Laughing

Knees. And Love.

For some reason you've decided to get up on your knees now to move! For 2 months you pulled yourself very efficiently to get to anything and everything you weren't suppose to have. But hey, I'm not complaining, because maybe now you won't get as dirty!

Ran to get you some new pj's (you've seem to have outgrown yours!) and walked in to this:

You're so frisky now, we can barely dress you.

Here you are showing Jack your golf ball...telling him one day how you'll be a great player!

 Eating the golf ball:



Excitement

I've got 3 new followers on my blog!!  I get very excited when I see someone new added. However, I KNOW more people read this thing...hello mom and dad?? Where are you?

Cooper woke up this morning the same way he usually wakes up. Going "AAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWW" as loud as he can!  If you were at the neighbors house, you could probably hear him he's so loud!

We walked downstairs to look at the beautiful snow that will probably keep me trapped in the house on this Saturday. (Dang...I was gonna go to that estate sale with Erin).

We've had more snow in Coop's first year of life than I can ever remember in East Tennessee. Don't get me wrong...I LOVE the extra days off work, letting Jack play with the neighborhood kids, making snow cream like my momma used to do for us, and being lazy! But I'm officially over the cold and the snow.

I know, I know, it's only January, but I'm ready for summer.

I'm ready to pull Cooper to the pool in his new wagon.

I'm ready to get a tan.

I'm ready to actually be warm.

But for now, I will enjoy this sweet thing:

2011

I hadn't thought of a New Year's resolution yet. (Who has time to actually think these days?) Then a sweet friend came over with her precious little baby girl Adeline (love that name!) and we started talking blogging. She has a blog and has vowed to start updating....her posts are usually pretty inspirational to me so I hope she continues.

I was telling her that I think of my blog as a scrapbook for Cooper and his own family to look at one day (when he's married and gives me lots of grandkids!). And then I got to thinking how I never blog. A few times a month in not enough to capture what's going on in his life.

So, my resolution is to blog TWICE a week. And to share with you stories from other blogs I find.

That's 104 blog entries I have a head of me...

And this is #1.

So follow me...there's a tab you can click on my blog if you want to be an official "follower". Lots of you tell me you read this, but I only have 4 followers!! Let's get that number up people!! 

Hope I can come through with my resolution this year!

Christening, Christmas, and Cooper!

 Lots of stuff has been happening around the Pratt household...

This little guy turned 8 months old:

and is now pulling up on everything...and has a few bruises to show for it too!

Cooper was baptized last weekend at our church, Sacred Heart. Here he is with Deacon Jim (who also married Andrew and I) and his godparents Aunt Katie and Uncle Matt

At church on Christmas Eve...

Cooper's first Christmas was white:

And it snowed even more the next day and Cooper went outside with Jack and Daddy (Mommy is obviously the smart one.)

Jack enjoyed the snow most of all:

Cooper checking out his stocking on Christmas morning...

And all of his new toys from Santa

Andrew FELL ASLEEP during the Rountree/Pratt Christmas...we obviously had a little too much fun with that. Brother Bart made this bumper sticker for Andrew to represent his love for Ian Poulter: 

If you can't read it...it says... "Ian Poulter is a douchebag...confirm'd" !!

If pictures had sound you would hear him snoring!

Giving thanks...Memphis style

This is a long overdue post (hey...its only 12 days til Christmas, but who's counting), but since I consider this blog a scrapbook for Cooper to look at when he is older, I couldn't leave out his FIRST Thanksgiving! We traveled to Memphis to be with Andrew's family there. Jack made the trip a little hard...Cooper did great!!  Next time, Jack might be spending the weekend with Nana and Milo! 

Before the big feast! 

 

Happy Cooper after the big feast!!

New Shots

Lindsay, of Lindsay Jane Studios, took Coop's 6 month pics a couple of weeks ago. They turned out better then we could imagine!  Check them out here!

Here's a preview:

Doesn't that sweet face make you want to look at the rest?