2015 Moments

Last year I started a file on my phone where I would type moments that I wanted to remember as they happened throughout the year. I did it again this year and it is something I love reading back over. I know I missed typing a few things, but here is what I recorded this year.

• January 3 - Keep finding football players in my bed. Little stinker! Stared at him sleeping tonight, he has grown up too fast. Where is my baby?
• January 12 - I heard Cooper in the kitchen, A minute later he comes into the living room barely able to carry two applesauce cups and two spoons. "I got two!" he said with a big smile on his face. He had got one for him and one for me. Such a sweet boy. (We have learned this is what he does when he wants something. He seems to think if he gets us one then we can't say no.)
• Eileen said Cooper calls her church the "basketball temple."
• January 15 - Cooper giggled and said, "My tummy grumbled!" Cutest thing ever!
• January 18 - One of my favorite things to do with Cooper is bake. It helps me to be patient and I love seeing him learn and have fun. We made cupcakes tonight. He came up to me by the couch, arms open and said, "Want to cuddle?" Love him! We sat on the couch and snuggled while watching Curious George.
• January 25 - A text from Mom that meant a lot to me: "It's hard, but I have seen a beautiful change in you that I don't think I would have seen if not for this situation. Like Mom (referring to my Grandma Call) said, he is a gift to you specifically (referring to Easton). You seem to have more patience and think little of yourself, others come first. Both Christ-like attributes."
• January 26 - What a day of laughs!!! I have been home for three days and four nights from the hospital due to being sick. I sure miss being with Easton, but I have loved my time with Cooper! Today: He put a towel on my head and told me I looked like Jesus. He was trying to jump rope with my bra. I put on a face mask since I'm sick and he told me I was beautiful. And the grocery store! Cooper loves cucumbers. We picked him one out and went to check out. We put all our groceries up on the belt. The guy in front of us was getting something green in a produce bag and Cooper starts FREAKING out. "He's taking my cucumber! He's taking my cucumber!" I laughed so hard! I had to show him his cucumber was fine, but you should have seen his face! He truly thought this man was taking his cucumber! I have been trying to teach him I am reading words on a page when I read him stories. Today he pointed at the words and said, "Those are words!" We wrestle tickled on the floor with a bird puppet on our hands and read books in a fort made of sheets and chairs. It was a wonderful day.
• February 3 - Cooper hasn't left Easton's side this morning. He covered him with a blanket. He said, "Want to see my footballs, Baby?" and got his football set out. He got the field out and said, "This is a football field, Baby" and "this is a touchdown," as he put up the goal posts. He put down the field and said "This is OUR football field." Melts my heart. Life is good. God is good.
• February 4 - Easton tried rolling over! First time I have seen him and he was so close. Would get to his side, but roll to his back again. So cute seeing his little legs up in the air. Cooper loves having a little brother. Smothered him in Spiderman stickers today.
• February 7 - Cooper put his own socks on! He wanted to get ice cream with Nana so he went and got his socks and shoes and just put them on like nobody's business!
• February 9 - You cut the grapes ini half and what does he do? Thinks it is cool to put two together "like a puzzle" and stuff them in his mouth. At least I tried.
• February 11 - Cooper called Easton "Bubby" while trying to share goldfish with him. So cute! Called him "Bubby" and said, "Hey! He did peekaboos to me!" and giggled.
• February 20 - I was talking to Easton swaying did you spit up and went to get a wipe and Cooper said "Nooo, I do it." So he took a wipe and attempted to wipe Easton's face.
• February 23 - Cooper just came up behind me and put his arms around my neck from behind and laid his head on my shoulder and sweetly said, "I love you" and just stayed there. Made me cry.
• One of Cooper's favorite things to say, "It's a sunny day!"
• March 4 - Cooper is sitting behind me on the couch, leaning on my back while watching Cars. All of a sudden he giggles and says, "You're home!" and keeps hugging me. 
• Cooper has been giving me "mommy kisses" lately.He attacks me and kisses me all over my face. It's what I do to him before bed. Trying to teach him his full name and he says, "No, I Cooper." Or I'll tell him he is Easton's big brother and he says, "No I Cooper, he (Easton) brother."
• April 17 - Laid my dad to rest today. I have alway shad a testimony that our spirit leaves our body when we die, but I have never known it to be more true than when I saw my dad in his casket. I KNEW he wasn't there. I could see it and I could feel it. I knew it was just his body laying there, not him. So grateful for little testimony builders. I can't wait to see him again.
• May 10 - My sweet little Cooper sang in sacrament today. Oh how adorable it was to see his smiling face and him mouthing words. He seemed so proud. He has brought so much joy to our life. I feel so blessed to be a mom. Especially to my two miracle babies. I wouldn't have it any other way.
• May 20 - Chris sat down beside me and said, "What can I do to help you because you seem in a rut lately." (((Big Sigh.))) I have a good husband. If only I knew. I was so grateful he asked though.
• May 23 - Missing mt dad. Oh there is so much I wish I could say to him.
• May 24 - Cooper finally went to a full day of sunbeams/Primary. He said his first prayer over the primary pulpit. Oh my! My baby is growing up! He was so cute. He said the majority of it by himself. We have been working for a while on him saying what he is thankful for so I just let him do it and he said families, dads, then pointed at me during the prayer and said, "and mom." It was so cute! He did such a good job. I'm so proud! Then he said the entire prayer by himself for dinner. I went to say it and he said, "No, Cooper do it."
• May 27 - Oh my! Cooper was just snuggling on the couch with me and was looking at our temple picture. He said the temple and something about Papa Todd. Where did that come from!? We haven't talked about him today and never about him and the temple. I asked if he was at the temple and he said "Yes, with Jesus!"
• June 22 - Cooper gets all excited when he sees Easton awake. He comes over to him, looks at me, and says, "I love my brother." 
• Seeing him play with his cars and pretend they are talking like on the Cards movie makes me giggle.
• July 26 - Played handbells "Come, Come Ye Saints" in sacrament today. Cooper sat on my lap and watched/listened. I asked if he felt the Spirit and was happy. He smiled and said yes. I realized it is moments like that where I will teach him to recognize the Spirit and what it feels like.
• July 27 - Easton started saying "baba." Almost 10 months old and finally saying something other than "dada." Can't wait to hear him say mama!
• July 20 - Easton said "Mama!!!!" He said "Mama!!!!!" He also went from sitting to pulling himself up to a music table toy he loves. We totally missed it. So proud of all he is doing. Also took Cooper to preschool orientation. He is growing up too fast. I laughed cause when testing him on numbers he kept saying, "golf" cause the golf flags have numbers and a square he said golf flag, and they a triangle was a golf mountain.He had me laughing! He then told her the right shapes.
• August 3 - Cooper fell out of his bed tonight. I went in and picked him up and put him back. He looked at me and went right back to sleep. I gave him a few smooches on the cheek like I do every night before I go to bed. He probably won't remember the nights I put him back in bed, but I will. I'll miss them. One day he won't let me kiss him anymore and the thought brings tears to my eyes. I love being his momma.
• September - I sometimes say to Cooper, "Do you know I love you?" Recently he has been saying, "I know I love you mom." In other words, "Do you know I love you mom?" I love him.
• Easton started crawling this past week! Ahhh!
• September 8 - From my Grandma Call to Cooper when he wrote the letter "O" all by himself, "Cooper you done good. Great Grandma is proud of you. Love you little guy."
• Sometimes I forget Easton has a heart defect. It breaks my heart when I remember and know I could lose him at any moment. It's hard.
• October 1 - Cooper said, "I have tators in my ears and boogers in my nose. So gross!"
• Today is Easton's birthday. I can't express how grateful I am to still have my little man in our life. Some days I didn't know that we would get here. That he would get here. But he did. And he is doing well. I don't know what the future brings, but I am just so grateful he is still here.
• Funniest site today! Cooper, Chris, and I all seemed to get a stomach bug in the last 24 hours. Chris and Cooper had the runs. It was a funny sight to see Chris on his big toilet reading his sports magazine and Cooper sitting by him on his little potty playing with the iPad all while I was in the shower!
• Cooper's teacher told me today at school she was teaching the kids the number one and Cooper says, "A golf flag!"He knows the number one because it looks like a golf flag. She also taught them the letter T and showed them the "timeout" sign and Cooper puts his arms up and says, "And touchdown!"
• A doctor pulled me aside during Easton's hospital stay and said she needed to show me something. One of the doctors at some point typed on Easton's chart, "Mom rocks." It meant a lot to me to hear that from a doctor. We also got to be a part of a promotional video for Primary Children's.
• December 5 - Chris was teaching today and I couldn't stop thinking how good looking he is and how blessed I am to be married to him. With all the shootings in the news lately, he asked himself "Would I say I wasn't Christian to live or risk dying? He said he hoped he would say with enough conviction that they wouldn't kill him. Like Joseph Smith when a man held a gun to him and he said "Go ahead, it isn't my time" and the guy thought someone was behind him with a gun so he put up his hands and said, "Don't shoot."
• December 7 - I love hearing Chris pray for my mom. You can tell he loves her and I know he can tell she loves him. Touches my heart every time.
• Got my first "I don't like you. I want Daddy. " today. Ouch.
• December 15 - Went in to lay with Cooper as he slept. Promised him I would figure out how to make things better for him. He has been struggling with obedience this past week. I know he is vying for attention. I also notice he can't sit still, fighting daytime naps when he is in desperate need of them. I feel as though I am failing him as his mom. I am trying so hard to fix that. I hope he knows that. I love him so much. He was my first baby. My sweet little boy.
• Out of nowhere Cooper called "his balls" his "crumbs." I was laughing so hard! Where in the world he came up with that name, I have no idea! I thought it was a funny thing to write down though. Who knows if he will continue to call them that, but it was pretty funny!
• December 20 - Today I have been thinking of Mary and how intimidating it must have been to know she would be the earthly mom of Jesus, but how Heavenly Father gave her such a choice spirit. I would like to think that there is a reason why I was given such a choice spirit. That he trusts and admires us special needs parents and sees something in us far greater than we can see that he would trust some of his best spirits with, even if for a much shorter time than we would like. I'm definitely no Mary, but I hope he saw something in me that made him believe that Easton should be with me, just as he knew His son Jesus Christ should be with Mary.
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