I thought that I would give a little post about each of the boys. While they are both busy boys they have different qualities that I think get overlooked by how much they run around together.
Let's start with Cooper. He is a little sponge. Even when we think that he is not paying attention he hears and soaks up what was said. He uses big words or phrases that surprise us every time. For example: today I had a glass of ice and Cooper started telling Chet that "he can put the glass in the sun and it melts and then he can then put it in the freezer and it will make ice. And that is called a reversible change". Really, a reversible change, what 4 year old knows that. How many adults can recall that bit of 5th grade science. His primary teachers have told us recently how impressed they are by the answers he gives during sharing time, and that he is always volunteering to be a helper. He loves climbing, he has learned to climb the back gate. So now the lock that we put on the gate will only keep out burglars but not keep him in. Cooper remembers the words to about every song that we sing. Sis. Chamberlin (the primary chorister) told me today that sometimes he will be the only kid singing, and you can always hear him. Cooper knows what he wants and does whatever he can to get it. While this is sometimes frustrating for us, we hope that he always has the desire to go after the good and worthy things.
While Beckham loves to follow Cooper around and do what big brother does he does have a different personality. He is a little more reserved. He will stay behind my leg when strangers are around. He loves to be a helper and loves the at-a-boy that he gets from helping. Beckham loves to sing. Last night we were going to sleep and he was singing to us, he started out with one song and threw in lines from 3 others. It was so funny and cute. He is a little mama's boy and loves to snuggle. Beckham is a little protecter. He will tell me, "if the bad man comes to get my brother I will chase him and kick him" and he says it with such force. Beckham is our early riser. We can always count on him coming into our room between 6-630 and getting in our faces saying something funny to get us out of bed. Something else that I think is funny about Beckham, he has two favorite colors. One is he will almost always pick out a green shirt to wear luckily he has 5 or 6 green shirts. The second is that he usually will choose pink out of whatever, his bowls,jelly bellies, or a blanket at the store. PINK!! Yep he is all boy!
