disney day 1 - to infinity and beyond...

we arrived at our hotel to find that we were going to be living in Toy Story for the week!! The girls loved it. Another toy to play in at our hotel.





we saw two parades that day...

coop and kids

well... here's a quick update.
i've been on a mission trip and to wilderness trek in the past 4 weeks. it's good to be home. both trips were great. now if i could just finish up in the Loft this summer and then get the medical mission done... it'll be great!
i'm currently reading a book called "in a pit with a lion on a snowy day"... pretty interesting. cindy and i just finished watching "the bucket list". pretty good.
both have provoked me to think. dangerous. exciting. risky.

it's good to be back home.
as you'll see ... coop hasn't missed any meals, and the girls keep getting more beautiful every day. they are turning 6 and 8 this week. wow!

ok, so here's coopie getting some delicious lunch! he eats about 5 bottles of 8 oz per day.

aubrey says "peace out!"
lolo loves to wrestle with dad, and anyone who will tangle with her. coop likes to play.

the obligatory naked baby on the bed pic... with the towel underneath...
and the girls love to jump in on the picture action!
a couple of weeks ago weeks ago we watched the usa vs argentina soccer match on tv. to my pleasure, they came out of their room with their jerseys on. so i sported mine, too! it ended in a 0-0 tie, and it was an awesome game!
that's my boy...
coop loves to play with his excersaucer and jumping seat.he has jumped for over 45 minutes at a time before.and more than a few times, he falls asleep in his jumping seat. it's pretty funny.
anyways... hopefully i'll get some more pictures up... and finally turn this thing over to cindy lou. check ya'll later! and like i said... it's good to be back home.

i'll leave you with these words from coop. this is i guess, his first words. he's been saying it all day. and was still saying it tonight as i wrestled him down to sleep... wow, that sounded violent...

May be... 2

May be...

updates ... kind'a... from april (with captions)

well... here are some pics from april. it was a good month. these first couple of pictures are from one of my favorite days i've had with my girls. they got skates from santa in december (when else...?) and had been working hard on learning how to skate. so ... grandmommie and grandaddie had an afternoon with Cooper... while cindy and i had a good time with the girls. it was so fun! lolo is the faster of the two... but she didn't really skate! she runs and then coasts!aubrey is the more graceful of the two. she has pretty good form, too. overly cautious and less of a risk taker... what can i say, she's a first-born!
then, probably my favorite part of the day. through out the winter we read "the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe" from the chronicles of narnia by cs lewis. it was awesome. so many times the girls would stop and want to talk about it. their imagination was picturing all the fauns, centaurs, and faces of peter, edmund, susan and lucy. lolo once told me "i'm imagining all of this in my head"! she loved every bit of it. so did sissy.


so... after we rollerskated, we sat down and watched the movie. it was incredible. i loved it. maybe because they sat with me most of the time (it's actually kinda scary in parts...). but we loved it. actually thought several times throughout that day ... "man, i wish this day would never end." it was awesome. lolo got to dress up as gigi for her "book character day" at aca. awesome school. fun day. great girl.

coop likes to sit in his high chair. he can't sit up completely on his own by now... but he's working on it. maybe that's why he enjoys his high chair.

yumm ... he's pretty good at eating, except that he still expects a full bottle afterwards.
here we are having "diny dino time". coop is having some treatments due to bronchialitis... or something like that. anyways. here's where the doctor wants us to spend 2 hours of our day... he does ok most of the time. he's a good boy.

big sis couldnt resist putting a tutu on little bro. needless to say, i couldn't wait for that moment to be over...
coopie likes his bumbo... for a little bit... then he's done with that. he's a little big for it now.


the girls are great with him. they love to lay next to him and compete for his attention. their favorite thing to do is to get him to chuckle or scream... it's pretty funny.

food for thought...

last year's youth group theme was rEVOLution (the way it is spelled in this clip... and yes, i came up with it before these jokers did)...
but, this poses some interesting thoughts, that are neither republican or democrat. i'd like to suggest an interesting book "The Irressistible REVOLUTION", by Shane Claiborne. a must read. his newest book (on my to read list) is "Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals". So, anyways... check that out.
i'm not saying i agree with everything in this video... just check it out. i agree with a lot of it.



because of the lack of blog entries with pictures of our kids... and the prominence of youtube appearences on our blog... cindy will be taking over the blogging and i'll be a guest contributor...