August 3-10, 2008
We started the celebration week on Saturday in Sanford at the Pattersons. We had great hamburgers and hot dogs, ice cream and a fun birthday party. Cooper (and his Mommy) blew out the homemade birthday cake candles. Cooper entertained us with an impromptu concert at the piano, a video appears later in this blog.
Then Cooper and a very brave Nana set out for Morehead City. They arrived just as Cappy was shutting his eyes for a nice nap, something I learned I wouldn't be doing much during my vacation week; OK, I "remembered" to sneak one in when Cooper was napping. It's hard remembering these tricks after so many years, but those of you who know me also know I'm not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer. Nana bought a pool in which Cooper played 
This shot is kinda dark, but shows how much Cooper is growing
A really nice shot of Cooper and Nana
On Thursday we went to the Orient, all right, Oriental. Here Nana tries to keep Cooper from stepping on everyone's toes.................while something glides by on our port side. 
After all of this fun we went to Beaufort Friday afternoon for the Pyrate invasion. It wasn't very farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhto go. Cooper met lots of pyrates, and had a lot of fun talking with a parrot. Sorry no shots, we forgot to bring a cameraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaghhhhhhhhhOK, enough pyrate jokes, for now anyway.
As promised, here is a video of Cooper singing VeggieTales songs. He looks around as he finishes, and would point to anyone who didn't clap. Sorry I didn't catch that on film, but I was filming and he was pointing at me. I think an Elton John duck suit might be a good Halloween costume for him, wonder where we can find those goofy glasses?
And the last video shows Cooper playing in the pool. I turned the camera off just as he looked at me and said "cheese"
In town one more week and then I'm on the road quite a bit until Christmas
