Coopie is walking!

Yesterday Auntie Marta came back to California to visit. Cooper must have felt like trying to impress her to encourage her to stay. After a family dinner to celebrate Marta's birthday, we were all sitting around my parents living room and Coopie started going back and forth between Craig and I. He started out wanting to hold a finger, then started simply throwing himself in the right direction, hoping his feet could keep up. But with a little practice he started walking, really walking between us. We were all so excited and cheered him on every step. He has done this a few times before, but last night he was really practicing and working hard. I think he probably did about 8 steps in a row, go Coopie go! Today he was not very eager to practice, but once Craig got home he walked back and forth a couple times. He is a VERY fast crawler, so I think he may continue to default to crawling for a little longer, but either way it was fun to see him working so hard and having so much fun. He is becoming such a little boy, it is all going by WAY to fast. He still loves to nurse, but boy Cooper loves his food, there are some meals where I think he actually eats more then Kylie does. He is also communicating more and more. Still no official words, but he is making lots of different sounds and often imitates different animal noises. He can identify all of us, but has yet to say "dada" or "mama." Cooper is a wild boy when he nurses (most of the time). He climbs all around, sticking his butt up in the air, then sitting down quickly, flopping his head back and forth, grabbing my armpit skin and working it between his fingers, then he pops off just to pull up my shirt and give me a zer-bert on my tummy, then he is back nursing. It is a little like a circus. Even more so when Kylie is nursing too. They poke at each other and try to get each other to pop off, kick at each other and sometimes if Kylie stops nursing to tell me something, Cooper tries to sneak in and take her side. Then there are times when they are super sweet and hold hands or gently touch each others faces. It's moments like this that make me happy I decided to tandem nurse them.

So here are a few photos from the past couple days...
 

 Mother's Day, the "kids" got me a Keurig, yay!!!

 This past Saturday I had to work at the hospital during the day and at the BI in the evening. Craig decided to take the kids to the beach to meet up with Doe, Lala, Stephanie and Papa David. They had lots of fun, but boy did I miss them.

 On Sunday we took a little trip to Target, Coopie got fancy.

 Auntie Marta had a candle in her ice-cream cone.

 Coopie at church.

 Cooper asked to wear his "my auntie rocks" shirt just for her party.

 "What? I don't know where my corn on the cob went!"

 Sunday afternoon we celebrated Misheel's 3rd Birthday.

And today, Memorial Day, Craig had to work so the kids and i spent time with the extended family, it was a great day. We are also in the middle of having the outside of our house painted! It is looking great!
Good night for now,
Natalie