Walking!

Yes, she actually is walking now! Well, she walked one day, and now she won't do it again, but at least we know she can do it! Actually her new favorite way to pass time is to walk with this hippo back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. It's so cute to watch her, she is so funny and gets so excited, but it does get old turning the hippo around every couple seconds for her to cruise back the other way. Oh well, it's worth it. She's just so darn cute!

We love having Daddy home!!!

We are so glad to finally have Jess back home! He does fun things like put all of his parachute gear on his wifey to practice "JMPI"s. Cooper was, of course, very interested.





And he let Cooper help him unpack!



But best of all, he gave lots of snuggles to his little girl.



But seriously, I have much greater appreciation for single mothers now. It is A LOT of work to care for even one child twenty four hours a day, I can't imagine when we have a couple more and Jesse has to go out of town. He has been so sweet since he got home, he has been helping out so much with Cooper. It's amazing now to have someone say, "here, I'll do bedtime, why don't you go do something else!" I love my husband!

Pics from our Spokane trip

Cooper thought her auntie Mel is pretty hilarious


Good morning Gigi!


Her cheeks are pretty hard to resist...and apparently so is the camera to Baby O!


"Let me see that picture you just took of me, Poppa!"

Cousins are so fun!!!

Cooper has soooo much fun chasing her bigger cousins all around, trying to keep up and be one of the big kids. They loved her just as much and it was really fun for us adult type people to watch them play together!

Playing with Em


Emmie loved giving her loves


What better way to make the best part of the day better, than to add cousins!


Poppa loved having all the kiddos together also

She'll do anything for some attention!

Or maybe it's Daddy who will do anything for some attention...Just kidding, he just loves to play with his little girl. Actually, the first picture was all her, but the rest obviously had some help from Daddy.