Adoption Day 2009

Today is Cooper's Adoption Day! One year ago the judge made our family official and forever! We're blessed every day to be Cooper's mom and dad. He is a delight and soooo much fun!

Enjoy the videos below.

Cooper gets a little obsessed about things, sports in particular. Tonight he was running around the house playing Baseball, Basketball and Air Hockey. He can identify baseball, basketball, football and soccer ball. What a character!

Every night when Chad gets home, Coop pulls him down to the basement. He used to beg Chad to play "Ha Ha" but now he says Hockey! Here he is playing a game of hockey with Chad. Sometimes it's hard to believe that he's only 19 months.




He's been talking a lot about Basketball lately. So, we ordered him a hoop. (He saw the box last weekend in the basement store room and about had a breakdown shaking, spinning circles and yelling Baa-et-Ball!) We surprised him tonight with his new Baa-et-Ball hoop for his Adoption Day present. I ran into the basement ahead of him to get this video and his reaction is priceless!




May you all have as much in your lives to be thankful for as we do, Happy Thanksgiving!
Love,
The Hills

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

Halloween 2009 has passed with the usual excitement at the Hill House!
This year was a Wizard of Oz theme!

Here are the Mayor of Munchkin Land and Dorothy.


We had the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion.


But, our Scarecrow disappeared like the Wicked Witch of the West!


The rest of the family was all dressed up and ready to go. But, when we put on his costume, Cooper had a total melt-down! Crying, throw-himself-on-the-floor, snot out the nose, melt-down! So, instead of Trick-Or-Treating he took a 2-1/2 hour nap.

I was WAY more disappointed than he was. Cooper couldn't have cared less! He woke up in plenty of time to play with all of his friends who came over to say hi and had a great night! Hopefully we can turn this costume aversion around before Halloween next year!

Hope you only got your favorite treats for your tricks!
-Dorothy

First Baseball Pictures

Chad's mom surprised us and took Cooper to have his first baseball pictures taken. Then she's getting them framed to put on the bases in his baseball bedroom. He's so cute!

Erin Stoll is SO talented. Thank you both!

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!