Adventure Boy

Well, we've got a climber. Here are just a few pictures of Cooper finding some unconventional ways to play with his new toys, or even the boxes they came in. In the first picture, he's trying to pull himself up onto the activity table. I particularly like when he stands on things with wheels (see Picture 4)! Oh boy, I see many broken arms in my future.

Just Reading Mommy

Well, we had to do some rearranging in Cooper's room. Today, after we put him down for a nap, we kept hearing banging around. For those of you who know Cooper well, you know he usually just lies down and goes to sleep. After several minutes of the noise and after realizing that he was not going to sleep, we went in to see what the problem was. We discovered that he had been pulling books out of his book bin through the slats on his crib. He looked totally "caught" when we walked in.

Old Friends From Kentucky

Our good friends from Lexington, Wes and Melissa Omohundro, came to visit us for New Year's weekend. It has become a 3-year running tradition now. The last two years, the KY Wildcats have played in the Music City Bowl, so it gave them two good reasons to come visit. We enjoyed hanging out and doing a little shopping, and they of course were excited to see Cooper, who they haven't seen since we visited them back in July. We went to eat at Maggiano's on Saturday night, and they loved it! We all went downtown to see the "Battle of the Bands" on Sunday night, which was pretty cool. Wes and Melissa, thanks for coming to visit. We love y'all! Here's a few pictures from our fun weekend.

My Kid Will Never . . .

I'm sure all of us have said this one time or another. And then someone always comes back with the ever-so-popular unsolicited advice, "Don't say you're kid will never do something because, sure enough, they will." I am pleased that I have actually kept my word on a few of the "My kid will never-isms." My kid (baby) will never sleep in my bed. Still true. My kid (baby) will not be toting around a bottle at a year and a half old. Still true.

But today I caved. Though many of you may not be aware, I dislike dinosaurs. I dislike dinosaurs almost as much as I dislike Elmo. And for as long as I can remember, I have always said, "My little boys will never wear dinosaur pajamas." [Actually, I recall having said at some point, "My kid won't LIKE dinosaurs," but I am open-minded enough to realize that I can't dictate my child's likes and dislikes. But I can control what he wears, at least for now.]

I don't know what happened. I don't know why when I was at Target last week, I decided that dinosaur pjs would look cute on my little Cooper despite my lifelong strong feelings to the contrary. I guess at least for some things, you really don't know what you'll do until you actually become a mom yourself. Just like I always said he would, my sweet little boy sleeps in his own bed every night like a big boy. But tonight, he's doing it in his ADORABLE dinosaur pjs.

More on Christmas Yard Art

Well, tonight we saw a Christmas Yard Art extravaganza that we just had to share. We were on our way to Jeremy's uncle Tony's 50th birthday party when we passed a house in his neighborhood with FIVE DIFFERENT inflatable Christmas things. (Please see prior post if you are unfamiliar with my opinion of those ridiculous things.) Needless to say, Jeremy and I thought it was funny enough to pass along, and having been to a birthday party, we had our camera handy. So, here I am, hanging out the window, trying to keep from getting rained on to get some quick pics of the yard art before the neighbors see us. I am happy to report that the big one with several Christmas characters on it was actually singing to us as we drove by. These things are getting out of control. Sorry for the poor photo quality, but again . . . hanging out the window trying to keep from getting spotted by the neighbors. I hope you enjoy as much as I did.

Geaux Tigers!

All of the crappy BCS stuff aside, I am quite excited about the very real possibility of Ohio State University getting wooped by the SEC 2 years in a row. And if it can't be UT, who better than the LSU Tigers? With more than a month for Glenn Dorsey and Matt Flynn to heal, and the game taking place in LSU's backyard, I predict a tough run of it for "The" Ohio State University. Sorry Tiger fans, though -- my next prediction -- Les Miles sells out and goes to Michigan after the championship game. Oh well, at least for now we say:

G-E-A-U-X Tigers!

I'm Weighing In

I know most of my blog readers (women) don't care, but I absolutely love college football. On that note, I thought I'd weigh in on the crappy BCS system and what has resulted from it this season. My thoughts are this:

It just stinks that some teams can just coast into the National Championship game, not having played since before Thankgiving, because they don't have a conference championship game (OHIO STATE). And it stinks for Missouri that they played like absolute poo-poo in their conference championship game, knocking them out of the #1 spot, but they shouldn't have played like absolute poo-poo knowing that would be the result.

And for the strain of folks who think LSU should go to the championship game over Georgia, I find that incredibly irrational. And let me say this....I like LSU second to Tennessee in the SEC. And I despise Georgia more than anyone else in the SEC, so I'm clearly being objective. But LSU played like crap in the SEC championship (probably because of all the injuries, but they still played like crap). They barely squeaked out a victory over a clearly inferior Tennessee team, and only because Erik Ainge threw an interception when UT was on the LSU 12 yd line to tie the game. (And UT doesn't lose in overtime EVER, and LSU loses in overtime ALWAYS, so you know what the result would have been absent Ainge's bad pass.) So, Georgia gets the shaft because it didn't get to go to the SEC championship game because of an early season loss to UT, and LSU automatically deserves to jump them in the poll. HOGWASH if you ask me. I love you Tiger fans, but that's just not fair.

So, here I am concluding that Ohio State-Georgia, or Ohio State-Oklahoma are the only 2 acceptable matchups. And ironically, I despise all 4 of those teams. Hopefully a playoff system is in the works now. Yeah right, wishful thinking.