Cooper's Thanksgiving Parade!

Cooper's school had their annual Thanksgiving parade on Friday. The 3 and 4 year olds have a parade around the entire school while the K-8 graders sit in the hall and watch them. It's a very exciting time for the kids. Each child has some kind of noise maker and they walk around the school halls 2-3 times.

Cooper and I decided to bring our arsenal of noise makers from our house just in case his class didn't have enough. Cooper decided to wear his drum. He was soooo proud of himself! We are so proud of him!

#3 Gave me a good laugh!

Sometimes it's not worth the fight!

While getting ready for church, the kids both had very different ideas in their attire. On Saturday, Caroline and I went to Build-a-Bear where she used her Tooth Fairy money to buy a bear. She decided that she wanted to wear her Easter dress from last year that had a matching baby doll outfit. She looked beautiful, but was in the wrong season.

Cooper, on the other hand, was a mess. He wore his Thomas t-shirt, brown rain pants and his plaid "church" shoes. The plaid shoes look so cute with his khakis and golf shirt. Not so much with rain pants. :)

Good thing our church is very casual!

My Little Monkey

When Halloween night came around, Cooper decided that he wanted to be a monkey again for Halloween instead of a ghost. It was probably a good thing since the ghost costume could be interpreted as a much different costume.

My little monkey eating his banana

Caroline and her friends geeting ready

Once Cooper's bucket got heavy, he decided that he was done. I asked him why he didn't want to trick or treat anymore and he said "because I have all of the candy that I want". So he plopped down in the wagon and began eating!

The day after Halloween he spotted Thomas underwear. We gave in. He was NOT going to let them go without a fight!

Our Pre-Halloween Festivities

We had a great time this Halloween season! We were able to go to a few parties and get-togethers with our neighbors and the kids had several Halloween parties. Good times were had by all!

Cooper and his friend, Peyton, waiting to go to their Fall Festival

Cooper got his face-painted. Look at that cute little smile!

Checking out the goods

The kids went to a Halloween party last weekend. Cooper was a ghost and Caroline was a hippie

Look at that face! Cooper cracked me up at the pinata. He was so serious and COULD NOT wait until it was his turn. As soon as he got the bat in his hand, he was swinging!

Caroline and her friends enjoying their Halloween snack!

Scott and I went to another Halloween party. He was Allen from the movie, "The Hangover". I took the easy way out and was a prisoner. (To Scott's defense, we didn't have a Halloween idea until about 2 hours before the party. Scott looked like a poor-man's version of the real guy.)

What kid does NOT like Pizza?

To put it mildly, Cooper is a pretty picky eater. His staples include chicken, peanut butter crackers, grilled cheese, bananas, oranges and yogurt. Of course he loves sweets and chips, but that is about the extent. We have been trying to get him to at least try some pizza. Because seriously, who DOESN'T like pizza?

I came to Cooper's school on Friday for his Fall Festival. (I don't visit his school during the day very often because he always gets upset when I leave.) So, this time when he started to get upset when I was leaving I told him that I would stay to eat lunch with him ONLY if he would try the pizza. He thought about it and said that he would take a bite, so of course I stayed.

This is Cooper before putting on a brave face.

This is Cooper when I reminded him that I was only staying if he took a bite.

After the crying stopped and I ate a bite to show him that it wasn't hot.

The next picture of Cooper I missed because he was literally GAGGING! Can you believe that? What child gags at pizza? Oh well! At least he tried!