Fun at Home

It's been gorgeous outside so we've been playing outside a lot. Lots of baseball!

Of course I had him pose for a few pics :)

Look who's a big boy! This Fri I tried to start potty training Jackson. It worked...well, horribly. It was funny actually. Laura and Ben were over playing and I kept giving Jackson lots of lemonade so he'd have to go alot. Then my plan was to have him try every 30 mins or so. Well, every time I tried to have him go, he sit there but wouldn't be able to go, then seriously not 5 minutes later he'd go on the floor. He literally had 9 accidents before lunch. EVERY TIME he would try on the potty and wouldn't go, then he'd go like a few minutes later. The last time, when I decided to stop, I sat with him for 2o min on the potty reading to him, just figuring if he went once he'd figure it out. He cried after that and I gave him a 5 min break while I ran and got the ipad. Well, guess what, in that little break, he of course had an accident. I decided after that, that he just wasn't ready to train :).

The boys were having fun just playing around with boxes.

The boys were having fun wrestling around the hall and I took a few pictures of them.
Oh, that funny pouty face!

Life with these boys is definitely never dull!

Home Study Update

I keep forgetting to mention the home study here! We've had two home studies so far, one that was just my personal interview, and the next one was the boys' interview. Yes, Cooper and Jackson were interviewed! It was mostly them just talking to our social worker (who is SO nice by the way!) about pictures around the house and their room. They both did really well and were very social so that's good! The next two are going to be finished up within the next two weeks and then we'll be done with our home study! We had the same social worker for all of our home study visits, plus all of our post-placement visits so that's nice. It'll take her around a month to write up our report and then we can start submitting more paperwork. We're slowly but surely making progress! Just wanted to let you all know! :)

Cooking and Friends

We made campfires for a snack recently. SO easy and stuff we had on hand which made it even easier! :) They both enjoyed it!

We also made peeps s'mores. Yum!

Last thing we made was cake mix puppy chow. It was really yummy, I was surprised I liked it so much.
The boys helped me make it.

We had some friends over for a playdate over spring break and it's been so warm out, we got our bounce house out. Here are the kids eating some of the puppy chow.

We went over to our friends' Nikolas and Nathan's house for dinner a little while ago. The boys always have so much fun playing with them.

Cooper, Jackson, Nikolas, and Nathan...getting ready to watch a movie!

We went over to another friend's house over spring break and they just got a turtle! Cooper loved it. He kept asking if we could get one.

I had to capture a picture of the marble maze that Cooper made. (I think I helped a bit :) Fun times!

School Carnival

After Cooper's soccer game we headed to his school carnival. They had balloon people there and the boys loved the swords they made them.

They had fun activities!

Their face painting looked so cute!

This was the highlight!

We're glad to go to such a fun school!

Soccer and other stuff

Cooper is on a soccer team this season and he is having so much fun! This is him at his first game. He didn't have his uniform yet but he still looks cute :).

This was right before he made his FIRST GOAL!!!! There was a big crowd of kids all around the goal fighting for control and he was the one who kicked it in!

He's SO proud of himself. Love it!

Cooper received a scooter for his birthday and loves it. Jackson now gets Cooper's old scooter so they had fun riding them together.

Look at this big boy!

This one's pretty cute too! :)

I just had to post this. This is what he does when he's pouting...hilarious.

The boys kept making funny faces.

Over and over Jackson would say "look at me mom. Look at me!"What would I do without these boys making me laugh?

Cooper's Actual Birthday

The day after his birthday Cooper had PK so we took treats to his class. He loved having us bring treats to his class!

Here are some of his classmates. They wanted to do a "silly" picture.

Here is Cooper's table being silly.

Oh cute birthday boy :).

Cooper and his teacher Mrs. S. I love her!

On Cooper's birthday he woke up to a room full of balloons and all of his presents from us. He had so much fun with his presents from his friends he didn't notice we just slipped all of his from us back in our room. I figured he'd like them better on his actual birthday.

Cooper chose his birthday breakfast- fruit loops and whipped cream with peaches. He remembered that I did the whipped cream and peaches for April Fools Day and requested that he have it for lunch. Isn't that so funny?

Cooper chose his birthday dinner- he wanted to go to McDonalds! Funny funny boy. He loves playing in the play area. This was actually the first time we had taken him to the play area in McD's as a family! Kind of crazy!

Enjoying that yummy McD's food :).

Aww sweet boys. So fun celebrating his birthday!