November!!

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:

Foster and Coop playing chase!!

Thanksgiving Day...gobble!
Yes, we dressed them in matching outfits - precious!! And together they're "gobble gobble":

They were so cute giving each other "hugs and kisses":

Cooper loved grabbing big cousin Foster!

Hanging out in cousin Hunter's pedicab ("Hunter is entering the pedicab business"):

Cooper absolutely adores Cody and one of his favorite games is to share his food with Cody...we gave up on trying to stop it a long time ago:

More silly faces....when Cooper is running around, trying to decide what toy or game to play with next, this is his "focused" face:

Our sweet sweet baby boy!! These last few awesome pictures were taken by our fantastic nanny, April.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!! Bye bye!!