Say Cheese for Cheetos...........

Our little girl loves cheetos. I believe it even helped with the transition. As long as they have cheetos we are happy.

Don't be shy Avery, we know you love them!

Don't ask her what she is eating or there is a good chance that she will just show you!

There's daddy's favorite smile :)

Even when you are covered with cheese we still think you are so beautiful!

We love our little Cheetos face!

School Birthday Party!

Cooper was so excited that he got to celebrate his birthday at school!

This is him blowing out his candles!

I am not sure what his face is about, but here he is sitting at the table with the girls!

The girl right beside him is Hannah and is one of his good friends. She also has a little baby sister that Avery loves to touch and bring every toy possible to her.

Here you have to give the kids invitations for the party even though it is just cake during their lunch time. But some of the kids brought presents for Cooper. We were so surprised and so was Cooper.

This is Cooper's best buddy Emiliano. He only speaks spanish so it is kinda funny seeing how they communicate. Cooper introduced him to us as his "amigo." Literally said, "This is my amigo!" I love the english and spanish all thrown in there together. He also introduced Avery to Emiliano as saying, "Emiliano, this is bebe Avery!" Emiliano understood what he was saying though!

Here is Cooper's teacher Ms. Patty. She is a single woman with no children. Amazing how she likes her job! Those kids were definitely wild. Emiliano took this picture of her!

Here is Coop's class. There were two kids out sick. One being a boy and the other another girl. There are only three boys in there but they are out of control. Especially Cooper and Emiliano. They have the same personalities and get along great! I hope they are good buddies for a long time!

The little girl next to Cooper does have a mask, but it is so funny because most of the people that do have the mask wear them just like she is. So it really does them no purpose. All the people that work at Wal-Mart and Sam's have to wear them but probably about 70% of them wear it just like this little girl. Too funny!

We had a great time getting to go and celebrate Cooper's birthday with him at his school and to see how he interacts with all the kids since he is the only one that fluently speaks english. It was funny and interesting but know we can be praying for him more each day because it can get very frustrating for him.

We Love You Cooper and Thanks For Letting Us Celebrate At School With You!

Our WonderFOUR Birthday Boy

This was Cooper on September 22! He was so tired to even realize it was his birthday! He didn't want to wake up this morning to go to school.

Until he heard us singing "Happy Birthday" to him and squinting he then saw his donuts had candles in them and that made all the excitement!

Here is our big on the way to school. He was so excited! The first thing he told the teacher when she opened the door to get him out of the car was, "It is my birthday today," he has never been so excited on birthdays past. This was the first year he also gave a list of toys that he wanted.

Here is Cooper after school. We decided to bring him a little treat that had all this powder stuff in it. Well, as you can tell it landed all over his shirt. So the birthday boy had to ride home without a shirt! You can see a little bit of the powder on his forehead. It literally was everywhere!

This is what Avery thought about Cooper having a birthday! Just another day for her!

This was Cooper's reaction to his present as we uncovered his eyes!

His FIRST bike! He was so excited. He has been wanting a bike for a while now, but we couldn't really get one in Costa Rica since we would be moving again. He had no idea that he would be getting it. It was so sweet to see his excitement.

He had to take it to the "backyard" to try it out some more!

He also had to get his SpiderMan piñata in for a picture. Isn't it huge? This is the only size the make them here in Mexico. Actually or bigger!

I am not really sure if he is going to let anyone hit it at the party. He loves this thing.

Can you tell how much he loves it?

The night of his birthday we went to have tacos with the Haynes, Ostertags and Laura Smith. We were planning on taking some pictures but the pouring rain, the tree falling down, sparks flying and it taking us an hour to get home when it usually only takes 10 minutes.... we really just didn't think about it.

But he is having a party at his school on Thursday and this his birthday party Friday. So there will be more pictures to come!

Cooper ROSS Goes To School.........

Cooper was a little excited but also a little scared and nervous about starting a new school with new friends and a new teacher!

Can you tell by the picture? Maybe it was just too early for him!

Once he got out though he was very excited. This is him trying to show off his SpiderMan lunchbox.

He also has his Lightning McQueen backpack from Papaw and Nana!

This is my favorite one of him on his first day of school.

Avery picked out a little gift for Cooper to give him after his first long day of school. He was so excited and so happy that Avery got him something. Also he was very happy because it was a SuperMan! Can you tell he was good there with his sticker on his forehead?

I think Avery is still trying to figure out what she got him!

This is what Cooper thought of his first day of school, "You got it dude!"

Our little poser!

Cooper did have a great day at school. The only thing was that they called him by his middle name all day. When we asked Cooper how his day was all he could say is, "they called me ROSS!" I felt so bad for him. Not only is he the only english speaking white boy, but they are calling him by a totally different name that he isn't use to. They even wrote it on his lunchbox and backpack. We told them the next day though so he is now known as "Cooper" again!

So Frustrating...... But Up to Date Now

Well I am up to date on our pictures now. Only because I broke our computer and have lost all of our pictures from the entire last year! I was so upset. I was still about a month behind on blogging pictures so now those are just completely gone. I only have the ones that I have blogged. It is just so upsetting because it was Avery learning to crawl, walk, First Thanksgiving and Christmas, tons of funny pics of Cooper and then all of our friends in Costa Rica that a good chance we will never see again.

I was so sad when I did it but Darin was great about not getting mad at me. I was just trying to get out of the chair and guess I didn't really realize how big my stomach had gotten but just knocked it right off in the floor. I am so grateful for how Darin took it because we were without the computer for a week! Darin even had to miss the Tennessee game and even getting to see scores because we didn't have the computer.

But we are now up to date and believe me I am putting all pictures on cds. I don't want to go through that again! It still just breaks my heart knowing all the pictures that are gone that were just so adorable! So please make sure you backup all of your stuff!

Pajamas and Sunglasses........

Our kids are so crazy! Here are some of Avery outside playing in her pajamas.

I know her eyes are closed but her little smile is just adorable.

Don't you think Cooper looks like a stud in Avery's pink sunglasses. 

He even has a cute serious pose for them!

There is my baby boys smile!

I know there isn't much story for these pictures but I just don't want you all to miss anything while we are gone! They are just growing so fast!

Our Boy is Turning 4!

I can't believe our little wild man is turning 4!

It is so hard to believe. We are celebrating this month for all the transitions and for him getting ready to be a big boy.

We love you Coop and can't wait until Sept. 22!

Oh Brother...........

Literally oh brother.............. Cooper found out that he could reach all of Avery's bows and thought he would put some oh her!

She wasn't very happy about her headband being a necklace!

Here is Cooper with the big mess he made and Avery starting to get into it as well!

Cooper thought he would look really cute with a bow like Avery does. He does look pretty cute but I don't think Daddy will approve of it!