Happy Birthday Aurora! Holy goodness I have a SIX year old. I feel like I say that every birthday... but seriously. It is so fun to see your passions come alive and learn every day about who YOU are and who you are becoming. My favorite way we have seen this lately is in your music taste. Currently your favorite artists are The Beatles and Tom Petty. You found both these artists on your own and loved them because they spoke to you not because your Dad and I have played them for you. Keep being you girl, you are amazing and I am blessed to be your Mama :)
Nanny and Grumpa came to celebrate Aurora's birthday. She was so thrilled that they made a special trip just for the day just for her birthday :)
This year we decided to forgo the "friend birthday party" in favor of two super special surprises. Her first surprise was tickets to RAIN which was a Beatles tribute concert put on by the Denver Center for Performing Arts. It was fabulous and Aurora was over the moon. It was also fun to see all the older women at the show just loving that Aurora was rocking out to all the songs!
Her other special surprise was a trip to the new Great Wolf Lodge in Colorado Springs. She has asked to go for her birthday almost weekly since we were at the Dallas location last year. Even though Connor basically refused to go in the water, all the kids all had a blast. Cooper enjoyed toddling around after everyone and watching all the other kids there.
We started demo on the new house!! Joe, our contractor, says we will likely finish up towards the end of the summer but that feels like an excessive amount of time. It has been really fun to see all the old stuff coming out of the house. And the best part -- the house doesn't smell anymore! It's amazing what a different removing the heavy window coverings and old carpets makes.
Connor and Cooper have a new favorite song -- Rocket Man. It is so funny driving around in the car listening to them. Connor loves that they repeat "Rocket man" twice in a row because he can always nail the second one and Cooper just shouts "MAN!" over and over again.
There is one other family at Logan that lives in Cherry Hills Village and they invited us over for a dinner party to get to know some of their neighbors. Roxanne and Quinn are super sweet and it was fun getting to know them a little better plus we liked all their neighbors.
-- Cooper --
Cooper has started running. It is hysterical and looks like he has a peg leg, but he clearly has no interest in being left behind so off he goes!
He has starting to want us to read longer picture books rather than just board books. That boy clearly inherited his sisters love of reading.
He is no longer happy to sit by at activities like gymnastics and swim, wants to be in the action!
He is talking a TON but is still mostly unintelligible. I can often only figure it out by asking him to show me, so he ends up pulling me around and pointing a lot.
He used to point to himself and say Mama, now will point to me and say Mama and then point to himself can say Cccc (just the hard C sound for Cooper)
He will point to his head, nose, ears, toes, fjngers, and belly button if you ask him where those parts are.
Has found a love for trucks just like his brother. "Guh!" When he sees one on the street or pointing to his shirt when he has one on.
We have this cute little routine when he gets up after he nurses. I say "where are Coopers toes?" and then unzip his sack. He sticks out his feet and says "Toes!!" And holds them up for me to kiss. Then he holds up his hands and says "gungas!" (Fingers) for me to kiss. So so precious.
I think Cooper must be doing some major teething because his sleep completely fell apart for almost two weeks. First he was inconsolable at bedtime unless in bed with me and even then couldn't properly settle. Then it turned into screaming in his crib unless I was in the room (sleeping on the floor by his crib is pretty miserable) and now finally I think we are getting back to easy bedtimes. Thank goodness.
