Asher's Dedication

Asher Benjamin Cook
Dedicated to the Lord
March 27, 2011
Centralia Church of the Nazarene

We were able to have my mom and sister with us for the dedication day. It was a special day!

8 Months

Our sweet boy is 8 months old now. Still no teeth, but he's working his hardest at crawling. I expect him to be all over the house in the next couple of days. Right now he gets himself up on his hands and knees and then sort of throws himself the direction he wants to go, then gets up on his hands and knees and throws himself again. He's starting to work on the knee action so I expect some better results soon. :) He started saying "Mama" last week officially. Daddy is jealous that both boys have said Mama first. We expect "Dada" will be the next word although Alex is lobbying for Asher to say his name first...




I have to say I thought taking Ash's picture with the giraffe each month was a really good idea when he was immobile and couldn't pick it up. Now it's really tricky to get pictures where he's sitting there without the giraffe in his mouth, covering his entire face. ;)

Easter Weekend

Easter festivities this year were mostly curtailed by illness and bad weather...We have yet to dye Easter eggs (and if Alex didn't keep reminding me I'd just skip it this year.) We had one beautiful day last weekend (Saturday) so we did a fun Easter egg hunt at the Erickson farm. That at least appeased Alex on issue. The kids were cute though and we had a fun weekend.

A beautiful, sunny day!

Alex hunting eggs.

Our little family.

Alex in his Easter clothes.

Trying to get a shot of both boys when you're in a hurry to be at church by 8:30 am is not easy...

At least they're sort of looking at the camera.

Alex's Eater basket. He got Chutes and Ladders too.

Asher with the duck and train he found in his.

My Week

Post-bath baby!

So fun to see my boys playing together

Our little musician

Sleepy boy

Another sleepy boy...

...and his buddy Sam

First french fry looks promising!

He gagged

Seth's Ordination

7 Months

And another month has passed....

Our little man is sitting up on his own, eating bananas, applesauce, pears, squash, carrots, peas and sweet potatoes. He's still not enjoying rice cereal, but we sneak it in now and then. He's chatting up a storm and I think is trying his hardest to say "Mama" first. Every now and again I'm sure I can hear it... He's finally rolling from his back to his tummy and working his hardest to get on his hands and knees. Next stop = crawling.

Music & Lyrics

If it wasn't obvious to the world, music is a huge part of life at the Cook household. Songs are always playing and we have fun previewing new worship music Seth gets in the mail, practicing and singing a lot of new songs. Well, Alex has become quite the singer lately. He memorizes songs incredibly quickly and is always singing something. The only issue is some of his lyrics are kind of questionable such as these lyrics to

"Silent at Night"
"Round yon verson, udder wind chime."

Or his favorite song from the Veggie Tales Christmas CD. You know, the song that's the example of what not to be like...

"Jingle, jingle, jingle POCHING!
Ya ya ya ya!
That's the sound of Christmas ti-ime!"
(The "POCHING" should be "ca-ching" Like a cash register noise)

See what I mean? Not exactly text book. This morning Alex was in washing his hands for breakfast and I heard this...

"O Santa!
O Saaaaaaaanta!
You are the God who saves us!
Worthy of all our praises."

I think we have some work to do theologically....