Another great week in Portland

The Zoo!


We went to the zoo with some friends from the ward, and Cohen had a pretty good time.

Here he is sitting on a bronze lion. He liked it a lot and thought he should growl while he was up there.
Cohen loved the elephants! He makes a trumpeting sound and throws his arm in the air when you ask him what an elephant says.

Four one-year-olds at the zoo. It's good for him to get out and see some friends.

It's another great week in Portland. Cohen is constantly surprising Josh and I with funny or cute things. (Yes, there are also enough of the frustrating things to balance everything out.)

One evening while I was making dinner and Josh was doing homework we noticed it got really quiet for a while. We knew something must be going on. What do you know... a minute later we hear Cohen squealing in frustration because he climbed into this tight space and couldn't get out. We laughed hard and wished we could have had the camera out a little sooner.

Some days it's just good to do something different.

Josh forgot a packet for school so Cohen and I brought it to him and then had a picnic lunch on the campus lawn.

I figure Cohen must observe everything I do. I already knew that in my head.... but this week I could actually see what it is teaching my son. Everything is a pretend phone to him right now. What is the most cute is that he talks on the "phone" with it held between his shoulder and ear. In this picture he's doing this with his red car going around the house saying "hello"...... "yes" ..... "ummm" .... "no" ..... and other baby chatter. He's pretty cute.

The sleeping lions.