M-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i!!

We made our annual summer trip to Mississippi last week and had the best time!! Cooper couldn't get enough of hanging out with his big cousin Foster ("Haha") and little cousin Andy ("Eeee"). And Foster loved having little "Ebert" (his name for Cooper, we're not sure how he came up with that one!) to follow him around. We have quite an interesting family with Haha, Ebert, and Ee-ee running around!

Cooper was obsessed with tackling and trying to cuddle with Foster, but Foster was a little suspicious of Ebert:

Cooper loved playing in Foster's huge yard, which he thought was a park since it was so big, had so many toys, and even had a huge play structure in it!

Driving with Haha - note that they hadn't been in the water yet, that's just sweat drenching their hair from the Mississippi heat!

The biggest hit with the boys, by far, was naked swimming in the plastic pool in the yard, and Cooper especially loved being in charge of the water:

Mississippi has an awesome new Children's Museum that the boys had a blast at, though we had trouble dragging them away from the train table to go check out the rest of the museum:

Bathtime!!

Morning art projects in Haha's Park:

It was way too hot in the afternoon to bother with wearing clothes!

Cooper absolutely LOVED Baby Andy, and wanted to hold his hand, tickle his feet, or kiss his head constantly.

He kept saying "Perper hold!!", since he desperately wanted to hold Andy just like we did, but Andy was a little too big for Perper to manage!

The weekend before the 4th, we went up to Bec's Fish Camp outside of Brooksville, Mississippi. When I say we were in the middle of nowhere, that's not really doing it justice. The boys loved running all over the lake and exploring, and Josh and I loved having zero cell phone service and therefore couldn't check emails or do any work.

Chasing the doggie all over the camp:

Julia with the official Ole Miss Ambassador....Josh's Uncle Jim bought Josh this shirt at a second hand store for $1.77 and Josh wore it all weekend, continually declaring himself the official Ambassador of Ole Miss (there may have been a few beers involved here). He left the shirt in MS to wear it next time we're back, since no one in California really knows exactly what Ole Miss is :)

Hanging out with the uncles!

And Yaya!

OMG....another play pool! Heaven!

Hanging out at Gigi's house, having a snack together. Cooper kept pointing his spoon at Foster and shouting "Yeaaah!!!!!!!"

On the last night we finally got all three boys on the couch for a picture. Almost 200 snaps later, we got just a handful that worked :)

Coop now poses for all of his pictures, either with a big smile:

Or with his fist under his chin:

I love the three pouty faces!

Cuddling with Ee-ee:

After a very long and difficult trip home, we spent 4th of July at Grandma and Papa's house in Morgan Hill.

Coop helping Papa with watering the lawn, in his 4th of July outfit:

Munching on corn on the cob:

More posing!
Happy Fourth of July!!!!! We can't wait to get back to Mississippi soon!