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“A portrait of my son, once a week, every week, in 2013.”

I picked this photo for this week because it shows a few new changes that we have been noticing in Cooper lately.  Number 1 – He now notices and sometimes enjoys playing with other kids.  Yay!  Number 2 – He more aggressively refuses not to do what he doesn’t want to do.  In this photo for instance, he is not wearing shoes because he refused to wear them (the typical kicking and screaming refusal.) Because he is not wearing shoes he cannot chase after Rowan (who is having fun teasing him by running out of his reach).  And that natural consequence, My Dear Son, is what happens when you don’t take Mom & Dad’s instructions to heart.  After all, we’re pretty much shoe-wearing experts.

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south florida.

Casey, Cooper and I flew to South Florida to see our grandmother/great grandmother last week.  We had so much fun!  I wish I had taken pictures of my Grandmother’s house.  It hasn’t changed in probably 30 years.  Immaculate and straight out of Golden Girls.  Staying at her place is like spending the night in 1982.  I don’t know how she got time to stand still, but it’s pretty magical.  Cooper behaved himself and didn’t terrorize her delicate figurines and breakables…much.  I was very proud of him.  He’s a pretty careful kid.  Grandma has a sliding glass door in the back and Cooper had a pretty funny experience with his first sliding glass door. He didn’t run into it like most people.  It was wide open and he very sloooowly inched forward, leaning in towards the door, both hands up in the air, until he practically fell outside; body first, feet second.  We all had a good laugh over it.

…About the pictures: apparently 18 month old Cooper hates the beach.  Sand between the toes is pure torture to this one.  

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littles at a wedding

A few weekends ago we were invited to a wedding where we ran into some good friends of ours and their little daughter Rowan.  Cooper and Rowan have been “friends” for a long time.  It is so much fun watching these two at this age.  Cooper is finally started showing interest in playing with other kids and it is one of my favorite things to watch.

In the pictures above, you can see Rowan teasing Cooper, who can’t walk on the gravel because he insists on being barefoot.  He tries so hard to reach her that he steps into the gravel.  Then finally, she comes close enough to give him what turned out to be sort of a hug sort of a tease.  Haha!  I love these two!

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