6months already

it is so hard to believe that our cooper is 6 months already. i remember just last summer while studying for boards, eating tomatoes, cucumbers and carrots in italian dressing what the little someone was going to be in my belly. dreaming of all the possiblities this little creature could become. I would sit and stare at this picture of his/her face wondering what it face was going to be like, who's eyes would he/she have. would there be hair and would i know how to mother... so any things and so many thoughts and here we are here we are a year later and Coop is 6 months already...


When he was born - after17 hours of labor and 2.5 hours of labor i was so overwhelmed. the poor boy didn't have a name for 8 hours because we couldn't decide. it is such a big decisions that literally effects a child for the rest of their life. i didn't know how to make that decision!!! now we couldn't imagine him being anything else but Cooper - coop or coopie








I have had to go through clothes again to pull out more things that do not fit him. it is sad in a lot of ways to see just how big our little coop is getting and how fast. I remember looking at some of the clothes thinking "he'll never fit in these" and here they are too small already!! and we never even to got see him in premie clothes and only about 1 week of newborn clothes (he was a oinker at 8lb 14oz!)



He really is a great kid! we can't complain too much. he cut 2 more teeth over the last week so he hasn't been his usually happy go lucky baby. meaning he cries a little more and wants to be held (esp when he naps) but still he is amazing. We like to say he is 'high maintaince' but we know he is far from it!!! only thing he is high maintaince about is eating - still won't take a bottle from his mama (as kev says he want the booby milk) he takes the bottle great from other people though (thank God!) in the last few weeks he has also got to adventure into eating food - he has tried squash, carrots, green peas and green beans. He doesn't really like any of them much at first but he always wants more!!!

He has mastered the art of rolling around and has started the army crawl places. In ways we are surprised he doesn't crawl crawl yet - however we know life changes once that happens so we wouldn't hurry him too much!!! :)

He just loves to be outside. We have found when all else fails in trying to get him to calm down and stop crying we just bring him outside and lay him on the grass and he loves it. He will lay there on his back for 20 minutes with his arms out just in awe of the sky, trees and heavens above. He really seems to be at peace when he is out there.





You can see here that about 5 months he was completely bald and started to grow back his blonde locks of hair - just like his papa!!!

He has developed quite the personality these days!!! He can make us laugh for hours. He has a jumper-roo that he absolutely loves (thanks hallins!) he can jump forever in that think and do his 'irish jig' dance in it! We can also make him laugh by putting the blanket over his face and saying "where's cooper? where's cooper?" pull the blanket away..." there he is!!!" he'll laugh everytime!!!!! it is hilarious!!!!

thanks for taking a little walk down the months of cooper - we love him so much!!!!! Enjoy his smile as much as we do!!!!!!