Best Valentine's Day Date, Ever

Elmo Live seemed to be Cooper's idea of a great Valentine's Day date. It was actually pretty entertaining, to at least the two below. (This picture was taken in complete darkness, without a flash. It's hard to sit that still to "La la la la, la la la la, Elmo's world ...")

Words of Wisdom

We got to spend some much-needed time with Ty, Charis and Baby Colt last week. Cooper has already put Colt under his wing. "Colt, this is a cell phone ... guard it with your life!"

The closest to political activism I've ever gotten.

This is about how far away we were last night, so the picture isn't that cool. Luke, Cooper and I (and a couple of friends) went to the Barack Obama rally last night at the Capitol. Not that I proclaim any alliance with one political party ... we really wanted to go just to say we'd gone, and to tell Cooper that he went later in life. He is an amazingly moving speaker, that I can certainly give him credit for. It was wonderful to see that many people standing on Congress, totally quiet, listening to his speech. He named just about every issue he could think of, said he could fix it, talked about CHANGE. All we could think about is, if he wins, he has a TON of stuff to do.

Park

This is what happens when you take three cousins and their friend to the park, and eat lunch together. This is all totally normal.

Dinner

Cooper and Luke cooked breakfast for dinner the other night. It was totally cute.
Luke actually doing the dishes. He's laughing because I'm taking a picture of him doing the dishes. He knows it's getting posted.

Coop owning the see-saw.

The faces of Cooper

Here are some pictures today from our trip to Central Market, and a couple from home. He's pretty cute!

Who else wants it?

If I can find it for under 100 dollars somewhere, I'm getting it:

The DVD set that overshadows all other DVD sets.

Advice?

Hello everyone reading this blog. I need some advice: Cooper and I do the same thing, all of the time. Same routine, same places, same everything. I know routine is good, and it's probably mostly me who's bored.

Can anyone let me know of any fun thing they do, either in Central Texas, or just fun ideas that you have for your toddlers, either learning or playing? I feel like there's no where else to visit in our little town, I don't want him watching much TV, and I don't want to drive 20 mins every day to do something. We hang with friends when we can, but we can't do that all of the time. Help! Any ideas would be awesome.