Bubbles and Beaches

Happy half-birthday to me! I finally hit the 2.5 year old mark. I'm so big. The month of June was filled with days upon days of rain and cold weather, so we snuck in all the outdoor fun times whenever we could. I am saying really complicated sentences now, but sometimes I get all the words really mixed up. The other day, I wanted to know what everybody's favorite candy is, so I asked "What your favorite candy is you like." I always wanna know who's gonna be where, "Is momma go be dere? Is daddy go be dere? Is Kaya go be dere, etc" and I go through every single person I know. I'm getting some attitude, as frequent phrases around my house are "No! I don't want to. Not right now! Soon! Do it self!" I love, love reading my nighttime books and my favorites are Green Eggs and Ham and Cat and the Hat. I know almost every word by heart.

I love my Daddy! I also love cake, so I wanted to make a blue cake for daddy on Father's Day. Mommy didn't know how to make a blue cake, or have any food coloring, so I settled for some carrot cake with blue icing. Yummy!

We celebrated the fourth of July with a visit from Mimi and Papaw.

Mimi celebrated the big 60 birthday. We sang to her over and over and bought her a really big cake!

Mimi and Papaw brought me a bubble gun. I LOVE bubbles so this was right up my alley. I wanted to play this all day every day.

Look! I made bubbles myself.

We took Mimi and Papaw to the Rainforest Cafe again to eat with the gorillas and elephants. There is a big gorilla behind me, but I'm not scared!

Nana and Papa Bolton sent me a bubble machine a while back, so we broke it out again in the back yard. Did I mention how much I love bubbles?

Daddy also was trying to teach me how to play baseball.

I was better at chasing and hitting daddy than I was at hitting the ball.

Daddy had to work the fourth of July and it was one of the few pretty days we'd had in a while, so Mimi, Papaw, and Mommy took an impromptu trip to the Singing Beach at Manchester by the Sea, site of our beach trip about a year ago. We drove up there, nearly all the way, but were stopped by the town parade and couldn't get to a closer parking spot. Determined as we were, we walked the entire 2.5 miles remaining to the beach. Of course, I refused to walk, so Mommy carried me. Boy we were glad to see that beach. Papaw didn't see the sign that said the water temperature was 55-61 degrees, and he ran right for it. So did I. Boy it was cold!

I am a huge fan of the beach! I love the sand as much as the water.

I always love to pretend to cook a variety of food in my oven (oben), and I even found a pretend oven at the beach to prepare some sandy yummy foods for Mommy.

I'm not sure why I do this.

But it makes a funny and gross picture!

Another day when Daddy was at work, Mimi, Papaw and Mommy braved a rainy day and headed out to the zoo. Look, I'm a chicken.

I love riding the carousel (carouself). I picked out a fast bunny rabbit to ride with Mommy. I yelled "Hi!!!" every time I passed Mimi and Papaw.

I'm really not afraid of gorillas anymore. Look at us!

Hello gorilla!

Standing under this ostrich, I exclaimed "That birdie poopin' on your head Mommy!"

More poop on Mimi and Papaw's heads.

We were sad to see Mimi and Papaw go back on their airplane. This month, we went to see the Tall Ships come into the Boston Harbor, but I was not on my best behavior, so the pictures were bad. We also had some CHOP parties with friends who recently moved up here from Philly. We hope the weather stays sunny and that everyone is well!

Cooper in Action

It's been a while since we've posted video of Cooper in action, so here are a few from the past couple of months.

Our ABC's have improved from previous videos, but are still full of the same energy and enthusiasm.

Cooper is a beach bum! He LOVES the ocean and sand. This is from our trip to South Carolina with Gigi and Bubba.

One of Cooper's favorite things to do is to play monsters. First, he's the monster. Then, Daddy's the monster. Then, a stinky monster sound escapes.

Not much going on

Cheeeeese! I'm 29 months old now and growing bigger. This is how I smile for pictures. Cute, huh? Mommy and Daddy have had quite busy months at work, so we haven't had too much time to do fun stuff or take many pictures. I got to go see my first movie in the theater. I went on opening night to see the movie Up. We went to Olive Garden to eat, followed by the movies. I had popcorn and lemonade during the movie. I talked during most of the movie - What happening? What that doggie doing? Etc. - but no one seemed to mind, and I really enjoyed the movie. Subject to the advertising after Curious George, we visited the Rainforest Cafe for lunch one day which was fun. I have a little bit of a gorilla phobia at times, so the moving and yelling monkeys every minute or so was sometimes scary, but I loved the elephants and waterfalls.

My best buddy Kaya celebrated her half birthday with a party at the park. Winter birthdays in Boston can be tough, so celebrating half birthdays is a fun idea.

Before Daddy came home post call, Mommy and I snuck off to the Franklin Park zoo. I got to ride the carousel twice...once on the giraffe and once on a lion. I loved it - yelling up and down and faster!

Then Daddy came by to meet us after work. We're as tall as the giraffe. I'm not sure where that giraffe's head is though.

I used to be afraid of gorillas, especially the giant gorilla statue at the zoo. Now, I see pretend monsters, gorillas, and dinosaurs all over the place, even in the house. Mommy always asks if they're nice or mean and most of the time they are nice. This day, I wasn't afraid at all!

Gorillas are nice!

As it gets more and more into June, we've been enjoying our outside weather. We finally bought an outdoor table and chairs so we can eat outside. Some of our June days have been quite chilling, with highs in the 50's. Boston is silly.

I like to drive my big car in the driveway really fast (or "past" as I say since I can't say the f sound yet.)

This is why you don't let kids play with plastic bags. Oops.

We're looking forward to July when we have lots of Kentucky visitors, 4th of July, and trips to the beach. Mommy has graduated from residency and starts her real job in mid-July or August. Hopefully Mommy and Daddy can post some video of me singing my songs pretty soon. I'm a great singer! Stay tuned.

Life's a Beach

Welcome back to my blog!  I had a delay from when most of these pictures were taken to the time I could blog about them because my computer bit the dust for over a week.  Talk about no fun!  Anyways, I'm 28 months old.  As you can see from my posts about the Common and Plymouth, I had a pretty good month to begin with, but it only got better with my big vacation!  I'm still growing like a weed and will tell you "I'm growing bigger," and stretch out really tall.  I've finally learned most of my colors and several of my shapes.  I can identify a couple of letters, but if I don't know, I usually guess O or H.  I'm still very silly!

The weather is Boston is so silly.  Sometimes its warm, like 90 degree warm, and then two days later is 50.  When its warm, we make the most of our outside spaces and I love to play "big car."

Check out my Red Sox shirt - I'm a newly converted fan, go Sox!

Look!  What's that up there?

That's Daddy's leg!  What's that doing up there you say?  Well, I learned how to lock the door and I locked the kitchen door but didn't tell anyone and we got locked out.  Daddy climbed a ladder up through the playroom window and unlocked the door.  It was so funny!

For our vacation, I got to ride on an airplane to Gigi and Bubba's house in Charlotte, North Carolina.  My favorite thing on the airplane was using the little airplane potty, at least twice each trip.  Nana, Papa, and Grandmother were all in town from Kentucky to attend GiGi and Bubba's Derby Party, so we got to see everyone.  Lauren, Isaac, and Samantha were there too.  Look at all those cute Boltons!

We ran around their backyard playing scary monsters and dinosaurs.

Watch out for this scary dinosaur!

I'm a Kentucky boy at heart, with my UK t-shirt and my "Talk Derby to Me" hat.

Mommy with me and Samantha.

After the great-grandparents reluctantly headed back to Kentucky, Gigi, Bubba, Mommy, Daddy, and I headed to Isle of Palms, South Carolina, which is right outside of Charleston.  I loved the beach last year, and this year I took to it again.  I loved the ocean!

Bubba taught me how to fly a kite.

And I loved playing and building things in the sand.

I love sand!

I tried out the swimming pool too, though I wasn't too sure about it.  I had to hold on to Mommy the whole time.  

I didn't like swimming in the blue water (big pool), but I did like swimming in the brown water (baby pool).  Yes, I named the two pools by their colors.  Don't get the wrong idea - the brown pool was just brown because there was sand in the bottom.

I got to drown Daddy!

And sunbathe with Mommy!

After a long, lovely weekend at the beach, we headed back to Charlotte and met up with Samantha, Isaac, and Lauren one last time.

I was still just as affectionate with "Mantha" as the last time.  

One wagon ride and one airplane trip later, it was time for us to head back to Kentucky.

So here we are back at home, working hard as usual.  This time next month, Mommy will be done with residency - yay!  We hope you all are well.  Until next time...