Spring is Here!!!!

Easter Day....The kids and Jon minus his face!

Maddox playing Wii tennis for the first time!!!!

Dessert

Easter morning

Even Cooper found an egg at the hunt!

Dying Easter eggs with our friends.

Maddox liked the bunny ears the Easter bunny gave him.

Our visit to see the Easter bunny!!!!

We love you Hank!!

Hot Cocoa after sledding......Colorado's March blizzard

Bathtime

yummy....rice cereal for the first time!!!

St Paddy's Day in Old Town Fort Collins

Check out Cooper's face....one of the many reasons why I have been to the Dr so many times!

Cooper's Dedication

Ok, so I keep getting emails from somebody saying I needed to update my blog so here I go!!!!!!! I can't believe it is already April. And I really can't believe Addison is going to be 5 years old in less than 2 weeks. She is so excited she is going to be going to kindergarten next year. We school of choiced her into the Poudre School District and she was accepted into the full day class so we have decided to send her full day. I know I'm not ready for that, but she is thrilled. I get teary eyed just thinking about it so I can't imagine how that first day of class will go!! She will be going to school with a couple friends from the neighborhood and one from preschool and church that we know of so far. Maddox is excited for preschool as well. He always says when he is four he will "do whatever it is we are talking about". When he is four he will like broccoli. When he is four he will wear underwear to bed at night. He spends his whole day "digging". I mean all day long he digs and digs and digs. He is such a boy! He loves jumping on the tramp and climbing on the swing set as well. I am amazed at his energy level.....Constantly going! In the last few months I have decided that our sweet little Cooper is "temperamental"!! He can be smiling and happy and a second later he will be screaming. I know all kids are different, but he is so different than my other 2. He makes me feel like a first time mom! We have nicknamed him Cheese, cuz when he is awake and not screaming or crying, he is smilin'. He is almost 6 months old.....wow, seems like I just had him. Oh, I guess that could be because when they are newborns, they get up every few hours....hmmmmmm I'm still doing that! He is definitely not my sleeper. I called the dr when Addison was a newborn because she took 3 2-3 hour naps and slept from 9pm-9am by 6-8 weeks. I thought maybe something was wrong with her. They laughed and said you are calling because your child sleeps too much?! He won't take a bottle so Jon can't help with the feeding at night. As I have said before, he has a set of lungs like no other, so usually I would let them cry themselves back to sleep, but he is a persistent little guy! He has had a couple more ear infections but hasn't had one in a month or so. I took him to the Dr one day in March(ok, I had been in there at least once a week for something) because he was up screaming all night.....I just knew it had to be an ear infection. Anyway, Dr Booth had somebody following him and after he told me that Cooper looked just fine, that he just had a really bad cold, the lady said, now should we have Nicole come back in 2 weeks to just double check those ears. Dr Booth and I looked at each other and he busted up(and I mean he was just about rolling on the floor laughing)and said, yea usually we do like to schedule a recheck, but I don't think we need to do that with Nicole!!! He knew I would probably be in to see him before that 2 weeks anyway!! Cooper was dedicated at church the beginning of March which was very exciting. Maddox had just learned to snap his fingers so he was up on stage snapping the entire dedication! Spring Break was a bit of a bummer for us this year.....Maddox was sick and then as soon as he was well, Cooper came down with it. We spent most of our break indoors. We had a wonderful Easter. We took the kids to see the Easter bunny at the mall. Maddox loved him. He walked up to him and said, '' You are adorable!" I could barely get Addison to walk up to him let alone get a picture with her in it. She is not fond of mascots! We had a couple Easter egg hunts which the kids loved. Addison was very concerned about spending Easter as a family. She kept saying, Daddy you are not going to work today right....it is time to spend the day as a family! Ok, that is what Team Base has been up to the last few months. I'm so looking forward to summer and the the business that it brings! Thanks Tara for reading my posts!!!!! Check out the pictures of our chunky monkey!!!!
Love,