We went to meet Josh's sister's family on their way to the Oregon coast. When we were almost there I turned to Cooper in the car and told him we were almost there and we were going to play with our cousins and he got the biggest smile on his face. He is always so excited to see his cousins, it's so sweet. But first things first, we had to stop at Ikea! Oh man do I love Ikea. We bought the most adorable orange folding chairs for extra seating. A car rug for part of Cooper's upcoming birthday present. And shelf and two wood picture frames for our upcoming woodland nursery. Ah Ikea...
I love my new orange chairs.
Then we met our cousins at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry which was a really cool museum. It's an awesome place for kids, so much to do. They had a live dinosaur exhibit which was sooo cool! These huge dinosaurs were moving and roaring and looked so lifelike. Cooper clung to me for dear life and buried his head in my neck. He was terrified. But the children play area more than made up for it. Cooper played in the water for hours. Balls + water = one happy Cooper.
Digging for dinosaur bones. Or rubbing fistfuls of sand into your hair as Cooper interpreted it.
Sometimes the only way Cooper will allow himself to be restrained is if he's riding on your shoulders. But then he puts his hands all over your face and gives you a bunch of wet willies. I'm not sure it's worth it.
Then we ate dinner at Jimmy John's which shouldn't be exciting but it is because I live an hour away from the closest Jimmy John's, and checked into our cute hotel. Josh and I put Cooper to bed and then took our baby monitor into the hall to sit and wait for Cooper to fall asleep. The outlet we needed for the baby monitor was actually in front of the hotel room next to us so we plugged it in and sat down and I got ready to read my book. Josh left his phone inside the room and had nothing to do so we decided to take turns reading my book out loud to each other. Eventually the people staying in the room we were sitting in front of came in to get into their room right when we were sprawled out in front of their door laughing our heads off and Josh was loudly acting out a scene from the book. We must have looked insane.
The next day we went to the Portland Children's Museum. Cooper had a great time at this one too. There was a lot for little kids to do.
There was a water area at this one too. What's with Portland and these weird little kid lab coats?
Grace and Brady at the pet hospital. Sooooo cute.
There was a mini splash park outside and Cooper had a blast but got soaked and covered in mud. We were driving home from there so we made him ride home in just a diaper, which was awkward when we stopped for lunch. Josh wanted to take him in his diaper! But I dug some pajamas out of his suitcase for him instead. Classy parents.
Then we left our cousins to go to the zoo while we went to lunch and drove home. We went to Panda Express (another thrilling thing for me) and some guy came running out of the hair salon next door with a balloon for Cooper loudly proclaiming him to be the cutest baby he's ever seen. I'm glad someone finally noticed!
Then we drove home about 5 miles an hour all the way home from Portland in the worst traffic ever. And Cooper sat in the backseat successfully fighting sleep to the death.
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