Whole Heaps of Great Events

I am about a week late with this wonderful post. Sorry - I just fell off the blogging bandwagon this week. What a big weekend that we had last weekend. First of all, Cooper turned 1!! Amazing how fast this year has flown. We went for his check-up this week and he is only in the 42nd percentile for height, the 7th percentile for weight and the 3rd percentile for head circumference. It seems that he's getting smaller and smaller. His pediatrician said that was not unordinary once they become mobile. I swear that he eats a ton (like half of our adult sized portions, easy)!

He is not walking yet but is crawling like a maniac and is so fast! They keep telling me in the church nursery that, "He sure is busy," I think it's really their way of saying, "My gosh he wore us out today!" We had a party for him last week at home with all of our family and I will share those pictures with you at a later date as my magic cord and I are not in the same place right now for me to download them to the computer. After we got finished singing happy birthday to him he chimed in with his own singsong melody and continued singing. It was beyond cute and ensured another round of Happy Birthday. Amazingly, he was more interested in the song than the cake.

Things that Cooper can do at 1:

1. Say mama, dada, ah da (all done - with baby sign), bore (more - with baby sign), hey, "buh" (ball), uh-oh, yea (with a clap)

2. Crawl like a mad man and can walk when you hold his hands

3. Puts things in and out of drawers, containers, shelves

4. Reads books while pointing at pictures and babbles like he's really telling the story

5. Has a pretty good throw for a 1 year old - we practice this often, as balls are by far the favorite right now

6. Eats and drinks anything and everything that is put in front of him (including tiny pieces off of the floor!?) with the sole exception being milk - we're working on that one

7. Wave

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Easter Sunday was great. We celebrated at home since Sean had to work on Easter. That's what happens when you're the newest person on the job therefore the low man on the totem pole. Sean went to sunrise service and Cooper and I went to the 9:00 service to hear all about the miracle of Jesus on the third day! We had easter dinner with our Bible Study friends that evening as has become tradition. The Easter Bunny did come and both Sean and Cooper have enjoyed their Easter baskets. Sean and I did dye eggs but honestly, with all of the birthday fun didn't really do anything with them except the initial dye and decorate.

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Lastly, in not such a great event, my sister had surgery on her ankle on Friday which was broken worse than originally thought. It went well and she got 9 screws to help repair it. Please pray for her healing. Also, her husband (Josh/Spunky) announced his call into the ministry a few weeks ago. He preached his first sermon tonight and I hear that it went very well. Please pray for guidance as to their next steps in this new adventure as well.

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Whew! That was a lot of catching up to do! I promise party pics soon...