Chicks dig guys with black eyes!

We went to Aegerter's Cattle Sale last night and Cooper had a fight with the bleachers. The bleachers won.

Black eye and a funny face!


He has a nice shiner! We keep telling him that chicks dig guys with black eyes and scars!
He's still the cutest thing ever!


Just to prove I'm not the worst mommy ever (since I have a kid with a black eye.) Here's a picture of Coop playing at the Children's Museum last week. He really likes playing on the stage, and loves making the audience clap for him. I just don't know where he gets it... :-)

Cooper's Mini Cooper

Grandpa Lyle and Grandma Sue found a Mini Cooper for the Mini-Cooper! Dad said if he ever found a ride-on car in Mini Cooper he'd buy it, and here it is. This was Cooper's housewarming present! It arrived right before we moved and we've been SO busy that we've just now gotten it assembled. He LOVES it.

He couldn't even wait until the wheels were on. He crawled in the minute I pulled it out of the box.Here he was "helping" daddy put his car together.

He runs around the garage yelling "CAR! CAR!"


We still need to work with him to get the hang of how to make it run. Here's one of the first attempts! Enjoy, we thought it was very funny and if you listen close, you can hear him laughing too!




This one was kind of cute too! Not as good as the first, but you can still get a glimpse at what a character he is!



Watch out Augusta -- Cooper's got a Cooper!

A couple quick house pics

Here are a couple of pictures of the new house.
This one's a little dark, but Chad's getting Coop some milk for dinner.

Here's the living/dining/kitchen.


The view from our back deck - quintessential Nebraska! We LOVE it!


Cooper's baseball bedroom.



We're so blessed. We still walk into the house and can't believe that we live here!

Football Fan

Go Big Red!!

Football season is here in Huskerland! Here are some pics of our cute little sports star! We're still working on Go Big Red! He says TOUCHDOWN (when he wants to.) And "football" sounds more like "sitball". But he's getting the hang of it!

It's a long story, but we have this actual Missouri football helmet around the house that is signed by Gary Pinkle. We keep meaning to put it on E-Bay, but now Cooper likes it too much and loves wearing it around. But, it is VERY heavy and he sort of staggers around running into things. Which of course, we think is hilarious! :-) Here's Chad helping him get the helmet off so he can have some dinner.

Totally the wrong sports season, but baseball is his true love! You can see him throwing here. Normally he throws w/ his left, but that hand was busy holding the bat.

The Huskers play Mizzou next week. Let's hope the Huskers come out on top!

Enjoy football season!
AND -- GO BIG RED!

Funny Little Things

I want to remember so many of the cute things that Cooper does....So, I've decided to do a few random blog posts that do not include photos because I can do them so much faster! Here are three fun little tid-bits!

Ways he says Mama:
1. For several weeks I have been "Baseball." When I would say, "Cooper who am I?" He would respond, "Baseball!" When I would say, "I'm not Baseball, I'm Mommy! Call me Mama." He would laugh and shake his head NO and say "Baseball!"

2. Apparently when I was correcting him by saying, "Call me mama." I must have been pointing at myself. Because now he says "Mama" but he has to pound his hands on his own chest when he says it!

Some of his favorite words/sayings:
Mama, Dada, Baseball, safe, out, (the last 2 complete with the appropriate umpire hand signals), Go Royals, outside, shoes, "No, no, no, bad dog", more, please, thank you.....there's more I know, just can't remember them now! AND, we're working on Go Huskers, Go Big Red and Touchdown! It'll be a full week just working on those before the first game of the season. :)

Floor Cleanup:

Today Cooper took a bottle of syrup out of the cupboard and squeezed it all over the floor. Mickie and Morgan had it cleaned up in no time!! What do people with kids do if they have no dogs???

Bess Oooo

Our Cooper did the sweetest thing today. The babysitter sneezed, and he said "Bess Ooo". His attempt at "Bless You." They tested him a couple of times throughout the day with fake sneezes and he said it every time....

I love that he's so sweet and smart! What a wonderful little boy, how did we get so lucky?

Cooper Update

Quick Cooper Update

Here's the cute little guy! Snuck into my jewelry box the other day and decided to wear my necklace on his head. What a goof!

We made a quick trip to North Platte a couple of weekends ago. Here is a picture of Kim with Ashley and Dylan, Cooper and me and Kacey and Ryan. The kids had so much fun playing together. I wish we could get together more often!
Coop was outside playing with sidewalk chalk and bubbles. He's getting SO big!