Cohen's Puppy Birthday Party

Last year, for Cohen's 1 year party, we held a Concert With Cohen.....a huge celebration of all that God had done for us over the year, the miracle He preformed at birth, and all the other answered prayers from the Concert For Cohen, held before his birth. It was also a way for us to try our best to publicly thank everyone who supported, cared, and prayed for us and Cohen over his life.

This year, we had a small, "normal" 2 year old birthday party and there was something really nice about that.
Cohen loves dogs so we went with the doggie theme.





Cohen wasn't in a super great mood for most of the party, but it's his party, right? He can cry if he wants to.


He did calm down enough to enjoy his cake...


and the balloons...
and once he finally let us put the crayons aside( the first present he opened and apparently loved), all his presents...

and the bounce house we borrowed...

I think his friends had a good time too..

Happy Birthday Cohen!!

You've come a long way sweet boy....









...we couldn't be more proud or more in love!!

Happy 2nd Birthday Cohen!! Praising God for each miraculous day with you!!

February Snow

We had beautiful snow all day yesterday but it didn't stick on the ground really for us to play in. However, it did remind me to finally post the pictures of the 2nd snow we did get a few weeks ago( along with several other catch up posts below!!)

The night it started snowing, we collected snow in a bowl and let Cort stay up to make snowcream. This year we tried something new and made it chocolate - it was yummy!




Cort was into eating the snow outside too -I don't know how he can handle it staying on his face like that!!

Here's cort being a "snow Caterpillar"!!?! He actually crawled like this with his hands(caterpillars) under the snow through 2 or 3 yards.


Cohen loved playing in the snow but was not a fan of us trying to get him to make a snow angel!!




Snowball fort....



Swinging in the snow...


Cohen decided to join Cort in eating the snow...

Who needs a waterslide?

Fun Dip

Every little boy deserves a first fun dip...





And my little boy has been so fun recently. I feel like I should have a million things to record about the things he says because he makes me laugh everyday!! A few I can think of off the top of my head..

Fort he first time without any prompting, he announced what he wants to be when he grows up....a construction worker. And he will build houses and bridges. And he will have 2 types of diggers and he will drive them everywhere.

A few weeks later, he told me he didn't want to be a construction worker anymore because he wanted to be a Daddy. ( so sweet) I told him he could be both. So then he said he wanted to be just like his daddy and be a daddy and a pastor. I asked him, what would he do as a pastor? In a tone with an underlying "duh," he says, "play the drums!" A few seconds later..."oh, and I guess I'll help some people" ( for those of you who don't know, Chris plays the drums for our worship team - cort is convinced that's what he does all day at work)

He's been exploring using the word "too" apparently. it goes like this...

On the way to the beach a few weeks ago...

Us: "Cort, are you excited to go to the beach?

Cort: " yes, I am too excited"


On the day we were leaving the beach..

Me: "Cort, we have to pack up to go home today"

Cort: "no, I want to stay here forever"

Me: " have you had a lot of fun?"

Cort: " yes, too much fun for me"

And the other day :

Chris: "let's just have breakfast for dinner"

Me: "no, the boys had that last night when they were staying at Grammie's"

Cort: " Yep, we ate pancakes and eggs and it was too yummy for a little boy like me"


There are tons more that I probably need to record. I'll have to think about it and add some more later!
He really has just been so much fun recently. I love watching him grow up!!

Baby Tyler

I am way late( like over a month) in posting this...but I just have to include sweet Tyler on the blog!! I am super happy to introduce you all to sweet baby Tyler. My college roomie, Jessica, had her 2nd baby boy on January 28th. His entry to this world was a bit eventful but everyone is safe and healthy and, oh, so adorable.

I drove down to Columbia the night he was born and then got to spend most of the next day hanging out with Jessica, Tyler, and our other college roomie, Kelly. It was super fun to all be together celebrating Tyler!!




Kelly and Ty

Little love bugs

A bit before Valentines Day, I kept my friend, Kelly's, Kiddos all day and we made Valentine Cards for children at a local hospital( this was a drive put on by our local christian radio station). Kelly sent some supplies over too and the kids had a really good time doing them. I think Sophie and Cort made 4 or 5 a piece. Foster and Cohen were good sports and enjoyed it for longer than I expected them to!!



Cohen did a really good job trying to put stickers on his paper( don't have a pic of that)...i was proud of his little show of good fine motor skills!!!

Milestone Mania

Cohen has changed so much over the past month or so. I know I have been really slack about blogging - I just can't seem to fit in these days. But I have been remiss to not have posted a proper post on all of the great things that Cohen has been doing. Back well before Christmas, he began pulling to stand at a low toy or table. I may have mentioned it on the blog but wanted to record it for sure!!

Then, right before Christmas, he fed himself with a spoon for the first time and we have pictures to prove it!! Since then, it's become a bit of problem( though one that I'll gladly take) because he wants to sit at our table, eat exactly what we are eating, off of exactly what we are eating off of, and with exactly whatever we are eating with. Though the we would mainly be Cort( i need to get two identical sets of everything apparently!!). He's crazy messy eating with a spoon and has a hard time really scooping but he loves it!


He has recently started scooting around on the bottom. He never really took off with the scooting on his belly thing even though he does it on occasion but has figured out how to do it on his bottom. It's slow and difficult for him right now( unless he's in the tub or on our hardwoods) but he's getting the hang of it and seems highly motivated!!

And last ,but certainly not least, my little boy is TALKING!!! That's right he started saying his first words at the beginning of January and has added about a word a week. He has nine or ten words right now and here they are in the order he said them:

Dog( da, dag, or dat)
Hot(ot)
Cat( c-t, dat, at)
dada( though a bit inconsistent)
Balloon( ba)
ball( baw or ba)
any fruit or vegetable( bagum) - don't ask us we have NO idea but he is very consitent with it
dip( dop)
drop(dop or bop)

And we sometimes think he says Hi or hey but we aren't sure.

He signs more, eat, and please.

It thrills me to no end that he has begun to talk!! I love hearing his little voice and can't wait for him to communicate more! It's funny that dog, cat, and hot were his first words becuase Cort's first two words were cat and hot!! I'm just sorry that it took me so long to get it up here. To be honest, it took several weeks and several people to convince me that it was really happening. My heart just didn't want the disappointment if it didn't stick ( as this has happened with a few of his milestones). Don't get me wrong we would love Cohen if he never talked, I just really want him to be able to communicate his wants and needs!!

Can't believe in a few short weeks I'll be doing his 2 year post!!!! How amazing is that?