Playing in the dirt

Cooper and I enjoyed spring-ish
weather this weekend. Yesterday we took a walk/Skuut with friends Erin, Teo and Ciaran. We met them in Washington on the river path. We walked a little over a mile to a park in downtown Vancouver and let the kids play.
After that Erin went to eat and Cooper and I checked out the new Vancouver library. By the time we headed back to our car it was sunny outside. All totaled we walked about 4 miles.

Today Cooper and I played with the dogs in the backyard and on the play structure. Cooper wanted to dig so he decided to play in the dirt under the trailer. He found lots of bugs.






Here are two pictures with Luke.






Sharon is busy upstairs. She painted the storage space yesterday so I can start moving things in this week. She's also doing a lot of finish work. I will get a picture of the shower door this week to post too. It was installed Tuesday and it looks awesome.

Also last week, Cooper and I were sick in bed with a cold on Tuesday. Then on Wednesday Cooper complained of his ears hurting. We took him to Zoomcare and sure enough he had two ear infections. His first ever. Good thing we have Sharon, she knew to take him in.
We are both feeling better now and the ear pain is subsiding.

Happy Valentine's week!

Nice day for a walk

I took all the kids for a walk on Monday. Wyatt slept in the stroller, Larkin walk/ran and Cooper Skuuted. It was a beautiful day.






Later that day we all went to the park. Wyatt slept again in the stroller, Cooper, Larkin and I played train and ran around.

Painting Crew

Mama and Cooper started priming the storage room today. Here is a video showing just how bossy Cooper can be :)

Sunny days

It was beautiful on Friday and Wyatt loves sleeping in the stroller so I took him, Larkin and Riley on a walk. Sharon and Cooper were running errands and then she dropped Cooper off at the park to walk home with us.
Larkin walked Riley to the park, she was talking to Riley the whole time.



On the way home, Cooper walked Riley.






Until he found a tree to climb.



Larkin wanted to get in the picture too.



And one more for good measure.

Special Friends

Today Cooper had the choice of inviting any adult special friend to his preschool brunch day. He gave me the invite. It was a sweet fun time where he could show me around his preschool. I hope I keep being his first choice. Thanks C!

Toilet!

Sink and toilet went in tonight. Thank you Dory for helping Sharon!







Here is the grouted shower, we need to get a shower door and it will be working!

Outings

This week we went to OMSI (Science Museum) with Erin, Teo and Ciaran. Cooper is outgrowing the science playground area that is for younger kids. He really likes Turbine Hall that has cranes and boats to play with. He also liked a new exhibit that was on exercise and health. Oh and he still loves the Gravitram, he could watch that thing all day.







Today was Special Friends Brunch at preschool. The kids made invitations and asked a special friend to join them for food at their preschool. Cooper chose Mama and they had a blast. The kids made hats for their friends and they each brought a food item to contribute to the lunch.
Here is Sharon coming home with her hat.

Snow!

It snowed Tuesday night, it was so pretty watching it come down. Cooper has been patiently waiting for snow to have a snowball fight. When he woke up we looked outside and then quickly bundled out to enjoy it. It was raining pretty hard but we had a blast and so did the dogs.

Tap class

Cooper started tap class this month. This is his second class.

Bathroom updates

Here is the bathroom floor tiled. Sharon is a rockstar! She is letting it dry for a couple days before grouting the shower and floor.

New job

I took on another baby to watch. It will mostly be Mondays with an occasional Tuesday or Friday. The baby is almost four months old and they live three houses away.
Yesterday was my first day, it went really well. Cooper did great, he had some jealousness with me holding the baby but he was a great helper. Here he is keeping the baby occupied.



The baby napped briefly throughout the day, he loved the Maya sling to fall asleep in and hang out in when awake.

Tiled shower

Yes we are tiling!

Sharon begun tiling the shower. Sweet it looks awesome, instant gratification. Susan came over today and helped clean the work site and primed the walls.

Sharon tiling







Primed walls

Bathroom is coming along

Walls are up in the bathroom. Sharon has been diligently working on it to get ready to tile. She also made another storage space in the attic.



Here is Cooper helping Mama screw something in.






We've been in a state of construction with all the sheetrock and plywood but it's just about done! I will post some pictures of the sheet-rocked bathroom soon.

Back to school

I am glad break is over and we are in a routine again. It's been a nice break but the lack of structure is making me a little nuts. Cooper asked about Larkin everyday this last week. We actually ran into them at Target yesterday. It was great because Cooper was adamant about seeing her and there she was!

We had preschool today and although Cooper didn't want to go, he had a great time. I think he missed his classmates because the teacher said he was out of his shell. We also had tap class this afternoon. He told me he was nervous before the class started and he remained that way for the class. He did participate, he loved the jumping part and couldn't wait to tell Mama about it.

Cooper's imagination is fantastic right now, lots of good stories and boy is he funny.

Christmas Dinner at Lindsay's

We also had the tradition of a nice gift exchange and dinner at Lindsay's house the week before Christmas. The gift exchange is similar to White Elephant in that you can steal, except the gifts are something that you would want to receive. We scored some great ceramic knives and a cutting board. It was a lovely dinner, good conversation, food and games.

Susan

Kerry and Beti

Steven

Dory

Holly and Sharon

Steve and Janet

Christmas Eve

We had our tradition of homemade pizzas for Christmas Eve. Holly, Angie, Janet and Cis came over to help eat. The pizzas were awesome. We let Cooper open one present that evening and he chose the one Larkin gave him. Here is he opening the gift.

 Super Cool!

Cissy stopped by to give Cooper her gift.

Rosey and Rosario

Janet and Rosario

Christmas Dinner

We had our annual Christmas prime rib dinner at Janet's house Christmas evening. Cooper had a couple more gifts to open there. Dinner was delicious, games were had and conversation was aplenty.

Connie, Susan and Sue

 Holly and Angie

 Janet (Host with the Most)