Happy Birthday Cooper!

This past week has been a pretty busy one. But, I want to take a little time to talk just about Cooper. It was his birthday on Thanksgiving this year. Crazy. I never really thought about his birthday landing on a Holiday. He had a great day though. Well I should say he had a great two days. He had a huge birthday party on Wednesday, then on Thursday we celebrated all day for him.
Cooper Ryan was born on November 27, 2004, in Massachusetts. I went to the hospital at 9:30 and he was here at 10:31, it was great. He was a whopping 9lbs. 4oz. I didn't even get to use newborn clothes on him. Since then Cooper has been such a blessing to our family. He is so sweet and fun to be around. He loves to be a little stinker and hide,( I have had a number of scares) but he will also give you such great loves. Cooper is all boy, even living with 5 girls he definitely feels then need to show us he is not girly. Coop loves everyone and will help anyone in need, he is such a wonderful brother to his sister(most days) and will really do whatever they ask him to. Now that he is in school he feels so big , it is great to see him learning and understanding what he is doing.
WE love our Cooper so much. He is such a spunky, firecracker that we would not trade for the world. Happy Birthday Cooper! You are a big 4 year old know.
Mom and Dad love you sooooooooooo, much!

Family

What am I thankful for?

This is it in a nutshell. I am most grateful for my family. I love each one of them so much! There will always be bad things going on in life, but my family reminds me how great life really is. I love them so much.

Madie finally gets her ears pierced!

The end result!
We had two girls pierce, at the same time
Getting her ears prepped

Well , Madie finally got her ears pierced. For her birthday she really wanted to get them pierced. We both said that would be ok, well on her birthday they were not able to do it. Since she had to wait she wasn't to sure anymore. Well about two weeks ago she was ready. We waited for a day where Mom and Dad could both be there. So last Saturday we went and had them pierced. Madilyn did such a great job. At first she was nervous but then they marked her ears and pierced them, I think it kind of came as a shock. She was sad for a few minutes afterwards, but now loves them. Madie is so good about reminding us to clean them. I am really excited for her, she just is in countdown mode because after six weeks she can change her earrings, she can't wait to go pick out new ones.

Trophy Day!

To end the season of t-ball the team had a little party. It was nice because we all met at a park let the kids play, had pizza and handed out awards. Cooper was so excited that he got his very own trophy. In Cooper's room their are trophys everywhere, but none of them are his, they are all his Dad's from when he was a kid. Now, Cooper has his own with his name on it. It was like Christmas to him. That night when we got home he wanted to sleep with it, and yep he held onto it all night long. The Red Sox were an awsome team and had alot of fun, I am going to miss going to the games. There is always next year!!

Out of the crib and onto a ......

Lillie is out of the crib. Last week when she finally figured out how to get out of the crib I was totally bummed. I thought it might have been the worst thing to happen. I could only image her falling out of the crib and breaking an arm, or not sleeping in the crib and staying up all night. So we decided better safe then sorry and took the crib down. So right now she is sleeping on our queen size blow up mattress. I love how big it is, I never have to worry about her falling off. No, she won't be staying on it forever, at night Ryan and I get paranoid thinking that it might deflate around her, so far so good. Lillie has really grown up fast, she has been potty trained for the last three months, I don't thinks it's normal to be so young , but she wanted to and I definitely wasn't going to say no. No more little babies in the house, kind of makes me miss those days but I love all the new stages that I get to watch the kids go through.

Party Time

Last week the girls had their Fall Party in school. I am the party Mom for M aizie's class, it was nice because I got to spend some time in both girls classes. In Maizie's class we first had a little Mummy making fun, the kids had to wrap each other in toilet paper, the we went on to decorate cookies. In Madie's class there were a bunch of different fun activities. In the picture Madie is with her teacher, Ms. Aucoin. I think she is the best kindergarten teacher I have ever met. The kids all adore her and she is such a wonderful teacher to her class. We feel really lucky to have Madiyln in there. I love being able to help out at the school . I look forward to the day all the kids are in school. At one point I will have all five in elementary school, by then I will probably just spend my days volunteering, I love it and love to work my kids!