One Year Older.....Cole turns 11 !

...and gets a surfboard for his birthday (March 2). We took the boys to the gulf side of Florida to visit their grandparents and to give the board a better tryout; it's still a little cold in the water in Charleston. There wasn't much surf going on the first day, but what he needed was to learn to balance and stand on the board, and that he did! Next time we'll get all this action on film!  Cole has always had a knack for picking up sports that require balancing (scooter, biking, skateboard), so it was no surprise to us that he took to surfing so easily. 

Coming out for a break

Learning to wax the board

Little brother Cooper was busy losing teeth and making tortilla faces.

Who is that masked man ??

And while we weren't looking, "little" Cooper turned 7 in February!