Cooper gets his 1st PROFESSIONAL haircut!!

I stress "professional" because I'm not sure if I mentioned it before, but Coop actually already had his first haircut when he was only...3 weeks old....given to him by... his father!! Maybe I hadn't mentioned it because I'm just now getting over it ;-) Needless to say, I wasn't too happy when I walk in to give Cooper a bath before bedtime and find Andrew with scissors in hand and Cooper laying on our bed on a towel full of his precious little locks!! We had talked about trimming it up around his ears, but Andrew gave him a full-fledged haircut instead. It wasn't that he gave him a bad haircut (although he has no business going into the haircutting business), I just missed the whole photo op (why don't Dads understand about capturing every single first moments!!!?!?) AND I wasn't planning on giving him a cut so early. He hadn't even had a chance to lose the hair he was going to lose on his own yet. So, after 4 months since his last experience we decided to clean it up "professionally"!! He did an awesome job - he actually sat in his Bumbo for most of it, but when the hair started falling into his face, he didn't care for it too much and wanted out. You can't really tell that they cut that much off, but it looks much straighter and cleaner now.

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As for Evan, he loved setting a good example of how to behave while getting your haircut. He sat like a big boy in the chair all by himself and never fussed one bit, although he did keep trying to turn his head to see what they were doing to his little brother!! So glad he finally enjoys getting haircuts now - we can actually take both of them at the same time and it not be such an event everytime!!

Also here are a few more of E's latest phrases - he keeps us laughing...like with the last video below - it's so much fun to see him when he gets excited about something:

"mem-bo fall off step" - Yesterday, he nearly fell off this big step stool we have and so this afternoon as he was climbing back onto it, he was trying to say "remember when you fell off the step" - as I said to him when I reminded him of it before school today.

"mama-mia...er are you?"..."ou upstairs?"...."ou downstairs" - What I've been hearing from him the last few days after he gets up from his nap. I think when he would call me "mama" (he usually calls me "mom"), Marte would go on to say "mama mia"...so he has picked it up and I'm sometimes "mama mia" now. It is just darling - sometimes I wait to go get him from his bed just so I can listen to him say it over and over again....it gets louder the longer I take to go in to get him :-)

"nana bread...no muffin man" - I was sharing some of this yummy banana bread with him the other day and he asked me for more "nanas" and I told him it was "banana bread", not "bananas"....so then he went on to try to tell me it was bread and not a muffin....but has been listening to his Stinky Cake CD that plays the "Do you know the muffin man" song, so he said muffin man, instead of just muffin!

Here are a couple of E videos as well:

The first shows off his latest skill....playing the harmonica - "har-mon-ca" or something like that!

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing - Photo Books

The second shows E excited to see Cooper after he gets up from his nap....the last part he says "oh dance...hear Stinky Cake?" As I mentioned in the last post, he loves to dance with his little brother lately!