Summer is Flying By!

Cooper

So sweet!

Having fun in the swing.

Preschool Graduation....Addy with her teachers. Mrs Fagan wanted to hold Cooper.

A weekend getaway to Boulder. On Pearl Street at the water spouts. So fun!!

Pearl Street before Jon joined us for the night.

Mad Dog

Our Cinderella at her dance recital

Our little soccer player.

Cooper in his gown getting ready for surgery.

Surgery all done....now ready to go home.

Gowns and hair nets on and almost ready for surgery....aren't they cute?!

Cooper standing with some help!

I can't believe it is already July 30th!!! Where has the summer gone? It is hard to believe that in less than a month, the kids will start school. I am not ready for that! Addison will start full day kindergarten on August 19th. She is so excited and ready to go! Me? Not so much. I am so sad she will be gone all day, but excited for her as well. Maddox will miss her sooooo much. They are good buddies and play with each other all day long. Maddox will be going to preschool on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Those 2 mornings I will only have Cooper....what am I going to do with myself?! Oh yea, I will probably still be holding Cooper!!!! Yep, it's true, that sweet chunky monkey that we call Coop Deville is my fussy little dude!! He likes his mama to be holding him!!!! You would think that he would get enough of me during the day, but apparently not cuz he screams for me at least once a night!!!! 9 months and still not sleeping through the night!!!!! Addy and Maddox both slept through the night by 2 months so each month I would say oh it's just taking him a little longer.....now I just pray that he will be sleeping all night by 1 year! Cooper is so smiley which is how he got his nickname, Cheese. He just started scooting and now he really gets around. I have noticed the screaming is getting less now that he is getting more mobile. Coops favorite thing to do right now besides sleeping and eating is playing legos with Maddox. I'm not so sure that Mad appreciates his help, but he is very good with him most of the time! Because of the crazy weather in Colorado this summer and our schedule, we've only been to the pool a handful of times. I can't believe it's July and I feel like making a pot of chili! It feels like football season. At the beginning of summer break Addison went to vacation Bible School. She loved it! Then that next week, she did our church's VBS which was a sports camp. She did the cheerleading and LOVED it!!! She is either dancing, cheering or singing. I think she constantly has music in her head. I think she got the Base's voice. Thank goodness!!! Maddox did soccer. He really liked it and did a great job. I was glad to see that he wasn't picking flowers like Addison did when she played soccer! They did a sports class together which they enjoyed. Basketball was the first week, hockey the second and it ended with baseball. Jon is banking on that last sport for Maddox since he is left handed! Addy, Maddox, Cooper and I went to Kansas for a few days to see my parents, sister and her family. They love playing with their cousins. Swim lessons were great. They were able to be in the same class this summer. Addison is quite the swimmer. Maddox is.....crazy. He does everything a hundred miles a minute! He is just like Jon! I would just sit there and laugh....he's so funny. Speaking of funny, a couple weeks ago, I was checking on Cooper while he was supposed to be napping. Well, I saw his diaper up by his head, so I decided it might be a kodak moment....oh boy was it! I opened up the door and there was poop everywhere!!! He was covered from head to toe in poop. He had either been smearing it everywhere or he was actually eating it. I like to think the first one! He was so enjoying it though. He had the biggest smile on his face! On July 24th, Cooper got tubes put in both his ears. He is doing fine and you would never know he had surgery less than a week ago. That same day, Addison had her adnoids and tonsils taken out. She had chronic infection but never got sick from them. Her tonsils were huge! She also had sleep apnia and snored. They were blocking 85% of her airway. No wonder she choked on her food when she ate! Since the surgery I have had to take a double check on her to make sure she is still breathing cuz she is so calm and quiet! Unfortanately her recovery has not gone as smoothly as Coops. She has not been eating or drinking and she is now dehydrated. She has had a low grade fever, lethargic and her breath smells like there might be a dead animal in my house. Doc said she has an infection which also causes her to not want to drink or eat anything. She is now on an antibiotic so hopefully that will help and she will be feeling better soon. She has been such a trooper. We haven't been out of the house since Friday so I think we are all going to be ready to get out of here once she is feeling better! We were supposed to do our annual camping trip this weekend with a bunch of friends, but we will have to miss this years.:-((((( We look forward to that weekend every year, so hopefully this will be the only one we have to miss. That is about it for the Base's. Will update once school starts. Enjoy the pics!!