My lil Coop

This pic was taken last weekend, when we actually caught the ice cream truck!! While we are sitting on the beach you can hear the truck on the other side of the lake all the time, my kids have no idea what the music is coming from but I have amazing flash backs from when i was a kid! Hearing the truck and grabbing our shoes and running for blocks and blocks, through backyards, lol we had shortcuts all over the neighborhood to get to different peoples houses and just running towards the music.

so every time I hear it across the lake there is some instinct in me to run, run until I find the ice cream..... when kroger is closer, and prolly cheaper...... lol

anyways, we got these awesome ice cream things, with gumball eyes, and crazy colors that stained our teeth and tummys and fingers for a few days, and were so sugary that we had a hard time getting to bed that night, so fun

i looooove summer!!!!!! ugh

and now that it is august it just feels like summer is almost over and im so very sad! i dont want it to snow.... please no....... whhaaaa

But the point of this post is not to mourn the end of summer but to write some of my Cooper's milestones recently. He is blossoming, he talks a lot more now. He has a word for almost everything he needs. He loves his blanket "blankiee" and his bink which he calls "hockie" Just this week he learned to recognize some shapes (thank you baby Einstein)

sidebar: I am such a ridiculous fan of the whole baby Einstein and little Einstein corp. I completely owe them everything for my children's intelligence. Wil walks around humming classical music, loves to sing and "write music" talks about different composers, and about different places in the world, the pyramids, volcanoes, endless conversations, i could keep it on the TV all day long cuz it makes me feel like they are learning important things, which they are. Mickey and dora don't talk about the totem poles, or ancient hieroglyphics lol looooove them

Anyways back to Cooper. He has turned into a little man this month. He will be 18 months next week. His half bday is my real bday! well like 2 hours off. cuz my half bday is valentines day, and he was born just a couple hours shy of valentines day :)

Disclaimer: potty talk!

Yesterday Cooper went peeps on the little kid potty!!! it was a big deal!! he is really young, so im not pushing this at all..... at all!!! but he always tells me when he has to poop, or comes up to me and puts his head in my lap when he is pooping.... thanks for that btw... lol but last night Wil was sittin on the potty right before bed time and Coop came up to me, pointed to his belly and said "poop" so i opened up the little potty and has him sit on it, after about 15 seconds he would stand up and we would look in it together to see if there was anything in there, we would both make our "hhhmmmmm" face and say nope and shrug. "wanna try again??" head shake yes and he sat back down. this went in cycles for about 6 times. on the last time, as he was squatting in front of the potty with his face in the little potty, checking to see if there was indeed some peeps in there that time and he started to go on the floor!! lol i shrieked and it scared him into stopping, so i swooped him up and sat him on it told him to do that again and he finished!!!!

whoooohoooooo Wil cheered and danced, Cooper cheered and danced!!! Mommy cheered and danced!!! (and cleaned up the floor) daddy cheered from the other room... lol it was pretty exciting.

So now im convinced that my kids are the smartest kids in the whole world, they are great at everything and will continue on this trend of making me proud from now until forever!!!