Coopie is almost crawling and Kylie started neighborhood preschool!

Our little man is growing up so fast. Cooper is 7 months old and over the past week he has been pushing up on all 4s and starting to rock a little. He will then fling himself forward and try again. On our new rug in the living room, he is getting good at digging his fingers in and pulling himself forward. He is now also able to get from a sitting position down to his belly, and back up to sitting! He has pulled himself up on a couple different items and will stand leaning against the couch. It's all going way to fast! Kylie was a very cautious kid, we never had to childproof much or worry about her getting hurt. Cooper is a totally different story, he is already in to everything and he is not even about to get around that much.

Today we started our neighborhood preschool co-op. Every Monday from 9-12 the 5 little girls (Kylie, Mish, Portia, Elly and Emerson) will have "preschool." We are taking turns at all of our houses and today it was at Rachel's.  The girls learned about the letter A and the color Red! Kylie was so excited about going to school this morning. My parents were with her since Craig and I were both working, but they said that she was dressed and ready an hour early and when it was finally time to go she ran all the way to Rachel's house.
Coloring time...

 Last week Kylie got to go to two birthday parties in one day! Her friend Hana had a party at Big Air and Ama had a dinner party.

 She insisted on wearing Coopers pjs...

 Mish and Ky at preschool today.

 Kylie trying an ice cream sandwich for the first time at Hana's birthday.

 All of our families traveled a lot over the holidays. The girls were so excited to get back together and play. this was taken about a week ago.

I left Cooper here for about 30 seconds with one book in his lap and came back to this...

 Painting apples at preschool.

 Tea party time...

 Kylie loves playing at Rachel's house, the girls have so much fun stuff! This day they all dressed up. Kylie is wearing Lilly's costume that is only about 5 sizes to big, but she didn't care. She sang Frozen songs to us anyway.

 A couple nights ago at dinner Cooper started raising his hands. Sometimes both of them and sometimes just one. "Yes Coopie, how can we help you?"

 Bath time!

 We have also been continuing with introducing different foods to Cooper. He is getting better and better at getting food to his mouth and chewing it. At this point he has had avocado, banana, carrots, asparagus, peas, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, cucumber, broccoli, apple, strawberries and oranges. He seems to like it all and we have not had any problems. It is so fun to be able to give him some food, he loves feeling like he is part of meal time.

Both kids and Craig have been sick for the past couple weeks, but it got worse over the past couple days :o( And just today I started to feel yucky too :o(  I am hoping we can kick this thing soon, it is no fun having stuffy kids that can't breath well at night. I also developed a clogged milk duct (first time ever in almost 3 years of breastfeeding). It has been 2.5 days and I have tried everything to get rid of it. The plan is to keep massaging and warm compresses and hoping for the best. I have been having Kylie nurse on that side as often as I can, I figured she would be strong enough to clear it, but no luck so far :o(

Time for bed, good night.
Natalie