Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Cohen is 3!

A few days couple weeks ago Cohen turned 3 years old! Having his birthday 3 days before Christmas makes celebrating somewhat difficult but we tried the best we could to make him feel special on his big day. More to come on that but first, a little about Cohen right now!

I asked Cohen what his favorites were and here are his responses:

Movie:Lion King
Book: Lion King book
Color: Red
TV Show: Ninja Turtles
Food: Chocolate
Thing to do: Play with toys
Toy:Ninja Turtles
Beverage: Milk

As you can see he is currently obsessed with Ninja Turtles and still loves Lion King!

He always says "I have a secret for you" then you ask about the secret and clearly it is not  a secret. He usually says something like "we forgot to watch Lion King" or "I want to watch Ninja Turtles" ha

Cohen hates going to bed even when he is super tired

He takes naps at daycare and still loves his blanket

He loves to sword fight, wrestle and tackle you when playing football

He is into this whole "best friend" thing. He says that me and him are best friends and Daddy and Kempton are best friends.

He loves to sing and dance. Right now he particularly like singing songs from the movie, "Frozen" and the Ninja Turtles theme song.

Cohen is a very sweet and sensitive boy. He does not like to get in trouble and will usually say sorry (unless he is overtired) if he has done something that isn't very nice.

He also can be a bit of a bully saying things like, "I'm not your best friend anymore" I think he picks up these things at daycare :(

Cohen loves his brother to pieces. He like wrestling with Kempton and laughing with him. Cohen likes when Kempton shares his toys with Cohen, but Cohen still has a little bit of a hard time sharing toys with Kemp.

Cohen knows that his name starts with the letter C and gets excited every time he sees "a C for Cohen!"

Cohen told us that his favorite station at daycare is the "home livin" station where you can pretend to cook.

He sometimes has a hard time with change, but did a great job when he switched over to the 3 year old classroom at daycare a few months ago.

We are working on cleaning up our toys when are done with them and not throwing a fit when we go to the store and don't buy a toy! And patience!

Cohen loves having visitors at his house and has a hard time saying goodbye.

Cohen doesn't like to try new foods and flat out refuses even despite our bribes or threats!

He doesn't like attention to be focused on him and easily gets embarrassed. Except when he has little to no clothes on...he then has no problem strutting around (Trouble!)

He still loves animals, cars and playing with any of his little Disney characters

Cohen likes to be mommy's little helper with cooking, cleaning and wrapping presents!

Cohen is smart and picks things up really quickly even when we think he is not paying attention. We were playing the other day and he served Dan a "Cafe Mocha" which is what Dan orders at our local coffee shop.

Cohen does and says so many funny things, which of course I can't remember now!

Although he tests us sometimes and completely wears us out, he is an absolutely amazing little boy who always makes us laugh and smile. He has such a kind heart and I hope that he never loses that part of him. 

Here are a few pictures from Cohen's birthday dinner with the Gerding's (dan's aunt, uncle and cousins) and Uncle Tom who came to visit!


He loved his Ninja Turtle cake. I wish we could have found a cooler one, but it was hard to find!


He then set himself up for this...
..Tom pushing his face in the cake. :)




Caught you!


And a few recent pictures that capture some highlights of Cohen's year!

Cohen was a ring bearer in his Great Aunt, Brigitte's wedding in Las Vegas!



Although he is a momma's boy, he has a very special relationship with his Daddy


After the wedding in Vegas we drove to Disneyland in California. Below are just a few pictures of him from that trip...He was just so grown up!





Cohen picked out his own Halloween costume this year and was Dash from the Incredibles!















And here are a couple pictures of him as a ninja turtle on his actual birthday in New York!




And a few videos...here he is riding his new scooter which he obviously is still learning. Ha!

In this video I was trying to record him singing a song from the movie, Frozen. He gets distracted by his "soft pants." He says, "my pants make my butt soft"


Here he is singing the Olaf song from Frozen.



I have one more if him singing another song from Frozen, but it wouldn't let me post it so here is a link: 




More from his birthday in New York coming up!

Love, 
Katie


Saturday, December 14, 2013

Dancing and Singing!

Just some recent videos that we wanted to share!  Kempton's dance moves are just too cute not to share and Cohen is obsessed with Ninja Turtles lately and loves listening and dancing to the show's theme song.


Kemp dancing to the toy he got from his Great Aunt, Heidi. :)

DJ Kempy Kemp was having a good time being in charge of the music (on my phone)

Apparently DJ Kempy Kemp was not happy about me starting the song again, but quickly recovers and starts dancing again!

Here are a couple of videos of Cohen practicing "Frosty the Snowman" for daycare's Holiday Program. He was walking around carrying the lyrics as if he could read them. Silly. He only knows the first verse and some of the second, but really who knows more than that anyway!? :)

He does well with most of the song except the part that goes "with a corncob pipe and a button nose..." Instead Cohen sings "with a cornpuck and a butt in his nose..."

His program is next Friday so we will see how it goes. :)



Love, 
Katie

Friday, December 6, 2013

Kempton: 11 Months

I really cannot believe that Kempton will be a year old in just another month! I definitely think this year has gone by super quickly!

Kempton usually goes to bed around 8-8:30 and sleeps untill 7-8 in the morning.

He loves eating now and loves just about anything that we eat. He especially likes chicken, green beans, oranges, pancakes and chicken noodle soup

He wears 9-12 month pants and 12-18 month shirts

Kemp wants to do everything like his big brother and gets mad if we take something away from him.

He wants any toy that Cohen has and is pretty aggressive about it : /

This month Kempton has become quite the climber! He can climb all the way up the stairs and likes climbing onto Cohen's bed.The other day we put couch cushions on the floor just so he could climb on them. Definitely looking into some sort of climbing thing for him for his birthday.

Kemp loves music and starts clapping every time he hears it

He still enjoys taking everything out of a bin or a box and sometimes putting it back ;)

He is still loving baths and crawls to the bath every time he hears the water running in there.

He loves to smile and loves seeing us when we go to pick him up from daycare

Kemp hates getting his diaper changed, especially after a bath

He can say "da da" and "ma ma" and "ya"




Looking handsome on Thanksgiving with Daddy

It looks like someone ate too much of the Thanksgiving feast!

Kempton has learned how to climb on this chair and usually stands up on it. EEK!



Apparently he can get the cover off of the puff container....Lesson learned!




Staring down some pancakes!




He just LOVES the bath!




Cuddling and wrestling with dad!






Oh my goodness!





I love this picture. Captured it perfectly. Looks like Kempton is ready to sword fight!

And then he wiped out!




Anything can be turned into a train (or a sword!)





 Kemp loves crawling onto Cohen's bed and actually turns around and slides down most of the time.





:)



Here are a few videos...

I just like his talking in this one...

He is getting really mad at the tape that is stuck on his hand (Cohen kept trying so hard to make a circle on the ground with tape and Cohen would rip it off right away. I was trying to help Cohen too, and I wasn't fast enough for Kempton!)
 

Here is a video of him walking...
 


And I love this video of him so calmly trying to stand the toys up...Such a sweet and smart boy...

 

Love, 
Katie