Happy 1st Birthday, Cooper!

Wow, our little monkey is one today....the last year has just flown by!! He is such a happy little thing and has brought so much joy.... and chaos.... to our lives, and we've loved every minute of it!

The morning started off with all of us (Evan, Marte, BeBe and Boss and me....poor Dad had to go to work and had to miss out) singing him Happy Birthday as we came down the stairs for breakfast this morning. He seemed pretty pumped when he saw all the decoration and gifts. Evan was pretty excited as well, probably more so than he was for his own birthday (guess he is finally getting the whole birthday thing now!). I'd made a little homemade cake for Coop, so we let him blow out his candle and try out a bit of cake. Just like Evan, he doesn't seem to have much of a sweet tooth and doesn't care for cake much. He took one bite and that was enough...he had more fun just sticking his fingers in the icing and getting it everywhere...including his hair! Then we all went on a walk down to the clubhouse (the boys on their bikes) - Cooper loved his new bike that his Nana and Pop got for him! The boys then came and had lunch and went down for a nap....although Cooper decided he was too excited (or on too big of a sugar high!) and only had a short 35 min catnap today. Luckily, he was still in good spirits at the end of the day. He did crash hard after his bath though....guess it was too much excitement for one day!

In the evening, once Dad made it home from work, we had our little party - pictures, pizza, presents and more cake...ice cream cake this time! As for presents, Cooper was completely oblivious to the concept of presents - he could have cared less about them, so his big brother took the liberty of opening them up for him. We were sure he was going to love the ice cream in his 2nd cake, but nope....still no go...he gagged and spit out the icing from the cake and did the same when we tried to give him the ice cream as well! Strange children we have....to this day even Evan only cares for only tiny bites of anything sweet....but give him anything sour and he is all over it!

All in all, it was a great day and we had a wonderful time helping our little man celebrate his special day. We look forward to many, many more!!! We are also very thankful that his BeBe and Boss were able to be here to celebrate with us. And thanks to Skype which allowed Nana and Pop "to be with us" when we sang him Happy Birthday this morning! Happy 1st Birthday, Coop!