thank you very much, Mom. I love you."

5. Right now Maycee is supposed to be in bed asleep, but she is talking to herself and singing.

6.  Maycee found a new toy.  Or should I say, old toy.  Cooper's almost weighs the same as her...who cares, right?

Halloween

Can you guess who we are?

WE ARE DORA & BOOTS!!!

Honestly, not many people knew who the kids were.  Cooper was a little off color though.  Boots is kind of blue.  I couldn't find a blue monkey costume!

Happy Halloween!!!

Pictures I forgot were on my camera

Maycee and Cooper helping Mommy on laundry day.  Cooper looks a little terrified that I left him in the basket with his sister...This is before the butch.

Here is Maycee concentrating.  It makes me laugh because her tongue is sticking out.  She is being "careful" while she pokes Cooper so that she doesn't get in trouble.

"Yeah!"

Here is Maycee in the car on our trip home from Utah last week.  She just finished eating those frosted animal crackers and her eyes are glued to her show...probably Dora.

Last Wednesday night I went to a friends house to work on crafts.  Stephen had mutual and he took Maycee so that I could go.  Cooper hung out with the girls.  My friends' house was just down the street so I bundled Cooper up in the wagon with my crafts and off I went.

Isn't he so cute!

....that is my slide show.