cheese!

my pal has mastered the art of "cheese" whenever mom wants to take a picture. he has also mastered the art of sitting in any toy box he sees (usually after he violently empties it).

"CHEESE!"

yesterday my little buddy was in rare form. he was defiant and spent most of the day getting in trouble.. he would run in our neighbor Anne's yard and I'd tell him not to.. then he would run in Anne's back yard, then I'd tell him not to. Then he took his hat off twice.. I told him if he did it again we were going to go inside, so he stared me in the face, took of his hat, threw it down and ran as fast as he could all the way to the back fence in our yard. when he finally got off restriction and came back out, dad was mowing. he thought cope might like it, but he ended up shaking like a leaf with his lip stuck out.. after i got him off that mean ol' mower i told him "cheese!" and he flashed me a giant smile which made all of us feel a lot better!

easter and more dirt dirt dirt

we went to visit cope's pal joe bury on easter. we had a great meal but cope just wanted to play in the dirt!! I think he might need a sand box.

then we had to go home and get our scrub on.. my pal had pretty good easter! we have a movie of him seeing his basket when he woke up, but i have to edit it.. i'll get it to you soon.

bluebonnets

so in texas, its the thing to do to have pictures of your kids in the bluebonnets.. last year there was no rain so there weren't many bluebonnets. the year before, cope was just a little blob of of baby who couldn't really pose for pics.. so this year, after we missed the city wide easter egg hunt because we showed up at 9:15 (thanks daddy) to the 9 AM hunt, we stopped to take some pics.
of course my pal didn't want to cooperate. at first he would have nothing to do with the bluebonnets.. then we started counting them and he started to participate some..

then we found a bigger patch with really tall bluebonnets and my buddy chased dad through them as i snapped pics... of course he wouldn't sit down and pose for me, but every time he fell down i'd run after him and snap pics. he had sooooo much fun. way better than the silly softball field easter egg hunt.. you are off the hook daddy.

i'm 2!

my pal's birthday started off right.. he broke into his presents early.

then we had a get together with some of his best pals and their parents. we had build-your-own pizza, which dad grilled until he ran out of gas. good thing he told me repeatedly that he had checked it and we had "more than plenty".. but never fear, we baked the rest in the oven..

we had some thomas cake,

the little ones watched some thomas movies and then it was thomas present time (aka chaos)

cope loves dirt

mom has been studying for an important test so i apologize for the long delay.. birthday pics will be posted soon, but i thought i might share my pals new passion.. dirt.


he moves it from each potted plant, one handful at a time, to it's new and improved destination.

his helper is the kitty that is staying with us, who cope loves to boss around. he'll say "get down kitty cat!" anytime the cat jumps on something.

and of course he has not forgotten his other passion. he has a handful of choo choos while he is excavating..

abc.. it's easy as 1-2- 3

my pal and his play things

my best little pal loves 3 things more than anything else: 1. rough housing 2. thomas the train and 3. his dvd player. we took him to the jump and climb a few weeks ago and he got to rough house with his dad in the ball pits, which he just loved.

then at our friends' super bowl party he got to hang out with his pal wes. they rough housed some more and watched some thomas.. you know, a little "man time".