1st day of PreK-4

Complete and total blog neglect!  Our life has been a little hectic lately with moving in with my parents for a month before our new house(new to us...built in the 1960's) was ready (3 days ago)!  I've got to get back to it!!  I feel like poor Whitten has been neglected!  BUT....Coop had his 1st day of 4 year old preschool today!  We opted for the 3 day a week program instead of the 5 because....well, honestly I'm just not ready to do the whole "real deal" school thing yet.  We've got the rest of our lives to get up early, make lunches every night, iron clothes.....and, I'm still loving having him home with me.  Time is so precious, and I'm just going to soak it all up....because in a blink of an eye, he will be graduating high school.  No need to rush it!!

1st day of Prek-3 

1st day of PreK-4

(Whitt was excited to have Mommy all to himself!!  Which means, I'll just eat his little dimples all day long! Can't wait!)

Bees, rain and spiderman

Cooper found Whitten's Halloween costume from when he was just 1 month old!!

It doesn't rain much here in West Texas, so it's lots of fun when it does!  Too bad this was a storm with lots of lightening!!  We came in after I'm pretty sure lightening almost struck our house!

And...finally, these spiderman costumes are part of our everyday wardrobe.  Cooper's original one finally started falling apart and DeeDee bought him a new one..and of course Whitt had to get one too!  And you see that little page of a book in Whitt's hands....the duck has texture and he rubs on it for comfort!  It goes with us everywhere!

seriously...

delicious!

Im obsessed with...

sleeping kids!!

A day in the life of the Jones' boys....

Fresh out of the bath "tickle monster"

 Oh dear!  Coop needs company when he's taking care of business.  So...Whitt is reading him a book!

Pure sweetness!

 Superheroes in their undies!!  DeeDee got Cooper these fun costumes and they are now part of our every day life!!!   Cooper changes costumes approximately 152 times a day!  My favorite quotes from Coop so far, "Whitten, you be Batman and I'll be Robin because Batman and Robin are best buddies!"

Whitt finally discovered my shoes was absolutely going to wear them...or else!!!!  He handed me exactly what he wanted..... and I put them on!!

Boys?!?!

I just have to document this because for 1....it's hilarious.  2....it's just hilarious!!!!

Cooper: Hey Whitten!  Come talk to me while I go poop.
Whitt:  Agada beulauea kupa (follows Coop to bathroom)
5 minutes later
Me: Coop, are you ready?
Coop: NO, Whitten is reading me a book
Whitt: Yadme amelaie seiogke (standing in front of cooper "reading" Pat the Bunny and flipping pages)
Coop: Mom, after Whitten reads me a book, we are going to go on an adventure....so it's gonna take a long time.

I love that these boys are attached at the hip!  But keeping each other company in the bathroom....I mean!!!!!

Cooper's 4 year stats!

4 year stats
Weight: 37 lbs-50%
Height: 41.5 inches- 85-90%

3 year stats
33 lbs- 65%
38.5- 65 %


In one year you have gained 4 lbs. and grown 3 inches!  Looks like you have stretched out and leaned out a little bit!


This was the big FIVE shot appointment!  Yuck!  We've been talking to Cooper about it for quite sometime so that he wouldn't be surprised during the check up!  The last time he had to get a shot was about 4 months ago for strep.  And it was not pretty.  He kicked and screamed, pulled the nurses hair!  I finally had to lie down on top of  him and we had to call in an extra nurse for back up!  Yes, like I said, it was ugly!  I was expecting him to do the same this time, but I am happy to say that he did awesome!  However, from the moment he woke up that morning, he was a nervous wreck.  He had a hard time eating breakfast and you could just see the anxiety building up.  He did great during the first part of the appointment.  He wrote his name C-o-o-p-e-r (he actually wrote it correctly with only the first letter capitalized)!!  He drew a funny picture of daddy, passed his hearing and vision test, could balance like a flamingo on both feet, walked on the tightrope, identified the letters and their sounds, and then.....he thought he was finished!!  Not so fast!  We had to wait another couple of minutes for the nurse to come in with the big guns!  As soon as she walked in, Cooper was under the chair!  We only had to ask him once to come out, and he did.  He whimpered a little when Josh put him on the table, but he didn't fight it one bit!  He didn't even wince during the first 2 shots, the 3rd one must've hurt because he screamed bloody murder....but he didn't fight it!  The 4th went smoothly and the 5th had to hurt because there was another blood curdling scream.  Then it was over and we were off to Toy's R Us and then to the lake!!  He did end up with a low grade fever and super sore legs that night and the next morning, but I think being at Nanny and Papa's lake house helped him to heal a little faster!  I've been dreading that appointment for months!  But....he survived!