Beth & Coop 🤟🏻

Welp. It’s been a long time since Coop simply *muted* me. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤣

Those equisosiles triangles will get ya every time. 😉

Back with his hatred of the color black. 🤷🏻‍♀️😅

The student has become the teacher. 😜 Ender Pearl = a green pearl in Minecraft. From what I could conclude.

Always something new to hear.

Ma-flingoes, manatees and more. Our quick Florida trip came with lots of laughs, but this is forever one of my favorite Coop-isms. 🦩

As Coop told me today: “A good leader is kind to other people, gives high fives, and doesn’t step on alive plants.” 🌱 🤷🏻‍♀️

I swear this kid manages to convince me I’m pregnant weekly. That LOOK he gives. 😅🫠

Let’s go to the audiologist!

I did my best to educate Coop before the Hands Off rally yesterday. As usual, he ended up educating me. 🫠

Drumroll please for our newest fixation…

Happy to report that @TJ Maxx is, in fact, even bigger than whales. 🐋

Oh how far we’ve come, Coop. This hasn’t always been an easy journey and early on I questioned whether implants were the right decision. How can you not question that as a parent in instances like this older video? But the common thread then and now was giving Cooper choice and autonomy. Doing so allowed him to forge his own relationship with his hearing devices and determine when he preferred to have them on. I know that often parents are told that if a child is awake, their hearing devices should be on. And don’t get me wrong, wear time is definitely important. But think about being a hearing person and suddenly being thrust into a silent world. Wouldn’t there be times you’d want to revisit the hearing one? That’s how it is for these little humans. All they know is silence and then suddenly they have a whole new sense to learn and understand. Patience and compassion go a long way. 💙

Many of you are here because you love watching Cooper thrive and give unhinged life advice (kidding, kinda) — but what if the policies that made his love of language and communication possible simply didn’t exist? I’ve been thinking about this topic a lot, specifically how it relates to Cooper. Many of you here know what it takes for him grow, learn and thrive. But for some, there seems to be a disconnect when it comes to acknowledging that his ability to do so did not just accompany him into this earth. He is who he is because of the education, accessibility, and disability rights programs that have been part of our journey — the very programs that are now being threatened. And I will keep talking about it, because it isn’t “just politics” or “a difference of opinion.” It’s his life and his access to this world.

If I hear one more cock a doodle do…

The one where Cooper answers all his own questions. 🤣🤷🏻‍♀️

#ad Reminiscing on the biggest hive I’ve ever seen…only it wasn’t the friendly little bees Coop thinks it was! 

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Some of us are built for Minnesota winters. Some of us are not. I’ll let you decide which one Coop is.

Nothing compares to being greeted this way daily. 💙