January in a Nutshell

January was a whirl wind, I kind of think life just flies faster ever single year whether we are ready for it or not. We went to the rest of Ry's girls games, they finished out the season pretty well with some minor parent drama, I think this is the first year he has had so much drama with his team. Cooper loved watching the games, he would clap and cheer and yell "shooot"; he also enjoyed running up and down the bleachers and pushing the limits to see just how far I would let him go. He's becoming quite the little stinker when it comes to rules and limits, he pushes and pushes and knows exactly what he's doing, then he'll look back at me with his little mischevious grin, like "what are you going to do about it Mom?"

We went bowling with our good friends, the Hales, we were only two or three frames in and Ashlyn tripped on the step up to the lane and split her chin open. While Nic was looking at her and Lauren was trying to comfort, I grabbed some ice and Ry and I watched the boys while Nic went to stitch Ash up. We still had a blast, but felt so bad for little Ash. Jackson thought it was pretty cool because he's got a scar on his chin, so they were walking around saying that they are twinners, sibling love, so cute!

January was still pretty bitter cold and being outside was usually pretty shortlived. We went sledding with our buddies and Coop kept saying "nahnen" (again) the kids probably would've continued sledding all night despite the runny noses turning into icicle formations. Coop loved making tracks in the "no" (with a long "n" sound, snow) he was so cute in his snow gear, and when he'd fall he couldn't get up because of all the layers. As soon as we were done and I got him loaded in the truck all he said until we got home was "cocoa peeeez" he loves cocoa more than milk, which is a lot!

As I've said earlier, Ry is on a huge bowling kick, he plays in a league every Thursday night and the league is thirty two weeks long. Yes, sometimes I think I married an eighty year old, but he loves it and since he doesn't play basketball in city league it gives him something semi active to do.

We went bowling with the Wildes, Coop and Hazen were obsessed with the ramp and ran up and down just about the entire time we were there.

Coop loves my heated blankets and Ry started a tradition that on the weekends, either Saturday or Sunday, sometimes both, we watch a Disney movie together. Coop is a huge fan of this, and I think we have finally broken the streak of Cooper only wanting to watch Cars.

Coop and Nana are buddies, they play chase from the living room to Cooper's room every night. Coop will ask to let Nana in and then he'll say "chase meee" and then he giggles while they run and run. I'm glad Nana plays with him because I think Coop has got an energizer battery, he would play chase all day long, and I do not have an energizer batter for that. He loves "mow mow" and every time he sees Missy Rae he gets excited and says "mow mow treat" so we have to get the kitty treats down and he sets them down in a line on the kitchen floor for her, it's pretty dang cute.

Cooper got sick four more times in January, once throwing up and fever, twice with a cough, runny nose and fever and then again with another ear infection. I hope this kid is building a super strong immune system because it feels like he would get sick two or three days after getting better.

He's always loved baths and that love is just growing, he asks for baths multiple times a day, most of the time I tell him he needs to wait until after dinner, but sometimes he will get two because I can't resist the "baa peeeez momma" I know I'm kind of a softie sometimes.

Coop loves to run around in just his underwear, or just his hat and boots and underwear, good thing we have a roaring fire almost everyday or he would freeze his little bum off. He has become obsessed with climbing anything and everything, the kid has no fear, he will say "fall" and that means i'm going to free fall off of this high place so you better catch me. He makes me nervous and I'll be surprised if we make it to his second birthday with no broken bones with this little dare devil.

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Coop loves watching things out the window, he listens for the firetruck and ambulance to come by and makes siren noises and yells their name "blam blam" (ambulance) "hireruck" (firetruck). He also loves Tuesday morning when the "gawb" (garbage truck) and recycle come, he crawls up in the bay window and waits for them to come. He still lines his cars up and pushes them down the slide, he absolutely loves when Ry comes home. They get really wild together, which is good I guess, since I don't get wild with him.

There was a lot of couch and movie time in January, he would go in and out of sleep while watching Cars, poor little bug.

My girlfriend, Lauren, and I went to Utah one Saturday for a shopping day. The roads were horrible on the way down since we just got a huge blizzard rage through, but we were both bound and determined to get out of the house and get a day of shopping in while both of our hubbies were home to be with the kids. Lauren isn't the greatest snow driver, she admits it, so I took over once we got Ogden area.

We got lots of shopping in, some delicious food, and of course, the trip wouldn't be complete without a little chocolate! 

I swear most of my pictures this month were of Coop laying on me or the couch with a sick, sad face. This was one of the nights that he was up throwing up non stop, it was awful, and I hate more than anything to see my baby sick. Hopefully no more sickness and an iron clad immune system are in our cards, at least for a while, because between the sadness of my sick babe, the laundry and the not leaving the house, I am done with it.