tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83784699876550873552011-09-04T09:42:16.455-07:00The dramatic reenactment of our daily lives.Coophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07480308289529217050noreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8378469987655087355.post-47704279338083818452010-12-02T21:43:00.000-08:002010-12-02T21:43:53.886-08:00

Sorry, it has been too long. I have been a bad blogger... I don't know why, blogging has been basically my absolute last priority for a few months. Perhaps I am kept busy most of the day. Well, I'll try to be better about it.  We were also busy travelling. September was Grampa's birthday and we went down to CA for a little while. Then October brought visitors here and November brought

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and the livin' is easy....Well this one is pre-sunshine. A rainy day in July found lots of fun in dominoes!And what fun is breakfast without a little music? In most recent News- Brennan is ONE year old. A year! gone, like that. Here is our day of fun and celebrating or littlest boy.First: he slept in till 8:15. Wow. thank you for my present Brennan!For Birthday Breakfast we have a pan"cake".

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Samuel our landscape professional. Gloom. That is one word for it. As Samuel put it one day upon looking out the window to find dreariness once again- "It's raining. Cwappy. cwappy, cwappy, cwaaaapy!!" He sort of sang a little crappy ditty about the weather. I have no idea where he could have possibly learned to call rain crappy!? I really (try) to spell it out (almost) every time! So I

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The family at a winery :)Whew. What a whirlwind! But who could expect anything less from a month packed to the brim with birthdays, mother's day, vacation, Disneyland, travel town, wine tasting, friends and family! It has been wonderful and each day brings more laughter and love. Jumpinggolfing at Uncle Darrell's- good form huh?runningSeriously, these two boys are at some of the cutest ages!

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He is the cutest thing ever- I am saying so "Oh Canada...... You're above the United States"... Or so goes the song from my childhood memory ;) Oh and there was nice weather. Other than that ( I will try to keep it brief): We were NOT staying in Vancouver, but 20 minutes outside. In a very "business-y" hotel On a main road with no sidewalks, and nothing to walk to should one decide to brave

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I realized that i didn't include any pictures or really mention Brennan in my last post. Maybe I have been subconsciously trying to block him from my mind because he has been teething and waking me up all night long and fussing all day long. Thankfully one big nasty tooth broke through on Easter and another a few days later. We'll see if there are more to come. Anyway, he is doing great and

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Thirty days left. In thirty days I will be thirty. Thirty. T H I R T Y. weird word. anywho, my lovely sister Anna was just here for a visit for her birthday ( I will not say her age) :) and while she was here a big box arrived addressed to me from her! Oh my! We get boxes often here. Gifts for the boys from far away family who cannot control themselves. But for me? Not unless I ordered it myself.

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This is about the time of year where the world around you is supposed to shout "spring!" as the season unfolds before you. I think maybe the world around me is whispering "spring". I do see a few flowers, and new leaves growing. Frogs are croaking. And there are bathing suits for sale at Target. But other than that, it is still the season we call- "gray". Rain, clouds and still cold. I've been

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So I was sitting in the Urgent Care this past Saturday morning, describing my chest pain to the Dr. (Chest, front of neck and jaw = classic heart attack symptoms) and she asked me if I had any stressful things going on in my life. I giggled a little and said "Well, I have been trying to potty train my son this week"... And she sent me home with some information on anxiety and advice to "give the

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LoveFebruary seems to be speeding past us. Time flies when you are having fun! We have had visits from two favorites, Gramma and Aunt Anna. Samuel, being a two year old boy, decided to wait until after Gramma left to start actually saying "Gramma", which when she heard it over the phone was almost enough to bring her right back. It is a little more like "dramma" but the intention is there. Samuel

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It's February 2010. Where does time go? It has been almost a year since our blog was up and running, and even then it was only once a month. Some changes ahead- I will now write from my point of view; I used to write from Samuel's perspective, but now that he is not the only child around here, we'll adjust to Mom vision. I'll try (try being the operative word here) to write more often. I

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Well, we are approaching the one year mark in our unintentional hiatus from blogging. I have been thinking lately of refocusing my facebook, twitter, email efforts and concentrating them on our blog. However I also think I will be making it private. Weird things going on out there with peoples pictures and such. So keep an eye out!Julia

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Where do I start? So I'm 1 now and I guess that means you get to do all kinds of fun, exciting things, like going to the zoo where I got to go down a slide, and ride an elephant and a camel... and using the computer... ...eating real people food...mmm....pasta.... ...and showing Great Grandpa and Cousin Scotty how to destroy a tower of blocks! But being 1 has brought some things that were

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Hey everyone- I have been super busy this last month. So sorry I didn't get time to blog about my big birthday! I turned one year old!!! Can you believe it? I made it to my first birthday ever! I had presents and cake and a pan"cake" breakfast. Yummy. Pancakes are my very favorite thing- I could eat a dozen, oh wait I have eaten a dozen ! So I think something is going on with Mommy and I

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New Baby! Wait what? I'm the baby. Well, technically I will be one year old in a few weeks and I can walk and eat people food, but I am the baby! I thought Mom and Dad said I was getting a pet in August and I was really hoping for a Dog. I better talk to them about this and see if we can renegotiate the terms. I mean really, what do I want with a baby, they just cry and sleep, what am I

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Sleighbells, snow, silent night? What are they talking about? I have never seen any of these things! Maybe they are pretend, you know- like Santa. All I know is Mommy is playing fun Christmas music all the time, and there is this tree thing with lights all over it, which I am NOT allowed to touch. Wha? WHy would you do that to a wonderful 11 month old boy who is learning to walk? I must

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This is it! My big moment. Gramma videoed me giving one of my greatest speeches to date. I would like to thank Grampa for his support throughout this speech and all the little people out there- like me! I really hope you enjoy watching it as much as I do. It comes from the heart.Yours truly,Samuel

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I am always so amazed when I stop to blog that another month has flown by! Where did it go? In two more months I will be one year old! I just cannot believe how big I am. It seems like only yesterday I couldn't roll over and now lookat me I can stand independently for like 5 seconds. I mean I am thinking about trying to walk sometime in the future. They grow up so fast folks.

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Yo! My name is Samuel and I'm here to say... I love to dance in a different way! I move to the beat. but not with my feet. I bounce up and down like a little Chris Brown! Yeeeeah Boyee! Also I went to the pumpkin patch- this place is crazy. They have pumpkins that are so big you could carve it out and I could play inside! I liked it and I got dressed so cute to have my picture taken.

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Wow! October is half over already! Yeeash! This year is going by so fast- the other day I was sitting at the table eating my breakfast- pancake yummy- and Daddy says to me, "Are you going to be ready for a cake in three months?". Three months? Wha? no! I better get busy, no more liquid food for me. Only chunky. Goodbye Pureed carrots. Hello beef stew! So in case you didn't recieve the

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I am such a big boy now! Let me tell you. I am into everything. I can push myself into sitting positon from my tummy; I can close the cupboard doors (although mommy says thankfully I can't open them); I eat and sleep on a lovely schedule; I wear size 12 months; and what else... oh yeah I got 5 new teeth last week!!! That was rough. Pretty soon I will have a really grin and not just gums

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I had my first trip to Laguna and I loved it! I was such a good boy- hoping that maybe we could stay forever, but we came home- boo! I swam and slept and played. It was so nice and cool there. And all my friends were there- everyone loved me. I hope I get to go back soon.

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Well as much as goes on for a baby anyway. I just turned 7 months old on wednesday! I am getting so big- at my last Dr's appt. I was 50th% for weight, 75th% for head circumference (more room for my big brain) and 94% for length! NBA here I come! I have three teeth, so my smile is a little lopsided, and I went on my first family vacation to Laguna. When I say family I mean most of Burbank.

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Hi there! Samuel here. So you know how I was telling you about that sharp thing in my mouth? Well another one was there three days later! Youch! I am such a big boy! Theres this new thing I tried where I sit up all by myself, and then I play this game. I lean a little to the side or the back and Mommy jumps to try to catch me but I already have it under control- silly Mommy. She's quick but

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I have a question? What is a China? Mommy says that is where Daddy is, but he has been gone for a long time so I was just wondering what that is? Is it like a crib or like a carseat? I hope not- those are horrible. So anyway I turned 5 months old the other day and the next day this sharp thing was in my mouth! Yikes- where did that come from? What a stinker. I hope that never happens again!

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Wow June is here- time flies! I am growing up so fast. I will be 5 months old this month. I haven't gotten a tooth yet but I sure am a droolin fool. Lately I went on a few little getaways. Mommy, Gramma and Aunt Anna and I went to Laguna Hills to watch Aunt Anna run a half marathon. Well we visited all the malls within a 10 mile radius, that was fun ( sarcasm intended, I pretty much slept

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Hooray! May is here! I have a good feeling about May, this month I plan to rollover many times, sleep through the night, get a tooth, laugh my head off and turn four months old. Mommy and Daddy have their birthdays in May too! Mommy also had her first Mother's day- So Exciting! So here is the first item checked off my list- laughing. Mommy is seriously so funny, I think she has learned from

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Remember that conspicuous hippo? Well I taught him a thing or two!

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For those of you unilingualists that means three months- which means me! Wowee- Mom was quite sure she would never make it three days let alone three months, but we did. Here is the proof---- This is me holding up my head-please don't look at my bum. This is my serious face This is my funny face This is me cheering for Daddy playing wii soccer, or was it golf... or guitar heros.

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I have been trying to show the world that I am a genius for two months now and finally Mom and Dad got me on camera. So here's the proof. I am sure there will be many more such examples in my life.

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Here are some of my early hobbies. I am slightly limited so please don't judge. I am sure more usefull skills will soon develop... Here I am practicing my opera. Here I am staring at the lamp- a favorite activity because, "hey isn't there always a lamp around"? you can do this one anywhere. This is me blowing bubbles; still developing this talent to see where it will take

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..but I am amaaaazing! I have officially been here 6 weeks. And wowee it has been exciting (sarcasm intended). I pretty much hang out with Mom, eat, sleep, cry. Sometimes we go to Target- well a lot of times we go to Target, also Trader Joes and to Gramma and Grampa's house to do laundry. So far so good. I was 9lbs and 4 oz at the Dr's visit last week and 22 1/2" long. I am long and lean- I

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Samuel James Cooper January 20th, 20088lbs. 7oz.21 1/4 inches2:54pm1 Samuel 1:20 So in the course of time Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, "Because I asked the LORD for him." I never realized how lacking many words in the English language are- Pain, Tired, Love are no where near defining our feelings in the last few days. So they say a picture is worth a

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WELCOME! Well I am seriously tired and hungry these days, and Mom is getting there too. C'mon folks I have been multiplying my size by amounts you wouldn't even comprehend for the last 220 some odd days. it's true! I'll prove it- look... First I am only 6 weeks old- six weeks people!technically that means I have only been at this thing for 4 weeks, those Dr's calculate things weird. This

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