It's been awhile!

Where on earth have I been? Honestly, I'm not sure. Everywhere and anywhere besides the blog that's for sure. It's been a crazy few months. We have had multiple birthday parties for Cooper, Santa Claus came to town, work got crazy, and a couple of friends have had baby boys!

Cooper is really just a ball of fun right now. Well, I say that after we just went through an hour of him just crying for no good reason. Sounds bad right, but really he's just a two year old. And from what people tell me, that's what they do. Cooper is officially a big boy. By "official" I mean, when I ask him now, "Cooper - are you a big boy or a baby?" He now responds with, "Big boy mommy!" Tear!!!
However, I ask him, well if you are a big boy do you want to sleep in a big boy bed? "Oh no mommy, I sleep in my crib." Fine by me honestly. Think about it - he could get up and just walk around in a big boy bed. He would never sleep again.

So what else is new - oh here is a good one. Cooper is starting to blame everything on this poor little girl Libby in his class. Cooper what's wrong? Libby bit me. What? Libby isn't even here, we are at home. She bit me today. Really??? Fast forward to the next day I ask his teachers. Oh no he has not been bit. Cooper has just been into blaming things on kids in his class. Normally they say he blames someone that is not even close to the scene of the crime. (Seriously makes me wonder - I mean if you are going to make it up, make it believable Coop - come on!)

We have also been trying to take Cooper places on the weekends. I was starting to feel like we never do anything with him. The weekends have been crazy with work and trying to clean up , etc. (I know - everyone else is dealing with this too, but somehow doesn't it seem harder when its your problems?) So we have started to come up with ideas on things to do. Last weekend we took him to a kids museum here in Charlotte. He had a great time. We discovered something about him. He's timid. Another child would want something he was playing with and they would just take it from him and he wouldn't do anything to get it back. One kid just pushed him aside and he just went the other way. Eddie says he just doesn't want to waste his time dealing with it. But I could see me in him in that moment. As we walked out, I whispered to him, don't let anyone just walk over you Cooper. (I know probably bad parenting - I should have been proud that he wasn't the kid pushing everybody.) All in all though he had so much fun. Just playing with everything. And no - didn't take one picture. Left my camera at home. Again parents of the year here.
So this weekend we took Cooper to a Bobcats game. He loved it! He kept yelling "go bobcats!" When a time out would happen and the players would sit on the bench, he would ask, "where did the basketball players go?" Just adorable I tell you. Who knows what we will do in the coming weekends, but I will try and be better and post more on this blog.

So as you can see no pictures, but I will post them this week. Birthday party pics, Thanksgiving pictures, Christmas pictures!!! Very exciting!