Why do we buy toys?

He is just as happy with boxes and laundry baskets.

Let it snow...

Riley has brand new snow gear (pretty sure it's nicer than both mine and Ryan's) and has talked non stop about playing with his blue shovel. He also got new "dinasour" boots and I'm pretty sure I am more obsessed with them than he is, I think they are the cutest things ever!

Cooper Anthony Burdo

He is here! Born almost 2 weeks early on 11/29/10 at 12:48 pm. Much smaller than was expected at 7 pounds 14.7 ounces and 18 inches long.

I went into labor about 3:30 in the morning and headed to the hospital around 5. When I got to the hospital, I was only dialated to about a 4 so I knew things weren't going to happen for awhile. I was admitted and checked in and was given my epidural right away (which was amazing). My contractions were not very regular but things were progressing anyways. Cooper's heart beat was dropping with every contraction so the doctor gave me pitocin and broke my water to speed things up. As soon as he broke my water, my contractions were very regular and close together and it wasn't long before I was ready to push. Literally, 2 pushes later I was holding my beautiful baby boy! Completely different birth experience than I had with Riley and the recovery has been so much easier.
Riley has adjusted better than I could have imagined and tells me constantly that baby Cooper is hungry (which is usually true). He has been extremely gentle with him and wants to check on him all the time. And for comparison purposes, here is a picture of Cooper (top) and Riley (bottom), I think they look SO much alike.

Wine Cellar

We are almost finished with our big wine cellar project, the only thing we have left to do is order the racks. This project is 3 years in the making when Ryan's Dad bought us a wine chiller for christmas with the intention of building a cellar in our townhouse. The plan was to build a cellar in a very small closet. Well with the new house and more room, our wine cellar expanded and turned into bottle storage for probably around 1500 bottles when we are complete!
Huge thank you to Mike (Ryan's Dad) for driving down from Seattle on multiple occassions to work on this project. Without his technical expertise, creative vision, and labor, this project would not have been possible!!

Pumpkin Patch

We took Riley to the pumpkin patch with his Papa Mike, Grandma Minney and Grandma Bum Bum (Brown). He had a blast riding the airplane with Daddy, riding on the tractor and picking out his very own pumpkin, he only liked the white ones for some reason.

He is so smart, he can point to all of the pumpkins and knows which pumpkin each person picked out a week later. He never ceases to amaze me at how smart and observant he is. He does not miss a thing.

Finally...he can reach the pedals

Cooper- 30 weeks