Standing on my own!

Well I still haven't been able to get Kooper to walk for the camera however I did get some pictures of him standing all on his own. He's really getting brave. He's starting to just let go of things while standing, but then after a few seconds he just sits down. His babysitter, Sandy, has been working with him during the week. I also noticed today that he has another tooth. This one is on top and its one of his two front teeth, the other one looks like it could come in any day now along with a couple of his other incisors. I had heard a story of a baby starting to walk one day, then stopping. They took him to their pediatrician because they were worried. Well the pediatrician said that he had teeth coming in and once the teeth came through he would take off walking. So... we're hoping that now that he cut those teeth he's been working on for weeks now he might start walking. It's so hard to believe he'll be 11 months next week. His one year birthday will be here before we know it. I can't wait to see him during Christmas! Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Got the Giggles!

Jeremy was laying on the floor in the living room throwing a small teddy bear up the air and Kooper thought it was hillarious. I had to get a video of him laughing. He was laughing so hard he was turning red and would start coughing. :)

First Steps!!!

Well Kooper took his first steps the other day, by himself! It was last Thursday and we were at my mom and dad's, Jeremy was at class so unfortunately he missed it. Kooper was holding on to their ottoman and I was sitting on the floor leaning on the couch. I told him to come to me and I held out my hands. He let go of the ottoman and took about four steps to me, then he got close enough and he just fell on me. I was so excited! I could not believe he actually did it. He's done it a couple of other times since then but Jeremy has still not seen. I was also not able to get any pictures of him doing it. It seems like every time I take out my camera and try to get him to walk he refuses. So I guess I'll just have to wait on the pictures and videos, but it won't be too long and he'll be walking all over the place!!! Other than that that's about all that's been going on around here. I was a hostess this past weekend of a baby shower for my girlfriend from work, Sarah. She is due in Jan. Some of us from work threw her a shower. She had a good turn out and got a lot of great stuff. I am sooooo ready for Thanksgiving break. I need a break from work. It will be nice to stay home for a few days and relax a little and play with Kooper of course. Maybe we can work on the walking! :)

Red Ribbon Week

Last week was Red Ribbon Week at school. We had a day that we wore our pajamas to school and a day that we wore team shirts.

This is us in our pajamas. We were missing two of our teachers in this picture.

This is us in our team shirts. The night before some of us got together and made these shirts. We messed the first ones up so went back to the drawing board and came up with these. You can't see but we also have our last names on the back. They turned out really cute! Everyone at school was jealous!!

Halloween

This is me with some of the other second grade teachers on Halloween. We dressed up as Scarecrows and paraded around school. Our second graders also dressed up. We had a fun day!

Wimberly, Texas

This past weekend I went to Market Days in Wimberly, Texas. My mom, Kooper, my cousins Brenda, Haddley, Brooke and Paige and myself drove up there early Saturday morning. We got there around 11am. We stayed at the Leahy's Creekside Cottages. The Leahy's are neighbors of mom and dad and allowed us to use their cabins, or cabbages as my four year old cousin Brooke called them. :) There is a goose that lives there on the creek. It was quite hungry when we arrived but we didn't have anything to feee it. Kooper was scared of the goose because it kept making noises at us. We went and ate lunch and then decided to head on over to Market Days. We walked around looking at all the different booths. Some of it was antique stuff, some was craft items and then there was some that just looked like garage sale junk. I bought a few things, come Christmas decorations, sunglasses and few other things. I think Haddley bought a couple of things, mostly for the girls. Brenda bought a CD of some guys who were playing out there and mom walked out without buying anything. We stayed the night in the cabins, woke up early the next morning, packed up and headed back to Market Days for a couple of hours. Then we headed into town for lunch. After lunch we looked in a few shops in downtown Wimberly then decided to head on home. Here are few pictures from our weekend.

Kooper making an escape out of the cabin.

Another escape!

The goose that lives at the creek.

Kooper looking at the goose. He wasn't too sure about it.

This is the view of the creek from the back porch.

Kooper did not want to take his picture on the hay. This is him and his cousin Brooke.

So, I tried again, but this time I held him. This is Paige, Brooke, Me and Kooper.