Happy Birthday Uncle Drew!

In Houston with the Marsh clan in celebration of Drew's 40th birthday. (it was past Cooper's bedtime. . .)

How to beat the heat, Cooper style

We are in Dallas. While it seems cool to those who have lived through the last 4 months here, to us London-folk it is hot!

 

New York weather

It never rains like this in London!!

Shouldn't this freak him out a bit?

Feeding the animals at Central Park Zoo.

Something about the hands...

Cooper doesn't like it when his hands are dirty. (The rest of him doesn't appear to matter!) here he is wiping his hands on my pants. :)

A pro with chopstix!

Bubbles, more bubbles

The Disney effect

Cooper's daily quest for Mickey (aka M Mouse).
1) Announce your desires
2) Get cable remote
3) Get TV remote
4) Wait patiently for mommy
5) Zone out

Cooper the artist

Cooper's first foray in to the world of drawing.

Ready for the NBA?

He does it to himself!

Sometimes you don't even need to harass Cooper, he does it to himself. ;)

No likey!

Cooper has started to string two words together. For better or worse, the first two words he has put together are "no" and "like". He uses them a lot, and I must say, rather effectively.

We felt a bit mean, but we really wanted to catch it on video, so we harassed him a bit this weekend. =)

Fountain fun!

It was warm out and Lou took Cooper out to the fountain across the street. He was having such a great time she called me to come over with the good camera. I couldn't choose my favorite shots, so everyone gets a slideshow. =)



and a normal video:

Where did my little boy go??

So grown up, doesn't need me any more!

18 months! How time flies!

Again, his likes and dislikes haven't really changed much, except the likes now include throwing and dislikes include having things taken away when he throws them!

He has also gotten very, very good on his scooter. He has even been let out of the hallway a few times. I need to get a good video of this. He seems so much more coordinated when he is on it, than when he is running and tripping down the hallway. ;)

His vocabulary has exploded again, I can't even track the words anymore. He has also started repeating things that he hears, even when he doesn't know what they refer to. He has also started putting two words together occasionally, the biggest being "no like". It is very useful, he says it before getting upset about something, oh, how he is growing up!

He still refers to most large moving objects as a "bus", but he has differentiated with "bike" and very occasionally with "ca" (short for "car" - doesn't quite have the "r" sound yet!).


He seems to be getting taller every day. He can now open doors, get most things off the kitchen counter, and climb up on just about everything in the house. We decided to get a height chart so we could start recording his growth. He appears to be 34in, which is about 95% percentile for his age, so still a very big kid! We tried to get a picture of it. . .