A penny for your thoughts

Is this face an indication of a miserable morning in the Bedilion household? Surprisingly no! In our quest to find sleep Cooper has managed to obtain a full size grown up bed all to himself. Yep, he went from crib to toddler bed to big boy/grown up bed all in about 5 weeks time. After some scientific research (aka Steve sleeping on Cooper's floor for a few nights) we came to the conclusion that some of the lack of sleep could be attributed to Coop's crazy/violent sleeping habits. 1. He routinely falls out of his toddler bed 2. this could be from the fact that he is constantly turning and stretching and rolling and kicking and walking and talking in his sleep. For those of you who have said "wow, he really never stops moving" when they are graced with his presence you now know that it continues while he sleeps too! Amazing? Yes! Surprising? No! So Cooper is now sleeping a little bit better in a big bed now that he can turn and roll as much as he would like without falling out (kind of). But in the same weekend we welcomed the new bed we also welcomed our first double ear infection of the season and of course some more teething. He was actually pushing on his ears so hard from the pain of his teeth and the fluid in his ears that his ears bruised on both sides!

So back to the picture. This morning Coop was his normal self but in the car he just got really quiet, didn't bother watching his elmo dvd and wanted nothing to do with his bottle. When I looked back at him, this was the only face he was making the entire trip to daycare. For a while I was a little concerned but when I went to take him out of his seat I realized that he must be getting another tooth because he was gnawing on the pads on his seat straps! As soon as we got into daycare he jammed a fake plastic donut into his mouth. Hungry? Well probably but the way he crammed it onto the one side just confirmed to me that he's got something coming through his gums. Here we go again.........

In a developmental note: Cooper can now identify pretty much all of his body parts (will try to get on video). He is particularly fascinated by "eye" which he enjoys saying while trying to gouge mine and his out with his finger. He has extended is vocabulary to "don't" and clearly says "no" when before he would just shake his head no. Here is a list of words that he says well that I can remember:

Pappy

Daddy

Mama

Nana

nana (banana) sometimes gets a little confusing

eye

doggy

donkey

kitty

ball (also used to describe most fruit)

baby

apple

Buddy (the dog)

truck

book

side (means outside)

hot

shoe (current obsession with putting shoes and socks on so far, unsuccessful)

sock

Uh oh

ow-y

bubble (this word will stop a temper tantrum in its tracks)