almost a year and I can't believe it...

Can't believe my little man is 11 months old. I don't have any new pictures..or none that are downloaded off the camera yet.. but I found these from the girls camera. Poor boy! His sisters sometimes don't know how to leave him alone.





Sometimes his sister's love him a little too much but he takes it pretty well.
Cooper has been into everything lately. He walks along furniture pretty well.. and can get going pretty fast. He claps on command and is starting to wave. I even caught him standing by himself with out holding on to anything for a couple of seconds. We cut his hair again this week and he looks like a whole new boy! A big boy! Can't believe he's growing so fast!
Oh and he had his two top teeth pop through this month.

More Pictures

Last weekend we headed down to Phillips Island. We had heard about a little place to stop off at and be more interactive with the Kangaroos. It was probably the most ghetto "Zoo" I have ever been to but it was the best place to see the Kangaroos. They had lots of animals there. I swear it looked like somebody's back yard turned petting zoo. But we had lots of fun. You will see two big Kangaroos going after the food in Jordan's hand. Every time Jordan tried to move away they would grab him an bring him back. He had to maneuver his way around them to get out.




Dottie spotted the Joey first. There were actually two of them that had Joey's, very cool.





Who do you think is going to win?

The girls looking out over the ocean.

Healesville Sanctuary

On Saturday the 31st we went to see some animals that we probably wouldn't get to see out in he wild. The Healesville Sanctuary is about an hour and a half out side of Melbourne. It reminded me a lot of the "NW trek" up by us in Washington. Only it had native animals to Australia. The drive out was amazing. The views were awesome.... rolling hills and farm fields. Some fields full of sheep that were scattered everywhere. Sadly we did not get any pictures of these yet.

A wombat, much bigger than I expected.. these things were big. Also I think these were the girls favorite animal. They both saved up some chore money and bought themselves each a wombat stuffed animal.

Not sure what this Kangaroo was doing.. but it looked kind of cool. *update.. Jordan said it's walking. They use their tail to walk.

Petting the Kangaroo's.

They did have some larger Kangaroos but those ones didn't really come up to us. Kind of glad they didn't.

Up close to the Kangaroos. Dottie feeding it out of her hand.

A Wallaby. Very Rodent looking. He probably only stood 18 inches tall.

One of the Koala's up in the tree. Not quite as cool as the ones we saw in the wild but still very cool to see it close up.

Tasmanian Devil or a rodent of unusual size. I expected something different not sure what but different. About the size of a small Dog.

These Pelicans were huge! Probably the size of Dottie.


A Dingo

Saw this guy at the end... very interesting how they lay down. Also very interesting how closely they look like a deer to me. This is a red Kangaroo.
We really wanted to get some pictures of the duck billed platypuses. But they didn't turn out so well because it was dark and they were swimming in water. But they were very cool as well. Much smaller than I pictured.

Click on the actual picture for the video of the pelican. Our friends that went with us shot this video of the pelicans.