Basketball & Just Having Fun

Well it was 'love at first sight'... No Cooper doesn't have a girlfriend. Well at least not yet. But he did get an early Christmas gift. We had been wanting to get him a basketball goal. Well Joe was dying to get him one.. HA! So what the heck, we just went and got one. It was funny though I hardly had it out of the box and partially assembled and Cooper had picked up the ball and was ready to shoot. He already knew what do to. Then he played with it all day. Literally, he didn't even look at any of his other toys.

















Finally we took at break from basketball and decided to play outside. The weather was soo nice, we just had too. Here Cooper is chasing some bubbles.





Chasing more bubbles.





And here are a few random bathtime photos. Figured I would just throw these in here : )

17 Months

Cooper is 17 & half months. Here are some random pics.



Having a snack before bed.





This cracks us up. I always read to him before bed. And he usually props his feet up on me. HA.. its soo cute!



Playing outside on a nice fall day.





Love this one. We call this his 'funny face' What a ham!





Another snack before bed. Hanging out with his dog scout.





I had to buy this shirt. Too funny.

Pumpkin & Apple Pickin'

It was a beautiful fall day. Joe was off of school after a long week, with parent-teacher conferences, plus his final exam in his "Master's Plus" night class. So I took a vacation day.. and we headed down to Eckert's. Cooper & I had never been there. (Eckert's is a local orchard with a restaurant & country store). It was a really cute place. And we couldn't asked for more perfect weather!



This is Cooper & Joe as we are 'loadin' up' and leaving the house.



Family pic- Cooper is less than thrilled.. ha ha.







Here we are waiting for a table at the little country restaurant. The food was really good. Fried biscuits.. man, those were dangerous. And I had country fried steak, mashed potatoes and green beans... Mmmm... I love good 'ole down-home cookin'.



Cooper's looks like he is getting ready to 'whack' someone with that.. HA!



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"Yea.. I love pumpkins."



"I'll take this mini one."



Getting ready to do some apple pickin'



Picking his 1st apple.





Cooper was very proud of his selection.







He carried his apple around the whole rest of the time.



Dropped his apple.



Yea, gotta get.



And found another one.





Joe's mom had a good time too.











Now for the pumpkin pickin'



Cooper had his eye on this one.



Still looking.. .and still carrying his apple.





Hmmm... maybe this one.



Hmm.. he isn't so sure now.



"Yeah, I'll take this one".







Cooper ended up getting a mini pumpkin with a 'funny face'. So we had a great time. We'll probably have to make this a 'yearly tradition.'