I Just Want To Squeeze This Guy

Mommy & Son

I thought this was a cute picture, but don't look too close at my "fresh morning face".

The Marathon Begins

We have "officially" started the marathon. That marathon would be potty training. We've been on and off going on the potty since she turned 2, but lately we've been getting her to go more. She knows how to go on the potty, but doesn't understand that she needs to tell us before she pees in her diaper/pull up. So for the next week we're "taking off" going places or people coming over and going to try to make this work. If she's not ready, she's not ready, but we've got to really try. We actually took Carter to work this morning and went to do 2 Sonic shops and we told her to not go in her Pull Up, but to wait til we got home. We were gone a little over 2 hours, and there was no pee when I got home. But, maybe she just didn't need to go. We went and got her panties the other day (they're so cute!) and let her pick them out. I'm hoping that will help her be excited about it. We're going to try and see if we can do just panties, and if she pees, I'm sure she's not going to like that feeling! We'll let you know how it goes!!

I'm So Happy To See You

Savannah loves her Daddy so. She runs to him and says, "I'm so happy to see you.", when he comes home. She does this at his work too, which makes everyone around go...awwww...and makes Daddy light up. When he comes home, she's like a moth to a flame. She follows him around like...well, a little kid. I really need to teach her the church song, "I'm so glad when Daddy comes home", because I think she'd sing it to him every time he walked through the door. Daddy has the ability to get Cooper to sleep when Mommy can't. Daddy's arms are nice and long, and cuddle him so nicely, that not long after, he is sound asleep. We love him so much and hope that he had a nice Father's Day. He had to work in the early A.M., but came home to homeade lasagna (my first try), devils food cake and a memory book I made of some of his mission pictures. He played some computer games and watched a movie, all without my complaining for him to get off. : )

P.S. I think the lasagna was a hit. He had TWO big servings and kept saying how yummy it was. As most of you know, I don't eat lasagna.

You do what ya gotta do

Especially when Mommy is trying to enter a mystery shop online and baby boy gets hungry.

2 Month Visit

Cooper went to his 2 month visit (although he's 9 1/2 weeks) on Friday. He weighs...drum roll please...12 lbs. 12 oz.! He left the hospital weighing 7 lbs. 11 oz., so he's gained 5 lbs! He is in the 60th % for weight. He is 25 inches, which is the 90th % for height. His head is pretty average, coming in at 40 cm. He got started on his shots; 5 shots and 1 orally. The first two I think bothered him a little but by the third one he was P.O.'d. The doctor said he looked good and he was surprised at some of the things he could already do. Looking Good!

Wanna hear a funny story?

You may remember a post awhile back that I wrote about us having trouble figuring out a boys name because we didn't know what he'd look like. We really thought that "the Baby" would look just like Savannah. What else do we have to compare to? One of the names that we really liked was Dane Madden. We felt like it was such a strong name, but we couldn't put it on a blonde, blue eyed kid. And we were pretty convinced that that's what we were getting. I pictured a Dane dark haired, dark eyes and big. So we decided against Dane Madden earlier on, and went with Cooper, later to figure out the middle name. So when the doctor tells us, "he's got lots of dark hair", that threw us off. He came out looking exactly like a Dane, in my mind at least. I never posted any of the "right after" pictures of him, but he looked huge, dark and with dark wavy hair. Carter and I were talking the other day, and I said, "You know, he looks just like what we thought a Dane would look like. I think that's funny." We don't have any regrets about naming him Cooper though. He's a Cooper. I am growing quite attached to this dark brown hair though, so if it all falls out and goes blonde, I might actually shed a few tears.

Savannah sometimes tries to "fold" her baby blankets, but it's more like her rolling them up. I found her actually folding this blanket the other day. She was so concentrated on it and was folding it in thirds. By the time she was done, it was looking pretty good. Maybe she can fold her own clothes soon?

Oh...Savannah

We put Savannah to bed a little while ago and I started feeding Cooper and Carter started the dishes. Carter comes into me and says, "Do you hear someone running around upstairs?" I didn't hear anything. A few minutes later I am greeted by Savannah at the bottom of the stairs. Those darn door knobby things don't work. Carter takes her back upstairs. About 1 minute later I hear, "HI!" at the top of the stairs. She proceeds to say how she's naughty for opening the door. Really? So she comes downstairs to me at the computer and says she's "so hungry and needs to eat some food." She goes into the kitchen and has this conversation with Carter:


C: Why aren't you in your room?

S: I just want to sleep with you Daddy.

C: I told you Savannah, I need to do the dishes and then go to sleep. I need you to go to your room and go to sleep.

S: I don't care.

C: What did you just say?

S: I don't care.

Sassy pants.


In other news, this boy is large and in charge. And he loves to head butt me.

Cooper's Blessing

Cooper was blessed yesterday at church by Carter. I know that Carter takes this privilege very seriously and is honored by the opportunity. He gave him a very sweet blessing and our friends wrote down as much of it as they could, which was so wonderful of them. Cooper was great during the blessing and Carters friend John said that when they were done, that he looked at Cooper and he was just staring up at all the men around him, with big eyes. So sweet.

Cooper decided to be messy....As church was about to start, I looked down at him and saw....yellow. Ugh. I hadn't even heard or felt him go and wasn't expecting him to, since I had changed him just before we left the house. So, Carter and I ran out really fast and changed him. Unfortunately I couldn't wipe out the "yellow", but at least it wasn't a huge blow out, just a few spots around his legs. He gets blessed and Carter is holding him afterward on his lap and he just starts letting loose. Again! I went and changed him again. Needless to say, we may be bleaching the outfit.

Uncle Parker met Cooper for the first time too.

Snuggled up to Aunt "Lelee".

We had a little luncheon afterward and there was a ton of food. Everyone hung out for a little bit and some stayed and played some games with us. We played Mad Gab and it was so funny. This is Steven, Carter and Jake trying to read the cards and figure it out. I was cracking up and in tears at one point...in a good way. Later we played Clue, and I won! I never win that game.

Acacia & Savannah

The poor little guy was so tired by the end of the night. After everyone left I knew that I needed to feed him, but he was so out of it that he just fell asleep while eating. He seems to still be trying to recover, as he's slept for the past 3 hours.

The whole day I just kept looking at him and saying to myself, "He is so cute." I am partial though. At the end of the night Carter says to me, "He's probably been kissed a lot today". And he was. Probably the most by his Daddy.

2 Months Already

I can't believe that Cooper is already 2 months old. Here are a bunch of photos of him with comments on things he does now.

He is still incredibly strong. He occasionally rolls over and gets his head up sooo high sometimes when he's on his tummy. Almost every night I swaddle him in a blanket to sleep and every morning he is out of it. Not a big fan of the swaddle. He does like to stand with help sometimes and really locks his legs. Lately, he really gets his legs going and is really trying to scoot or something. He has started to sleep longer through the night. We've had some nights were he's eaten at 9:30 pm and then slept and not eaten until 5 am. Too bad we don't go to bed at 9:30, otherwise we'd be in great shape in the sleep department.

Being colicky some of the time, he prefers to be held like this. He doesn't want you to sit and hold him like this, he wants you to stand and hold him like this. He likes to be forward when you hold him, in a sitting position too.

Sometimes he's really particular about his surroundings. Sometimes he gets to the point were you can tell that he just wants it quiet, no lights on, and to just fall asleep. That's hard with a loud two year old running around everywhere.

He smiles the most in the morning or after he eats. I love the most when he squints his eyes a little and quirks one side of his mouth. It's almost a little flirty face.

I'm not sure how this is comfortable to him, but this is how he ends up when he falls asleep in the car seat. We'll move his head but he just puts it right back. Sometimes it seems like he even curls his body sideways too.

These are the first bath time pictures we've taken and he's 2 months! He really likes his bath and just sits there and enjoys the warm water.

This is what his hair looks like after a bath. It gets curly! Then it goes away. :( Since his head is growing, his hair is starting to look thinner because it doesn't cover as much of his head anymore. He's starting to get that clear dividing line through his hair.

Cooper makes the absolute best pout face EVER. He exaggerates it sooo much. I have yet to be able to get a picture of it, because he mostly does it when he gets upset, but I tell you, it is great! It's sad that he's crying, but when he does it, it melts you and makes you laugh at the same time.

We're very excited to see how much he's grown at his 2 month appointment next week. We feel like he's growing really well and looks really healthy. Sometimes he looks so much older to us. His face is so grown up and a lot of people say he looks like a "little man". He's got Carter's checkbones for sure and my dimple in the chin. He's got tiny little ears that we can't quite place. He's pretty husky too. Everyone says "maybe he'll play football", but Mommy says NO. Football, hockey, rugby; all those sports were you loose teeth or break bones regularly or even become possibly paralyzed (I'm seen too many shows and read too many articles to make me believe that this could never happen), not gonna happen. Carter's like, "Well, then he'll just be a linebacker and totally punish the other guys." Yeah, with a 5'0 Mom, and a tall skinny Dad, not sure that we're going to have some 200 lb. kid on our hands.

What a trooper...

She was trying to hold his head up in all these photos, so it looks like she's rubbing his head.

Lately Savannah loves to get in Coopers crib and turn on the mobile. She's too afraid to get out herself though.

This is what I came home to yesterday after working. Someone is on a coloring kick...

Our Busy Week

So I just realized that I posted these pictures in the wrong order. You probably want to read this post from bottom to top. Oops.
They left on Tuesday, but fortunately we got to spend a good amount of time with them. Carter and I both worked today, tomorrow is Carters birthday and Sunday we're blessing Cooper. It's been a little crazy and will continue for a bit.

On Monday night we had Austin, Brian and my Mom over for dinner. We had to get a picture of the three grand kids together. I think Savannah may of had a "crush" on her cousin. She was so huggy with him and would wrap her arm around him and rub his back. It was so cute. She also kept calling him "Steve". As in Uncle Steve, married to Aunt Shelby. Not the same person obviously. It was so funny. Brian, Austin and Steve do all look a little bit alike, especially to a little kid.

I just love these pictures!!

Then on Sunday we went over to my parents to visit and celebrate Ronald's birthday. My brother Brian barbecued hamburgers and we had yummy fruit, etc.

She was excited to see these guys.

Trying to get her to say "Hi".

Some of the cars and floats were throwing candy and Savannah loved to go get it off the street. The parade was on the other side of the street from us, but we got there late so we weren't on the "right side". You can see everything the same though.

On Saturday our city had a parade in the morning. Every year they have the Pony Express Days and a parade that is literally in our backyard, so we just walk on over to the street for it.

My brother Brian and nephew Austin came out for a visit and to help my parents get there yard landscaped (that's what my bro does for a living). This was on Friday afternoon. Savannah and Austin watching Spider-Man together.

Ok, so I have a picture of myself (still trying to find it) that looks just like he does in this one. Crazy! I almost think that I'm older in mine though.

Then on Thursday night, Grandma Shelly came over to visit and keep us company while Daddy was at work.

It was sooo yummy. We love to eat it warm with some vanilla ice cream on top! It didn't last very long..

We've had a busy week. Last Thursday Grandma Barbara came by to see us and helped us make a peach cobbler. It is so delicious! Savannah and Grandma made it together. Really...Savannah made half of it herself.