Told you so.

I told you awhile back that Cooper was quite the spitter-upper.  I decided it needed documentation one day.  After I quickly snapped the picture and cleaned her up, she proceeded to spit up huge amounts twice more in the next couple of minutes.  (This happens multiple times a day.)  Believe it or not, this particular picture shows a pretty average spit-up.  A couple of times, after she hasn't eaten for a very long time, she's spit up EVERYTHING she just gulped down.  As in, soaked herself, me, and one of the humongous burp cloths I have to use for my babies.  Good times...and good thing laundry is my favorite household chore (besides cooking).  :)

The first store I took both kiddos into?  JoAnns.  For cute, girlie flannel and pink terry cloth for some new gigantic burp cloths.

She's clearly not bothered by this.

I figure if JuliAnn can post about Emmitt's blow-outs, I can post this...  :)

Judson's second birthday party

I hope to do a post about Judson at two years old soon.  We'll see if it happens.  For now, here are some pictures from his party on Saturday, the 22nd.  Despite having a pretty nasty cold, he had a really great time surrounded by so many people who love him.  We are so blessed and thankful to have such great friends and family!

New hard hat from Grammie and Papa

Amazing train cake by Aunt Bridgett.  Notice the chocolate rocks and Tootsie Roll logs...the little kids LOVED the candy rocks!

Judson couldn't take his eyes off the cake.  He kept saying, "Eat train cake, please!"

Dinner.  My parents helped me a ton with the food.  They did the hard stuff and I did the crock pot stuff.  :)

The kids at the party (minus Cooper and Emmitt)...clockwise from left: Logan Nelson, Madi, the birthday boy, and Max Nelson

Judson had LOTS of help opening his gifts.  :)

The only girls at the party...in their tutus.  :)

Sleeping in people's arms all evening somehow wore this one out!  :)

Nate's Family's Visit

Nate's mom and sister and her family came to Salem to meet Cooper last week.  Here are a few pictures of the cousins...

Judson - 24 months, Cooper - 6 weeks, Alyssa - 7.5 years, Corbin - 28 months

The little boys with Uncle Phil

Pumpkin Patch #2

We met up with the Olsons last Wednesday to go to a little pumpkin patch to actually get pumpkins.  :) (Since Judson was sick at the first pumpkin patch and the pumpkins were REALLY far away from where we had to pay for them, we didn't end up buying any.)   Madi and Judson enjoyed the hayride and running around in the pumpkins and the two "littles" slept the entire time in their Becos (really awesome baby carriers...both JuliAnn and I use ours daily).

We're so thankful for friends who like to go on adventures with us!

I have about four of these pictures...Judson is looking at me in one, Madi's looking in the next, then Judson... I never got one of both of them looking.  Go figure!  :)

Sneak Peak

We had newborn/family pictures taken when Cooper was eleven days old.  I will have a bunch to share in a week or so, but wanted to give you a sneak peak of a couple that were e-mailed to me today and are not ones I'm using in our birth announcements. 

 

Bauman's Farm

Nate took a morning off work last week so we could go to a pumpkin patch.  We went to a pretty amazing one!  Unfortunately, Judson ended up being sick, so he didn't enjoy it nearly as much as he would have otherwise.  (He seemed fine in the morning and ate well.  He cried for seemingly no reason at one point and freaked out when a rooster crowed, which seemed a little odd.  The tell-tale sign that something was wrong came when he didn't want any of the apple cider donut we offered him.  This boy NEVER turns down food, let alone a treat!  He ended up having a fever but never threw up, which I thought he was going to do a few times.)

We did have fun, though, and we will definitely return next year.  Actually, upon looking at these pictures, I decided maybe it was a good thing he wasn't feeling his best.  We would've had a really hard time dragging him away from all of the tractors!  :)

Macy and Cooper

I only have one picture from this past weekend.  Morgan, Anna, and Macy came up to help my mom celebrate her birthday (the fifteenth).  Anna's is the sixteenth, so we sort of celebrated that too.  My finger got in the way of the flash, but Macy wasn't about to let me take another one.  :)  I'm sort of afraid Cooper's going to pass petite little Macy up in size before too long.

I love all the hands ready to protect Cooper  :)