Learning our colors!

I actually stole this idea from this awesome blog. I love this blog because she really gives you ideas on how to teach things to toddlers. I really just want to focus on primary colors at this point but I do have some ideas for the crazier colors like pink, orange, silver. He is only 15 months old so I don't want to overload him with too much. Kro.ger is awesome about having their match.box cars for 10 for $10 for those of you interested in doing the same activity.

We've been rotating colors, shapes and animals on different days of the week to keep us both from being bored. We also read several books a day which I'm going to write a post soon on some of Cooper's favorite books. But, let me just show you one of the color activities that we've been working on!

This gives him the color name and an object to correlate to the color!

Cooper matching the car to the color

This would be Cooper's "I'm over this game" face


I'm not a total slave driver so I did let him play with the cars, too! :)

Cooper and Benny!

One of the blogs that I read on a regular basis did a post with her son and her hubby's childhood toy and I thought it would be a hoot to share Benny with the world! Benny is my hubby's childhood bear and the poor thing has been around the block once or twice. My sweet mother-in-law washed this bear everytime that he was puked on, sewed on countless eyes and whatever else Benny needed to stay alive for my hubby. The things that we do for our kids!

This is Benny with my childhood doll, Emma! My second neice's name actually came from this cabbage patch doll :)

Cooper doing an inspection on Benny~

The pair have met before actually! This is when Cooper was about 2 months old :)

Are you feeling froggy?

Cooper was wearing a frog t-shirt yesterday (we try to be a green as possible, minus using disposable diapers, but really I bought the shirt because it was $1.99 at The Child.ren's Place!) so I thought I would be clever and do a frog themed lunch!

As you can see, Cooper is excited for lunch!

Does his grilled cheese sandwich look like a frog? Let's pretend that the broccoli is a lily pad!

My sweet 6 year old neice gave me a set of cookie cutters for Christmas so we used the frog one to have a froggy lunch!

Cooper's army crawling!

Cooper started army crawling over the weekend and it's just amazing to watch his body doing new things. It's also awesome to see him so happy with his new skills! He has been getting up on his hands and knees recently and rocking back and forth so I think "real" crawling is just a matter of time!

Yay, Super Cooper!

We still love you, Steelers!

Never wait until 2 days before the Super Bowl to buy your Steeler loving toddler a t-shirt for the big game! I improvised after getting tired of going from store to store and just made him a t-shirt using a black onesie, yellow silk screen paint and a silk screen stencil from Hob.by Lob.by (my favorite store!). Although, the t-shirt didn't turn out the way that I had it envisioned in my mind!

Every Steeler fan has a terrible towel :)

Our Steelers didn't win but wow, what a game, right???? I was on the edge of my seat for most of it! I'm more of a college ball person (hello, I live in the South!) but we love the Steelers in our house because my hubby is actually from Pittsburgh. Sadly, we don't even care about the Falcons and we live in Atlanta! I'm learning though that Steeler fans are die-hards! I'm a Steeler fan by marriage but am starting to feel some love for them on my own accord :)

My little party animal!

We celebrated one of Cooper's best bud's first birthday this past Sunday at Gym.boree and had a BLAST! I highly recommend this place for a super great time if you haven't been! This was our first time although we've been to similar play places. Cooper was all over the place and slept like he was in a coma that night!

The party theme was a pajama party for those of you wondering why he's sporting pjs in public!

I just have to toot my own horn for a moment on this pic. I'm aware of how over protective that I am with Cooper. It comes from losing a baby and then having a child with special needs. BUT, I did let go of the reigns long enough for him to roll down this little ramp by himself. I figured that he's going to land on something soft and I'm glad that I did because you could tell by the look on his face when he got to the bottom that he was happy with himself :)

Cooper and his partycakes!

Cooper is 15 months today! I'm not doing the monthly photos anymore (although, I may steal a friend's idea and do an 18 month photo) so I decided I would do just some fun photos to celebrate another month with this special guy!

Cooper LOVES blueberry pancakes so this morning I just added drops of different food coloring to makes PARTYCAKES! It was fun and he investigated this funky pancake :) What a fun start to the day!

Funky partycake!

Cooper investigating this strange breakfast as any serious pancake enthusiast would :)

Yep, he enjoyed it!