The Coopers: Cant believe its almost APRIL

I mean really, before I know it, Tristan is going to be going to college (hopefully). Time seems to be going by so fast, and it seems as if I cant get anything done. My "to-do" for things around the house is annoyingly LONG. I often make plans that are way too large for the day, and seem to half complete the things that I want to get done. My attention is easily diverted.

I mean who wants to clean when you have such a sweet little boy to play with and a beach across the street??? Or the park down the road?? Or we can go to Target and "browse" while Tristan says "ball...ball...ball..ball" at anything that remotly resembles a ball!! Today we went to Target to buy milk, it took us an hour because we bounced a gigantic bouncy ball around the store for a while. No, we did not break anything, and Yes we put it back where we found it. WE have no need for a $9 glittery bouncy ball. But for that hour we had fun with the bouncy ball....and he said ball ball ball with a gigantic smile the entire time.

The beach is a ton of fun with little man, but I am looking forward to one day being able to just lounge and read on the beach again! Tristan is all over the place, and doesnt exactly have a fear of the water (which is Freezing right now by the way). I dont even know why I bring a blanket to the beach, because its not like I get to lay down and Tristan doesnt lay down. If I do lay down, Tristan lays down on me, and when he is covered in sand---this is not exactly comfortable. So I usually choose to stand.

Tristan is such a joy to be around! He loves water. He loves bananas. He loves Pringles. Those are the three things that he never seems to tuen down no matter how tired he is. He also likes anything with wheels. He seems to have an obsession with putting straws into the straw holes. He likes his sippy cup but still drinks milk out of bottles. He will eat most of anything. But sometimes doesnt want to eat at all. He gets 3 meals and 2 snacks every day. If he chooses not to eat his meal at the given time, his loss, I dont try to squeeze it in later. I figure this way he will learn meal times and hopefully will put him on the road to a lifetime of normalcy when it comes to food. Because I personally think that one reason why our country has such a high obesity rate in people, is beacause they (the people) never had a normal routine of food when younger, not in all cases, but I think this is a contributing factor.

Ha, I love this face below. If you look closely youll see that Tristan got a new tooth...top left...

And some exciting news for all of us..we recently bought a lot that we are going to build on. We are thinking it will be about 2-3 years before we will be out there. But we will be putting in a dock this spring, so we went out to take a look, to start thinking about placement of that last weekend. Below are some pictures from the weekend trip out there (Santa Rosa Beach, about 20 minutes East of where we live now)

After we went out to the lot, we came back to the house, we went to the beach and then finished out the day letting Tristan play in his new baby pool out on the deck!

He loved it!

We cooked dinner, Tristan went to bed around 7, and we went to bed around 9....jealous??

Sunday morning Corey went to work on his boat that he is building, and we went to the park with my good friend Jackie and her cutie son Roland. All was well at the park until the sprinklers came on in the adjacent baseball fields. Tristan ran out of that playground straight for the 100 something sprinklers that were going off. He manged to get a little wet before i got him out. Roland followed and we decided to ditch the park since both kids were a little wet. Jackie needed to go to Target, so we tagged along. I wish I had a picture of the boys sharing a cart, maybe next time. I will say that we went to Target and bought nothing just went to hang out with a friend.