Quinn and Ronald McDonald.

Horseback Riding!

Quinn getting ready to get on Snowy.

Up he goes!

And were off....

He did a great job riding today. He did most of it himself with the helpers just holding on so he wouldn't make any sudden movements and fall.

Then they turned him around and he wasn't so sure.

He decided the best thing to do was just put his head down on that nice soft fur and take a nap!

It's Genetic!

Cooper loves to sneak back into our office and get on his daddy's computer.

Of course his favorite part it the number pad :)

I am really concerned about our sofa. I think Cooper is killing it and we just can't be buying a new one right now. It is a toss up as to what will be the cause of death. It could be that Cooper uses it as his own personal trampoline (of course Quinn loves to bounce on it too). Or it could be that Cooper has discovered how to make the recliner part pop up and makes sure to do it every time he walks in the room. You should have seen the shocked look on Quinn's face the other day when Cooper reclined his seat while he was sitting in it! Seriously, no one ever told me about the extreme damage two little boys can do to a house. Almost every room has something in it that has been broken or at least damaged by my kids. Not to mention the dog, we bought Portia a fancy new dog bed for her cage at Christmas and it already has a huge hole dug in it!! And she has decided that since Quinn chews on her toys it must be okay to chew on his. Oy!

Can I just say how glad I am tommorow is Friday?

It never stops. Just when we think we have a room completely childproofed....the child grows. Cooper will be sleeping with the lights on from now on. Why? Because he is finally tall enough to switch the light on, but not tall enough to get it back off. We turned that light off at least 5 times tonight before we just gave up. The funny thing is that while he loves to switch the light on, I don't think he really enjoys sleeping with it on. Maybe that is why he woke up so early today, sigh....

The good news is that the kids are now officially allowed to eat whatever they want. No more gluten free/casein free diet, it didn't work and it sucked. Bring on the pizza and chocolate!

So Cooper had the morning off from school. Since he was tired and had a runny nose we both took advantage of that fact and took a nice mid-morning nap. Of course, when I woke him up for our visitors (speech, ot, and teacher), he was a cranky mess. That was okay though because they weren't really here to see him. Today was our transition meeting. What is a transition meeting? Well Cooper turns 3 in June and on his birthday he is no longer going to be part of infants and toddlers. He has to go to school and that means Mommy has lots of big decisions to make. Oy! It was totally deja vu for both me and his teacher, we just did this with Quinn two years ago. Ms. Dorothy even kept saying Quinn instead of Cooper by mistake, it was totally surreal.

And guess who perked up and got all interested in speech lessons when Quinn's speech teacher got here? Yes, Cooper. He behaved pretty well though and didn't intrude too much into Quinn's time. Quinn did a great job today. His teacher said his eye contact had really improved since last week. She was holding a ball and saying it and she swears he actually said "ball" too! He seemed to be trying to imitate her mouth movements alot too. Our homework for this week is to add the signs for "up" and "down" which are just pointing up or down. I need to put together a babydoll, blanket, and bottle and teach him how to pretend to feed and cover the baby. Apparently if he learns this his IQ score goes up 18 points, his teacher says she is teaching to the test, sounds good to me. I also have to make some picture cards and work on having him point to them. It was funny, we were sitting at the table and the teacher pulled out her "pizza" card for Quinn to identify. She kept saying the word "pizza" so Cooper came running over to make sure there was no actual pizza there (we refrain from using that word around here since the new diet), he was totally dissapointed when he realized it was just a picture, goofball :)