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What a year so far?! Hard to believe it’s almost over already. Kori started preschool (aka Mother's Day Out), Cooper was born, and now the new house. Like I mentioned before, this is the first time since Stacey and I got married 4 years ago we have all of our stuff in one place and not half of it in boxes because we didn't have room to store everything.  After spending a few months in our new home, I can honestly say the juice was worth the squeeze. We are finding things we didn’t know we had (i.e. Beer Steins). None of which would have been possible without the love, support, and patience of our families. The transition to Tulsa was not the easiest but a great decision to say the least. Big hug and sincere “Thank You” to the Blanchards, Mama Cowley, and Lynn Schmul…must be nice to have that entire garage back, huh? Makes my heart feel good to see Kori run around “Kori’s house” and sleep in her “big girl room.”

Cooper probably hasn’t noticed the difference with all the sleep, neck-ercising, and rolling around he’s been doing. Already growing up too fast (almost 5 months) and that little laugh…ah man. I want to make it my ringtone. It’s so sincere! I doubt he appreciates being kissed 100 times a day, but I got to get them in now before it’s “not cool” anymore. Stacey just did the Patty-Cakes deal where you get their hand and footprints bronzed. I wasn’t there but it sounds like Cooper let go of the vice grip long enough for a decent hand print but his footprint is going to look like the big toe tried to runaway. Hahaha. On inappropriate note, Cooper somehow managed to pee in his own eye during bath time. Are kids subject to karma? Somebody was trying to tell him something.

Since I haven’t blogged in awhile, I’ll note that Halloween was a success. Kori was a Candy Corn Fairy and Cooper was a Pumpkin in a Baby Bjorn. First holiday in our new neighborhood and boy did the neighbors make it easy on the kids. Where I come from, you go knock on the door, speak your piece, get your candy, and repeat. These folks were standing outside the house at the front of driveway working the drive thru. Seriously, the pack we were running with was loaded up in wagons so all the kids had to do was be cute and hold out the bag. Not a bad deal. Did anyone else dip into their kid’s baskets to hand out candy to trick or treaters after you ran out of inventory? GUILTY!

So awesome to see everyone back in St. Louis for our annual National Lampoon’s Thankmas weekend. My mom really knows how to rollout the red carpet. Hats off to lil bro and me on that bird we deep fried. So good! Without going into more detail, that should about catch us up. Need to pick a date to baptize our baby boy and need to potty train our little girl. I’d hate to see what the two initiatives look like together???

Can’t wait to celebrate Christmas with my crew in the new house. Tree is up, lights our lit, presents have been bought…mostly, Pandora Christmas is saved…all I need now is footed PJ’s for me and the wife. Plan on geeking out pretty hard this Christmas. Happy Holidays everyone. See you next year!

It’s the mother of all residential real estate banquets. Now, for the last five years Gil Thorpe has hosted, but, as luck would have it, he’s having a sketchy-looking polyp removed, so they’ve asked me to “Phil” in. See what I did? You think I should open with that?

Kori was actually excited to take pics w/Coop, he on the other hand was not in the picture mood

Kori's dressed for halloween at school

Ready to Trick or Treat.....he slept like this most of the way

The most adorable laugh/smile in the world....if I was successful at posting video on here I would, music to our ears

Our attempt at getting xmas photos with a sassy 2 year old and a 4 month old

Obviously this picture was not worth purchasing but it pretty much summarizes our picture taking experience that day

Finally the ice cream brib came into play and it worked for one

How handsome is he
 

 

~Phil