Rhododendron Festival

Rhododendrons I have never seen until i moved to TN. On Roan mountain near our house there is the largest collection of Rhododendrons in the world. They bloom near the end on June and Roan Mountain holds a festival during that time. We decided it would be a fun thing to experience. It is a beautiful mountain although the flowers didn't bloom to potential because of the harsh winter we had. The scenery was still very pretty and the festival was fun too with all the food, music, and cloggers.

What's new with the Coco Puff

I would say that Cohen's favorite thing right now is Basket Ball. He likes going out to the courts at our condo to shoot around with dad. He also has a little hoop inside that he loves. When we are driving in the car he points out every basket ball hoop he sees and any sporting event on tv is basket ball to him. He first real words was basket ball. Some other interests include playing on his fire truck and in the dog food

Talking on the phone, especially to Grandma and Grandpa

Water
Cohen loves the water. He likes playing in the hose, the baby pool, lake, and ocean and sometimes the pool. He thinks he wants to swim without my help and without floaties. Then he tries to jump into the pool by himself!

Climbing
Cohen climbs on everything. His toys, the dinning chairs and table, lately its been the ottoman and the couch. And his favorite jumping from the ottoman to the couch and off the couch to the floor! I know I have ER trips in my future.

Hats

Cohen's other recent interest is hats. He wants to wear them and wants everyone else to wear them too.

Just Like Daddy

Shoes
For the last couple of months Cohen has developed a interest in shoes. He is very opinionated not only about his shoes, but about what shoes everyone else should be wearing too. If you don't have any shoes or the wrong shoes on you will hear about it. He was insistent that Grandpa should wear his dress shoes even with jeans.

Hilton Head Island Vacation

Well we bit the bullet and went on a well overdue vacation, and boy was it exceptional! Our trip primarily consisted of time on the beach in a beautiful island off the South Carolina coast, called Hilton Head. The water was warm, the sand was soft, and the weather was perfect. Our Hotel was right on the beach with some nice amenities, so it made for a great time. We saw a neat lighthouse, went to an animal petting zoo (Cohen thought the goats were weird) and we even checked out Savannah Ga for part of a day. We did very little relaxing though, because our little Cohen didn't realize vacations are for relaxing he thought that vacation time meant more time playing, never stop moving, and always if possible being in the water! He loved it! (The first picture is Cohen on the way home :) -Theres a few videos at the end, one of the C-man playing in the ocean, and one of him making his dad very proud as he says "basketball"

New Floors

I don't deserve my parents. They are too good to me. Back in March my mom and dad came out and my dad put new floors in on our main level. The cheap beige carpet was turning gray and i was tired of scrubbing peanut butter and jelly out of the carpet everyday. I love my new floor! The weather was horrible the week they were here so it was disappointing we weren't able to do much.

Same Pout

Tantrum

This is what Cohen looks like when he doesn't get his way. His fetish for containers with lids as not been resolved yet. Sometimes he wants to take lids of everything in the fridge. I have to draw the line some where. Notice the lip it comes out and all hell brakes loose.

Sink Bath

This is part of Cohen's bed time routine. It is so much easier than filling the big tub and getting all the bath toys out. I don't know what i am going to do once he doesn't fit. I know he already doesn't fit.

Knoxville Zoo

A couple of weeks ago I took Cohen to the zoo for the first time. He loved it. He loves animals anyway its a perfect place for the crazy little coco puff. Cohen makes the best monkey noises around and chicken noises for that matter. Sometimes he knows what a doggie says and sometimes a doggie says the same thing as a monkey:)
I went with my best girls and even rode a camel!

For the love of peanut butter

Cohen LOVES peanut butter. I don't know if i was using my best judgment by giving him the whole jar, but sometimes in order to get dinner made i resort to drastic measures to keep him occupied.