Month: August 2014

Funnel cake or elephant ear. We are a house divided. Daddy loves the funnel cake and used the argument it originated where Pop-pop grew up to make it Cooper’s first sweet fair food. New this year at the fair was …

Stats: Length: 27.01 inches (79%) Weight: 17 lbs 8 oz (60%) Head Circumference: 17.91 inches (93%) We had a good doctor appointment and everything is going as expected for Nicholas. They did give us a referral to a craniofacial specialist …

We ran out of excuses, the Kochman family is now a member of the local YMCA. Step #2 is to use the membership and we did that today. We timed it for the boys to go to childcare while I …

A few weeks back we had a case of the grunts. That is when you ask Cooper a question he just makes a noise instead of saying yes or no. We have been working hard and had great success now …

Cooper and Nicholas have been very excited to have super friend time these past couple of days. Madeleine’s little brother has been sending mixed signals on when exactly he wants to arrive. Above the kids were practicing for their upcoming …

It is always a great way to start the day with these two boys so excited to see each other.…

Cooper loves helping in the garden. Two of his favorite activities are digging in the dirt and watering. I have great intentions to use everything we plant, but again this year the lettuce and peas didn’t get picked. The berries …

We celebrated our 7 year wedding anniversary today with a Caspar Babypants concert at Juanita beach. Rob couldn’t believe how packed it was. Cooper couldn’t believe Caspar wasn’t taking requests and insisted on yelling “yellow submarine” between songs. Another highlight …

Cooper loved checking out all of the fancy airplanes on the walk to our plane. One final picture before we get strapped in for the flight home. On our way out of Jackson we flew over Rob’s parent’s cabin. It …

We tried to hike Schwabacher Landing last year, but the road was closed. This year they reopened the trail and it did not disappoint. Along the flat trail you could see many trees that had been taken down by the …