Easter 2010

I know Easter was a few weeks ago and I am a little behind on blogging...but so we will always remember........

Our babies on Easter morning...surprisingly it only took 2 shots to get them both looking and smiling!!! :)

Once they got up and moving, we went into see what the Easter Bunny had left....

Both VERY excited....(excuse JDC's "bedhead" :)


















After church we went to Pop and Granny's for lunch and hunting eggs. They LOVED it. At first, JDC would walk by the eggs and point and leave it there. We had to do a little explaining about "hunting" :)

After Daddy and Pop had turns hiding the eggs, MWC wanted a chance to hide them for her brother..... :)




JDC decided he had enough hunting and wanted Pop to pull him around on his toy four wheeler....It has no battery so we say it is "Pop powered" :)




After naptime, we made one more stop by my great aunts house to visit with out of town family. The kids had a good time playing in the back bedroom digging up some old toys. (I am surprised none of these ended up coming home with us. Aunt NA is to the point where "if you like it, you can take it home." :) We have come home with LOTS of goodies from her house. :)

How JDC spent his 2nd birthday...

3 weeks ago we celebrated a special day in our house--JDC's 2nd birthday!!!

He started the day by watching TV in the bed with Daddy....



Breakfast with our "birthday buddy" PB--they share the same birthday!!



















Then lunch at the park......

















And home for cake!!!!





















We love you, JDC!!!! And hope you had a GREAT day celebrating turning 2!!!!

Registered and READY!!!

...for kindergarten!! Yes..our "baby" will be starting ALL day BIG school in the fall. Today we were able to go to the school and fill out her paperwork and let her visit a kindergarten classroom. She LOVED it!! When we first got there, she was a little shy and hung near me, but in an instant she was lined up and ready to go with the teacher. While she was in the room doing an activity, this gave the principal time to talk with the parents about the school and what kindergarten is like. I did really well and was prepared with what she was saying until she began talking about "lunchtime". About how my little baby would learn to carry her tray, her lunch number and how to open her own carton of milk. :(--that is BIG stuff!!! I was prepared for going to her room alone from carpool line, staying all day, etc--but did NOT EVEN THINK about my baby "doing the lunch" thing. Anyway..she and I both did well--she enjoyed visiting the room and showed me how in kindergarten she will walk down the green lines in the hallway to her room. But I think I was mainly ok because she was SOOOOO excited!!! However, I make NO promises for August 12th. :( So for now, I am going to continue to enjoy everyday that we have together!! :)

A fun lunch with me and Daddy to celebrate her big day!!! :)

**Think I can check her out early her first day to go have fun lunch to celebrate that too!!! ;)

It's somebody's special day!!!!

We love you lil' man and hope you have a WONDERFUL 2nd birthday!!!! :)

Wordless Wednesday

Weekend in Mempis!!!!

...or "Memthis" as MWC called it! :) A couple of weeks ago, RDC and I decided to take the kids on a a quick trip to Memphis. We had always talked about taking them to the zoo and the Children's Museum up there--so we planned an impromptu trip. And we are SOOO very glad we did!! :) We had such a great time. The kids did great and we had enough time to do it all without feeling rushed. After RDC got off work on Thursday, we loaded up and headed out. We got up Friday morning and headed to the zoo!! :) The kids LOVED it! They have some new exhibits to see and the weather was great. It started getting cool right about the time we left. Here are just a FEW of the pictures we took while we were there.

Watching the monkeys!!!

Watching the bears play--they got a little rough....

What was especially neat was they had some exhibits and animals that our local zoo does not have. So we were able to see some different animals.







White wolves

And some elk.....

That night we were able to have dinner with some FABULOUS friends who have moved just south of Memphis. We had so much fun catching up and watching the kids play together. Thanks, Pace Family for a fun evening!!

**More later on the Museum.

What have we been up to?!?!?!

I know y'all have wondering what is going on with the Cox family?!?!? :) It has been quiet busy these last several weeks. The first of February, EJW and I flew with the kids to visit Grandaddy!! We had a really great time and the kids did GREAT on the flight!! Toward the end on the way home, JDC got a little restless that is only because he wanted to stand up in the seat and turn the light on and off like he go to do with EJW on the way over!! :) ~~I will post pictures and more on that in another post.

Then of course we celebrated Daddy's birthday, Valentine's Day and EJW's birthday. It seemed like every time we turned around we were celebrating and eating!! But it has been a fun month.

A McDonalds gift card for their date!! :)

But now we enter March and we get ready for a VERY special little boy's birthday. Yes, in about 2 1/2 weeks our baby will be 2!!! And he is definitely filling the role of the boy in the house!! BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!! One of my favorite thing he does right now is--if you ask him, "who is a mess?" He either responds with, "me" (and a grin) or "mess."

And on top of all of that we have been doing "house stuff". ~~Painting, cleaning out the garage, etc. So we have been busy to say the least!! Hopefully, things will slow down and we can get outside and play more!! :)