Cooper's 1st Birthday Bash!

We celebrated Cooper's 1st birthday in style with a yummy dinner, dessert and a present -- all while wearing birthday party hats (a perfect Strauss-style doggy birthday party).

Cooper's evening started out with a steak dinner. Here's Cooper waiting patiently for his meat.

Cooper scarfing the steak.

Moving on to dessert. Cooper waiting patiently for his birthday cake.

Getting a little closer to his birthday cake with a little sniffing and licking.

 Cooper staring at the cake in his food dish, but not yet allowed to eat it.

Cooper's allowed to eat it...finally!

But he wouldn't eat the birthday cake in the bowl (even though I put it back in there more than once), he ate it outside of the bowl so that he could make a mess!

Then Cooper received a gator for his birthday present. He's already trying to figure out how to rip it apart!

Happy 1st Birthday Cooper!!

Happy 1st Birthday to Cooper!

Happy 1st Birthday to my baby boy Cooper!

Cooper sure has grown a lot during the past year. Look how cute and stuffed animal-like he was at 5 and 8 weeks old!

Here are photos of Cooper at 9 weeks old and 1 year old. He looks almost the same, just a lot more hair now!
 

And his understanding of English has certainly improved. Check out these videos of his latest English comprehension accomplishments -- not only does he know what words mean, he knows how they're spelled too!

But after a year, Cooper still loves Jeff best.

We are so lucky and blessed that Cooper came into our lives last year! Happy Birthday Cooper!