Seeing Family

After we went to the pumpkin patch we went to my parents' house for dinner. I didn't get any pictures with my dad, but a few with my mom and Laura. (See below the first pic, they are of course out of order)



This is random pic but it's a Halloween game I saw on-line that Cooper had fun playing, so I thought I'd post it. (It's just different body parts cut out of felt, then you can decorate felt pumpkins. You make a dice to go with it so you know what part you can pick; e.g. eyes, noses, etc...) You can probably tell by looking at it that I just made it myself with felt, so it's very easy to do! Cooper decorated it himself, I was interested to see if he knew where all the body parts went.





Jackson checking out Auntie Laura

Ben really wanted to hold Jackson. Jackson practically looks as big as Ben in this pic!

Getting him to smile

The Pumpkin Patch

We went to the pumpkin patch last week with a few a friends and had a great time! The weather wasn't the greatest so there weren't very many people which made it nice.

Here is Cooper with the pumpkin he picked. He was so into everyone else he would NOT look at the camera.

Cooper doing the kid hay maze.

Cooper going up the ladder, it was kind of hard!

All of the boys who met there- Jake, Josh, Cooper, Ben, and Drew.

Elizabeth, Ben and Cooper

Drew, Josh, and Cooper on a big tractor

Cooper with his fun face painting

Getting his face painted

Cooper and Ben posing

My Little Pumpkin!

OOOh, not too happy about the photo shoot!

Baby Smiles!

Jackson is becoming a smiley boy! He's anywhere from 6-7 weeks in these pictures.

This is random but I thought it was an interesting picture. Cooper was having some fun with glitter! (My floors looked like his hands but at least it kept him entertained for awhile! :))

Chicago Day Two

On the second day we were in Chicago Cooper and I had until around 2 before we had to head to the airport. We walked down to Navy Pier with Laura and family and went to the Children's Museum. The kids had a great time.

Cooper's being a dinosaur!

Ben looks like he's crying or having a fit but he's actually just trying SO hard to pull that dinosaur bone out of the ground. Isn't that so cute??

This is the best I could get of the three of them!

Each of those tubes had a different sound they could try to identify in them.

They rode on Thomas and as you can see, Cooper was SO excited. But as it went around and around his face looked more and more upset, until he was crying to get off. I have no idea why!

We had such a great time in Chicago, but it was fun to get home to Jackson and Ryan!

Day One of Chicago Trip Cont...

On the first day in Chicago we walked to a park and the kids were very interested in this big bean.



We kept being reminded of Jackson on our trip because our hotel was very close to "Jackson" street. awwww!


This is what the kids did while we were at the banquet for my dad. My Aunt Amy and Uncle Jim were nice enough to watch them while we were gone. The boys eventually fell asleep first (see pic below) and then eventually Elizabeth joined them. So cute!

Here we are about to go into the banquet. My Grandma and Grandpa B, Mom, Dad, Laura, me and Tom.

Day One of our Chicago Trip

Cooper and I made a VERY quick trip to Chicago a few weeks ago. My dad was being honored at a banquet so I really wanted to go. We originally were going to have Ryan and Jackson go as well, but I got so paranoid about bringing Jackson on the plane with the flu right now, so we decided to have Ryan stay home with him. So Cooper and I went up early on a Sunday and came back late Monday. As I said, a QUICK trip. But it was lots of fun and we ended up seeing quite a bit. I'm having trouble getting pictures downloaded so I'll post a few more from day one later.

Day one we all met at American Girl (Those pictures are at the end). After we had lunch there we took a cab to our hotel and then walked all along Michigan Ave. The pictures are in reverse order of course! Here is Cooper running around Millenium Park.



I think this is called Buckingham fountain?? I can't remember right now and I'm too lazy to go look :). This fountain was very close to our hotel so it was an easy walk to see it.

This is how Laura traveled with the kids some of the way, isn't that funny??!!

The view from my parents' suite. They had a very nice room and it had a gorgeous view!

The kids in front of a beautiful building, I think it was a water tower.

Cooper at the American Girl lunch. This is the dessert we got, isn't it adorable?

Cooper with Gma B.

Cooper with Mommy