My Favorite Time of Day

My favorite time of day is 3:40. Goodbye stress, goodbye annoying 7th graders, goodbye tiredness and hello Cooper! Walking in the daycare and seeing Cooper happy and playing and so excited for me to pick him up makes my day worth it! We tell everyone bye and of course he tells me he had a good day (we rarely have bad ones anymore!) and then we stop off at Dairy Queen for happy hour and head home. He is happy and watches his movie all they way home. Then usually we play outside or inside, maybe go visit Granny and Papa, check the crops with Daddy, make supper and we are all in bed by 9! Bedtime is actually my second favorite part of the day when Cooper doesn't stay up past his bedtime.....at Aunt Taylor's this weekend, Cooper got to stay up until 10:45 and it was not a pleasant experience getting into bed! But normally we are in bed by 9 and everything is great in our world, Cooper usually "jump on bed" for just a few minutes and then we say our prayer which Cooper now has memorized and we go to sleep. Crazy to say this but I almost like during the week better because of our routine and structure. Cooper has gotten so accustomed to this that weekends can be very bad if he doesn't get a nap or go to bed on time. So needless to say, our lives are getting easier (I actually found time to blog!!!) and I am really starting to enjoy school and certain periods of the day (I don't think I will ever enjoy 5th period) and my new teacher friends at school. I see now where being a working mom has its advantages (paycheck, friends, and a break from the hubby and child) and now (4 weeks into this) it's not so bad! Check back in come March and April (TAKS) and I will probably be ready to be a stay at home mom once again!!

Pics of Cooper's Party....FINALLY!!

Cooper turned 2!!!!!

Yay! Cooper had his second birthday! Where did two years go??? I hope we can put off kindergarten as long as possible!!! We had an amazing water party, thanks to Dayme, Donny, Papaw, Taylor, Dane, Grandmother, and DeeDee, but most of all Dayme! I couldn't have done it without them...they were such a big help from making cupcakes to setting up the "scene" outside....too bad it was just a family party because this would have been fun for kids of all ages!! He got tons of great toys and clothes and I thank everyone for all he got!!! The party ended about 7:30 and Cooper stayed wired until around 10 so of course that made Monday morning pretty tough! He was not a happy camper riding to Floydada! We did make it through our first day of school and he had a pretty good day at daycare. Yesterday was a little hard on me just because it was very chaotic. I have all my kids twice so second time around we didn't have much to do so of course they talked, loudly, and they got on my nerves and I was wishing I could just be at home with Cooper! But I made it through and today was so much better! I had enough planned to make them work until the bell rang so there was NO talking! The day flew by because we were working so hard and before I knew it I was picking up Cooper up at daycare. I went in knowing he had a good day and of course he didn't. He had a hard day and cried off and on the whole day. Mama B told him during nap time to quit crying or he would wake up the babies and of course he cried even louder. I am sure they were ready for him to leave today! I know it will get better but it just makes it that much harder on me!
Well only three more days to go this week....I hope I can make it!



I will add more pics!

Woohoo!

Cooper teeteed in the potty!!! Do I have an advanced kid or what?! Yes he still goes in his diaper but that is twice now that he has done something by himself in the potty! I am very excited! I hope it keeps going this smoothly. ONLY 2 more days until his birthday...oh my!

A Working Mom

So I now understand fully the guilt of a working mom. Taking Cooper to daycare is one of the hardest things I have had to do since becoming a mom. Hearing him scream and cry and then the throwing up.....well it has been a rough three days! Today was a little better...he didn't cry for quite as long and didn't throw up so I guess it was a good day! Hopefully he will be in the routine before too long! Dane has already been asking why I am working and says this will be my only year....he hasn't gotten a paycheck though so it might change after he sees how nice it is to have the extra money! I have been a bit overwhelmed with school but I think I will feel that way until we get started. I am very ready to get to know the kids and get in a routine...I really think the weeks will start flying by!

Cooper's birthday is this week and I sent out the invitations so now that everyone has seen them I thought I would post them on here. They were so cute! Hopefully everything will go smoothly for his second birthday! I can't believe he is already 2!

So I couldn't get the picture to work right....I don't know what's going on with this thing but there it is!

Busy, Busy, Busy....

We have been way too busy! You can definitely tell school is about to start because ever since we got back from Curacao we have not sat down! Dane has been working hard farming and getting ready for the Briscoe Co. Celebration and I have been at workshops or working on my classroom ever since we got back to Texas! Our vacation was amazing and we all had such a great time! The island was beautiful but I missed Cooper WAY too much and was excited to get back home. The next day I was off to workshops to become prepared with being a new teacher at FJH! So needless to say I have had absolutely no time to blog! Kathy said she was kicking me out of the blogging world because its been so long! So I will try to be better and devote a little more time to this....
This past weekend was the big celebration...we had a great time and Dane rode a tractor in the parade. Cooper was supposed to ride with Dane but Dane did not think it was the safest thing since the tractor was so small and hard to drive (and we were running a little behind anyway). We enjoyed watching Dane though....he looked so good driving that CASE!!! Then we took Cooper to the rodeo and he had a ton of fun watching the horses and bulls. Hopefully in a year or two he can compete in the muttin bustin!
We also had something really great happen today. We got to sleep in until 11 first of all, which was so nice because we were all so worn out and Taylor stayed and hung out with us most of the day. She also took Cooper to see Andma and I am pretty sure they had a good visit. Then, about 20 minutes after Taylor left Cooper started saying "poopy". And for those of you who know Cooper, he continues to say this word like a broken record, over and over. So I start thinking maybe we should just go set him on the potty and see what happens. Maybe he really does have to "poopy". So Dane takes him because I think it is a false alarm and a few minutes later Dane calls me in the bathroom. Cooper actually did poopy in the potty!!! There are 3 year olds that don't poopy in the potty!!! Dane and I were so excited which made Cooper excited so for the next hour he kept wanting to go poopy in the potty (which of course he really did not have to go). I hate to jump the gun but maybe this potty training experience will not be so horrible....I will keep my fingers crossed!
Tomorrow is Cooper's first day of daycare. I am really nervous and dreading it so bad but I know it's a great place and he will make tons of friends! I will for sure provide an update with how our first day goes! Until then.....

Potty Training!!

Well I guess potty training has sort of begun. I say sort of because I am not really pushing it but if the opportunity arises we take it! This morning, Cooper's diaper was very full so I took it off of him and went to go get him a new diaper. As I started walking out of the room I heard him start teeteeing on the the floor. So I swooped him up and we ran to the bathroom. I sat him on the toilet and I guess he had stage fright because he could not go. It was so funny because he was pushing and trying so hard! So I got him off the toilet and stood him in the bathtub. I was really just giving up and going to get a diaper and figured if he did start again he would at least be in the bathtub. I stood there and watched him for a second to see if he was going to do anything when he said, Go Away Mama! Haha I guess he did have some stage fright because when I left I could hear him going! So now maybe we are on the path to getting potty trained! I have heard so many horror stories about starting too early and then them getting scared and not being potty trained until like 4 or 5! So we won't push it and we'll see what happens!