Playing outside with Daddy

Trapped

... but maybe I can lick my way out of here.

Play Date

We enjoyed a nice play date this week with our friends from our exercise dance class.  We wanted to get a shot of the babies together, but it sure is hard to get a nice photo of five babies!

The babies from L to R are Kiera, Cohen, Luke, Riley and Lauren.

Notice Cohen has stolen Luke's soother (even though his own is attached to his overalls!)

Kindermusik Class

Cohen and I just finished a kindermusik class, which was excellent.  We're sad that it's over, but here are a few pics from our last class.

Playing the drums:

Sitting on the pillow at the beginning of the class:

We took the class with Cohen's cousins Riley and Saige.  Here's a picture of all three of them.  It was so nice to see them every week at the class.

As usual, Cohen has stolen someone else's soother (you can see him starting to reach for it in the picture above).  Poor Riley doesn't know what to think of it.

Playing on the Deck

Enjoying the beautiful weather by playing outside in the backyard!

Tuckered Out

Maddie's 1st Birthday

Here are a few pics from cousin Maddie's birthday party.  I can't believe she's already a year old!

Three sisters with their most beautiful smiles for the camera ;)

Maddie was loving the balloons (yes, that's a happy face)

Opening some gifts.

Enjoying her new ride-on giraffe from Nana and Gigi.

Saige's Baptism

Here are a few pics from cousin Saige's baptism a few weeks ago.

The "Twins"

Here's the latest of Maddie and Cohen.  Lots of cuteness!

Ten Months!

Somehow another month has zoomed by and Cohen is now 10 months old.  He's getting busier every day and Mommy and Daddy are exhausted by the time bed time rolls around each night.  Cohen is becoming more toddler and less baby every day and it is so much fun to watch him discover the world around him.

Cohen is not quite mobile, but he will crawl up to two feet using either the army-man crawl or the traditional crawl, but he seems to not realize he can go further using either of those methods.  He's getting sturdier walking behind his walker and no longer needs help for stability (but still needs help with steering).

Cohen talks constantly (as he always has) and is coming out with new sounds all the time.  His favorite, of course, is still "gee".  He says "dada" all the time, but doesn't seem to associate it with Mike yet.  Although I work with him on "mama" every day, he still can't say the "m" sound :(

This month we started sleep training and Cohen is now consistently sleeping in his own bed in his own room (finally!) and goes down in the evening fairly easily for Mommy.  We now have to work on bedtime with Daddy and getting him to sleep through the night (he still wakes frequently and needs Mommy to get him back to sleep).

Cohen continues to bring us so much joy and we love every minute with our little guy!

Hangin' in the Park with my Cousins

Playing in the Grass

We've been enjoying the beautiful weather and have spent lots of time outside.