Baby Cooper: December 2010

Last weekend, we took Cooper to see Santa at Valley Fair. He loved staring at Santa, Santa's elves, and all of the decorations, but when it came to put him on Santa's lap, there was no way he was going without a fight. And really, I guess I can't blame him for not wanting to be passed off to a random guy with a long white beard.

I guess the photo people have figured out that pictures of a screaming baby on Santa's lap don't sell very well, because they wouldn't take a picture of him crying and instead suggested a "family" portrait so that Coop would enjoy the experience more....so all three of us sat down with Santa and got our picture taken. After we were done Cooper was smiling and waving at Santa and blowing him kisses, so we made another attempt for him to have a picture by himself, but the poor little guy just clung to me and screamed his head off. So, this is our Santa picture, 2010!

We are very behind on the blog front...we didn't even post a single entry for the whole month of November! November was a very busy and fun month for us. Cooper is running everywhere and into everything. He has a few words he uses now, mostly "Dat" (for "that"), "dah" (for dog), "Dada", and "Mama" (but only uses Mama when he's upset!) His new favorite signs are "train", which he uses for any moving vehicle, "Poop", which he uses whenever we take Cody on a walk, and "Up", which he uses to ask us for a waffle, since it pops out of the toaster.

Cooper had a fantastic Halloween - he got lots of chances to wear his monkey costume and to our surprise, loved having it on and didn't even mind the little monkey hat.

We took Cooper "trick or treating" through the Deloitte office and he had a great time picking out candy, putting it back in the bowl, and picking it out again. The crinkly wrappers were much more exciting than the actual candy (which given his limited number of teeth, he couldn't really dig into, anyway!)

Cooper also had a great time at his friend Miller's Halloween themed 1st birthday party:

And had a blast at his playgroup's Halloween party, where he was mistaken for a life-size teddy bear by his buddy Lukas:

We actually got all the little ones to sit still for a picture!

Mommy and daddy weren't very creative and went for a general "jungle/Indiana Jones" theme to match Cooper's monkey costume:

Off to trick or treat on Halloween night!!

The weather was so nice in November that we spent lots of time outside. Cooper loved going to Vasona to ride the train, merry-go-round, and play in the leaves:

The first week of November, mommy and daddy both had to travel for almost a week for work, so Cooper's sweet Gigi came out to take care of him. They had SO much fun during their time together, and went to Happy Hollow, the park, and Children's Discovery Museum:

Cooper is still our sweet silly boy, and is always making silly faces. He still pulls his "scrunchy face" every once in a while:

For Thanksgiving week, we flew to Mississippi and had so much fun with friends and family! Cooper and Foster loved playing together at Gigi and Grandaddy's house:

Daddy taught Cooper t-ball in Aunt JJ's backyard, and Coop couldn't get enough of it!

Cooper, Foster, and Carson loved running around together!

For Thanksgiving Day, we headed to Tuscaloosa to visit Aunt Natalie, Uncle Jim, and Josh's cousins. Rebecca gave us a fabulous tour of University of Alabama and Coop had so much fun playing with his "big" cousins: