Happy Birthday Cooper!!!

Cooper is 2 Years Old!! I cannot believe how fast he has grown up!! Here are some things all about Cooper at 2 years old:

1. Cooper's favorite cereal is Cinnamon Toast Crunch. He also loves pancakes drenched in syrup

2. Cooper's favorite activity is basketball by far. Nate has season tickets to the Fort Wayne Mad Ants basketball team, and Cooper treasures every time he gets to go. They have those balloon bangers that make noise and he is an expert at those. He bangs those and cheers on the basketball players like a real fan! He will sit on Nate's lap the entire game and just focus on the players, the ball, and watching it go in the basketball hoop. He is just passionate about the game!! At home he will practice throwing balls and catching them with me and Nate. He is really, really good at both catching and throwing for being just 2 years old!

3. Cooper's favorite song these days is the Sunbeam song. He loves to sing this right before bed. I will hold him and will bounce him up at the "beam" part of the song and he just giggles. He also loves me to make up songs. He will tell me "Cooper and Mickey-Mad Ants-basketball song" and wants me to sing a song that involves Mickey Mouse, the Mad Ants basketball players and Cooper all playing basketball together. So I just make stuff up to a common tune. He loves it!

4. Cooper will sing "Yeah Yeah" (2 different notes) out of nowhere sometimes. It is the cutest little singing voice ever. Definitely something we will remember about him at 2 years old.

5. Cooper adores Jaxton. He is just so enthralled in him. He wants to be just like him. He wants to do everything that Jax does. Sometimes when I snap pictures of the two of them, a lot of those pictures just happen to capture Cooper looking at Jaxton, to see what he is doing. He just adores him to pieces.

6. Cooper's favorite character is by far Mickey Mouse. He loves to watch Mickey on TV, sing about Mickey, and hold his stuffed animal Mickey. He was Mickey for Halloween and likes to wear the sweat pants from his costume to bed. He calls them his Mickey pants. He wears them with his Mickey sweatshirt that Grandma Hutchinson got for him.

7. Cooper is a very picky eater! He has certain foods that he will eat and eat and eat, but anything out of his comfort zone, he will just not touch. He is very stubborn about trying new foods too. His favorite foods are peanut butter sandwiches, milk, chicken nuggets, crackers, bananas, cheese, and cinnamon toast crunch cereal. If I make a casserole or a main dish that looks unique to him, he simply will not touch it. He will not even taste it!! We can bribe him with a treat after or with crackers or anything if he will take a bite or two, but it does no good. He simply will not touch it. He is the most stubborn little boy I know! Needless to say, he doesn't eat much. Has a good size head, with a skinny little monkey body underneath his clothes because he really doesn't eat much! I do make sure he eats decently and I'm sure that he will grow out of it soon...silly little boy!

8. Cooper loves Nursery at church. Just a few months ago, he would cry when going into the nursery room. But now, Jaxton is not in his class anymore. He doesn't seem to notice that, and now for some reason, he loves his class. He goes right on in and sits down with all his "friends." He really enjoys it. He loves to sing in nursery and loves to sing the same songs at home. I think he is impressed that I know the same songs he learns in his class!!

9. Cooper loves to ride in Daddy's truck. He just feels so big and important whenever he gets to ride in Daddy's Simplx truck. He can recognize the Simplx logo on Daddy's other things, like magnets, business cards, and papers, and he always associates the logo with Daddy's truck. He loves to sing about Daddy's truck too!

10.Cooper has learned to pray. He says such sweet prayers. He will fold his hands in front of him. He tries super hard to keep his eyes shut, but just can't do it most of the time. He has to see everyone else closing their eyes. He will bless everything he sees and never misses a member of his family. He does not know when to end his prayers, so with prompting, he will say, "Name-Jesus-AMEN!" It is just to die for listening to him pray.

Cooper, we love you so very much! You are so special to our hearts!! Happy Birthday!!!