What a great Thankgiving!

Our Thanksgiving was great. It was nice to catch up and visit with everyone and Cooper has a BLAST with is cousins. I love seeing him play with other kids and especially his cousins. He was pooped by the end of the day. Each year at Thanksgiving each of us is asked to tell what we are thankful for. I thought about it for a long time and I realized that I am thankful for having so much to be thankful for. I have an AWESOME God, I have an amazing son who completes my life, I have a husband who loves me and he is exactly what I wanted as a daddy for my child, I have a family who continues to support me, I have in-laws that fill the void I have from missing my family, I have never been hungry, I have never needed clothes, I have never been cold. My life might not seem perfect or easy at times, but I have life and I have people that I love very much to spend my life with. While this year proved to be trying at times with Johnny's school, one income, a new child and other things it has been nothing compared to many others in the world. Johnny and I ventured out on Black Friday for some great deals and we took Cooper with us. It was lots of fun, but it was a long day and Cooper did great. Our church does Baby Dedications each year, so on Sunday we had Cooper dedicated. Dedication is different from being baptized. Have a baby dedicated says that we will raise Cooper in a Christan home and teach him the word of God and that the church is there to help us. Johnny and I both agree that it's Cooper decision on when he wants to be baptized. Nana and Pawpaw (Johnny's parents) and Auntie T, Uncle Greg, Dylan and Kamryn were all there. It was really special to me that they were there. It was a great weekend.

We have a walker

Cooper is walking! Last Wednesday was the first time he took several steps all by himself. He gets so excited. I love it. Walking places takes twice as long, but I would not have any other way. He is so funny. He has started dancing to music and clapping his hands to music. He has also started to become a very picky eater...he picks around the veggies. I think his daddy told him not to waste his time on veggies. This is going to be a great week. I work 2 1/2 days this week and then we get some quality family time. Looking forward to Thanksgiving on Thursday with Johnny's family; it's always an adventure. I hope everyone has a safe and blessed Thanksgiving.

scrapbook, bounce house and other fun

This weekend was super busy for us. I started Cooper's scrapbook on Friday night. I had lots of fun and got 4 pages finished. I just need to embellish them a bit. Saturday Cooper had swim lessons; he is swimming all on his own with just a hand under his belly so he won't try and turn over. It has been so much fun to watch him learn. We are going to take a break from swimming lessons for the winter. Saturday night was Kamryn's birthday party at a bounce house...Cooper love, love, loved it! He was pooped and so were we. Church was great on Sunday. Johnny and I both volunteer in Kids, Inc and we both really like it. This week one of the teachers was out so I had both classes. Lots of kids, lots of crying, but lots of fun. Sunday afternoon was another birthday party. We were partied out. Nana taught Cooper how to blow kisses on Friday night, of course I can't get him to do it. I guess I'll have to wait until Nana is around to see it. Here are a few pictures of Cooper at the bounce house.

busy weekend

We have a super busy weekend ahead of us. Tonight I have a scrapbooking night at our church and I am SOOOOO excited. I am going to start, yes, I said start on Cooper's scrapbook. We have taken tons of pictures so I have plenty of material to work with. I hope I get lots done. Tomorrow we have swim lessons, breakfast with my dear friend Dawn, Kamryn's birthday party at Jump It Up and Sunday we have church, Mason's birthday party and Rangers play day. Whew, I am already tired. Drop off this week has been weird with Cooper, I guess he is going through separation anxiety again- he cries when we leave him. I hate it! Besides that he is doing great. He is standing on his own and going from sitting to standing all on his own, he walked down the steps yesterday holding on the side. He is going to be walking soon. His first word is officially DOG! Every single thing is a dog, but if you ask him where is dogs are he looks for them. How fun. He loves Jack and Molly and they love him too. He has been sleeping so good. I think his new class wears him out. John seems to be getting better. He says he can't hear out of his ear, but it does not hurt anymore.

sickly cohoon boys

This weekend was a nice weekend. My parents were in town for Johnny's graduation. It is always nice to see them. Johnny's graduation was nice. He looked great, happy and so proud of himself. Cooper did awesome too. Although, Johnny still has a final to take and 5 weeks of clinicalsI think he is glad it's is almost over. Johnny's mom hosted a dinner at her house on Saturday night. It was so nice and yummy too! What a great family.
Johnny has not been feeling that great over the last week. Late Saturday night it got really bad... on Sunday morning Johnny was at the minute clinic and it turns out he has an ear infection. Yuck! Glad he got some meds. And poor Cooper Bear, his nose just runs and runs! It does not seem to have infection, just nasty. I guess it's just that time of the year. NASTY! He is still cute though. I can't believe Thanksgiving is right around the corner. This has been a really quick year.

Johnny's Big Day tomorrow

Tomorrow is a day we have been waiting on for 2+ years...Johnny is graduating! YAY. I am so proud of him. It's has not always been easy and he wanted to quit school several times, but he did it- even with his nagging wife on his back pretty often. I have only known a few people in my life that made their career choices and are doing exactly what God meant for them to do. One is my cousin Tami, who is the BEST 5th grade teacher in the Moore, OK school district and Johnny. Johnny started back to school to be a nurse; however, one of his professors saw that he really liked cutting tissue and stuff like that and suggested he look at the Histology Program at Tarleton State University. It was exactly what he was looking for, the perfect fit. So, the day has come that he gets to walk across stage, hear his name and accept his diploma. Gosh, what a great feeling for him. I am so excited for him as he starts this new chapter in his life...I will post more about his job situation when Johnny gives me the approval to do so.
Happy Graduation Johnny! I am so proud of you and I love you very much.

Rough Week

This has been a rough week at the Cohoon house. We lost the World Series and we've had some daycare troubles. First, way to go Rangers! You had a great season and I am proud I get to be a part of it. Johnny is counting down the days until the players report back.

Now about the daycare troubles. Cooper was moved from the infant room to the toddler room last week. Last Friday was his first full day in his new room. When I picked him up on Friday afternoon his teachers said he was quiet and to himself most of the day and sucked his thumb most of the day. That seemed like odd behavior from him, but I thought it was just him getting used to his new room and taking it all in. On Monday morning when Johnny dropped Cooper off at school neither one of the teachers really greeted Cooper or Johnny, this was bothersome. Our daycare has cameras in each room and monitors in the lobby so you can watch your child. Johnny stopped at one of the monitors and watched for 10 minutes while the teachers had idle conversation- paying NO attention to the children. Johnny called me very upset, I told him to talk to the one of the directors. Just as we were hanging up one of them came around the corner and asked if things were okay. Johnny asked her to watch the monitor with him for a few minutes, she did and she was not happy with what she saw. She assured us she would take care of it. Later that morning Johnny called back to talk with the Asst. Director who he talked with that morning and she was on bus run so she talked to the Director. She too assured us she would take care of it and have a conversation with the teachers. Well, a few hours later I got a call that there had been an "incident" a little girl bit Cooper. I was originally told that the little girl was on a riding toy and the teachers weren't sure what really happened, but it resulted in Cooper being bitten. I am not naive to not think these things are going to happen, it just could not have been worse timing. Why weren't the teachers watching??? I sure would have been watching Cooper if I was the teacher that was talked to earlier that day. Then when I got home and read the incident report it said that Cooper hit the little girl. I have issues with this... when I was called I was told the teachers really did not know what happened and honestly, I am not sure Cooper developmentally knows how to hit and if he did hit we need to know so we can correct this behavior at home. So, on Tuesday we expected overkill at drop off...ummm, NOT SO MUCH. Johnny and Cooper received the same reception as Monday. Now, we are both pretty peeved about this. I send the director an email stating our concerns with the lack of interaction with Cooper in the mornings and the biting incident. She emailed me back to tell me that the two morning teachers are leaving and she is working to replace them, but it just takes time. Well, I don't have time to make changes so I feel warm and fuzzy about leaving my child there. I HATE dropping my child off at daycare each day, but I have not choice so I EXPECT you to make him feel warm and welcome. Never mind, that I pay you lots of money to do your job! So, we met with the director and she already had a plan in place for new teachers. Whew! A teacher that has been there for over a year is going to move back to Cooper's class, her name is Abby and she is super sweet and really good with the children. We are pleased about that. Drop off today went great. The teacher apologized and told Johnny that she wanted to get on the right foot. That makes us happy. We got a call today that a little boy wanted Cooper's breakfast and pushed Cooper, Cooper fell and hit the back of his head on the floor. When Johnny picked Cooper up he had to sign 2 accident reports, one for the head and one for a scratch Cooper got when a little boy was trying to climb over him. Ugg, I guess this is part of moving from the infant room to the toddler room. It's killing me!!!!!!!!!!!
Johnny follows our blog and asked me last night why I had not posted lately...he also mentioned to me that I had a typo. I will apologize now for all the past and future typos. I get to typing so fast that it just happens from time to time and I do proof it before I post, but I rarely catch my own mistakes because I read the posts as I want them to read. So, I am sorry if I have any typos! :)

Halloween and Game 3 of The World Series

We had a fun and busy weekend. It was Halloween and Cooper was an adorable little duck, but he refused to wear the hat so he looked like a fuzzy yellow dot. Friday night we went to the Fall Festival at Cooper's school. It was close to bedtime when we went so he was not really interested in being there. We were there for 30 minutes, we could feel the meltdown coming on so we went home. Saturday was a big day for us. Cooper has swim lessons every Saturday morning; however, our Saturday afternoon and evening were going to be big. We were headed to Game 3 of The World Series. We got to Rangers Stadium around 2pm, parked and found a nice shade tree. We took Subway with us and enjoyed a picnic lunch and the awesome weather. There was not a cloud in the sky on Saturday. We made our way to the Stadium...which was packed. A sold out standing room only crowd. We walked around and waited in line for merchandise, ugg that was a mistake. I told Johnny that we could go to our seats and I would wait until after the 1st inning started to go get back in line. I did just that, but I did not return to our seats until the bottom of the 4th inning and I returned to a very fussy 1 year old who was hungry and tired. Anyway, the game was great and I am so glad we go to go. Here are a few pictures from our weekend.