Cooper is four!!!

Cooper turned four February 27, I can hardly believe he is four! We had a party with friends a few weeks ago that I'll hopefully be able to post about soon ( my camera broke right after that so I couldn't download the pictures) but on his actual birthday we had a little family party for him. It was so much fun. Cooper requested a Buzz Lightyear AND Spiderman party. What a silly boy.

Here he is asleep in the middle of the night. I started a new thing this year where I put balloons all over his floor and streamers in his doorway, that way when he woke up it'd be a fun surprise. (Notice the green swatches all over? We were trying to figure out what shade of green to paint his room. That was up for about a month! We've now finally painted it so I'll have to post pictures soon).

I did just a few decorations in the rest of the house.

He requested a Buzz cake so that's what I made. It's supposed to be Buzz standing on the moon.

The birthday boy waking up!

I had my little camera which has such a delay I of course missed all of his fun faces. Oh well!

The other new tradition I started this year was to put one of his presents at the foot of his bed so he could open it right away in the morning. He got a Leapster and he LOVES it.

I also let him have a brownie for breakfast with his "four" candle on it. He was SO excited! Definitely is into his sweets like his mommy!

I'm four!

Cooper received lots of fun presents!

Blowing out the candles on his cake.

Silly string was one of his favorite presents!

Cooper with his birthday guests!

I just had to add this random picture of the birthday boy with his brother after their bath.

We love you Cooper!

Babysitting Ben

While Elizabeth was having her heart procedure Ben stayed with us for a few days. We had such a good time! Unfortunately I took hardly any pictures because of my horrible little camera. But I did get a few!

Here is Cooper dressed up in his spiderman costume. He went through a few days where he was OBSESSED with spiderman. We bought a book about spiderman at the book store and then he wanted to dress up like him. He wore the outfit almost the entire weekend.

I came into his room and this was what he was doing. Isn't he so cute?!?

Then Ben had to get in on the action!

The boys took a bath together and they spent a lot of time SCREAMING in the bath. My ears were ringing!

Awww, me and my boys!

While Ben was here they had ice cream, and Jackson ate his first ice cream cone. Yummy Yummy!

Animal Kingdom

Another Disney post, a month later! Not too bad, right? :)

We took a bus to Animal Kingdom and the boys thought they were SO cool riding by themselves.
We're here! Love the princess pose by E.

The "tree of life" is the symbol of Animal Kingdom (in the back) so I was trying to pose the boys in front of it.

All four in front of the tree.

We headed to dino land but on the way saw Pooh so of course we had to stop for a hug!

The dinosaur rides

There was a HUGE dinosaur that I tried to get pictures of the boys in front of.

We went on a safari ride which was my favorite of the day. We saw real animals SO close up!

There was a fun play area that the kids LOVED as well.

After that I don't have any more pictures of the park. We went on a few "grown up" rides and saw a few really fun shows!

That evening we went back to the hotel and I took pictures of the boys on the beach at our hotel. I took a TON on this beach, but I could hardly resist since it was J's first time on a beach!

It's hard to tell his expression but he just ate sand :) Awww, my sweetie!

So I tried to draw Mickey around them really quick before Jackson got up and ran. It doesn't really look like Mickey.... but at least he stayed!

Love this one!

Cooper loved playing in the water, even though it was freezing!

My other sweetie!

Jackson had fun running all around in the sand!

But then he got covered in it!

A view of the back of the hotel.

The hotel had marshmellow roasting at nights so we went to do that one night. Cooper loved it of course. Poor J was already in bed so he didn't get to have any. He would have loved it though!