The Cooper Family: April 2013

Brooklyn Louise - 3 months old

Brooklyn Louise, I can not believe that you are three months old already! You are settling into a nice little schedule on most days. Typically you wake up around 6:30am and then take two long morning naps, which gives Brayden and I lots of special time together. Then in the afternoons, you take two cat naps and are then down for the night by 7 or 7:30pm. You do wake up around 10pm and 1am to feed, but these feedings take place in your room and in the dark. They strictly include a diaper change, eating, goodnight kisses, and the going right back to sleep!

You are still a very portable baby and sleep well when we have to run out to do errands or go for a walk or to the park for Brayden to play. Typically you sleep the whole time that we are out and about. However, I am sure one day this will come to an end, but for now it makes our lives easier.

You are also such a happy and smiley baby! At this age, you are typically awake for about 50 minutes to 1 hour at a time during the day (including feeding time), which does not seem very long to me, but it works. During your wake time, you love to give lots of smiles, watch your brother, sit up (with our help or in the bumbo), and hang out in your bouncy chair or on the boppy pillow. Your legs are also getting stronger and you really enjoy trying to stand up with our help...you smile every time! Brooklyn, you rolled over for the first time at about 2.5 months and you are also starting to coo and make more noises every day. You actually let out a cute little squeal this morning and then looked all around with this "who was that" look on your face....it was priceless.

We Love You Brooklyn Louise!

"Sweet Pea"

Easter Dinner - Dan's Family

By the time we make it down to Dan's Grandparent's house for dinner on holidays, we are both typically tired and forget to take pictures! However, we did remember to snap a few this visit, although I was not overly excited with how most of them turned out and we did not get any of Brayden with his grandparents.

"Other MomMom" (as Brayden calls her) and Brooklyn

PopPop and Brooklyn

Easter Day

Easter Day was a busy, but fun day with both sides of the family! First we headed to church, then to Nana and Pa's for brunch, and then down to Dan's Grandparents (other MomMom and PopPop) for Easter dinner with his whole side of the family. We had a great, but exhausting day!

We even remembered and managed to grab a few pictures as a family and of the kids before we all changed out of our church attire. :)

Brooklyn Louise

"Good" family photos are hard to come by with kids. At least we are all in the picture!

Brayden Dillon

Easter Morning

Easter morning was a little busy (as most Sunday mornings before church are), as we got ready, talked to the kids about the meaning of Easter, and looked through their Easter baskets. Then we were off to church and a full day of family fun!

hanging out Easter morning while Mommy and Daddy get ready

Easter PJ's worn Easter night (picture taken the next morning)

Blue Rocks Easter Egg Hunt

On Easter weekend, we decided to give the Blue Rock's Easter Egg Hunt a try for the first time this year. Although it was free, I had to call at the beginning of March to sign Brayden up and we were really looking forward to seeing how he like it. Thankfully it turned out to be a beautiful day. So, we got the kids up, fed, dressed, and loaded in the car to head up to the Blue Rock's stadium in Wilmington. Nana and Pa met us up there to share in the fun. There were a lot of kids participating in the Easter egg hunt, but I was very impressed with how organized the whole event was! Brayden had a blast and we will definitely be signing him (and hopefully Brooklyn) up again next year!

As an added bonus, the City of Wilmington Fire Department was utilizing part of the parking lot to train new fire fighters. So when they were done training, Brayden got to meet the firemen and play in the truck. He was in awe the whole time and the firemen (and women) were extremely nice!

Then we decided to grab lunch at Timothy's on the Wilmington Riverfront! Both kids did great, and the Easter bunny even made a special visit to come see Brayden and bring him a treat!

And to top off this gorgeous fun-filled morning, when we walked back to the Blue Rock's stadium parking lot to head home for naps, one of the worker's gave Brayden a baseball! To say that Brayden was on cloud nine after our morning is an understatement!

Nana's 60th and Easter

At the end of March, we celebrated Nana's 60th birthday with a surprise visit from Aunt Carol and Uncle Scott, as well as cousins Sara (and baby Sam) and Heather. We had a great weekend celebrating and hanging out with family! Happy Birthday Nana! We love you!