J Cooper Photography

1.  This little man climbed into this bucket after dinner and I SERIOUSLY thought about shipping him off.  Don’t be deceived by that boyish grin.  This weekend he morphed into a psycho-child.  Screaming, being sassy, hands on his hips, throwing, and refusing to eat topped the charts.   He hadn’t eaten dinner in 6 days.   And then today he woke up happy again.  He ate breakfast happy, went to preschool happy, and stayed happy throughout the entire day.  Medication anyone?

2.  “Hello” from The Cutest Baby On The Planet.

3.  Wondering how he has already perfected the “what in the heck do you think you are doing” look?  (well besides watching his brother’s incessant eye rolling).  He has a crazy juggling Daddy who will try anything to illicit smiles

4. The Fam on our Saturday egg hunt.  I was so looking forward to having our family photos done this Spring.  But after the torture that was trying to obtain ONE image with everyone looking in the same direction…I think I may just pass   And someone PLEASE remind me not to be the one holding children the next time I take photos.  I seem to have a pension for extending my freakishly long giraffe neck to uncanny proportions while smiling so large that every capillary in my face bulges.  Not a pretty look.  Next time I need to concentrate on being “natural”…why does that come so easily for some people?

You will think I am joking…but every year in elementary school I ruined our class picture by cocking my head to the side.  The photographer would always say…”little girl in the middle…put your head straight”.  And I would nod and I would mentally straighten my little head.  But every year the picture came back and I was the one ridiculous child with their head on sideways.  And I am NOT exaggerating.

Exhibit A – Kindergarten 1982

Exhibit B – First Grade 1983

Exhibit C – 2nd Grade 1984

This is the year my Mom must have threatened me within an inch of my life.  You will notice the sheer determination on my face to KEEP.THAT.DARN.HEAD.STRAIGHT.  Even poor Jim in the row behind me was concerned for my fate.  And you will see that one of my best friends (to this day) willingly took one for the team that year.  Thanks Ang…I owe you one!

Proof that I am SO not good in front of the camera.

Are you as weirded out as I am that I am taking the time at 10:30 at night to post these pictures?  Moving on.

5.  My Mom is retiring this year as a 4th grade teacher and has been off-loading books on us.  Have I ever mentioned that I have a SERIOUS weakness for children’s books.  Yeah…we need a library filing system around here!  Here was their haul from this weekend.

6.   In between fits of rage…someone was a wee bit excited to find THOMAS in his Easter basket!

7.   Love.  LOVE.  LUUUUUVVVVVVVV.

8.  I must post video soon of this little man in his exersauser.  Man can that kid jump.  We have a theory that he prefers frothed milk as we often set him in there after having his bottle and he starts jumping immediately.  He’s a mad man.  Thought this picture might give you the full effect

9.  I hauled this little shelf out of the attic today to paint.  I thought it might fill in part of that empty spot over the chair in our master bedroom.  But 1/10 of the way into painting those tiny nooks and crannies I was officially cursing the little old woodworker who cut out those side pieces with his fancy lil jigsaw.   I finally got a coat slapped onto that bad boy but the verdict is still out.  Plus I have nothing to actually put ON the shelf.  Do I hear Home Goods calling?

10.  This one stayed home sick today.   She woke up feeling miserable and begged not to go to school.  We had no sooner dropped of the other kiddos and she was begging for me to turn the car around so she could go too.  Instead we had a movie marathon.  I can pretty much promise you that I could NEVER see another Barbie movie in my lifetime and be just A-OK.

Happy Tuesday friends!