Coop is 2!!!

It actually feels like he's been 2 for awhile.  I don't know why.  Maybe it's because lately people have been asking what ages my kids are and I've just been rounding up to 2 with him.  It is a nice milestone though.  I never realized how many things are for ages 2 and up.  Haha!  For example, he can finally have the chewable vitamins and use the same type of toothbrush and toothpaste as the girls.  He's such a handsome guy!!!  Gracie has been calling him, "Little Man Boy!"  I LOVE it!!!

My little man sleeping on his last night as a 1 year old!

The kids each got a pirate sword balloon and a set of bubbles to celebrate Cooper's birthday.

Take 3 of trying to catch the kids having a sword fight finally turned out without crying.  In the first 2 attempts there was fighting over whose sword was whose.  They'll think of any reason to fight!  They were cute though talking about making each other walk the plank, etc.

Lately whenever I've held Cooper I've teased him by saying that he was sleeping.  He's started scrunching his face all up to keep his eyes closed, pretending to be asleep.  It's the funniest thing!  

Caught him saying, "Cheese!"  Little cutie!

The kids playing with their new bubbles!

Thanks everyone for making his day so fun!  We got this awesome train track/roadway table through Amazon.com since we had a gift card from Matt (thanks Matt!) and on top of that, we got free shipping!  So far it has been a great purchase!  The kids have been playing with it nonstop.

Gracie drew Cooper a picture of him and her riding a train for his birthday.  She drew it before she knew what his big gift was too!  So sweet to think of her brother!

The table came with one three piece train so we thought it would be good to get him a bunch of hotwheels to go with it too.

John Deere tractors from Granny!

Money from Aunt Sarah!

We got him a birthday card that had a puppy barking the Happy Birthday song.  His face lit up when he heard it!  So cute!  It's fitting because sometimes he won't come to us when we say, unless we whistle and call out, "Here Puppy!!!" and then he'll drop down on all fours and come to us quickly.

Adorable train conductor overalls from Grandma and Granddad!

Little Goofball!

One feature that made us pick this particular car table was that it came with this board that you can put over it so that it can also be used as an arts and crafts table.

This little stinker would NOT look at the camera most of the day no matter what we tried.  Good thing he's so darn cute!  His grin and cuteness get him out of trouble way too often though!  Ha!

My attempt at a Lightning McQueen cake.

In these next two pictures he was singing Happy Birthday to himself.

Showing everyone that he is 2!

He sang to himself here too along with the rest of us.  He even sang the "Happy Birthday Dear Cooper" part.  We were laughing through the whole song!

I'm so glad Cooper is MY boy!!!  I can't get enough of his little grin!  He's growing up so much!  He can identify almost all the letters in the alphabet and is starting to count.  He's been getting a lot better at talking too and says things like, "No, go away!" and "Night Gacie, night Indsey" and "Livia . . . cute!" and my favorite, "Love you, Mommy!"  The other day he kept saying, "Oh Crap, Oh Crap!" and I finally realized that he had a small piece of paper in his hand and was trying to say "scrap".  Haha!  Gracie has a United States puzzle and he can grab any random state and put it in it's proper place.  Even if the puzzle is upside down!  What a little smartie!  He's such a charmer too and always grins and says hi to people!

I love you my little broozer boy!  Happy Birthday!