Happy anniversary to mommy and daddy :)

Friday was our 5th wedding anniversary and we had a mostly fun day. It started out with taking Cooper to a wellness check-up (which included the MMR shot, so this was the unfun part) but then we went to lunch and got some cupcakes for us to enjoy at home.

My hubby was sneaky and told me that he was expecting a package that I would need to sigh for...he knows that Cooper and I like to roam the streets so he wanted to make sure that we were home when these beautiful flowers arrived! My hubby insists that Cooper had told him all week to send me flowers :)

These divine little darlings are from Gigi's cupcakes! They were delicious!

Cooper with us anniversary treat :) A banana cream cupcake!


He loved the vanilla cookie and the banana pudding that was inside the cupcake!

Needless to say, there is a huge mess when a toddler feeds himself a cupcake! In the end, I just picked him up and rinsed him off at the kitchen sink :)

I am a blessed wife and mommy!

Cooper is 16 months old today!

Dear Cooper,

You are the light of my world....

Love forever,
Mommy

Rachel Ray says...

that if you can't go on a vacation to a different country than visit different ethnic restaurants in your area! So, that's what we did on Monday with my hubby being off for President's Day. We went to a Mediterranean restaurant and boy, was it yummy! We love mediterranean food but this was Cooper's first time other than pita and hummus which he loves and is always kept in the fridge!

"Oh, don't do that to him!"

We went to the grocery store on Monday and I bumped into the daughter of one of my patients that I hadn't seen in a long time. For those of you that don't know, I was a social worker before becoming a stay at home mom. It was funny because she turned around at my hubby and Cooper that were further down the aisle and said "is that your baby?" She said that you could tell he was mine. I liked that comment :)

What I didn't like was the following stuff. She asked if we were going to have anymore and I said that we were most likely done with adding onto our family. She then proceeds to tell me how unfair it is to not give him a brother or sister. Well, I could've gone into the whole story but really why should I have to? I can't have anymore kids but even if I could, why can't I just be satisified with the one that I have? I could've gone into the whole "I'm lucky to have this one" story but why should I have to? I could've gone into the "well, I wanted two but that wasn't in God's plan..." story but again why should I have to?

I'm tired of having to tell a really sad story to get people to leave me alone about kids. Enough, already! I truly believe that people mean well, but as a whole they're generally clueless.

A true (funny) story...

I was in bed all day yesterday with a migraine so I don't have any pics to share today! I haven't had a migraine in 2 years and was only awake for about 30 minutes yesterday when I could feel one coming on. I started having migraines when I was 16 and they stopped right around the time that I found out that I was pregnant with Cooper. I was wiped out and spent almost the entire day in the bed. My sweet hubby took Cooper to my goddaughter's 12th birthday party while I slept it off...anyways, this has nothing to do with my funny story!

We spent a lot of time last week out in the sun and sunblock is very important to me. So, I was putting sunblock on Cooper one day and noticed that the sunblock was kind of thick but figured that it was just getting old. I used this tube for about 2 days. I decided to use the other tube of sunblock in my diaper bag and was much more pleased with the consistency. LOL, but decided to take a closer look at the 2 tubes of sunblock and noticed that one of them was actually Ave.no diaper rash cream! His face shall we say is now as smooth as a baby's bottom! :)

Oy Vey! Sometimes, I wonder where my head is!

Now it just seems like I'm bragging...

But, another glorious day in Georgia yesterday! We met my sister and her three girls in a park in Athens for lunch and a stroll around their natural walk. This park is awesome because it's totally free! You don't have to pay $3 for parking and their little zoo is free, too! Our favorite part was seeing the bald eagles...

Cooper eating a chocolate chip cookie :)

There are these painted bulldogs all over Athens...

Cooper swinging and wanting the camera!

Mommy and Cooper

My favorite menfolk!

Just another day in the sunshine!

Cooper and I spent the afternoon at the zoo yesterday! Gosh, I have really enjoyed this weather! It feels like we've been cooped up in the house for weeks and weeks so it's really lovely to feel the sunshine on my skin! Obviously, the entire city of Atlanta feels the same way because this place was packed!

I put this picture on here just so you can see how fascinated Cooper is with this milk snake...

Homeboy was totally enthralled with this snake!

He's telling me about how cool Chelsea the tiger is...

I packed our lunch...

But, we shared this dessert :) No worries, I ate all the gummy bears!

And, I couldn't get him to look up to take a pic, no matter how hard I tried!

Dead leaves are obviously way more captivating!