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.