A very special announcement from Annie regarding her sibling!

Please excuse the crazy hair. :)

http://youtu.be/ODY74VmU87c

Baby Tosh 2.0 Watch!

Only about 2 weeks until we will have a new member of our family!  Child of Beth and James, sibling of Millie, the new addition is expected to appear about two weeks before Millie's 2nd birthday.  I don't have a belly shot to share, but the last time I saw Beth on Skype, she was (as always) perfectly skinny with a tiny little basketball bump. 

I, however, am already nearing "big as a house" stage at only 20 weeks, and will take a photo this weekend to prove it.  I'm not sure how I can be so big since I've gained a bit less than 10 pounds, but I am guessing it has something to do with my abdominal muscles being completely evicerated by my pregnancy with Annie.  I'm afraid I'll be tipping over by 30 weeks.  Ugh.

Merry Christmas!

Wanted to share a few snaps from Christmas before time flew away again!  Here are our two reindeer gearing up for Christmas fun....note the super cheesy look Annie gives when you ask her to smile for the camera.  Also note that Sadie refuses to move an inch when you put antlers on her head - could be a useful training device. 

Round 2 in the attempt to get a cute photo of both kiddos in front of the tree.  Neither appears to have caught the Christmas spirit.

And the hit of Christmas was....a stroller for Annie's babies.  She has pushed that thing all over two houses, including 30 minutes tonight going back and forth, during a slight rain shower, over the 10 foot long path behind our house. 

She also enjoyed helping everybody open their gifts.  Today, however, she's been asking where the presents all went.

And the winner of the most outrageously overpriced Christmas gift contest - the armchair we got her from Pottery Barn Kids.  Turns out that if you want to sell me something, make it green with polka dots.  Done.  But if you says she doesn't look precious reading her books on it, I say you're crazy.  :)  However, it is okay if you say my living room looks like a playroom, because it officially does and probably always will.

For the Coopers, this was definitely the best Christmas ever.  I hope y'all feel the same! 

Great photos from Coopers' trip

While we conveniently had all of Annie's grandparents in one place, we wanted to make sure we got some great photos.  We asked the lovely ladies from Photographix to work with us, and we were very happy with the results!  Working with a todller is no small task, but they never frowned once, even if Annie frowned frequently.  Here are a few of my favorites of Annie with her Nana, Grumps, Grandma and Pa.

Some happenings in and around, but not on, Halloween

I'm finally working on some catch-up here!  Toby's parents came to town for the last 10 days of October, and we had a great time together!  I have some great pictures I'll upload later, but here are a few of the things we did, in no particular order:

1. Carve a pumpkin! To me, this looks like a cat, but I don't think that was the intent.

2.  Attend Pumkinfest!  This is a very fun festival in downtown Franklin, made significantly less fun by having a rowdy toddler on hand who was also in the process of getting sick.  But at least it is only a 5 minute walk home.  I do love this picture Toby took, regardless of the circumstances.

3.  Visit Gentry's farm!  This is a very fun place right by my parents' neighborhood.  It is only open in October, and it has mazes, pumpkins, corn troughs, and lots of other fun.  Here is one of the few snaps we were able to get of all the Coopers!

Annie really liked the tire swing.  Her mother tried to stay out of the way and trust that daddy would not let her fall. 

More to come!

What do you get when you mix...

...one part toddler, one part pregnant-and-so-sick-she-took-her-first-sick-day-in-five-years mom, plus one part Santa Claus?

A clinging, shrieking mess!  But definitely one for the memory book...

We're still here! (Plus 1!)

So I am at least 2 months behind on posting all the fun things that have been going on in the Cooper house.  I hope that I will be forgiven, considering that I've been nauseous and completely exhausted.  I'm pretty sure you all know already, but for the one person who I might have missed - we're expecting!  MiniCooper 2.0 is expected to arrive in June, and Toby and I couldn't be happier.

Photos to follow - I can't seem to get them to work right now.

Anyway, I still need to post pictures from Nana and Grumps' visit (including some very cute photos we had taken by some great photographers), Halloween, and our Thanksgiving fun with the Thornton Triplets.  We have been extra busy, and on the days we aren't busy, I've been falling asleep at 7:30 (no joke, ask Toby). I'm finally starting to feel better, though last night I fell asleep at 8, so I may have a few more weeks before I feel back to my old self.  Regardless, I'm determined to post a sampling of the fall photos in the coming week or so.  We have a calendar getting packed full of fun Christmas events, so I need to catch up before then!

Also, Toby has had to do far more than his fair share of chasing a very active toddler lately, so send some good thoughts his way.