Mmmmmmmm yum

Cooper is getting the hang of eating oatmeal these days although it's still a pretty messy situation. Here are some pictures of meal time in our house....this is usually how things start:
Then Coop tries to help Daddy by stuffing his fist in his mouth....This is a very serious situation Mom.........Then he decides that we're all just better off if he does it himself....

4 Month Stats

Cooper had his 4 month check up last Thursday. He weighed in at 16 pounds exactly and 25 inches. So since his 2 month checkup he has grown quite a bit. He is in the 50th percentile for height and 75th percentile for weight :) !! Unfortunately, he had another nasty reaction to his shots so he spent the weekend pretty miserable with really bad flu symptoms. We are also starting him on rice cereal and oatmeal which is becoming quite hilarious, mostly because he starts to laugh with a mouthful of cereal and you can imagine how this story ends. I'm hoping to get some good cereal pictures soon. In the meantime I'd thought I'd share his hospital baby picture. Since he was in the NICU he couldn't have this taken until the day he was released since he had so many tubes and wires so this is really him at 10 days old.

And here he is now......(this is the "i know something happened to me at the doctor's but I'm not sure how I feel about it" look)

Cooper Jay Goes to Washington

The Fam in front of the White House

....gotta wear shadeson the train showing off the guns.
Tour Guide Aunt Jo
Let the siteseeing begin...

Lunches with Dad

So Steve tries to visit with Cooper during his lunch as often as possible since he works just down the road from his daycare. Which means I get picture messages like these on my phone during lunch.....

Is anyone else jealous??

Coop and Dad on a picnic

Quick Pics

Cooper Jay had a great weekend visiting his Aunt Jo. We'll be posting pictures later tonight hopefully. Here's a few in the meantime from my camera phone.

Cooper after swimming with Daddy at the local pool...

Cooper playing with Aunt Jo.....

Aunt Jo's bed is soooo comfy.....

Bald and Beautiful

Cooper seems to be going through another major growth spurt. He's been sleeping a bunch the last few days and his appetite seems to have finally increased significantly so adding rice cereal may be on the menu in the very near future. Last night he slept the entire night without waking up once. He went to bed around 10 and we had to get him out of his crib at 7 so he could leave with his Dad for school (daycare). He has become quite the morning person and will talk your ear off and laugh and smile until he realizes how hungry he is. We definitely enjoy mornings in our house and he's so fun to be around that he's almost made me a morning person ( I said almost!). He's also a lot more fun to take out, even to run errands, b/c he's so fascinated by everything that he prefers to be seeing new things rather than being stuck inside the house. Yesterday Coop enjoyed a late dinner with me and Nana at Red Robin and he just hung out in his stroller and chewed his blanket and watched the fans spin around. He's become huge on chewing on any available blanket or burp cloth available and he's almost weaned himself off of his pacifier b/c he thoroughly enjoys sucking his fist. The pacifier is really only used when he's really sleepy these days. Another major change with Coop....he's bald. In the last few weeks he started to get small little bald patches and now, as you'll see in the picture, he looks like an adorable old man with his baldness wrapping eniterly around his cute little head. Daddy wants to just shave the remaining hair......I refuse. So the latest balding episode will most certainly not change Aunt Jo's opinion that Coop is looking like George Costanza. And even though we do not like the George Costanza image we are very excited to see Aunt Jo this weekend.

Coop telling us a story.....

Stupid Daycare!!!!

So please pardon my slightly poor attitude toward daycare, but after just 3 days there Cooper managed to catch his first cold. Not only did he catch his first cold, but he promptly shared it with Mom and Dad. So while Coop and Daddy seem to be recovering well from it Mommy is still struggling with the nastiest sore throat and headache imaginable. But let's just pretend I'm over it and get right to the good stuff.

Last week I started my first week at working part time (same job, same company just a shorter week) which means that Cooper and I spend Thursday afternoons and all day on Fridays together, so we had an extra long weekend this past weekend. Friday we spent the day catering to Coop's cold, suctioning boogers out of his nose and just trying to keep him semi-happy since he was extra crabby. Saturday we spent the day at Nana and Pappy's and Cooper slept for most of the day, still getting over his cold. For the life of me I can't seem to remember Sunday but I think Steve to Cooper to the pool and they had a good time so I could try to relax a little and nurse my own cold. Yesterday, however, was especially fun for Cooper since we went people watching. We went to the new outlet stores and walked around for a few hours and did a little shopping. This was right up Cooper's alley since his two favorite things are to be walked EVERYWHERE and to watch people. It's possible he could have given himself whiplash yesterday from his head whipping back and forth trying to take it all in.

Cooper is getting a lot stronger and is starting to push himself up during his tummy time. These pics are a little fuzzy b/c they are from my camera phone:

Clearly the cats are confused as to who gets to use the baby furniture (Gabby in Coop's rocker before she got booted out by me):The result of an afternoon of shopping, walking and people watching....

Ohiopyle Fun