First Day of School

Max all ready for first grade of school and Hanna ready for Pre-K. They are getting too big too fast.
Max started his first day of First Grade last Monday Aug. 24, 2009. I can't believe my baby is getting so big! He is soo funny about shoes and clothes we got some really nice hand me downs and it makes me crazy because a lot of the really nice stuff he won't wear. Like his GEOX shoes they are for babies he says because they have velcros. A cute truck shirt also for babies. I guess he sees his baby brothers in velcro shoes and truck shirts so that is where he must get it from. Also he will never wear sandals even if we are at the beach or going to go swimming he wears his tennis shoes and socks only. I asked him the other day what he thinks when he sees people in sandals and he said, "I just don't like toes."
Van's first day of preschool. Van's not quite old enough not until Nov., but since I have room and it's my school he's currently enrolled.
Hanna (being a little stinker) and Van with me (their teacher Mrs. Jensen).

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY DAISY & WALT

Daisy and Walt are 1 year old today! I can't believe how fast the time has gone by. Daisy and Walt have been such a joy in our lives. We feel so blessed to have you both in our family!

Daisy is much smaller than her "younger" brother, but is more mature than him in many ways. You will usually find Daisy crawling or climbing on anything she possibly can. We have to put all the kid chairs up out of reach or she is climbing from them unto the table. Daisy sleeps in her crib in Hanna's closet and one day Danny came in to get her and she had climbed from her crib onto the closet shelf.
Another time she was playing on Hanna's bed and she stated to scream and I turned around to find her hanging from the windowsill (I caught her in time). When we take a shower we put Daisy and Walt into the bath to play and use it like a play pin, well of course Daisy has figured out how to climb out of there as well.

Walt is a patient "big" mamma's boy! If anyone holds a baby it's always Daisy because everyone knows how much Walt just loves his momma.
You will usually find Walt sucking his thumb and taking it easy.
Walt is starting to become more brave with standing along furniture and he is starting to crawl a little more. (He still prefers his one arm army crawl most of the time).

Pahrump Valley Preschool

Our front desk. (Danny painted our logo on the wall).
I start my preschool up tomorrow. I currently have 5 children in my T/TH morning 3-4 preschool class from 8:30-11:00 and 5 children in my M-TH afternoon Pre-K class from 11:30-2:00. I will be teaching the classes until I have more enrolled. After 6 students per class I have to have 2 teachers in the classroom. We are licensed for 12 in each class.
Our calendar/lesson/play... room. (Danny also painted this fun coconut tree on the wall where I hang numbers 1-10 in each of the 10 coconuts.) What a talented husband I have!
Our art/writing area.
My mom has moved in and the missionaries have moved out. My mom will be watching my kids on T & TH and a friend will be coming to my house to watch them on M & W. Max will be starting 1st grade, Hanna will be in the Pre-K class and Van in the T/TH preschool class.
Oh ya, I'll be on the local NEWS at 3 different times tomorrow night, funny huh?!

Beach Camping August 2009

Sorry it's been so long since an update! Here is a quick over view of our beach camping trip we took at the 1st of the month... On Sunday we went to see the Newport temple and attended sacrament at the chapel across the street which ended up being the singles ward and Daisy was play screaming which sounded so load Danny had to take her out. The Newport Temple is so pretty, I guess they all are.

Me with my very sleepy children on the temple grounds.
Our typical set up; Daisy and Walt in the playpen, A child sleeping (Hanna) on the towels, some of us (Uncle Michael and Aunt Rebecca) just kickin' it. The water was so nice, I think we all went in everyday. If you didn't know I love body surfing and I do it pretty much every year we go. (Except for last year when I was 33 weeks pregnant with the twins, but the time I was 6 months pregnant with Van I did.)

Went to the beach house for the day. My sister took much better pictures than I but I haven't yet copied them onto my computer, so sorry, but these will have to do.

Hanna, Baxter, and Daisy filling the sand bucket.
I just love this picture of Daisy and Van fighting over the sand bucket. Even though she's little she already can hold her own!
Walt as happy as can be, even with a mouthful of sand! I was quite surprised how well the babies did, one night was a little hard but for the most part they did really well! I wish I took more pictures everyone was there; Mom, Kurt and Skye, Rebecca and Baxter (at the beach house 1 day; Kristine, my dad and Debi), Michael, Greg, me, Danny, and our 5 children. Even my cousins (The Webb's) and all of there kids, and a lot more one other day for a Cooper Family Reunion; really my pictures don't do justice! We all had a wonderful time despite the tired cranky moments. Thanks mom for a wonderful family vacation!

Happy 4th of July!

Today we drove to Vegas, saw UP, swam at Danny's mom's house, Hanna and Van did a few sparklers and then we put the kids to bed.(Max stayed the night at his cousin's). We were beat!
Van, Hanna and Max (Max needed to hold his gun). I love dressing my kids in 4th of July colors.
Daisy and Walt. I love this picture because it shows Daisy and Walt's full personalities. Daisy as Miss. Social and Walt as Mr. Chill.
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Last night we went to the park for some fun activities (Max climbing the rock well) then the older 3 stayed up and we watched fireworks from our house in the back of Danny's truck.
Daisy eating her toes at the park last night.

Fun Filled Weekend With the Batista's

My friends Melany, Diego, and their 5 kids came to visit last weekend. That means we had 10 kids and 6 adults at our house. Two of those adults are the missionaries (if you didn't know we host the missionaries).
Danny with Daisy and Diego with Lyla on Father's Day.
6 out of 10 kids at dinner.
3 more. Lyla (6 months and crawling and would like to pull herself up on furniture), Walt (almost 10 months still army crawling, no desire to pull himself up onto furniture, way too cautious) and Daisy (almost 10 months and would love to be running).
And last but not least, Ryan (with Van in picture) was sleeping during dinner.
Max with Jacob they got along so well. Max lost another front tooth the day they came to visit.
All of the kids had a friend and they all played so well together. We all had so much fun, we can't wait another 4 years before we see them again, our kids played way to well together and they've been board ever since they left!

All About Max

Max at his Kindergarten graduation. It's crazy to think that my baby is officially a first grader.
Max with his friend Ethan. They received awards at there school assembly on Monday. Max was awarded Student of the Quarter for his class. Way to go Max! I was a little surprised because at the beginning of the semester a note was sent home saying how Max has had a hard time following class rules... not talking and keeping his hands to himself. The teacher said no matter where I put him or who he sits by he's mister social and likes to talk to everyone. He gets this from his Grandpa Ernie! We talked to him about needing to listen to his teacher and follow his class rules; I take it it worked.
T-ball season is over, Max enjoyed playing this year. Now it's time for soccer. I think I might sign Hanna up as well.

Random

Today my little brother turns 30! Happy Birthday Uncle Greg!
My brother Michael's Birthday was last week, but we had him over last night for dinner and ice cream cake. This was the first time he's been over since we've moved in. It was great having him here!
Daisy is crawling everywhere sometimes I actually can't find her (did I really just admit to that), she is just so tiny. I think it's so cute!
Walt is "army" crawling, but you can almost always find him laying down with his thumb in his mouth. When you walk by him you just have to pick him up because he puts his arms straight out wanting you to pick him up.
When Daisy sees something she wants it doesn't matter who or what's in her way she'll get it. Sometimes Walt will just let her crawl over him with no fuss, but today he was done!
Daisy and Walt splashing in the bath together. I made Daisy sit for the picture but she is almost always on her knees trying to get her hands on something. We call Daisy our "crazy monkey" and Walt our "chunky monkey" they're so fun!
Here is a picture Hanna drew and she wrote the names as well. I asked her why Van was sad and she said he wants me and Max to hold him. I was pretty impressed!

Max Lost His Front Tooth

Max lost his 1st top tooth. He has already lost 4 bottom teeth, but this was his first big front tooth. I felt horrible I forgot to put money under his pillow the first night, which he had told his t-ball team, "I can't wait for tonight, because I lost my tooth." Then his coach asked if the tooth fairy was coming and he said, no my mom; whoops! The worse was he reminded me before he went to bed and I said don't you worry, now go to sleep. And I forgot! Well, since he knows that it's me anyway I guess there was no real trauma done.

HAPPY 6th BIRTHDAY MAX!

Max's birthday was May 6th just a day after mine so I took him to lunch at the Deli and we both got sandwiches and ice cream, yummy! (Thanks to my friend Allison who got me a gift certificate there for my birthday. She also made me a big brownie cookie, that was so sweet of her, it really made my day). It was so nice to have some one-on-one time with Max, he is such a good boy who's growing up way too fast!
We celebrated Max's birthday on Saturday where we had his Army Party! The kids had a wonderful time going through an obstacle course, having a water balloon toss, and playing "hot grenade". I was so glad Danny was there he always does such a good job with the kids. He took charge of all the games having the "Soldiers" march to the different activities and so on.
Most of the kids wore camouflage, which made it all the more fun.
The kids doing the water balloon toss.
Here are some kids doing there army crawl through the finish line. Their medal for finishing the course was a root bear float. Max had a very Happy Birthday, thanks to all his friends and family who came to celebrate with us!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

I'm 31 today! Here is a picture of Daisy and Walt that brings me so much happiness and joy on my birthday. You can tell that Walt is just screaming with joy in this picture. The babies aren't feeling very well today, but I plan to drive to Vegas this afternoon to go to lunch with Danny (Indian, my favorite) and shopping. Food and shopping = a Happy Birthday! A big thanks to my mom and Dee for offering to watch the kids for us.

Walt and Daisy

I forgot to mention how Walt is much bigger than Daisy so it really confuses people, they're not sure if they're twins or not. Walt is wearing 6-12 month clothes and size 3 diapers and Daisy is in 3-6 month clothes and size 2 diapers. I haven't weighed them in a while but they're at least 2-3 lbs. different.

Here is the video of Walt and Daisy talking and laughing at each other...