Back to School Feast and Coops First Day

We had a our yearly "Back to School Feast"

We made crowns, and played games. All the adults ate homeade Cafe A Rio salad!

I made a few School themed cupcakes with a chalkboard, chalk and fruit!

Little Coop was excited about starting Preschool, oh and his cupcake !!!

Look at his sweet little smile! Gosh I love my lovey dovey! He is getting so SO BIG!

Coopers First day of Preschool and he is VERY VERY excited cant you tell by his silly goof ball face!

Coop and his friend Maurice outside of school

He was starting to get nervous and kep asking me to stay with him...

Turning around to make sure I hadnt left!

Writing his name....

His is the name that wrote under the square in a corner..... hehehe I am sure he will get better and better!

Joy School Graduation

Cooper has spent the last year in Joy School. It has been such a fun Preschool. All through school Cooper has been working on his speech and his natural shyness. He has grown leaps and bounds when it comes to his speech! He is getting so big! But he is still, oh so shy!

All through graduation he was hiding his face. He sang along with all the other kids but very quietly. It was so sweet!

He kept looking at his teacher, and tryed to avoid eye contact with anyone in the audience!

I really sympathized with him, BJ and I could tell it was just tearing him up inside to be in front of all the parents and family!

When he did dare to look out he would look right up at me, I would smile and give him a thumbs up and he would look down and smile! I just love my tender little Coop!

The kids did a graduation march as we hummed the the grad song.

He was so proud that Daddy and all his brothers could come!

His teacher, Miss Susanne was so wonderful with him. Every day he come into class and cover his eyes and hide behind me. And Miss Susanne would take him by the hand and bring him over to the opening activity. She made a caring effort to help him feel comfortable and included.

It meant a lot to Cooper! I think her compassion and patience really contributed to his growth!

We are so proud of the sweet, sensitive and caring boy Cooper is becoming! WE love you so much Coop!

Soccer Stats?

This year Spencer and Cooper did indoor soccer at the Rec Center! It was 5 weeks long twice a week and they had such a great time!

(My Picasa was acting up so none of these pics are edited! SORRY)

Spencer was very proud of his certificate at the end of the season!

I loved watching him progress and practice. As he got better be became more and more confident and it was so special to watch him recognize practice makes perfect... or better anyway :)

He was very involved with his team! He made lots of little friends and would spend time afterwards telling us all about the different kids and what he liked about them!

It was pretty hard to get a good picture of them in action because they all swarmed around the ball! But Spencer was really good at staying right in the middle of it all and really gave it all he had!

Check out that team... TEAM REAL

Ahh... Coopers team!

Well we coached his team, as a last resort when no one else could do it we said "of course we will!" Even though we had no clue what we were doing!

hehehe

But looking back it went really well! The kids had fun and I think they even learned a few things about soccer!

It was really special for Cooper and BJ to get to spend that time together! And for Cooper to be able to have that unique opportunity it really made him feel important and that meant the most to me!

His little team was made of 3 and 4 year olds so it was really funny to watch them because some of them just were NOT interested in playing!!!

But Cooper was a really good player, he stayed involved in the game and practice the WHOLE time(which is more then most of the kids hahaha) He was pretty fast and had a really strong kick!

Most of all he was proud of himself and his team! He loved going and was such a good participant!

Doing these games for 3 1/2 hours twice a weeks was such an eye opener to the future! With 3 boys and lots of games and sports and different schedules its going to be crazy ride!

I sure enjoyed watching my boys out there, they are getting so big and growing up so fast!

GOSH... I just love it!

Cooper turns 4!

Look at these brothers! Its a rare moment when they all sit and cuddle together quietly! Cooper had a birthday on March 29th and I love this photo because it show his sweetness! He really loves his brothers and is growing up to be such a sweet boy!
On his birthday we went to A and W. His favorite food is Hot Dogs, so grose, but he just loves them!

Check out that foot long birthday dog! :) He LOVED it!
He is really into Wolverine right now! And so we got him these claws so he could really be a proper Wolverine!

Cooper had a Lego Party and so here we go...

Lego rice crispies...
Cooke sandwiches....






Lego Coloring Pages...
Who can build the tallest tower game...



Cooper picked out this silly Spongebob piñata! He just wanted it SO bad and was VERY protective over it! Until we brought the bat at! And then all tried to knock off his legs :)


His birthday cake was a lego tower! it was super cute!

He had a great party, thanks to everyone who came and to my Little Coop you are so special to me I LOVE YOU oodles!