Mother's Day Weekend

I'm so lucky to be the Mommy of this beautiful and crazy little man!

He makes me smile and laugh one minute and then want to scream and cry the next minute. He gives the best hugs and I love his kisses, slobbery and all. He has turned every room in my house into a toddler toy room and my DVR has more Little Einsteins and Chuggingtons than my own shows on it. He gave me stretch marks and took away my ability to completely control my bladder. He embarrasses me in public ("Mommy farted!" even when I didn't fart) and takes over my bed every morning around 4:00 am, when he decides that he and all his stuffed animals want to cuddle with me. He makes me pack everything but the kitchen sink to go out of town for one night and my wardrobe no longer grows steadily like it once did because I'd rather buy new clothes for him than for myself (I always thought those women were crazy and now I'm one of them!). He melts my heart and makes me worry like no one else can, and I wouldn't want it any other way.
I love every minute of it!

This Mother's Day was a great one! I got to spend it with some of my very favorite Moms! My Granma (no it's not a spelling error), my Mom, my sister, and my aunt. We couldn't have asked for better weather or better company.

My Mom - she's amazing!

Cooper was pouting

"Look Mom! No hands!"

A couple of Cooper's funny quotes from the last couple of weeks:

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  Cooper asked me to do something and I told him no, so he said, "Mommy go timeout!" and he said it with the sternest look on his face. And then when I refused to go to timeout he smacked my leg and said, "I spank your bottom!" LOL! It's super rare when I spank him so I was caught a little off guard, but I got a good laugh out of it.

• There were some major thunderstorms last week and every time Cooper heard the roar of the thunder he'd run to the window and say "Mommy a bear outside! RAARRRR!" He wasn't afraid of that bear one bit. He growled back at it every time. haha.    

We've been very fortunate to have my Grandparents in town for a couple weeks and have been spending a lot of time with my wonderful and crazy family. There's been great food, perfect weather, and many good conversations, along with water fights, hitting fights (Becca and Cooper), tantrums, smiles, and lots of laughter. 

I'm not really sure what was going on here.

Me and My Sister

Water Fight!

Playing with Bubbles!

David and I Soaking Up Some Sun

Cooper Blowing Bubbles in the Pool

Sitting in Timeout

He Did It!

David officially has his Masters in Teaching degree. YAH!

We had a party for him, but I'll post the pictures from that on another day.

Bloomsday and the Joys of Being a Mommy

The many faces of Cooper:

This last weekend, David and I left Cooper with his Grammy and Bumpa and headed over to Spokane to run in the Bloomsday Run. We loved getting to spend some time with my sister and her family. The girls are so sweet and we don't get to see them nearly enough.

The Red Robin staff in the background of that picture makes me laugh!

Bloomsday is a 12K run (7.46 miles) with over 55,000 people registered (49,674 finishers). With that many people, you could imagine how bad the parking situation was. We ended up parking about a mile away from the starting line, so by the time we walked from our car to the start, then ran in the actual run, walked to get our shirts, and then walked (uphill) back to our car, it was probably a good 10 miles total. No wonder we were exhausted! I will not being doing a marathon anytime in the forseeable future.

In the past years that I've done Bloomsday, I've been in way better shape and run the majority of it. This year I was very content walking a lot more than usual. I ran the first 2 miles and the last 2 miles, and then did a lot of walking in the middle, with some jogging every now and then. And it's not even that I was too tired to run, but my blatter control is not what it used to be after having a baby, and I was very concerned that I might pee my pants while jogging! Ahhh, the joys of being a Mommy! And lucky me, I hear that never goes away. Someone please tell me why I want another baby so bad! haha. Poor David would have liked to have run the whole thing, but he also really wanted to stay with me. I was finally able to convince him to run on his own at mile 6. We had a great time and will hopefully be doing it again next year.

Last night was the last night for David's bowling league. Cooper has really started to love going to watch his Daddy bowl. He used to cry when we'd go to the bowling alley because the noise of the balls hitting the pins scared him, but now he loves it. He spends most of his time there playing with Aubrey (our babysitter's daughter). He was so used to spending 5 days a week with her for the past 2 years, so he misses her now that he's staying at home with David. A little kid asked if they were brother/sister last night and Aubrey said, "No. We're cousins." It made me laugh.

Our friends, Ian and Jaime, just had a new baby boy last week. While Jaimee was in labor, their 2 year old daughter, Hailey, came to play with Cooper. They are so funny together! They played in a big box, had sword fights, and then we had a dance party in the living room.

I do a Zumba class (salsa-based dance aerobics) every Thursday and we do a belly dancing routine that we use a hip scarf for. So I was getting ready to go to my class and when I grabbed the hip scarf, it sparked Hailey and Cooper's attention. I showed them what it was and then they both wanted to try it. They were super cute dancing around with the hip scarf on.