A family picture for the 4th of July! The boys had matching outfits from Grandma and when I was getting ready Cooper came in and said "Mom I like you" and for a few seconds my heart melted and then I realized he was just saying we were dressed alike because our shirts matched ;)
First fireworks for both kids. The City of Plano had their fireworks on a private farm to avoid crowds gathering, but we were able to catch them not far from our house.
This was one of my favorite outfits, so when I put M in it I had lots of flashbacks to Cooper wearing it and created a side by side. Cooper was about 4 months old in this picture, Miles wasn't even 2 months when we wore it, but he's already pretty much outgrown it.
We've been dipping our toes into seeing a few people this month. So we had an outdoor playdate with our friend Averly. They had a cool setup in their front yard of pools and water tables and the kids splashed and played soccer and had a great time!
Frequently when Cooper gets dressed in the morning he wants to know if Miles has the same kind of shirt. So this day was Red Texas Rangers shirts.
I had been really wanting some Bahama Bucks, so we took a Sunday afternoon drive to get some.
Cooper had watched some episode of Daniel Tiger where they go on a night hike and he's been asking for one ever since. So one weekend evening after he had napped well we let him stay up and went on a walk around 8:15. It's still not dark, but about as good as we can do this time of year!
I've got this summer bucket list from Busy Toddler saved on my phone, so any time we need a little something extra I pull it out for an activity idea. First up was freezing toys in ice. I put Cooper's small cars in an ice cube tray and froze them over night. I gave him his shovel, some droppers, and a little bowl of water to try to free them. He ended up mainly throwing them to break the ice and then putting them in the water to melt the rest away. He loved this activity and has asked for it several times since!
We also spent a morning watching construction at a new Chick Fil A going up. It's being built right by the closest CFA to us (we assume it will replace the current one) so Cooper sees it whenever we go pick up food from the drive thru (which is a lot, haha). So I packed up our snack and we ate snack and watched them work from our air conditioned car.
We had planned for Cooper to go spend a night with Grandma. She happened to be over the day before and asked if he wanted to come home with her now and spend 2 nights and he immediately jumped at the chance and packed his bags. He was ready!
With an extra day of just me and little M, I worked on this dress up rack that I wanted to do. An on-sale bookshelf and a tension curtain rod and some toddler hangers. It's harder for Cooper to clean them up independently (versus putting them all in a bin like before) but we're working on turning them right side out and hanging them up and he's starting to get it.
We also took the opportunity for a date night with our littlest 3rd wheel. I found a local farm that's doing drive in movies so we drove out and watched Field of Dreams. It was a lot of fun doing something different!
Sunday afternoon water gun fights.
This little guy loves being outside. He will just fall asleep on his own laying outside and he definitely does not do that anywhere else!
Another bucket list activity-- play in the mud! One of the days it rained this week we added some extra water to the dirt and Cooper dug up some mud.
Doctor Cooper! He is very into dressing up and pretend play, so I made him a new doctor bag to go with his Doctor coat I found on Facebook. His doctor bag includes some stethoscopes (made from a headband and ribbon), pen light, bandaids, an ace bandage, syringes, empty medicine bottles, and a notepad and pen. He loves giving checkups and had 7 bandaids on himself this day!
And one more of the coordinating boys in Blue Texas Rangers ;)
