Kochman Family

Cooper’s imagination has really grown in recent weeks.  We now have two invisible books we read after his 3 standard bedtime books.  The first one is about a boy who goes to the potty.  The second one he takes with …

Today Grandpa and I tackled the boys’ first dual dentist visit.  It was Nicholas’ first time and he did great letting them brush and even paint the fluoride on his teeth.  Cooper showed off his brushing and spitting skills at …

Cooper checks Nicholas’ collarbone to make sure that he hasn’t broken his too.  It has been one week and you would never guess Cooper has a broken collarbone except for the fact that he is still wearing his sling.  He …

We had heard of the “why” stage and naively thought we might skip it because we were so good at explaining things to Cooper.  Joke was on us.  As Rob put it, “Cooper has adapted “5 whys” for his own …

We love that Cooper and Nicholas appear to enjoy the outdoors as much as their parents do.  Today Cooper helped me tackle planting the garden.  He wanted to dig one of the rows for the seeds.  When the line was …

Our own airplane is down for the annual inspection so we opted for visiting the airport to check out General Aviation Day at Paine Field.  We were able to see many of the old airplanes fly, including this Hellcat, which …

Today, when unloading the car from our Costco trip, the boys sat in this small grassy square for more than 15 minutes.  It was a miracle that Nicholas didn’t take off crawling across the pavement in any direction.  It is …

A day we were really hoping would never happen in our house.  Cooper’s first broken bone.  As he tells the story “I was trying to tackle Mama.”  We were sitting on the floor of his bedroom doing our normal getting …

Sunshine and two very brave/partly crazy mama’s resulted in a very fun adventure.  We really wanted to meet the newest member of the Mashruwala family and decided to give the boys a play to dig in the sand at the …

Nicholas’ first time flying a kite.  He had this skill mastered in just a few minutes.  Cooper was really afraid to hold the kite and really didn’t want Nicholas to hold it either.  When inquiring more it came out he …