Coop loves Candy!

Although I normally don't let him actually eat it, he somehow ends up carrying it around the house.  This morning he insisted on carrying around 3 tootsie pops, banging them on everything.  We are ready for some trick or treating I guess!

Sampling the candy, yep tastes good, wrapper and all!

The itsy bitsy spider.......is on my head!  ahh!

 

Trying on some costumes at a friends house.  Squeak squeak.

 Helping dad with some yard work.  Precious.

Matching Shirt Jackets

Thought I would leave you with a picture of our little bat from last year!  Be expecting a dog or a monkey this year.......still TBD.  (both compliments of his cousins, Grif and Sawyer!)

Blessings from Above

So the real reason I have not been blogging lately isn't because Cooper started walking (although that does keep me busy), but actually because I have not been feeling well lately.  It's been about a month now. A pretty looong month too.  Some nausea, some vomiting....but before I give it away I promised Coop he could do the announcing, so...

Baby Richard #2 is due to join the family May 18th!!!!!!

We are overjoyed for our little family of 3 to be growing, and have been waiting to share the news now for several weeks.  I am about 10 weeks now, and finally got to see the Dr. today and hear the heartbeat!  She assured me it probably wasn't twins (for some reason I thought it might be?!) and that everything looked great.  Andy and Coop got to come with and hear the baby's heartbeat too, so it was a special moment for us all.  However we decided after Coop threw several urine specimen cups on the floor, attempted to "help" mommy collect her urine sample, was pulling out the stirrups, and blowing snot bubbles on the mirror in the exam room, that this was probably his first and last dr.'s appointment with mommy.  Will be looking for sitters in the future......anyone??  We are already trying to prep Coop for his little brother/sister's arrival, and he has learned to say "bebe".  Occasionally he will lift up my shirt and point to my belly and say it, however this is usually followed with a nice little slap to mom's belly. Oh boy.  If this is a foreshadowing of what's to come, we are in trouble.  Nonetheless, we could not be more excited for Coop to be a big brother!

Even though we have been trying to lay low with me not feeling so well, that's not very easy for this family, and we still had a few exciting events in the past weeks that are blog worthy!

We became zoo members and bought our first zoo pass!  Here are the boys with the kiddos on a nice little Sunday afternoon.

Future Husker player.  Just need to make sure the helmet fits first.

Girls weekend for me!  Celebrating a dear friend's bachelorette party in Grand Beach with the Chi O's..  We can't wait for the wedding Bowser!  Coop got to stay home with Dad for the weekend.......

Coop with is daddy.......enough said.  They are truly 2 peas in the same pod!

Luckily Auntie Heather was there to hang out with Coop too!

Coop eating his first turkey leg with the Aunt's at the pumpkin patch

 And last weekend we got to road trip to our favorite city and experience the first Nebraska v. Northwestern game!  Luckily Nebraska pulled out the 29-28 win, which made for many happy husbands.  Thanks to the Wolski's for hosting us all!  (and don't worry, I am NOT holding a drink in this picture)

 We had a great tailgate to hang out at before with 500 of our closest friends and family.  The Richard's and Bailin's were both there, along with some of Andy's cousins from Nebraska and a great group of our friends.  It could not have been a more perfect day with the sun shining and a Husker Win.  Thanks babe for all your hard work getting tickets and helping organize the tailgate!

And finally here is Coop doing a little reading at the library.  We like to go for storytime on Wednesday mornings whenever we can, and afterwards he likes to wander through the rows of books.  Today he spotted this little table and decided it was perfect for him to pull up a chair and have a little read.  Love this kid!

Pure Joy

I just realized it has now been over a month since my last blog post, so sorry! Coop is now walking ALL OVER the place, which keeps me on my toes. He is busier than ever but such a joy, and always full of smiles. Here's a few shots of those priceless moments when he flashes you one of those sweet (or ornery) smiles......

 

Now that's what I call pure joy!  Unfortunately I will have to leave you with that, as currently my little man is sick and he is upstairs crying ;(

Good Night all!