Sad day for Mommy

Today was a monumental day. Cohen went to his first day of preschool. As I packed his lunch last night into his new baseball lunchbox with his name monogrammed adorably on the side, I thought to myself, "How can this be? It's all come too quickly. Wasn't I just lying in the hospital with him?" I took a picture of him this morning as he headed out the door... and then I cried my eyes out. How handsome is my little man!?!

To My Little Man

Dear Cohen,

You'll never know how much you have changed your dad and I. This past year has been the best year of our lives (some days the most challenging, but definitely the best), and I know it will only get better from here. When you look up at me with those bright blue eyes, I melt everytime. You have no idea how hard it is to tell you "no" and discipline you when you look at me that way. Ahhh!

Sometimes I wonder how it was that God chose me to be your mommy and I can't help but feel humbled and honored. Like His grace, we have done nothing to deserve you but He gave you to us anyway. You're a precious little gift that He has entrusted to us for a short period of time. We can't say that we will always be the perfect parents because we won't. But I promise that we will ALWAYS love you unconditionally and we will do our best to raise you to be a Godly man. So, today on your very 1st birthday I want to tell you that I LOVE YOU LITTLE MAN!

Here are a couple of things that you are doing these days that I want to be sure to remember:

1) All cups, bottles, and sippy cups are "jiss" (juice)


2) You think it's very important to gather all the shoes out of our closet and hide them strategically throughout the house.


3) Anything and everything that is round is automatically a ball, or "bah" as you like to say.


4) You have 5 teeth, plus 2 more popping out at this very moment


5) You love to play on our bed and jump face first into the pillows. Then you look back at me hysterically laughing at yourself.


6) You hate to have your diaper changed and you absolutely hate to go down for a nap.


7) Your favorite toy right now is your big blue ball.


8) When I say "give me a kiss" you open your mouth as wide as possible, grab me by the cheeks and lay one on me. I love it!



9) You have recently discovered belly buttons and you love to raise up my shirt and stick your finger in my belly button. Then you do your cute little giggle!



10) You are a ball of energy! We can hardly keep up with you. And you are independent. Did I say that you have a lot of energy?

Not much here...

We have been doing a lot of nothing around here. Just relaxing and enjoying a few last days of summer before Chad goes back to school. We've also been getting ready for the big day... Cohen's 1st birthday that is! Can you believe it's already been a year. That might be a multiple post event. We're just doing a small family party at the lakehouse next weekend, but I'm sure we'll have a lot of stories and pictures to share.

Here are some events from the past 2 weeks:

Cohen loves to "help" us fold laundry.

Last week we were at the Rangers game and we ran into the Ocheskeys so I was able to get a couple of pictures of Cohen and Camden.

Last weekend we had a birthday party at the Dickersons house. We did a family concert on Rockband. As you can tell by the look on Cohen's face, it was past bedtime.

This week my 2nd cousins came over to see Cohen. Yes, those are triplets. We have TRIPLETS in our genes!

To Grandma's We Will Go!

The week before last Chad and I went to Camp with the youth at The Branch. I was the camp cook (note to self... never do that again! I loved being around the kids, but cooking 3 meals a day for 70 people was not the best vacation I've ever had) and Chad was a counselor. So, we left Cohen with the grandparents and headed off to Eastern Oklahoma for Camp Thr3e. He stayed with my parent's (Grammy and Papa) the first half of the week and he stayed with Chad's parents (Nana and Big T) the second half. I know Cohen had fun, but 8 days without my baby was a little too much for me. I asked both sets of grandparents for pictures from the trip so that I could blog about it, but neither one of them took pictures with themselves in them (I guess I need to be specific next time.) They were too busy taking pictures of him by himself.

Here he is playing with all of Nana's toys.

Grammy and Papa bought him a little frog swimming pool for their backyard. He's my little waterbug!

Soaking up the sun with Aunt Chandy.

Family Vaca

It was way too short, but we had a very relaxing time on our long weekend to Canyon. Some of our family just bought a bed and breakfast in Canyon, so we went and visited last weekend. We met my Mom, Dad, brother and sister there. Chad, Cohen and I decided to fly because we didn't want to spend 14 hours round trip in the car with Cohen. Car seat riding is not his strength right now. I wish I would have gotten some picutres of his first flight, but you can imagine it with me... crawl on mom, look out the window, crawl on dad, look out the window, crawl on mom, look out the window, etc, etc...
We went to see Texas, the musical, while we were there. If you are ever looking for a weekend getaway, this is a great one. Here is a link to the bed and breakfast where we stayed. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the AMAZING breakfast!!

www.hudspethinn.com

Family pic
Grammy and Cohen

Cohen and Papa

Cohen says, "Thanks Grammy and Papa for a great vacation!"

Harry High Hands!

That is what we call Cohen when he walks because he has to put them up in the air to keep his balance. Here is our Harry High Hands in action....

We have a walker!

Maybe I should say "stepper." He will take 7-8 steps at a time and then plop down. He started doing it two days ago. He and I were at the Container Store and he was standing next to me holding on to my leg when all of a sudden he saw something that he wanted and just walked right over to it! (Of course I started freaking out!) And he's been doing it ever since. It was the day before he turned 10 months old so I asked Chad if we could say he started walking at 9 months. He said that was probably stretching it a little, so I am just being specific and saying it was 9 months and 29 days. I'll try to get video of it soon.