More Fun

Today Cooper's preschool class drove out to Gales Creek to plant pumpkin plants. It was a rainy day, perfect for planting. Farmer Anne came to the school a couple weeks ago to help the kids plant the pumpkin seeds. She brought all the seedlings back to the farm and today they went into the ground. Here is Cooper's plant.




This fall the preschool will have a picnic at the farm and we will get to buy the pumpkins that the kids planted!
Other fun things the kids did today was take a turn on the tractor, look at a honeybee hive close-up, feed Stuart the rabbit, look at the ducks and find/hold snakes. Cooper loves the snake part! He held and pet the snake.




Looking at the bees




Holding hands with buddy Graham.








We left the farm about 11:30 and drove to Tillamook with Nona and Bob to check out the Tillamook Cheese Factory!








After nibbling on cheese samples, observing the workers (Cooper loved the observation area) and eating delicious ice cream, we headed back to Portland.

Nona's Here

Nona and Uncle Bob are visiting us for two weeks! We are having a great time, last week we had terrific weather too. We've been pretty busy with Cooper's last two weeks of school during this visit. Last week was parent appreciation day! The kids made their parents a candle, a magnetic picture frame with the school picture and sang us a song.

My mom and I played tennis this weekend, we will probably hit the court a few more times depending on the weather. We also checked out the Grilled Cheese Grill for lunch. Cooper loved sitting in the bus on the top deck.






We went to our first Dozer Days. This is an annual event where kids get to drive trucks: excavators, bulldozers, etc in a quarry. Cooper tried out the bulldozer, roller, excavator and backhoe. He had a great time, especially loved playing in the sand. We will definitely be doing this event again! Here is video of him driving the bulldozer.

Cooper and Sharon playing on tires.

Birthday Badge

Cooper wanted to celebrate his birthday at preschool so we did that May 3. I brought in pictures for Cooper to talk about and a baby outfit that teacher Anette tries to fit on the him. She also makes a birthday badge to wear all day. Here are some pictures of Cooper talking about his pictures and his outfit.

Roller

Today Rosey, Rosario, Cooper and I went to lunch at our favorite Thai restaurant. While we finished up lunch, a street paver rolled by out front. They are paving the street in front of the restaurant. Cooper found a nice seat in the window to watch the roller go back and forth while we chatted bit more.






Also, today is our big brown dog, Lukey's birthday! He is 1 today and he got a toy and a birthday bone!

Sun!

It's sunny here for several days in a row. It was 80 degrees yesterday! Nice weather keeps us outside all day. We biked with friends yesterday for about 3 miles. Cooper did great, listened really well. It was a busy trail so he had to pay attention and keep to one side. He did really well.



Erin, Mateo and Ciaran


Later he took his bike out again to ride in our driveway. This is the outfit he chose to wear.




Sharon and Cooper took another bike ride Monday evening. He was so tired from all that activity I had to wake him up to get to preschool this morning.

Bike riding

Cooper watched some girls off-road on their bikes at the park and he wanted to try also.
Here is a video of him on his bike coming down the hill.

Camping Pictures

Pictures from our trip to Bend, OR.






Cooper built a mud out behind our trailer.

First Camping Trip

We took the trailer out for our first trip of the season last weekend. We went to Tumalo State Park, near Bend, OR. The weather was summer-like, hot. It was Susan's birthday weekend trip and we all had a great time of playing cards, hiking, talking and eating good food. We were right by a river trail so we took a hike on Saturday. The dogs had a blast, Luke learned how to swim, but only to rescue me from the water. Hopefully this summer he will swim to fetch a stick or ball or something. Cooper rode his bike all over the campground from morning until night. We gave him some independence to ride to our friends sites without us too.

Nice Weather

We had great weather on Monday this week. Cooper spent the day eating and playing with Luke outside.

More Cousin Pictures

A few more pictures of the cousin visit. Sharon took them to the Multnomah Falls and to visit Herman the Sturgeon at Bonneville Dam.

I took the kids and dogs again to the dog park and the boys did not have as much fun this time. It all went south went Cooper did a face plant in the mud puddle. Chloe was sweet and carried him back to the car.

This was a nice quiet moment in the house, all three kids reading.

I took them to OMSI for an afternoon and they all had a great time, especially racing the boats.

Field Trip

Today, Cooper's preschool class took a field trip to a dentist office. One of the kids at preschool has a mom who owns a pediatric dentist clinic. They had a great time playing with the dental tools and they all got a goodie bag at the end of the day. It was fun and a fast field trip.

Birthday parties

Spring is a busy time for birthday parties. Two weekends in a row, Cooper has had a friend celebrate a birthday. There are two parties that we couldn't make this month too.
Last weekend was Emory's party. It took Cooper awhile to warm up to playing, he did a lot of watching. It was a pirate party, he enjoyed the balloon swords and started playing after observing for an hour. As the party wound down, Cooper and Emory had some one on one time. That was great, they missed each other. Emory let Cooper help open the last of his presents too.









This weekend, we are celebrating Uncle Susan's birthday. We are all camping near Bend, OR.