Only 1 more month until my baby is 1!
On August 25th Cooper decided to take his first steps at his Pop and Sus's house. Of course I squealed with excitement and scared him, and then he started crying... He would take a few steps here and there, but then on September 8th at cousin S's 1st birthday party, he started taking off! He is walking around everywhere now, and making lots of new discoveries!
We have recently graduated to a big boy car seat and this transition has provided Coop with lots of new toys. I've had his old infant seat and base in the den and he loves to climb all over it and work on it - such a boy!
For his birthday we are thinking about just getting this boy lots of boxes to play in...
(The Husband cut windows in the box for him)
Cooper has been teething a lot lately and has had a double ear infection, which has not been fun. This has thrown our routine out of whack, but we are slowly getting back on schedule. One of the pluses of this has been that he has started letting me rock him again! I was so sad that he didn't want to be rocked to sleep any more, but for the past 2 weeks we have been rocking and bouncing every nap time. Today I tried to rock him, and he was not having it so my rocking days may be coming to an end again :( He will still take a morning nap every now and then, but I can tell it won't last much longer. However, the afternoon nap is getting longer :)
We also started going to Mother's Day Out one day a week for a whopping 3 hrs. He could stay longer but I'm not ready for that yet. This gives me just enough time to do my weekly grocery shopping and get caught up on some house work. My house has never been this messy!
Cooper's new favorite thing is to ride his rocking horse. The Husband helps him ride his horse up and down the hall just about every night. And The Husband is borrowing Pop's 4 wheeler, and this boy loves it!
We have almost transitioned completely to table food, but I'm still supplementing with a little baby food. Wearing 12 month clothes and size 3 diapers (about to move to a size 4). Talks all the time! Will call Wheeler, and last night I'm pretty sure he called The Husband dada. He is getting a little more hair and it is blonde (blonde hair and blue eyes). Maybe by his 2nd birthday he'll have hair :)
