16 months old yesterday!

Cooper my sweet baby boy. You are already 16 months old and each month passes faster than the last did. Your changing each and every day, learning new things and just being you. Lately your personality has been out in full force. Your sweet and loving, your loud and rambunctious, your silly and animated. You fake cry the most ridiculous fake cry ever, but its funny to watch. You give the very best kisses and hugs ever. You dance with your shoulders, you bop to the music, you fist pump like a pro :) You are talking and repeating so much we try to get you to say for us.
Last weekend we went to a friends 2 year old birthday party and at the party you were the only boy. Most of the kids there were between 1-3 years of age and they were all so sweet and innocent little girls. We went to a play gym where Cooper managed to run the wild muck that boys tend to do. He tore past these little girls older than he was roughly ready to dive and play in anything and everything. They had a blow up jupiter jump with a huge slide and the kids had to climb the little ladder and slide down. The little girls before us (4 of them) were scared and wouldn't go down. Finally they went one at a time, some rolling at the very end others just face planting, HAHA (I know how mean am I for laughing at that). They got up crying and running away from the slide like it was the most evil slide in the world. Then came Cooper's turn, Cooper who insisted on climbing the ladder all by himself although he ended up falling and getting frusterated by trying 4 or 5 times before reaching the top. He got to the top. Sat proudly and ready to go and off he went quickly down the slide turning himself in rolls twice at the bottom and ending with his face smashed into the bottom of the plastic in the Jupiter jump. I stood ready to go get him, sure that my sweet innocent baby boy would start to cry and need his mama. He looks up with his eyes at me, face still pressed firmly on the ground. He smiles a huge smile and jumps up screaming joyfully as he bounces falling and face planting multiple times to get back to the slide ladder as fast as he could. He loved it! He was giddy.

Needless to say we were the only ones who stayed in the Jupiter jump, the little girls all went off to do less rowdy dangerous things and Cooper stayed ready to fall over and over again.
It really made me think and wonder, How different will our little girl be? Will she be rowdy and hyper and crazy like her brother or will she be gentle and sensitive like these little girls seemed to be. Don't get me wrong, I grew up with two brothers and I am the most girly girl I know but I could play kick ball, football, soccer, army men and any other boy things that we all did with the best of them. I enjoyed being outside and playing the sports. But I was still a girl, I still cried when the ball smacked me and I fell. Not every time but looking back I wasn't as tough as I thought I was. I would wear my little skirts that had the shorts attached underneath :) A cute shirt to match and my soccer cleats and I would play ball like I was one of the guys.
Will my little girl be a tomboy by association because she has a rough and tough older brother or can or will she be a sensitive little flower :) ??? These are the things I'm thinking as I watch Cooper fall face first and just jump up wanting more.

Cooper you are by far the best thing that has ever happened to us and we could not be more happy that God blessed our lives with you!
You are eating well, if you hear a package opening you come running to see if mommy is eating another snickers or cookie that she's craving. You won't miss a chance at biting into those sweets.
You sleep like such a little angel, I have absolutely no complaints there. You try to put your own shoes on and if mom or dad aren't wearing there's you try to put there's on them also. You lay in bed on the weekends and you sing to yourself for at least 30 minutes to an hour waiting patiently for us to come get you in the mornings. Its so cute to listen to you belt it out all by yourself in there.
You love your riding cars we are keeping in the house right now because its too cold for outside. You will hop on the four wheeler with one hand free and your sippy in the other ready to walk it around the house. It sort of reminds me of a bull rider, Its so cute. You are wearing 12-18 month clothes and your shoe size is a 3 but your wearing some of your new size 4 shoes. Your still tall and skinny for your age. You let us brush your teeth twice a day like a champ. You even try to get the toothbrush for us when we ask if its time to brush. You absolutely love the book "Jesus loves me" that we read before bed. You won't pick any other book. You adore this one and the other day after I read it you quietly said in your little sweet baby voice "Jeshush". I was so proud. I said "Yes honey, Jesus, he loves you so much just like mommy and daddy do". Made my heart want to cry!

I could tell stories about you forever, there are so many each day that passes.
Just know that we love you so much and our lives revolve around our little Cooper love.
You are loved by us, you are loved by Jesus, God, and anyone who comes into contact with you. You are so special.
Happy 16 months sweet boy.