Kiddos!

Some of these pictures are from awhile back. I'm playing catch-up!

I took Cooper in to get a haircut because I can't figure out what to do with his hair. He has two swirl cowlicks in the back of his head that give him a permanent "Alfalfa-mowhawk". The hairdresser said it has to either be buzzed or grown out long enough to weigh it down. He sure is cute - even with his crazy do!

Cooper wanted to dress up in Gracie's hundredth day of school stuff too!

She is such a character!!!

I had to get some pictures of them all dressed up for church!

I bought Gracie this dress for her birthday. I had forgotten Lindsey had one so similar. Cute sisters in their matching dresses!

The "Reds" . . .

The "Browns" . . .

Little stinker blowing spit bubbles . . .

She always throws her head back to laugh! Too cute!

Tim brought home roses for me and he gave one rose to each of the kids. They were so happy with their roses!

Enjoying their Valentine's box of goodies from Granny! Cute lip whistles! Thanks Mom! We had extra Valentine's too, so we took them to some families from the ward. One family has a little boy Cooper's age and it was so cute when Cooper gave him his Valentine - they were wearing the exact same shirt! Sweet little friends!

Gracie's school had a family Valentine's Day dance one night. Cooper got right out there dancing at the beginning, while the girls stayed back all shy. It was too dark to get very good pictures.

Gracie finally found some kids from her class to dance with! They held hands and spun in a circle for a couple songs in a row. I would've been puking with motion sickness! It's cute to see Gracie all grown up with her friends!

Olivia's hair is getting so long!!!

The girls kept squealing because Olivia was getting on their sleeping bags, so we made a little bed for her. She didn't stay on it long, but I thought it was cute how she wanted to be like her big sisters.

Poor sick buddy after an evening of throwing up . . .

I looked over at Olivia one day during dinner and she had clenched fists and was clenching her jaw, while her face turned bright red! I laughed so hard, and she's been doing it a lot ever since! So funny!

Lindsey was being crazy!

Cooper is 3!!!

I can't believe my buddy is 3!!! I love my boy so much! He has done so well potty training. The first day I started officially potty training him and I told him all about it, he said, "It's going to be awesome!" 

He is still a little charmer, with a million girlfriends at church. Lately he's turned into quite the comedian too. The other night when we were about to have family prayer, instead of saying "Dear Heavenly Father" Gracie started by saying, "One". We all had a good laugh and then later when Cooper was saying his own prayer for bed, he looked around at all of us with a sly grin, folded his arms, closed his little eyes, and then said, "One!" Of course we all laughed again. What a little stinker!!! He has since tried this again at prayer time, adding in the line, "It's going to be funny!" right before he does it. It's turned into a not so good habit, but it was funny to begin with!

Every time we go to a doctor's office, church, the store, etc. he gets someone to smile and laugh. He's definitely been blessed with the gift of making others happy! At Sam's Club he got a couple of women giggling and smiling like crazy and warning me to "Watch out for that one!" And at our latest doctor visit, the nurse was still laughing as she left the room. I just love my little man!!!

We got him a twin bed for his birthday, so I took a picture of him on his last night as a two year old, and his last night in a toddler bed. I love my handsome boy so much!

Coop chose chocolate cake with green frosting. He put sprinkles on two cupcakes and then declared that he was all done! I took all the candies off of the paper they came on and told him to keep going, and put one of those on each cupcake.

Nice finger-in-the-ear Coop! Ha! Anybody want a cupcake?

He loved his cupcakes!!!

Trying out his new "big boy" bed . . .

Shooting some baskets with his new hoops and basketballs . . .

First night in a twin bed! I can't believe how grown up he is.

Love you so much Cooper! Happy 3rd Birthday!!! Oh! And he officially outweighs Lindsey!!! He weighs 38 lbs 6 oz and she weighs 38 lbs 3 oz. I won't be surprised if he ends up bigger than all of his sisters one day!