Cooper Celebrates Grandma’s Birthday

Cooper celebrated Grandma’s birthday today – by spending a day with family in her memory.   She would have been 63 years old.   First, we went showshoeing on the trails.  It was cold but beautiful, with all the white fluffy, freshly fallen snow.   Mommy, daddy, grandpa, and Uncle Henry all went.   Afterwards we went back to grandpa’s, ordered Chinese food and watched a movie.   We even had a toast of brandy ice-wine on the trail to grandma.   that night we were going to go in the hot-tub but it was sooooo cold outside, none of us dared.   So we all cuddled up in our jamies and had a comfy night watching movies.  Cooper stayed the night and we had a great morning together before coming home.

We love you grandma – you are forever with us in our heart.  We feel as though we were all cheated of twenty great years with you.   And it makes us so mad that cancer had to chose you.   You fought such a good fight and we only wish things could have been different.  Oh how we love and miss you.

xoxo

Mommy and Cooper have the same slippers – sock monkey’s.   They are perfect for pajama party’s.

I wish you were here mom so bad to get a chance to enjoy Cooper.  You would be so proud – he is such a wonderful little boy who still kisses his pictures of grandma and points to his heart when you ask him where his grandma is.

We love you.

xo

Cooper fake Sneezes

Video coming soon.

Cooper Learns to Cheers - Video

17 Months Old!

Our little baby is 17 months old today – creeping slowly up to a year and a half -- and finally has HAIR! We’ve been waiting such a long time for it to come in and over the last few months it has started to grow. He still doesn’t have a whole head or anything, but enough to do his first baby faux-hawk pictures today!

We love you Cooper – Happy 17th months old!!!

Cooper learns Something New Today–We’re in Trouble Now!

Cooper can now reach and open the door all by himself!

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... And he's off!

Ringing in 2011, then Goodbye Florida

December 31st was Daddy’s 38th birthday! And we had a great family day on the beach, and a wonderful shrimp dinner with nana and papa.

Ringing in 2011, was really hard without grandma around to celebrate with us this year. Last year we all rung it in together and toasted to an amazing year ahead. We just had Cooper, we had decided to move home, and life seemed utterly perfect. I can still remember raising our glasses with grandma, so excited for 2010 and looking forward to kicking off our new future together. And now, she’s not even here. 2010 was not anything what we expected, and so going into 2011, we feel unsettled and incomplete. But we have learned that we must open our hearts and try to make the most of every day. So here we are, after celebrating a lovely birthday, just the three of us, having a very quiet night, ringing in the New Year together. It’s not what we wanted, but together we’ll need to move forward one step at a time.

The next day, we enjoyed one more beach day before heading back to Kincardine. And it was the best beach day yet. The sun was out and the temperature was hot.

We had a lovely happy hour and dinner out with nana, papa, and grandpa.

Cooper spends his last night in Florida, hanging out watching video’s while we pack up the car for the long drive home.

Bye bye Florida.

Now, for another LOOOONG drive back to Kincardine. And I’m happy to report that we drove 23 hours straight through and Cooper did fantastic! What a good boy he is.

We love you Cooper. Happy 2011 – we hope for amazing wonderful things for you this year and can’t wait to watch you learn and grow.

xoxoxo