Goodbye 2015!

2015 was a great year for our family!  I went back to work full-time, my hubby switched careers after 27.5 years with the same company and my hubby was also found by his birth family!

 Here are just some December highlights before beginning 2016 posts :)

This simple fort took me an hour to put up.  He played in it for an hour.  That's all  there's to stay about that...Ha!

Cooper and his kindness elf (Lily) did several acts of kindness in December. Our favorites were delivering cookies to the library and making a donation to our local homeless shelter...

I love these huge ornaments by the World of Coke and judging by his expression, Cooper loves them, too!

Our local children's museum went through a major renovation (it was closed for 3 months) so Coop was pretty excited to see the updates. His favorite is a kid's size version of a Waffle House! 

Which leads me to our second annual Christmas dinner at a real Waffle House...

We had a Noon's Year Party!

Our last pic together for 2015!

This was Coop at 10:30 PM.  I've spent NYE in various ways but this was the first time playing a Spongebob matching game and sipping champagne, lol 

Happy 6th birthday, Super Cooper!

My little 31 week preemie is now SIX years old!  He's simply amazing!  A friend commented to me yesterday that if any kid had an excuse to be frustrated and lash out that it would be Coop BUT he is almost always in a good mood. I laugh because the only time he gets a little pissy is if the wi-fi stops working which I give him the "that's a first world problem, dude" convo...

This year, he had an art party with just his closest friends and family.  He loves to draw and paint so this was the perfect party for my little artist!

This was the first time that he blew out his birthday candle!!!  We were so excited!!

Pete the Cat!

Coop dressed as Pete the Cat for Halloween and his costume was definitely the most original!  Coop loves Pete the Cat and the bookworm in me was so very pleased that he chose a book character for Halloween!

Here's the cutest Pete ever for Boo at the Zoo :)

Giddy up!

Coop's pretty apprehensive about big dogs especially if they're the overly friendly kind of dogs with no boundaries, haha. So, needless to say, a big horse is kind of intimidating!  Then, he met Arielle...

Arielle is a horse that has spent a lot of time doing therapy with Special needs kids so Coop and Arielle hit it off!  Coop showed ZERO signs of apprehension and he LOVED riding her!!  It was a very special moment to watch. My hubby still walked beside the horse with Coop since his Hypotonia mainly effects his upper body which you use a lot to ride a horse...

Apple Picking!

It seemed like it rained a lot in October (and, November!) in Georgia but we were able to escape to do some apple picking and we had a lovely day!

I love a good theme so here is Coop's lunch for our apple picking trip.  An apple shaped peanut butter and APPLE butter sandwich :)

He loved this fake pony but was scared to ride the real ones there...he actually did ride a pony a few weeks later which is a different post ;)

Oh, my menfolk. I love them so much!

The day did end with us making an apple pie!  It was delicious but not very pretty so no picture! Haha!

Pumpkin patch!

We finally made it for our annual trip to the pumpkin patch on the first Fall weekend day that wasn't rained out which was last Sunday!  It was just C and I since the hubby was out of town but we still had a great time!  Coop loved doing the corn maze which took us about an hour to complete, not because it was hard, but because we had to stop and touch every other corn stalk. I figure he's only little once and we didn't have anything else to do so we talked a lot about corn.

The hayride on our way to the corn maze...

It was like the corn maze was his catwalk...

He refused to look at me because this one picture was keeping him from the pumpkins...

The fair...

The fair was in town last month so we decided to take Cooper.  This was a trip that he was either going to love or we'd be there for 10 minutes because he hated it.  So, with that in mind, I decided to take him opening night since admission was free, haha!

He was mesmerized as soon as we entered the gates!  I pretty much rode with him on any ride that he wanted to go on with the exception of one...

No lie, the huge slide terrified me but he loved every second...

His first time playing a carnival game...

and, he won a penguin...that penguin now goes with us everywhere...

 

And, this is where I drew my line in the sand with what I was willing to ride. Um, no.