About time!

So I decided that I better update this thing before everyone stops reading it!! It has been quite a while since I have written anything, so let me give a quick recap....

• Commencement is finally over! It was a lot of work, but was a great success!
• I got an A in my class!! I am so excited that I successfully passed my first graduate course! Next semester I have 2 classes...I'm a little nervous to double my load, but I think I can do it if I stay organized.
• Cooper started at the BSU Childrens Center on May 19th. We are so happy that we moved him there. The baby room is SOOOO much better. I love his teachers, Terri & Leslie. They were Noah's teachers last summer.
• Noah completed a successful year in Becky & Katy's class. He learned to spell his name, can count to 20 (most of the time!) and can even recognize the letters in his name in order! He is doing so well! He started a new class for the summer. He was a little hesitant at first but has adjusted pretty fast.
• Cooper turned 10 months today! He is so much fun! He is pulling himself up on everything these days! He says "Hi", "Dah-dee" and "khe-khe" (kitty). He LOVES the kitty! He gets super excited when he sees him! Poor Morph, he will put up with anything from Cooper & Noah just for the attention!
• My last update is a sad one. My BFF Susan, who happens to be a member of my staff, announced her resignation today. She has accepted a postion at CWI. She lives in Caldwell and the price of gas is just killing her family. This new postition is WAY more money and it is in Nampa. I am really sad that I won't be working with her everyday. She is such a great friend and I am going to miss her. I know we will stay BFF's forever!

2 More!

Cooper's top 2 teeth have finally popped through! They have been driving him CRAZY! Now he has 4 little chompers - 2 on top & 2 on bottom.
He is crawling all over the place these days. He get's so excited when he reaches his desired destination! Noah is getting excited that Cooper is more mobile. It is making it harder for him to understand that he still can't play rough with though!

I Did Not Beat Pete...

But I had a great time anyway! My BFF Susan, her daughter Kathyn, Noah and I all participated in the 1st annual Beat Pete 5k for student scholarship fun run. We finished in 52 minutes - shattering our anticipated completion time of 60 minutes!! We thought it was pretty good provided I was pushing 40 lbs of Noah in the stroller and Susan was dealing with a 13 year-old who cannot walk a straight line! I was a little chilly, but a beautiful walk. Noah loved crossing the bridges and thought we were crossing several different rivers!

There were over 750 participants and Susan was ecstatic that we were not last!! Over 300 people beat Pete and he donated $2000 to the general student scholarship fund! I am looking forward to next year. I have already told Susan to start preparing for the Race for the Cure and the Women's Fitness Celebration. (We will be walking both of those as well!) Hopefully, this will kick start my metabolism again and I can lose the rest of this baby weight!

And then there were 2!

Cooper's second tooth popped in last night! It's ever so tiny compared to his one chomper. Our pediatrician says that he has a bunch of teeth about to come in! Poor thing has a bug and is not a very happy guy the last couple of days. :(
He has started crawling too! Mostly military style. He gets up on his hands and knees, but forgets to move his arms when he launches himself forward and ends up face planting!

BRRRRR.....

What the heck! A high of 44 today???? I am sick of the cold weather! Mike had an 8 am softball game this morning - he FROZE!

I am just looking forward to the end of the week...60 is sounding great!!

Happy Easter!

The Easter bunny made a stop at our house and left WAY more sugar than any 3 year old needs! We have had to ration it out to keep Noah off the walls! Between the basket we did plus the one from my mom, he has candy to last months!

Noah had a great time coloring eggs, only breaking a few when he dropped them into the dye! He thought it was pretty fun to stir them really fast causing dye to splash everywhere....I did not find that as funny!

Cooper loved his Easter toys. (Noah did too!) He used them all like hammers! :)

We had a pretty mellow Easter. I made beef short ribs for dinner - they were really yummy! Mike, of course, watched basketball all day! I know most of you are shocked by that! :)

Finally getting Healthy!

So this post totally captures the lack of brain power that I have these days...I composed this on the 16th and never posted it! Sad really...

It has been a LONG couple of weeks! I brought the plague home from Boston...the day after I got home, I started feeling realy crummy. Turned out to be the flu. Which I passed on to Noah, then to Cooper (who also got a double ear infection) and finally to Mike. I was the first one sick and the last one well! I ended up with a sinus infection as well. I am just now finally starting to feel better! I think we should have taken stock in Kleenex - we went through about 6 boxes in a couple of weeks!

So, what happened while we were sick.....Well, Cooper got his first tooth! It popped in on the 25th of February! It is so cute - and SHARP! Luckily, he quickly learned that if you bite the breast that feeds you, it stops feeding you! He is trying to get another one in, but nothing yet.

He is trying to crawl, but usually only manages to scoot backwards. That just ticks him off. He rolls all over the place and can spin around on his belly pretty well! I am content to let him stay put for awhile!

Noah is doing well in school and is getting really good on the computer! He can click and drag things around and can navigate through pbskids.org like crazy! He LOVES to play on my computer. He really wants to play on the laptop, but so far we haven't allowed that. Today he figured out how to print! I nixed that right away! He can get a little obsessive and I don't want him wasting all my ink! :)