Cute When Naked

I wanted to take a few pictures of Jackson and all his adorable chubbyness (is that a word?) while he still had his chub! I don't think it's going to go away any time soon, but you never know.

Here he is, getting ready to take a bath.


Taking his first "big boy" bath. He LOVES to splash in it.

Cooper thinks it's fun to have Jackson sit up in the bath too!

Kissing those cheeks!

My favorite of Jackson

G & G S's Visit

A few weeks ago (I am behind!) G & G S came to visit us. We had a GREAT time with them. Even though it doesn't look like it in this picture, the weather was beautiful and we spent a lot of time playing outside.
Jackson with G & G S.

Enjoying the beautiful day!

One day we went to a fun park near our house. Jackson is still trying to decide how much he likes swings. Although it looks like here he enjoys them!

Grandpa was nice enough to entertain Jackson for us.

Cooper loves the swings!

G & G brought Cooper a very fun birthday present-this big soccer goal! He has lots of fun playing with it.

Can't believe he is 3.

At the park he climbed up here by himself! Couldn't believe it.

Cooper and Jackson "Talking"

Cooper and Jackson like to "talk" to eachother. Jackson yells, then Cooper yells back or kind of "babbles" to him. They go back and forth, it's so cute! (Cooper does the babbling thing because I sit and say "ma ma ma ma, da da da da, ba ba ba ba" to Jackson to try to get him to say it, so now that's what Cooper does to him.) I have better videos of this but I'm too lazy to download a different one, so this one at least shows a little bit of what they do.

6 month and 3 year pics

It's now been a few weeks, but I had a photo-shoot with both boys for their 3 year and 6 month birthdays. They were troopers the entire time.

Cooper did a great job getting Jackson to smile


Even though he did get tired.

"Senior picture pose" :)

awww, brotherly love!

Random Fun

I haven't posted in a little bit and have lots of random pictures!


Here are Cooper and Jackson enjoying one of Cooper's new birthday presents!

We had a second birthday celebration for Cooper at Chuck E Cheese with G & G B. He had tons of fun (he LOVES it there!) and was very spoiled with presents as usual.

Here he is with his cupcake

blowing out the candle!

Ben playing basketball

some of our group playing games

the birthday boy

Elizabeth and Jackson

I don't even remember when this was, but I came in his room and he was playing with his tool bench and had the safety goggles on like this. So cute!

Elizabeth and Ben came over to play last week. It was a beautiful day so we had fun playing outside!

Jackson liked being outside too!

The last day of gym class. Moms were invited inside to watch this time, so we took lots of pictures. Here Cooper is helping Ben (or hindering him... hard to tell!)

VERY carefully walking the balance beam by himself. He is the most cautious child! All of the other kids walked on it pretty normally. Cooper did this little shuffle the entire way across. (it's only a few inches off of the ground)

Doing the big balance beam with Miss Tammy

The end! Today we went to the park with some friends since it's supposed to get cold tomorrow, but of course I didn't bring a camera.

Videos of the boys

Cooper is playing with one of his favorite toys from his b-day in this video. I just thought it was funny because he usually makes the toy go by stepping on it (like you're supposed to) but then all of the sudden I look over and he's using a different body part!

The next video is of Jackson on his tummy. He actually has started rolling now (yay!!) but I didn't catch it in this video.

Party Pics

Here are the "action shots" of Cooper's birthday. He had such a good time! (a few are out of order)

Our family on Cooper's birthday.
I tried to get pictures of all of the kids with Cooper at the party. Here is my friend Emily with her kids Nikolas and Nathan.

This is Cooper and his friend Ashlynn. (I took pics of all the kids after opening presents)

Here he is blowing out his candles.

the babies playing while the kids ate cupcakes

all of the kids eating their treats

yum! Cooper was such a mess afterwards.

We did a little craft outside before cupcakes and presents.

Some of the photos of the kids turned out so cute. (Cooper and Jane)

Others-not so much (Drew and Josh in the background look cute, but look at Cooper! Almost impossible to get him to pay attention with so much going on)

Cooper and Emily

Cooper and Zach

Cooper, Ben, and Elizabeth

Jake and Cooper (this is a great one :))

Cooper and Drew

Waiting semi-patiently for presents. We had to come in to open presents because while we were all outside playing and doing the craft, Cooper decided to come in and start opening presents! He was SO excited and could hardly stand it.

Thank you all for coming to his party, we had a blast!