Homemade Pizza

Here is a little thing about me being pregnant, most of the time nothing sounds good to eat. I am very indecisive. However, if something does sound good then I can't eat anything else. That is why after mentioning homemade pizzas the other day I knew I needed to go to the store and buy some ingredients. I use the word homemade loosely, it's all store bought ingredients, it's not like I'm making crust or pizza sauce or anything, don't get too crazy. Pretty much anytime we have homemade pizza it is always Hawaiian, we also get Hawaiian anytime we order Papa Murphy's. We probably have the only child in America who asks for pineapple anytime we have pizza.
So of course I couldn't eat the pizza tonight without some pictures. Mmmmm, after 10 minutes in the oven.

It was Cooper approved, even though he didn't each much. We gave him a small slice without cutting it up, it was so cute watching him take a bite like a big boy.

The Cross has been Raised

Many of my loyal blog readers will remember last March that I blogged this and Steve blogged this about the ground breaking ceremony at our church.

Just 12 1/2 months ago our church looked like this..Can you believe this is that same empty field today? We still have our old, church it's just behind the new massive building.This afternoon we got to witness another ceremony, the raising of the cross. I heard a few weeks ago that the cross was in and figured they were waiting for something special before adding to the building. I guess it doesn't get much better than Good Friday.

Steve took his lunch break at 1:00 to met us there, along with several other members of our church. We explained to Cooper that Bob and Lofty were going to raise the cross.

Once it place they did some welding and....

Here we are!

Word inside the church is we get to move in around June. I am in awe, less than 15 months after the start of construction we will have our new church.

Hippo Bubbles

I know I have said this before but I love finding pictures on the camera that I did not take. Steve had to explain these to me.
The first is the curiosity of the bubbles. Here is the anticipation

Finally, here they come!

And the look of - I want more please. Doesn't he look so big here?

OK!

Cooper has a new thing he is doing; if you ask him something that should be a yes or no answer and it's something he really wants to do, he will answer OK! He basically shouts it and he expresses it like you are giving him a suggestion. It is the cutest thing.

Easter Egg Hunt

We had our 2nd annual Easter Egg hunt with our church play group this morning. The weather was PERFECT!!!! Much better than last, although last year was sunny and nice it was also chilly. Cooper was much more into it this year and had blast. Last year it was at Perrin Park but they don't officially open until April 1st, which I think means their playground is open, I don't know. We improvised and had it behind our church, which despite the construction zone turned out perfect. The eggs were hidden in the open field and the parking lot was blocked off for all the kids to ride their tricylces and toy cars.

We invited Allie & Sharon to join us again this year. Click here to read about last year. Allie was only about 7 months old so didn't get to enjoy it as much as she did this time around. They are exactly 10 months apart so she is now at the age Cooper was last year. You can also tell how cold it was because she was so bundled up. As a side note, most of these pics Cooper has his eyes closed because of the sun. The whole way to church and waiting for all the kids to show up he kept asking for the "Easter Hunt", so he was pretty excited when it was time to start.

He wanted to open all the eggs before putting them in his basket. Luckily there were over 200 eggs and mostly small children. He wouldn't make it in a community egg hunt with pushy kids.

I had a few people comment to me how much he seems to be coming out of shell. For example, he is playing away from me in this picture. They also commented on how much more he seems to be talking. They couldn't believe it. It's great to hear that, I worry a lot about him socially. I was shy as a child too and know how hard it can be to make friends. I like to see him play more and have fun on his own.

I wanna look like Daddy

I tried to fix Cooper's hair like Steve's this morning, it's just way too fine. This is about the best I could do. It's still cute, don't ya think?

We will do anything for entertainment

So the only bad thing about warmer spring weather, are the rainy cold days. Cooper doesn't quite understand how we can spend the 3 or 4 days playing outside then have to stay inside for 3 more. This is when we have to start getting creative again. We broke out the tunnel game. Steve thought of this over the winter months and it a huge hit in our house. We place the tunnel on the couch and let Cooper stand behind the couch and throw his Little People and animals down the tunnel. We originally did this with a chair but he fell out and hit is head on our kitchen floor a couple months ago so I stopped doing that. Now we use the step stool. Which works even better for me because he can bend down and get his own animals.

This is just snap shot of our floor when we are all done. This isn't any where near the amount of animals he has, it's just the ones that landed close together.