the richardson boys

christmas 2010

2011-03-11T00:36:00.009-05:00

grr backwards post..too tired to fix it! start from the bottom ;)

Cale's first Christmas

his spiderman bike!

our little elf ;)

Christmas eve gifts...

heading out to look at lights on Christmas eve!

busy making Santa's cookies...

"Mr Jingles" joined our family this year. Santa left him at our door to keep a watch over Cohen. He reports back to Santa each night and each morning he is in a new place. Cohen had a great time finding him each morning!

picking out his favorites...

this is his typical "I'm so shy" stance (he is front row middle) he was very excited to sing and be on the big stage until he got up there... he froze and stood like this pretty much the whole time. HA you never know what your gonna get with this one :)

preschool Christmas program... Cohen looking very handsome.

Well at least I'm getting the important holidays on here right? one day maybe i will catch up and become a good "blogger" :)

its been a few months so I'm going to let the pictures do the talking... Merry Christmas ;)

halloween 2010

2011-01-11T00:07:00.003-05:00

i probably should have posted this before the thanksgiving post but oh well.
Here is our little monkey and Dash Incredible!! Aren't they cute?! Cohen at the last minute got his heart set on being Dash, i couldn't find a costume so after buying some girl leggings,felt, face paint and lots and lots of hot glue..Dash was created. He loved it, luckily it doesn't take much to impress a four year old boy!

oh and Sophie the bubble bee...

the cousins before trick or treating...

hay ride time! Eric pulled the trailer around the neighborhood for us to trick or treat :)

Cohen had a great time...he does make a pretty perfect little Dash :)

Thanksgiving 2010

2011-01-10T23:41:00.004-05:00

trying to catch up on the last few months...

Wow what a year to be thankful for... we are extremely blessed!!

turkey booty ;)

such a sweet little guy

Cohen tells me quit often that mamom is "his mamom" <3

always doing a trick or two..

Trent was able to come down for thanksgiving and this little boy was happy!

and mommy is very thankful for Cale ;)

Happy boy ;)

2010-10-30T23:20:00.002-04:00

I tried to post this video a couple weeks ago and it wouldn't load for some reason. So i tried again tonight and it worked :)

Sweet little Cale he is such a happy little guy... this is the first time he was really starting to laugh. Its so cute and I'm glad i was able to video for a few minutes :) :)

september 2010

2010-10-15T23:45:00.010-04:00

I'm finally posting for September...our first month with baby Cale :) I cant believe how fast the days go by! Cale has been a dream baby.. i told Eric i could have 10 more babies if they were all like this one ;) He is so mello, rarely fusses if he does its usually for something obvious like he is hungry or tired. Cohen was the complete opposite as an infant! i remember people asking me if he was a "good baby" i hated that. i didn't think any baby was "bad" he was just a little more needy. But now i understand the meaning of a "good baby" which i still don't like saying it that way! Eric has had to travel allot with work, so it has really been such a blessing having Cale be such an easy happy baby. Cohen has been a very sweet big brother and is defiantly enjoying reading and teaching Cale things.. its very cute to watch. Overall he has adjusted well to having a sibling he hasn't shown any jealousy to the baby but of course he has him moments and acts out when he is needing some quality attention. Daddy does a good job spending extra time with him when I'm busy with the baby. Here are some pictures of our first month as a family of 4.. enjoy :)

We gave Cale his first tub bath outside on the patio so it would be nice and warm.. he loved it and i had such a good little helper! (ha think the flash was alittle bright to him)

Going for our first walk.. he loved being outside

haha Cohen spotted his kitty on the roof and panicked saying he needed to rescue him...Token doesn't look to worried :)

Our first official outing with the kiddos alone we went to the library and then down to the lake for a picnic. Cale was great and loved the warm air.

Cohen is all about super hero's and right now McDonald's has all the action figures with the happy meals so he has been wanting to go about every day so he can collect them all. This day he got "blue beetle" so he had to have him in the picture.

This is what he picked out to wear walking around the neighborhood...crazy kid!! ha he got lots of complements from the neighbors :)

sweet first smiles <3>
Cohen tyring to get Cale to smile... Cale doesn't look to excited ;)

The cannon ball king!

this is a good shot of his old man hair. The top fell out and the back seems to want to stay.

getting so big..too fast ;(

He loves reading this book to Cale.. so sweeet

1 month old

This is one happy daddy.. his two boys and a win from the chiefs!

We are extremly blessed to have two happy, healthly, handsome little boys.. God is good!!

Baby Cale is here!!

2010-09-02T23:04:00.010-04:00

Well i guess i officially need to change the name of our blog now. Cohen has a baby BROTHER!! Cale Christian Richardson arrived on August 24th at 936 am 7lbs 4 oz and 21.5 in.

Monday August 23rd i went to the doctor for a sono to make sure everything still looked ok because i was a week over my due date. My amniotic fluid was low enough that the doctor wanted me to go straight over to the hospital and the doctor on call would assess me to see if it was safe to send me home. Eric met me at the hospital around 1:00... finally got to speak with the doctor he was not comfortable send me home because the fluid being so low and me already being a week over. Grrr..looks like my plans of going into labor naturally this time was not going to happen. Good news though i was dilated and already contracting some on my own so he didn't think it would take much to get me into labor. yay! :) The plan was to stay the night and start a low dose pitocin in the morning. Eric went home to grab our bags and make sure the animals and house where good for the night. When the next doctor on came in she asked if there was any reason why i wanted to wait till the am to start.. i said no not really i knew i wasn't going to be able to sleep anyways. So around 1:30am the nurse started the pitocin and it wasn't long before i was having some good contractions. I made it to about 5:00 and whoa worst pain I've EVER been in... the nurse checked me ughh i was 6cm. Decided my natural birth plan had already been squashed with having to be induced ...so i decided an epidural sounded pretty nice at the time. around 5:30 or so epidural was in place i could relax..ahhh. I called my mom and told her we started last night and she better get here in the next couple of hours. She took Cohen to mamoms ( thankfully she was back in town:) and got to the hospital around 730-8 am. After allot of worries with the baby's heart rate dropping with each contraction as soon as i was complete there was no time to waste. It was time to push.. after about 20 minutes at 9:36 am HE was here and was perfect!!

daddy cutting the cord....

He was soo alert just taking it all in :)

Mom went back to Mamoms to pick up her and a very excited big brother. He bought baby Cale and mommy a ballon up to our room :)

First time holding his baby brother... so sweet!

Daddy with his boys (Cohen was a little over taking pictures at this point!)

first picture as a family of four!!

finally on our way home...

we surprised Cohen and picked him up from school on our way home from the hospital... he was very excited to get to ride home with his baby brother!
HOME:)

so blessed

The girls couldnt wait to meet and hold their new cousin.

4th birthday party!

2010-08-08T14:25:00.009-04:00

So with the baby coming we decided to have an early birthday party for Cohen this year. He of course didn't mind having it early and he decided since he is obsessed with anything superhero these days to have a "superhero party" The kids had a great time (despite the rainy weather) still got to swim and play out side. :)

one happy almost 4 year old...

He loved his super hero cake! i was going to attempt to make it but ended up having it made instead. This pregnant lady had enough to do!

listening to everyone sing to him....

He had a great time opening up his gifts..i think we have enough spider man and super hero toys to last a loooong time!

The rain finally stopped so we headed out to do the pinata...

My brother is in town for a couple weeks.. so Cohen was super happy he was able to come to his party. Even shared his candy with him ;)

This is his Super Cohen costume we got for him (it has a shirt that goes with it but he usually prefers to go shirtless) So he was running around "saving the world" with his "super dog"

some of his super hero tricks on his swing...

We LOVE our little super hero! cant believe he is almost 4!!!!!

Cohen's "Token"

2010-07-24T22:47:00.008-04:00

We have a new addition to our family...not that we needed anymore furry family members! But he found us and was so sweet and cute and tiny we couldn't turn him away. After much thought Cohen has named him "Token" he says "you know mommy like the tokens i get at chuckie cheese!" so we thought that was pretty fitting for him :) He is SUPER sweet and lets Cohen tote him around everywhere he watches TV with him and is a good nap time buddy.. they are pretty hilarious to watch together!

They were playing in Cohen's box daddy brought in for him from the new water heater.. and Cohen told me to come look Token fell asleep so he was sleeping also. :)

This is Zander the green power ranger and "baby Jesus" after his bath!

After a good cat nap!

We are blessed to have such good pets for Cohen to grow up with! :)

poor kitty even has to go on tractor rides around the yard!

snuggling with his two favorite bed time buddies :)

excited to watch his new spider man movie daddy brought home for him! Token of course got to watch it also ;)

little gasprilla island vacation april 2010

2010-05-18T23:32:00.012-04:00

So i know this post is a bit late.. i did start it a while back though if that means anything! I am trying to get caught up before the baby comes. Anyway back in April we took a vacation to little gasprilla island, we stayed the week and it was so very nice. the weather wasn't too hot then and the island is just so relaxing. You have to take a boat to the island there are no roads, cars, or restaurants! so pretty much you are forced to relax and do nothing but enjoy the beautiful island :)
view from the top porch of our house..

the first few days we had some friends staying with us. Cohen really enjoyed playing with his new buddy.. and yes Sophie B came along this trip :)

getting ready to go fishing...

we caught a ton of little pin fish off the dock.... no keepers big enough for dinner though!

So much wildlife on the island...

i love this picture... he is so proud of how many fish he is catching!

beach time... not quit sure who enjoyed the water more Cohen or Sophie?!

my boys :)

I ran into a old friend from high school while we were there. Her family has a house on the island so she invited us to come fish off their dock and take a boat ride.

Looking for "treasure" on the beach

There were a few houses being built.. so this is how they have to get everything over to the island. Makes building a little more difficult!

there are sand "roads" all over the island so we had allot of fun driving the golf cart around checking everything out.
Yay mom and mamom came for the day! wish they could have stayed longer but we were glad they came.

Mamom and Cohen bowling.. beach style ;)

BEAUTIFUL sunsets!!!!!

taking full advantage of the outdoor shower!

Cohen wanted to take a picture of his "broder" yes he is still certain its a boy baby ;)

last night on the island :( finding some cool creatures after dark....
and jumping puddles while the tide was out.

We had so much fun and will be defiantly be making a trip back there next year!

Easter 2010

2010-04-18T23:11:00.003-04:00

Hope everyone had a happy Easter! We did :) Cohen was super cute i heard him get up as he was walking to our room i heard him "gasp........yes..the Easter bunny came!!" than ran into to tell us and get us up. he was pretty excited and happy..just not so happy about mommy wanting to take pictures of him. After he opened up some of his goodies we enjoyed a wonderful service at church and then went to my mom and dads for a yummy lunch and some Easter egg hunting and coloring!

we were happy uncle Jesse was able to spent the day with us. Here they are getting the eggs ready to hide.

I think they were hiding from mamom when she pulled up...

a few attempts at a family picture...these are the best we got. LOVE my little growing family! :)

Cohen had to bring out his tee ball stuff daddy got for him...

my bunny hunting eggs...

the little screech owl hanging out in the tree watching everyone. There are two of them living in the tree in the front yard.. they are really small and cute.

time to color some eggs...

after the coloring was finished Cohen thought it would be fun to mix all the colors..he is such a boy and just loves to get dirty!
practicing baseball with daddy
After the kids had a squirt gun fight Cohen decided he was going to go "swimming" in this bucket of water.. he realized real quick he doesn't fit quite like he used too!
such a silly boy!

new "playground"

2010-03-31T22:49:00.004-04:00

Cohen is thoroughly enjoying his new "playground" as he calls it. We had been looking into getting a nice wooden swing set when Eric's boss said their kids had outgrown theirs and didn't use it much, so they offered if Eric wanted to come get it we could have it! Big blessing
:) it was a big job getting it down, moving it across town, and putting it back up (it looked like it was anyway.. i was more of an observer ;) daddy did a good job.. with a few very nice friends that offered to help.

This is his "coyote lookout" we have woods behind our property and once in a while we will see a coyote. so he thinks this is the perfect spot to look and pretend "shoot em"!

such a big kid !

BABY UPDATE:

i had my 20wk ob appt today and sonogram. everything looked great baby is growing perfectly and was even alittle bigger than expected :) i also figured out why i only feel kicks and punches on the left side... baby is side ways (transverse) really hoping he or she ;) goes head down pretty soon because its not all that comfortable for mama! and this baby also has a 2 vessel cord (normal cords have 3) Cohen did also. its pretty rare to have one baby with it but the tech said i need to play the lottery because she has never seen a mother with two pregnancy's with a two vessel. i guess there are certain problems that can occur for the baby, so they will just be monitoring me with more sonos and probably a stress test later in the pregnancy. Cohen went with us this time and enjoyed seeing the baby on the screen! he also thought it was pretty funny i had to pee in a cup. he preceded to talk about it and announced pretty loudly when we came out of the bathroom that when we go home hes gonna try that and wants to pee in a cup just like you so i can make sure my pees OK!! LOL hes always there for a good laugh :)

monster jam 2010!

2010-03-26T23:26:00.006-04:00

Last month we went over to Tampa to see monster jam. Cohen is a HUGE monster truck fan and has over a dozen of the little collectible trucks and can name them all! so he was excited to say the least about seeing them live :) Petter (Erics boss) and his son Devin met us there, here they are at Raymond James after eating about to go find our seats.
Cohen was sooo funny we went to the bathroom when we first got there and they have TVs everywhere showing the trucks practicing and he screams out "wow mommy monster trucks on TV.. hold on i gotta watch this!" he didn't realize they where right out side:)

He knew them all.. i think he may have been the biggest littlest fan there :)

Supermannnnnnnn!

whoa ....

one happy little camper ;)

one of his favs...Max Destruction!

ha ha cheering them on...

My camera died halfway threw so i didn't get many more pics but he had a blast and it was a really fun night ! :)

Christmas parades and Christmas 2009

2010-01-16T23:25:00.009-05:00

So I'm just now getting around to posting these pics..started on them awhile back. oh well better late then never! :)

The first set are from the little Christmas parade in my parents neighborhood. Its really cute and is getting bigger and bigger each year with homemade floats. We had great seats :) we sat at the end of my mom and dads driveway. After the parade one of the neighbor's had a big bonfire.

Ha ha.. bet you cant guess who took this picture?!

Cohen and Grammy waiting on the parade to start!

The lakeland Christmas parade...

*favorite float..the monster truck school bus!

These are the smiles i got from the boys.. i think they were not to interested in me taking pictures!

Merry Christmas 2009!!

Cohen's first gingerbread house..
Cooking for santa...

New drum set from Santa..fun but LOUD!! Santa should have brought mommy and daddy earplugs! ;)

preschool Christmas program

2009-12-20T23:13:00.004-05:00

Here are a few pics and a video clip of Cohen at his Christmas program at school. The school goes up to 12th grade so they had a really cute program the preschoolers started it off and Cohen's class sang one song. I was really interested to see what he would be like since he only goes two days a week and every time i asked him what song they were singing he said he didn't know! He didn't sing a whole lot but he such was cute seemed to really enjoy hamming it up on stage!! :)

He wasn't to sure of him self until he saw us..

such a handsome little guy! he loved his shoes, when we got them he said "these are like my daddy's now i can go to work with him!"

Happy Halloween 2009

2009-11-06T15:42:00.005-05:00

We had a very happy Halloween we hope everyone else did also! It had been in the high 80's the week of Halloween so we decided to wait to carve our pumpkin the day of so it wouldn't rot. Cohen had a great time digging out all the "guts" and picking the seeds out. He also discovered he likes roasted pumpkin seeds and said they tasted like popcorn to him.

We went over to my parents house for an early dinner and got an earlier start to trick or treating this year. Eric drove his truck and we all rode in the back since the houses are so spread out. The kids loved that and we all had a blast.

Here's my brave little knight! Cohen is really into knights theses days. He has a backyardigan knight movie that he loves. I bought him a knight costume earlier but the arm er was very hard and not comfy so we made this at the last minute and he wore my brothers 15+ year old boots! It was pretty home made looking but it worked and he loved it:)

Grammy the "tooth fairy"!

Anyone recognize this handsome feller?

3rd b-day!

2009-09-01T00:55:00.008-04:00

Ok so i started this post a couple months ago and am just now getting around to finishing it...ugh! anyways Cohen had an awesome pirate 3rd birthday party with lots of friends family and FUN!! and best of all we were able to have it at our new home this year. We cant believe how fast our little man is growing up :( 3 is a super fun age wish we could keep him this way forever!

ha ha i still laugh we i see a picture of his cake.. its SO Cohen!

muscle man..

daring little breckin...

Im pretty sure this was his favorite gift of all. Vicky got him a treasure chest and with some real "treasure" !

Cohen and Mamom checking out the squash..

best buddies!!!

P.S.

Preschool is going great! Cohen loves it and askes pretty much every morning if its preschool day. :)

1st day of preschool

2009-08-27T00:14:00.006-04:00

Tuesday was Cohen's first day of preschool! Hes going just a couple mornings a week and he has been super excited about it since we went and toured a few weeks back. Here he is all decked out for his first day...

I cant believe hes a big preschooler now! Thought i was going to cry dropping him off :(

Well he didn't have the best first day ever to say the least! He was very excited and brave when we first went in his room but got upset when we left (which i was expecting.) They have cameras in all the rooms so we watched for awhile before we left. He seemed to settle right down and started playing with all the new toys. Sooo when i picked him up at noon i was sighing him out at the office before i went back to get him and the principle told me that Cohen's teacher brought him to the office because he had hit her...UGH!! not what i wanted to hear!! So i went back to get him and talk to his teacher. she said oh i was hoping she wouldn't say anything to you because it wasn't that big of deal and i don't want you to worry. I guess she tried to pick him up after we left and he was upset and tried to hit her to go away. Then later he needed to go potty and both the toilets where being used and he couldn't wait and had an accident. Which is odd cause he rarely has accidents anymore but i guess he doesnt ever have to wait in line to go either. He got very upset and embarrassed and acted really ugly to her again when she tried to get him to put pants on himself. Ugh this was making me so upset because i knew how excited he was and what a good boy he can be...so not a good impression on the 1st day! She said he was great after that and had fun and played well with the other kids. At least the whole day wasn't bad :) I'm praying tomorrow will be a much better day!!

Tigers baseball game and May fun

2009-06-09T21:29:00.008-04:00

wow it would be much easier if id keep up with this more often and not have to catch up on everything..oh well. We are doing great and are blessed more than ever, they took our offer on the house and we are scheduled to close June 18th! were so very excited to get moved and decorate!! will be posting some new house pictures soon :) Here are some pictures of the lakeland tigers baseball game we went to last Saturday it was so much fun Cohen had a blast. cant go wrong with a ball game, hot dogs, bounce houses and fireworks!

Here just some fun ones from the past month...

We had some major rain for about a week straight and the creek behind my parents house flooded..ALOT. So we made sure we took full advantage of the temporary lake in the pasture ;)

Grandad told Cohen to bring his boots over so they could walk in the water. He loves his Grammy and Grandaddy...

Playin in the back yard.....
watch out Sophie girl!

Mothers day 2009

2009-05-10T23:31:00.005-04:00

Recent Outings.

2009-05-06T21:51:00.010-04:00

Hello Everyone. Here are some recent pics from our trip to the Fl Aquarium. As you can see Cohen is growing like a weed. Everything is good here at the Richardson home. We have all been working like crazy and are still waiting to hear some good news about the house. We will try to do a better job keeping everyone updated. Hope everyone is well..

catch-up

2009-03-24T13:10:00.007-04:00

Hello! yes we are still here! ahh we have been so busy so not much time for blogging these days. Eric has been traveling alot with work. Ive been working alot and just trying to keep up with the hustle and bustle of life. We have been house shopping and have put an offer on one! It would be perfect for us so please keep us in your prayers that it works out. Well here are a bunch of pictures of the past month or so to try and catch everyone up.
Our first beach trip of the year at Anna Maria island it couldn't have been more beautiful!! ohh and the water was so clear and still too bad it was so cold!

The Little Everglades Steeplechase... held every march and it was wonderful as always, we had a great time.

At the Florida strawberry festival. Cohen loved being able to ride rides this year.. he thought he was such a big kid!

Just a fun day out at the barn...

Missouri trip

2009-02-07T22:26:00.014-05:00

Well i guess its about time i post some pictures of our trip to Missouri..we have been back almost three weeks now. Wow time flies! anyway we had a great time it was short we wished we could have stayed longer :( It was a little bit colder than what we Florida people are used to.. was 12 when we landed in KC! Just makes me laugh because before we left it actually got in the twenties here and people were freaking out.. but it was a good prep to the "real" cold. OK so here are a ton of pics from our trip sorry there are so many snow pictures.. we don't get many chances for that down here ;)

Early morning in Tampa waiting for our flight.. Cohen was super excited to say the least about riding on the airplane.

Ha this was fun, we decided to take Cohen's car seat so we didn't have to pay to rent one. Well it was accidentally left in Chicago when we switch planes. Fortunately they were able to get it on the plan behind us so Cohen and I waited at the airport while Eric picked up the rental car.
Flight #2... crashed out before we took off
Uncle Pete and Aunt Ellen's house.. thanks again guys we had a great time visiting with you all!

Cohen reading to great grandma Iva

Before we left Springfield we spent some time with Iva at her apt. Cohen thought her remote controlled chair was pretty neat.

We were super excited to see all the beautiful snow in Albany when we arrived! Grandma is taking Cohen to the hill to do some sledding for the first time..yea!!

wheeee.......
ha ha daddy needs a bigger saucer!

looking out Kathy's kitchen window.. so pretty!

Sammy playing in the snow with Cohen
We were out playing and Cohen drops down on the snow and says "me make snow ghost!" haha i have no idea where he got that from but there was no convincing him that it was snow angels.

Poor George..
Cohen loved George but George had different feelings about Cohen!

Lots of grandma snuggles :)

Visiting at Dean and Opals house..

We didnt to see Jesse much in Albany so he came to hang out with us for a little while at the airport while we were waiting on our flight.

Thanks everyone who made our trip special... hope to see you all soon!!

Christmas 2008

2008-12-27T22:58:00.008-05:00

I'm sure all of you have given up on me ever posting anything ever again..since it has been almost 2 months!! I think I will add blogging every week to my long list of new years resolutions :) Anyway... I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas. We had a wonderful one and a great time spending time with family and friends.. we are so blessed. Here are some Christmas pictures to enjoy :)

Making cookies for "Clause"

Clause brought Cohen his choo choo set!

This fish game has been around forever but when i saw it in the store i new it would be a big hit with Cohen. He is always pretending he is fishing ..

At Grammy and Granddad's Christmas night for dinner and more gifts... yea!!

My 3 favorite neices

Cohen and Carson's new tractor

*Merry Christmas*

Halloween 2008

2008-11-02T23:02:00.003-05:00

Hope everyone had a happy Halloween! Cohen had a TON of fun this year dressing up. I have to say hes was probably the cutest monkey I've ever seen:) we were wondering if he was going to be scared trick or treating but nope.. he was so brave and cute. He would ring the doorbell and say "treat" and hold out his bucket like such a big boy! We practiced saying tick or treat all week but he preferred just to say treat.. maybe he thought we were asking him a question! Well here are some pictures of our fun Halloween!

Carving his pumpkin...

This pic cracks me up..he looks like he giving a yucky face, but he eating a seed.. he ate them straight out of the pumpkin! he LOVED them!! Cant get any fresher than that.

Run away money!...

Mamom's is always the first stop...

Humm maybe i should have let him have that blue lollipop after pictures??

hair cut and pumpkins

2008-10-13T23:38:00.011-04:00

Today Cohen had his first official hair cut! Since his hair first started growing it has always grown longer in the back, so Trent's girlfriend trimmed it alittle off the back once. He was SO good for Kenzi and he thought he was pretty cool...well not so much this time. He hated every second of it, but he was still and it didn't take but a few minutes. Now he enjoys showing everyone his "cut cut". I obviously didn't get any pics during the hair cut, but here are some from the pumpkin patch we go to each year. We hadn't planned on going today, but while we were out running with my friend we passed by the pumpkin patch, so we decided to get some pictures of the boys. We will have to go back and let Cohen pick out a pumpkin to take home since we weren't prepared this time!

Vegas and New York trips and grandma and papa Les visit

2008-10-07T23:28:00.009-04:00

Well.. since i have put off posting for so long I'm just going to cram everything into this one :) So we have been pretty busy around here the past few weeks! Eric and I went to Las Vegas on his company trip and had a great time. We stayed at the Bellagio it was grand to say the least! This was my first time to Vegas and if you have never been you need to there is nothing like it. Well here are a few pictures from our trip...
The whole PM international group...

The Bellagio...

On top of the stratosphere over looking the strip...

Dinner at Circo

The Weekend after we got back from Vegas i Left with my mom to go visit my brother Trent in New York City. I was excited to see him but sad to have to leave Cohen again :( But he had some good daddy time and was happy to stay with Mamom while Eric was at work. We had a great time with Trent and are very proud of him. Hes loves the city and has got a great internship with a design company and is doing well in school. Mom and I were pretty impressed how well he could navigate around the city... us on the other hand..well we are just not city girls :) Mom took most of the pictures on her camera but i got a few.
Us at the central park zoo..
Mom missed her "little"man :)

Trent had been looking for a small couch or love seat to go in his studio apartment so we found this one on sale at a pretty cool thrift store. Just waiting for the cab to get there to pick us and the couch up.
On top of the building where Trent works..

Two days after i got back from NY Eric's mom and her husband Les came down for a visit. We were so glad to see them and were glad Cohen could spend some time getting to know Grandma and Papa Les. He was very excited and didn't take long to warm up to them especially because Kathy brought Eric's tractors that he played with when he was little down to give them to Cohen and he LOVED that! :) Thanks Kathy and Less we had a great time visiting hope to see you soon :)

Here is Cohen sitting in Carson's chair "fishin" (notice how he is reeling the invisible reel)

Carson and Cohen wrestling..

Spending some time with grandma.. Love this picture <3

Cohen loves his new "choo choot" umbrella grandma got for him..

2 year check up

2008-09-11T22:36:00.004-04:00

Yesterday was Cohen's 2 year old check up...still cant believe hes two! He was such a good boy he hasn't really ever been afraid of the doctor or the clinic but i thought he might be this time since hes little older now.. but he was super happy and friendly with the nurses and enjoyed showing everyone his stickers on the way out :)and the doctor said he was about as cooperative as they get. He was 30 pounds and 36 inches tall... still tall but leaning up some on the growth chart. No shots this time.. yea! He got the flu vac but this year it came in a liquid that the nurse squirted in his nose that smelled like bananas so he didn't mind that a bit! I told his doctor that Cohen's eyes tear allot and are always gookey when he wakes up. He thinks his tear ducks are probably clogged and recommended me to a pediatric Optometrist to have him looked at. If they are blocked he may have to have them "probed".. i know sounds awful!! i guess they would have to put him under general anaesthesia and run a tiny tub into the tear duck to unblock it. Ugh that is not what i wanted to hear! But i guess allot of babies have blocked ducks but it usually resolves its self by their 1st b-day so if they are still blocked at this age it requires this probing to unblock it. If not it can be very irritating and can cause infection later in life, so he said it was best to do it know while hes young. From what i have read its a pretty simple and painless procedure but the patient has to be perfectly still so that's why they have to put them under.. that's the part that makes me nervous. Hopefully we will go see the Optometrist and Cohen wont need to have this done... I will keep you updated. Please keep him in your prayers :)

Happy 2nd B-day Cohen!!

2008-08-30T23:11:00.005-04:00

Well our little boy is growing up so fast...TWO i cant believe it! This year has just flown by Cohen has grown and changed so much.. he is becoming such a sweet little boy, we love him more everyday! We decided not to have a big party this year so we took Cohen to the zoo for the day and then had family over for pizza, cupcakes and presents tonight. It was a pretty fun day and Cohen really enjoyed the zoo (even if it was raining half the time) and thought he was pretty special tonight at his party :)
Heres Cohen this morning..we woke him up this morning singing happy birthday and let him open one present.. Eric had to order this DVD b/c i havent found a store that sells "kipper" he LOVES this show. So he was pretty happy when he saw this!
Lowery park zoo.........

Happy birthday to Cohen..........

August fun

2008-08-24T22:26:00.009-04:00

Ahh I haven't posted in almost a month! We finally took the computer in to have it fixed it was running super slow and would freeze up about every time to would try to post anything.. so i just gave up . Anyway here's some of what we have been up to for the past month...

"GrandDoug" came down for a few days we had a great time it was really nice to see him...thanks again Doug for cooking for everyone it was great :) Cohen and I went with Jeanice Lucas and the kids to their timeshare in Daytona beach for a couple days.. it was really nice and the kids had a blast. Thanks for having us :)

The boys watching the fire... they are looking alittle tired

First time roasting marshmallows... oops.. help "Dadash"!
Yumm pretty good

Yes hello room service.....
This is not a good picture..but Cohen is showing off his Handy Manny backpack. He LOVES this back pack he thinks he is just such a big kid when he wears it. When we first got to the timeshare we were unloading and caring everything up to the room and he insisted that he wear it up to the room (i had packed all his stuff for the weekend in it so it was pretty heavy) so i let him put it on thinking he would just want it off after he realized it was heavy...nope the little stinker wore it all the way up to our room (on the 4Th floor) I had to hold the strap on the top so he would fall backwards!

More beach pictures but now the gulf coast at Anna Maria Island. Uncle Jesse came down for the week so we tried to get lots of beach time in while he was here.

"Darn this is one good sandwich"!!

On our way to Adventure Island water park for the day... Cohen had a good time with Jesse he still asks about him and points to where he rode beside him every time he rides in Erics truck.

swimming with daddy and "Jess"
This was a really fun slide that they allowed little kids to ride with you.. he had a blast!
Lunch break .......(not looking as excited about the sandwich mommy packed!)

Hope everyone is doing well... i will be posting more frequently now :)

Splash!!

2008-07-27T21:29:00.004-04:00

I took Cohen over to swim with his buddie Breckin on Saturday. Boy did they have a good time on this slide.. they are such good little swimmers and SO brave!! (FYI: Its looks like Tenille is being mean pushing Breckin down the slide but he went down the slide on his own about 10x before i got the camera out!)

Shadows

2008-07-17T23:54:00.003-04:00

I don't have any pictures to go along with this post but Cohen has been doing the cutest and funnest things lately. So the other night he was playing with a flashlight and he was showing me the light on the wall... so i stuck my hand in front of it made a shadow puppet (as i called it)on the wall. Well... Cohen was quite intrigued by this i wish everyone could have seen his little face lite up! He was sure that was something real talking to him (he totally looked right past my hand and only saw that thing on the wall talking to him!) Then he went from being completely fascinated by it to being terrified, so I put my hand down and tried to show him it was only my hand making a shadow from the light. As I'm talking he is looking all around wondering where this creature has gone ( i could help but laugh it was just too cute!) he starts walking around the house looking all over the walls and than all of a sudden (like they had not existed to him before now) he notices shadows from everything... And he is completely freaked out! Poor little guy is standing in the middle of the living room and every direction he looks there they are! He didn't start screaming or anything he was just extremely worried and ran to me like he thought they were coming out to get him!

So that was about a week ago and hes still little leery of the shadows but he understands now that he can make a little "guy" with his hands. Just tonight at Mamoms Cohen picked up the flashlight held it up to the wall and said "hi" with his hand in front of the light and looked at Mamom and said "guy..guy" She has no idea what he was doing and talking about.. I'm glad i was there to explain because i think she would have been trying to figure out what he was doing all night!!

I LOVE this age i wish i could freeze time and keep him the way he is right now forever! But i know i cant, so i wanted to write this down so i could look back and remember how beautiful and innocent a almost two year old is.. I love watching him discover the world!

Tennessee Trip

2008-07-09T00:02:00.006-04:00

Happy very late 4th of July! We hope every one had a good one... we had a very fun one this year. On Thursday morning we left early (not as early as we planned .. but still morning hours!) and drove up to Tennessee for the weekend. My Aunt and Uncle have a house on Norris lake and so generously invited us to come spend the weekend. It was quite a ride getting to the house (surprisingly no one got carsick) but once we got there it was well worth it! The house was beautiful the view from the deck was amazing! Thanks Uncle Jim and Aunt Frankie for sharing this wonderful place with us.... we had a blast and it was so great to see every one and meet some new family members! Here's some pictures of our trip..enjoy :)

Cohen's first road trip ... he was such a good boy!

Beautiful Tennessee... view from the back deck!

Daddy and Cohen making there way (long way) down to the dock.... and taking a little break to enjoy the view.

This could easily be Cohen's favorite toy ever... the bubble gun! He was so happy he could make the bubbles by himself. He tries to so hard to blow bubbles but what usually happens either is he blows way to hard or he puts the wand in his mouth.. neither ever actually makes a bubble! Lots of thanks to Aunt Frankie for all the fun toys and baby proofing the house !
My dad found a new fishin buddy!
Fun times on the boat....
Trent and Kenzi showing everyone how real "tubers" tube.....

Benjamin and Cohen... they were watching the "bubbles" behind the boat. Could they be any cuter?! :)

Taking over the wheel for a while....Thanks again Morris family!!

June update

2008-06-26T23:37:00.002-04:00

Since I haven't this month (I am awful!) i thought i would just share some pictures from the past few weeks.

Friends birthday party and first snow cone...yummy!Cohen really liked the squirt guns.. but the funny thing is he can only make it squirt with his thumb so he ends up shooting himself!

Swimming at our friends house (thanks Dave and Lisa for letting us enjoy the pool!)

He loved the pool but once he spotted this he was more concerned about watering the plants than about swimming. He helps Mamom water her plants when hes at her house :)
Poor little guy got a pretty nasty cold and was running a fever so i took him to see the doctor. He had a ear infection :( he was sooo pita full for a few days all he wanted to do was sit with mama on the coach and watch cartoons. I asked him if he wanted a popcicle his little face lit up, it really seemed to hit the spot :)
** Fathers day 2008 **
Another boo boo :( He was at Mamoms and ran in her laundry room to get the broom down, upon getting the broom he knocked an almost empty pledge can from the high self onto his head! Poor feller.. it wasn't heavy at all but i guess since it fell from so high it left a pretty good mark! I don't know who felt worse Cohen or Mamom! :)
Cohen needed a new toy for the tub so i found these bath crayons.. which you can color all over the tub and walls and it washes right off. He loves them.. but..the past few days i have seen little crayon marks on the glass on the back door on the dish washer and on the fridge.. humm.. maybe they weren't such a good idea!

He loves spending time with his cousins "Dadash" "Memmy" and "ahhuh" He is trying to say Carson but cant so he sorta just makes the sound .. . funny boy

horse show

2008-06-09T22:57:00.006-04:00

wow I'm just getting worse and worse at this blogging thing.. i don't know why just seems like every time i sit down something comes up. Plus I'm a huge procrastinator so that doesn't help! Anyways i took my new horse I'm training to a schooling show (equestrian talk for a small training show) the last weekend in may. Everything worked out great my friend was able to keep Cohen for me on Friday so that i could take Rocky the day before for him to get use to all the new sights and sounds. He just starting his under saddle training (riding) in February and I had just started jumping him this past month. He was alittle nervous on friday but awesome on saturday and we placed in all four of our jumping classes. Anyway here's a few pics from our day in Brooksville...

These are the baby jumps we start the horses doing..

"nack" time helping a cousin out...

Cohen pointing out all the horse "boop" to aunt "Nee"
I love this picture.. he just looks like a such a little boy! We were eating lunch and Cohen kept wining and wanting my can of lemonade, I kept trying to tell him no and that he doesn't know how to drink our of a can. He kept on so i gave it to him.. he was pretty surprised by how cold it was as he dumped in down his shirt but he seemed just so proud of him self that he tried it. This is why i always pack at least two pairs of extra clothes in his diaper bag everyday!

Poor little guy he wanting to ride all day so my friend Jennie who was there with her barn let Cohen have a pony ride on one of the ponies back to the barn. He was so happy :)

memorial day weekend

2008-06-01T21:49:00.003-04:00

OK i know so I'm a week behind.. oh well. Anyway we had a great memorial day weekend (last weekend) We went down my my aunt and uncles house near Anna maria Island. It was really a nice place and we had a great time.
Watching Emmy fish....

Eating some watermelon on the boat. There were some manatees in the canal that Cohen threw his leftovers to.. i took a couple pictures but you couldn't see much but they were huge!This picture makes me laugh. This is right after a good sun screen application... don't they look like wax figures??
We forgot to bring Cohen's life jacket with us... but luckily uncle Roddy had a small one in the boat for him. It was a little big but it worked.. Cohen thought he was big stuff wearing his life jacket!
He LOVES his Ashley.... he is finally starting to say her name but it doesn't really sound like Ashley at all.. it will be interesting to see what he ends up calling her :)
We went out for a boat ride and pulled up to one of the islands to let the kids swim.. Cohen wanted to wear Ashley's life jacket so i put him in the water to make him float on his back and he thought it was the funniest thing.

Well my camera battery died Sunday and i forgot to bring the charger so i don't have any pics from Monday :( Oh well i did get some on my moms camera. Hope everyone had a fun and safe weekend. I will be posting some from this past weekend in a couple days to get caught up!

little stinker

2008-05-23T23:45:00.002-04:00

Hi everyone.. i was going through some pictures tonight and ran across this one. Is this the picture of a little stinker or what??! This was a few weeks ago out at the barn i was trying to get Cohen to follow me to the car to leave. I turn around to put him in the car and he is running away he then climbs in the muck bucket (that i use to clean stalls...yummy right?!) so i got the camera out b/c he looked cute sitting in there. Sure enough as soon as i get it out he shoves his finger up his nose laughing! He is so silly and comes up with new ways of keeping us entertaining and laughing everyday! :)

Emmy's birthday party

2008-05-12T22:25:00.006-04:00

Saturday we spent the day at Emmy's 7th birthday party...it was a great party and Cohen had a blast.
Emmy and her friends trying to show Cohen what to do with the water balloons..

Lovin that watermelon....yummy!
Want some??Ashley and Cohen...

Picking up the candy from the pinata with all the big kidsEating his candy........
Swimming in the cooler...

Once most of the kids left we let him play on the water slide he got brave and slide down with Emmy. It was pretty fast with the water at the top making it so slippery, so he didn't like it too much.
After that we discovered he could play on the back side of the slide where the latter was...and he loved that. It was so slippery he could barely stand, it was so funny i tried to video him for a little bit...

**Cohen's tooth is looking OK we didn't have to take him to the dentist. I called and they said as long as it doesn't start turning grayish than the nerves were not damaged and the tooth should be fine. So far no discoloration and it doesn't seem to be to sore...yea!! **

mothers day 2008

2008-05-11T23:55:00.004-04:00

Happy mothers day! Hope all you mommy's had a special and wonderful day. We had a good one went to church this morning then to my parents for lunch and then to Mayfair to walk around. It was a pretty good day if you don't count my sandal (which i just bought two days ago) breaking as soon as we got to Mayfair... so i had a walk around the lake barefooted on the super hot asphalt looking like a bum! And poor little Cohen tripped and fell and hit his tooth on the corner of a chair tonight it bled pretty good and it looks like he may have knocked it back.. we are praying that he didn't and will be able to get a better look at it tomorrow. It hurt him to much tonight to mess with it I felt so bad for him.

2nd mothers day with Cohen....The mommy's.....

I will post more pictures of our weekend tomorrow. I'm too tired and need to get to bed... good night!

2008-05-07T00:27:00.010-04:00

Wow i didn't realize it had been so long since the last time i posted. Well i don't have anything too exciting to share so i guess i will just give you all an update on what we have been up to.
The last couple weekends we have been taking down the boards off the fencing at our house and are in the process of putting it up at my parents property around the barn. There is existing barb wire there now and we have been needing to get it switched out for a while now. I cannot tell you how much i hate that stuff and what a pain it is to take down! So after the boarders horse cut her leg up pretty good and i found the pony in the neighbors yard it was time to get to work! So that has been consuming allot of our time, Eric finished a big part of it last Saturday and it looks SO much better.. thank you Eric! He left Sunday for Houston with work and will be back tomorrow, yea! Cohen has started noticing that daddy's not around and every time we get home he says "Dada Dada'? So i have to keep telling him daddy will be back and he likes to talk about him flying on the airplane.. he really loves planes lately. This past Saturday Cohen's friend Breckin had his 2ND birthday party (wont be too long before we will be planning Cohen's i cant believe it!) I forgot my camera but he had a really great time it was at a park so he loved playing on the playground with all the kids. Here's a pic of the "big boys" from a few days ago Breckin came over to play for the day.

Later that day Eric's good friends planned a surprise b-day party for their sons 16th birthday. It was lots of fun and some good food as always! (thanks Dave and Lisa :) Daddy teaching Cohen how to play badminton...

We cant keep him out of the water! Here he is getting in the sprinkler at Grammy and granddads house...such a stinker!

the beach!

2008-04-20T23:20:00.006-04:00

We had a great weekend! Saturday we got up early and headed down to Anna Maria Island for the day. The weather was BEAUTIFUL sunny and warm with a nice breeze..ahh i could have stayed forever! Cohen had a blast playing in the sand, chasing the birds or "duck ducks" and running from the waves. The water was still very cold so Eric and I were glad Cohen didn't want to go too far in! This was our first trip to the beach this year and I'm sure Cohen doesn't remember going last year. We talked to him about going to the beach but i don't think he had any idea what is was until we got there because he seemed pretty surprised to see the water and feel the sand on his feet. We are planning many more trips to the beach this summer!Testing out the sand with daddy

getting some "wawer" in his "buckbit"

He just couldn't understand why the birds kept flying away while he screeched and ran after them. He would hold out his hand like he wanted to hold them... so cute. Showing mommy how to digjuice break........
Lately he has started putting his bucket over his arm and waving saying bye. I guess Mommy's purse must look like a bucket to him?

Softball

2008-04-17T22:36:00.006-04:00

Eric has been playing on a softball league on Monday nights. Cohen really loves to go and watch them hit the ball he says "WOO OW...." about every time someone hits. Its really cute and he has a fun time trying to point out daddy on the field, and with everyone wearing the same thing its not always easy for him!
Here's a cute one of the two of them before the game.

Helping daddy carry his bag after the game...such a big helper these days!

Puddles and Bugs

2008-04-16T23:13:00.008-04:00

We had a few very rainy days last week, Cohen had been cooped up in the house all day. After the storms had passed and it was just raining there were puddles everywhere! So I put his rain boots and out we went to have some run in the rain!We need to get him an actual rain coat but this one worked for now. He wasn't sure at first and kept looking at me to see if i was going to tell him no...

as you can see he was pretty excited when he realized he was allowed to play in the water!
He really had a lot of fun picking the rocks out of the driveway and throwing them in the water!

This spring we have had a huge outbreak of grasshoppers in the back yard.. it's gross as they are everywhere! Cohen on the other hand does not think they are gross and loves them. The other day while we were out in the yard, I thought we would catch some and dump them out far from the house. I starting putting them in with a stick and he went up and grabbed one and put it in the bucket!

My plan didn't work very well because Cohen just wanted to dump them out and play with them.
The bug collector.....

Potty Time!

2008-04-11T22:46:00.006-04:00

Tonight was a BIG night for Cohen. I have been saying for awhile now that I need to get Cohen a potty chair, so today while we were at target I finally picked one up. Tonight before dinner we opened it Cohen was very excited to see what it was and seemed to know it was his very own mini toilet. Eric put batteries in it (its a neat one that sings songs has a pretend flusher on it) Cohen was so excited he was trying to sit on it right there, so I took off his diaper he sat down and... PEE PEED! Eric and I were pretty surprised... so we cheered and made a big fuss over him for a few minutes. I took the potty in the bathroom and Cohen just couldn't get enough of it.. it was the funnest thing! He peed 3 or 4 more times he wont sit long enough to finish because he kept getting up to took at it and then thinks he needs to dump it. I went out to get something and came back in and he was dumping the tray in the big toilet and there was poop in it! Wow if I had known he was going to take to it this easy I would have bought him one a long time ago! I'm sure the new will wear off but at least we are off to a good start!
My camera was dead so I didn't get any of the excitement of him opening it and trying it.. this is before getting into the bath tub...such a big boy!!

Sick

2008-04-04T23:25:00.004-04:00

Hi everyone, I know i haven't posted anything in while i haven't taken many pictures but i will do a quick recap of our past couple weeks.
Well the day after Easter Cohen was still running a pretty high temp. off and on so i decided to take him to the doctor, they thought he may have strep throat but luckily that came back negative. He was pretty pitiful for a few days still running a fever off and on. By Thursday he was feeling better and Eric's Uncle Pete and Aunt Ellen where vacationing in Florida so they stayed with us Thursday night. We went to dinner at a really great Mexican restaurant, Cohen was so funny he really liked dipping his french fries in the guacamole dip. He couldn't get enough.. it was too funny!

Friday Cohen had is 18 month check up. He weighted 26 pounds and was 34 inches tall and his throat looked much better. I didn't think he was going to have to get any shots this visit but he did have to get one :( he wasn't too happy after that but he quickly forgot about it and was a very good boy. He doesn't go back for a check up until he TWO i cant believe how fast hes growing up!

When we left a friend of mine called and wanted to know if i could pick up her son from school and take him to the horse show to practice. He was showing a couple ponies that weekend and had to be there and she was stuck at home with a stomach bug that her kids had earlier that week. So Cohen and i turned around picked up her kids and headed to Tampa. We spent most of the day their riding around in the golf cart (thank God for that thing!) Her daughter is two weeks older than Cohen. They were so cute together but was it wasn't easy trying to keep up with both of them!
Snack time...

So Sunday Cohen woke up drank his juice like he does every morning and about 2 minutes later throws it up all over the place! All day the poor little guy couldn't keep anything down. By Tuesday he was finally getting back back to him self again so the rest of our week has been pretty quite. Wow that was long sorry i bore everyone but i didn't really have much else to post! Hopefully this weekend will be better and i will have some fun times to share!

Easter 2008

2008-03-23T20:19:00.006-04:00

Happy Easter! We hope everyone had a wonderful day, we sure did. The day started out a little rocky, Cohen woke up with a low grade fever and it was yucky and rainy out. I think hes cutting his bottom molars so i gave him some motrin and he was feeling good so we were able to go to the late service at church. We just took him in with us he was so tired and slept most of the service. After church it was sunny and turned into a beautiful day. We went over to my parents to have a big lunch and hunt some easter eggs! The kids had a allot of fun and Cohen really started to get the hang of it.

Finding what the easter bunny left him this morning...

This was pretty funny most of his eggs had candy in them but i guess the "easter bunny" forgot to fill this one!
Family pictures at my parents..

opening his easter basket from Grammy...

Egg hunting time...

** Thanks grandma Kathy for Cohen's funky chicken! Its so cute.. I wish I could have videoed him when he set it down and played it he was cracking up he loves it :)

1st baseball game

2008-03-12T23:10:00.003-04:00

Saturday Cohen went to his first baseball game! Daddy wasn't able to come :( Eric's friend was in town and they already had plans when Tenille told me she had gotten some tickets from her work. They were great seats perfect for the boys 1st row by 3rd base.. they could see everything. They were both really good and had a great time watching and pretending to hit the ball! It was really windy and cold so we left when the sun went behind the stadium. Here's a few from the game....I couldn't get him to leave his hat on. He usually likes to wear one except when you want him too!

2008 little everglades steeplechase

2008-03-12T22:55:00.007-04:00

This was our third year (Cohen's 2nd) going to the little everglades steeplechase. Its a huge event that they have every March out on the little everglades ranch way out in the country and its beautiful! I didn't get any pictures of the horses but its just like a horse race only with jumps . It really exciting to watch and they have lots of stuff in the infield to do and eat. Cohen really loved the petting zoo and the pony rides. They also had jack Russell dog races and agility competitions to watch. We had a really fun day, it was pretty chilly in the morning but it turned out to be a gorgeous day!
loving the pony rides of course :)

Watching some of the pre race parade.Cohen's friend Emma

HA "get this stupid had off of me!"

Florida Strawberry Festival

2008-03-07T21:43:00.006-05:00

Wednesday Mamom took everyone to the Strawberry festival while Uncle Jim was in town. We had lots of fun and Cohen had his first taste of strawberry shortcake and his first rides!

Cohen with his Mamom...

..Watching the "moo cows"
Strawberry shortcake time

Yummy.... Here we go down the slide! It was much faster than i expected..but Cohen didn't get scared.looking pretty proud of himself....

Recent fun

2008-03-04T23:04:00.008-05:00

Last night we went to see the Harlem Globetrotters. Cohen loves to watch basket ball on TV (he is memorized with anything that has a "bawl") so we thought he would really have fun watching it. He is getting some new teeth and they had been bothering him yesterday so he wasn't feeling all that great. So he mostly just sat there with his fingers in his mouth staring. But he perked up after awhile and wanted to go run around and get the "bawls" Poor little guy i hope those teeth come in soon :(

Cohen and his buddy Breckin... Tenille and I took the boys to a kids circus and got to ride an elephant... yikes scary! He was little taller than Cody pony!

A little boy and his dog.....

and few other cute ones....

NYC trip

2008-02-23T23:05:00.004-05:00

Hey everyone I just wanted to share some pictures from our trip to new york city last weekend. We had a lot of fun sight seeing, shopping and eating at some pretty yummy restaurants Cohen stayed here with my grandma the first day and the rest with my mom. It was my first time being away from him more than a night, so I missed him allot (daddy did too) but it was nice to spend some time alone together. Thanks Grammy and Mamom :)

View from our hotel room.Outside carmines restaurant on valentines night..feeling stuffed!
We took a carriage ride around central park...it was cold but we had our hot chocolate and a blanket :)"city horses" in time squareRockefeller CenterOn the Staten island ferry going back to the city.

bath time

2008-02-12T19:44:00.000-05:00

pony fun

2008-02-07T23:12:00.000-05:00

Lately when we are out at the barn i have been tacking up Cody and taking Cohen around for a pony ride. He loves helping with the horses and especially brushing and riding Cody now, he is definally mommys boy! :) He is so funny.. this is what he does when we stop... he rocks back and forth (like he does on his rocking horse at home) making a galloping noise to try and get Cody walking again!
Poor little Cody is a pretty good sport...most of the time!!

Musuem

2008-01-21T22:43:00.000-05:00

Monday we meet Jeanice and the kids at the childrens museum downtown. I wasn't sure if they would have a whole lot for Cohens age but they did. He had a ton of fun!
This was way too funny!!
"Good evening this is Cohen Richardson with bay news 9"
....Doing a little grocery shopping.
Emmy showing Cohen how to work the register....
Just another day at work..... The orange juice plant... this was really cool and Cohen thought he was in heaven with all these "balls"!

Lowry Park Zoo

2008-01-13T23:14:00.000-05:00

Saturday we took Cohen to Lowry Park Zoo. He loves animals so he really had a fun time looking at them all. Here's some pics of our fun time at the zoo :)
The pregnant meerkat mama!

Feeding the goats... Hes really into feeding everything these days.

Watching......

the sloth bear taking a napand the elephants taking a swimm!
This was really cute. The mommy chimp took her tiny baby over in the corner and kept covering him up with a towel like she didn't want everyone looking at him. Such a BIG boy now!
He wasn't to sure about this giant lizard..
We had a really fun day, Cohen was asleep in the car before we left the parking lot!

Christmas 2007

2007-12-29T22:49:00.000-05:00

I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas, we sure did!

We went over to Lucas and Jeanice's for christmas eve dinner. Ashley wanted to give Cohen her gift for him then, his favorite thing in the whole world and the word he says probably 50 times a day.... a "baawl"!

This is Cohen after we opened his gift from Ernie & Nonie.. a cute little chiefs outfit (thanks guys!) Cohen decovered the real present in the bottom of the box...... the hanger!! so funny Santa came!

"Hurry it up daddy!"Taking it easy after all that hard work opening presents....

1'st Christmas

2007-12-20T21:52:00.000-05:00

We went to get our Christmas pictures taken tonight. Since our appt. wasn't till 5 I was sure Cohen was going to be tired and fussing and want to do anything but sit there and smile. But to our surprise he was in a great mood, smiled and was such a good boy!! So when we got home I starting looking at pictures from last Christmas... wow i cant believe how much he has changed in a year! He looks like he is going to explode hes so chunky! :) So i just thought i would share a few.

Snow fest

2007-12-10T23:23:00.000-05:00

Saturday was snow fest. Its an Lakeland annual event..they bring in a huge mound of snow for the kids to play on. Theres also tons of booths,and blow up toys, food and Santa. Since we had all just seen real snow a few weeks ago we decided not to wait in the THREE HOUR line to play in it for two minutes!! There were just so many people more than i had ever remember there being, you had to wait in line for everything. Anyway the kids had a good time.. Cohen really enjoyed playing in the balls.

Could have been a cute picture.... oh well it was worth a try!

Surgery

2007-12-09T21:29:00.000-05:00

Just wanted to update everyone on how Eric was doing. For everyone that didn't know Eric had his tonsilles taken out and his septum fixed last Thursday night. He wasn't nervous really at all..i was much more nervous than he was!! The surgery went really well, however i think he realizes now its a little more of a painful recovery than he had expected! He's doing well just really sore and the pain meds are making him really sleepy so hes been doing alot of that.

Eric waiting for them to take him back to the OR.... he didn't look quite as happy coming out! :(

Happy Birthday Grandma Kathy!!!

2007-12-06T09:34:00.001-05:00

We hope you have a wonderful day today. We love you!! :)

Missouri trip

2007-12-03T21:37:00.000-05:00

I'm finally posting our trip to Missouri! I've started it a few times and something always took my attention away from finishing it...so anyway here it is. We had a really great time, we were able to see everyone and got to experience a little fall weather and some winter weather with snow :) all in the same week.

Here we are on the plane...ha ha Cohen was alittle sleepy! We had a really late flight.

"OK so where are we going now?"
We first drove down to Springfield to visit with some family there. Cohen got to meet and spend some time with his very sweet great grandma Iva!

It was a perfect fall day and Cohen got to go play in the leaves for the first time in great grandma Iva' yard.

We had about a five hour drive from Springfield to Albany and Cohen slept 4 of the 5 hours! It was getting colder and colder when we were leaving Springfield and this is what it looked like when we got to Albany...snow everywhere!!

We spent Thanksgiving at Ernie and Nonie's home. It was delicious and we had a lot of fun visiting with everyone.

More fun playing in the snow!! Sledding for the first time... Cohen thought this was so much fun. A few days later after the snow had melted he went out to the sled and sat on it in the grass.. waiting for it to slide down the hill!

Kinda dark but..Kathy's house all pretty and decorated for Christmas.

The night of the Albany parade. It was sooo cold that night but Cohen was a good lil' trooper and enjoyed watching all five of the floats go by!! Aunt Gail came to see us that night.

They had a live nativity seen down town. Cohen really liked the little donkey..isn't he so cute!?
We visited the big hunting lodge that Kathy works at, it was really prettyand the lodge was super nice.They raise the deer there on the ranch then turn them loose so there where deer everywhere. They even had a male and female lion and tiger. This is in the game room. They had all kinds for animals in there. Cohen enjoyed petting all the dead animals...he even gave the zebra head a hug! It was pretty sad!
Just some more pictures at grandmas house.....

Playing with the last little bit of snow :(
Grandma and Cohen

Some pictures with family....

Emmy and Cohen really loved playing with cats Sammy and Harley!

Thank you to everyone that helped make our trip so special!!!

Go Chiefs!

2007-11-04T20:14:00.000-05:00

Well the Chiefs didnt win today :( but i got a cute picture of Eric and Cohen dressed for the game.

Cohen and I had starting getting the flu the end of last week so its been a pretty uneventfull weeknend. The weather was beautiful all weekend and finally getting cool..yeah! Cohen was dying to get outside so Eric took him out for a little while to play outside and go see the ponies and Charlie gave him a kiss!

Trick or Treat!

2007-10-31T22:53:00.000-04:00

Happy Halloween! Here are some pics of the kids trick or treating to night...

first stop.... Mamom's house

Next we went to a nice neighborhood near by to walk around. Cohen was so cute i thought he would be scared to go up to the houses and get some candy but he wasn't he just marched up there with all the big kids.

Daddy Hercules and Cohen.

Mommy and Cohen.... look what a grip he has on that sucker!

yummy!! I Love Halloween!

We went over to my parents house after we left to see my mom and dad.. so the kids got some more goodies there. Cohen also got a bath he was sticky from head to toe from that sucker! Hope everyone had a great Halloween! :)

Halloween Party

2007-10-29T22:36:00.000-04:00

I know i posted tonight already but i wanted to post a few pictures of the Halloween party that my friend Tenille and I took the boys to. I had it in my head for awhile that Cohen would make a pretty cute Bamm Bamm for Halloween, but i hadn't made his costume yet. So sat. morning my mom went with me to pick out the fabric and she whipped it together in just about an hour. And i have to say he was the cutest Bamm Bamm I've ever seen! :)

The part was alot of fun they had lots of great food and lots of fun decorations, a huge blow up bouncer with a tall slide and a hay ride. It started raining during the hay ride that's why Cohen is pointing to his head in this picture! Cohen had a blast playing with all the kids and sliding down the slide (but not without mommy:)

Our little QB

2007-10-29T21:57:00.000-04:00

"Go long daddy!"

Pumpkin Patch

2007-10-22T13:03:00.000-04:00

Last Thursday Jeanice and I took Cohen and Carson to the pumpkin patch to get some pictures and pick out a pumpkin. Cohen was pointing and shouting "baww baww" as soon as we got there he also thought they were all edible and had a blast running around tasting them all!

We attempted to get a few shot of the boys together... sounds easier than it is! We did managed to get a few. We had a great time and the weather was a little warm but really beautiful.

corn on the cob

2007-10-09T21:06:00.000-04:00

Cohen has decided lately that corn on the cob is the best thing in the world (next to riding on the lawn mower)! Here's a few pics of him chowing down a few nights ago. Corn was everywhere by the time he was done but he a great time!

new

2007-10-08T21:36:00.000-04:00

Hi everyone, we have decided to start a blog for our "little Cohen" instead of our website it will be easier to post more often with more pictures. We will be posting more soon so check back often! :)

the richardson boys

christmas 2010

halloween 2010

Thanksgiving 2010

Happy boy ;)

september 2010

Baby Cale is here!!

4th birthday party!

Cohen's "Token"

little gasprilla island vacation april 2010

Easter 2010

new "playground"

monster jam 2010!

Christmas parades and Christmas 2009

preschool Christmas program

Happy Halloween 2009

3rd b-day!

1st day of preschool

Tigers baseball game and May fun

Mothers day 2009

Recent Outings.

catch-up

Missouri trip

Christmas 2008

Halloween 2008

hair cut and pumpkins

Vegas and New York trips and grandma and papa Les visit

2 year check up

Happy 2nd B-day Cohen!!

August fun

Splash!!

Shadows

Tennessee Trip

June update

horse show

memorial day weekend

little stinker

Emmy's birthday party

mothers day 2008

the beach!

Softball

Puddles and Bugs

Potty Time!

Sick

Easter 2008

1st baseball game

2008 little everglades steeplechase

Florida Strawberry Festival

Recent fun

NYC trip

bath time

pony fun

Musuem

Lowry Park Zoo

Christmas 2007

*1'st Christmas*

Snow fest

Surgery

Happy Birthday Grandma Kathy!!!

Missouri trip

Go Chiefs!

Trick or Treat!

Halloween Party

Our little QB

Pumpkin Patch

corn on the cob

new

1'st Christmas