yeah for fall!

we are so glad for the cooler weather here in central texas. we were one day shy of the all time >100 degree days/year record. now that it's cooled down some, we have been able to enjoy the outdoors a bit. unfortunately, the first time it was cool enough to go out, we had about 8-10" of rain in 36 hours.. so off to wal-mart we went hunting rain boots so my pal could go out. no such luck, but i did find these jewels..





here is cope practicing his calls with daddy.



when we aren't outside, my pal likes to pretend he is by digging up my one remaining plant in the house...

or flinging puffs all over the house like he's outside and it doesn't matter.. note the stray puff on his shoulder. dad often wakes up with puffs stuck to his back after cope spills them in our bed, too!

and of course my pal loves to read with his mom while dad is watching football and play all of his favorite games, usually at times when he should be eating, sleeping or laying still for us to change him.. what a blast he is!

cope's favorites

my best pal has a few favorite things.. one is his hi 5 movie that aunt nancy gave him.. which he is enjoying here with his pal weston on the best invention ever, the portable dvd player.

he also loooooves balls.. including his basketball and goal.



he also loves his various lovies in this order:

1. tan lovie that aunt mel got him.. we left that in georgia for a while so he was using his # 2 favorite that is pictured here in the floor

2. yellow taggie lovie that grandma diane got him

3. blue dog lovie from chrissie and mariana and nana

4. winnie the pooh bigger lovie that ? nana or diane? got him

in this pic, he must have lost his taggie lovie over the edge...

so sometime in the night he woke up, realized he was lovie-less and reached through the bars to pull in pooh from the toybox.. problem was, pooh's head wouldn't fit! daddy and i laughed ourselves silly when we came in and saw that!

greatgrandmama's birthday

my pal went to jesup a few weekends ago to visit and he had a ball. the ladies just wore him out!he danced til he couldn't stand up straight..

he and his nana had big fun together... and miss priss was so helpful with him!

he ran, ran, ran all over grandaddy's yard.

and he played some mean ball as he so loves to do..


cope and dad had a really nice visit and they were so glad to be there for grandmama's birthday.. cope will be back in november so you guys better keep working out so you can keep up with him!

the rewards of parenting

we bought my buddy this mini-basketball goal because he LLOOOOOOVVEEES to play ball.. his face lit up when he saw the box, but he was really tired so we laid him down for a nap, and when he woke up, it was set up and ready to go. is he unappreciative already? i thought he would wait at least til his pre-teen years.