10 months old

So I am a day late here in Australia but it is still the 27th in the states...
My little Cooper man is 10 months already.. man time flies.
His sisters love him... almost to much at times. They are big helpers though.
He finally started crawling a month ago and now he is into everything. He can go where ever he wants and he does. He pulls himself up on furniture and walks around it. He only started crawling a week before we left to Australia so that has been a trial in and of itself. Getting used to a mobile baby and a new place with furniture that is not ours. But we are surviving. He loves being in the stroller and going places so that is very nice. In fact he gets up set if the stroller is not moving.
This baby boy desperately needs another hair cut but I did not bring my hair cutting stuff (not sure why I forgot this).
He sleeps well for the most part, took a while to get adjusted to the time change. Over all he is a very good baby very mellow, calm and content. We will keep him.


Couldn't get a smile out of him this morning.. he wasn't really in the mood for pictures as you can tell.

I am not sure how much he weighs but he is a solid boy. At 8 1/2 months he was 20 pounds exactly. He is growing out of his 9 month clothes very fast. He doesn't always smile for people but I can always get a smile out of him.
He has two teeth on the bottom and one on top is coming any day. I actually think there are four on top that are about to pop through in the next two weeks.
We love our little Coop!

Polly want a cracker?

So this Saturday we want on a search for some birds. We were told about this spot where there were tons. So we headed up to the Dandenong Ranges National Park only about an hour from where we live. We were prepared and brought bird seed and the birds loved it. The red ones with blue feathers are called Crimson Rosellas. The big white ones are Cockatoos. Not sure if I am posting a picture of it but we also saw an Australian King Parrot, it is a green one with red feathers.



The girls loved having the birds land on them. It freaked me out. At one point, Dottie had one on her head when a tour bus full of Asians pulled up and started taking pictures of her like crazy. She was funny about it she kept saying "Get this bird off my head, get of you bird." We even tried to get Coop involved and put a little seed on his stroller. He tried to grab at them until one Cockatoo thought his little finger was food. Cooper did not like that but I am sure it hurt a little.

We went into the cafe they had there and ate lunch and watched the birds land on other people's heads. It was a fun afternoon.

It's been way to long...

since I posted anything. I was hoping to get up to date on this thing but I failed. And now all the pictures from May are on the computer at home. So I guess I will start with the pictures that I do have.
Just after Jordan's birthday in May we found out that his work wanted to send him to Melbourne Australia for a short term assignment. After much thought (and Boeing saying they would pay for the whole family to go) We decided we couldn't pass up the opportunity. So we all got passports and things started to fall into place. Once we got his work visa we bought plane tickets and left the 6th of July.
It was a long flight but we made it. The girls loved it. They flew us all business class so we had lots of room. I guess Jordan took all those pictures with his phone so you will have to look at facebook to see them.
When we got here we were so tired. We are staying in a nice place right in the city. We have an awesome view.

We got our car and had to start driving on the left side of the road. Very interesting but it seems pretty normal now. only had a few times where I yell out "wrong side, wrong side!"
Seems like we have something going on everyday so far. There is a group of people that all came out to work in Jordan's group. Most all have been here before. So almost everyday one of the wives has taken us into the city to show us around and how to use the trolley system. We went to a very cool open market kind of like pikes place in Seattle but bigger.
Since we have been here we have been on the look out for the "wildlife". But since we live right in the middle of the city that is kind of hard to find. We live on the bay and have heard about some penguins. So one night we went to check them out but we went way to early they come at dusk after they are done fishing and have their nest in the rocks. Plus we forgot it was in the middle of winter and it got way to cold so we left. We came back a couple of days later prepared this time. It was very cool. By the time we left they were all over some rocks on a jetty. Some just walking around on the dock. They were small penguins and the girls loved it.

So of course we wanted to see some Kangaroos. We have heard the best places were the golf courses. And were guaranteed to see some in Angelsea at their golf course. Angelsea is almost a 2 hour drive but we really wanted to see some kangaroos. So we headed out Saturday morning and got their about 11am and they were sleeping. They told us to come back late afternoon and they would be out eating again. So we did (I would load up more picture except on this laptop is it taking forever)
In between seeing the kangaroos we went to see koalas. This was probably the best part. We headed down the Great Ocean Road. Such a beautiful drive. We were told that if we head down to the Koala Cafe they would be in the trees everywhere. Took another hour to get there but it was so worth it. We had lunch and then headed over to the Eucalyptus trees. At first the ones we saw were very high up and sleeping. Kind of disappointing. Then we headed over to the camp ground near by and we saw this guy.


We probably saw about 10 different koala's. It was very cool.
When I figure out how to load pictures faster I will put more on here.
So far we are adjusting well to life down under.

Out of Order..

So Easter came before the birthday and soccer but here it is....
We went down to Vancouver for the weekend and had lots of fun!

Checking out their prizes!




Cousins..

Also that weekend we gave Cooper a hair cut! but I don't think we got any of the finished product. oh well.. a couple of weeks later I gave him another on and really cut it off.

It was getting so long... by this time I was able to give the girls little piggy tails, so I wasn't quite sure what to do with the boy.

Our first year playing soccer

We signed both girls up for soccer this year and I think it was a success!
They were in need of some coaches so Jordan volunteered to coach Emma's team. She loved that. Over all Emma did pretty well. I wasn't exactly sure how she was going to handle it but I was pleasantly surprised she never gave up. And with all her hard work she finally scored her first goal the last game of the season.. she was so excited and so was her dad.


Dottie also did well. Seemed like every Tuesday it rained and she still got out there and gave it her all. Only a few times did she give in and just want to hold hands with her friends while she carelessly ran around the field in the middle of the game.. It sure was fun to watch 4 year olds play soccer!

Dottie's belated birthday post

Need to get on the blogging train again! (Her birthday was over a month ago)
Dottie's 4th Birthday.. and her first real birthday party! It was Dora themed. We had lots of fun.



The Dora Cake!

Spring Break

While we were down in Vancouver for Easter we decided to take the long way home and hit the beach. So Monday we drove out to Tillamook, OR and went to the cheese factory.

Then we headed out to Seaside, OR and got a hotel room right on the beach. The girls loved that.
The view from our room.


Playing on the beach.

We visited the Seaside aquarium right when we got there.. that was interesting. Those are two different Octopuses.



The second day we drove down to Cannon Beach and went out to Haystack rock. Jordan took them out on the rocks and showed them all the tide pools and all the creatures in those tide pools.
We had lots of fun and will definitely be taking more of those trips.