Sorry for slacking.

(Here is a video of Coop pushing his new toy.  During the last few seconds you can hear Bethany in the background trying to talk to Cooper, and that is why he turns around with his hand out.)  


We have been quite busy the past couple of weeks so I have not been able to keep up this blog.  I will try and do better about it!

Cooper has been keeping us pretty busy.  The boy never ever stops.  He just goes and goes until he passes out!  Haha  He wears himself out big time.  After we do bath time, bottle, book, prayer, and start to rock him, he tries to dive in his crib.  He wants us just to lay him in there with his lovey bunny and cover him up and get out!  I am amazed every night with this new stage.  It was only a couple of months ago that I was out on the couch crying while he cried in his room after we would put him to bed.  He sure is growing so fast!

He has started eating more of our food for dinner.  He loves mashed potatoes and rice.  He also enjoys pancakes and turkey sausage.  Not sure about all the rules of feeding 9 1/2 month olds that stuff, but you try telling him he can't have it!  Haha  He has quite the temper.  

Coop loves to push his new walker toy around the house.  He really likes when someone holds on to it with him.  He does the sweet little fake "ha ha ha" as you walk with him.  We are really ready for him to start talking because he has started this terrible screeching sound when he is trying to communicate.  We have started really trying to teach him sign language, but it is a hard commitment to make.  We have had to learn a little bit so we can teach him.  He can sign more, but only if he is in the mood to.  

The past 2 weekends we have had cookouts with friends and family and Coop has been great at both.  At the one tonight with our close friends, he put on a show for sure.  He loves attention but only after he has felt out the people and place.  He is on his own time and you can not rush him.  Once he is aware of his surroundings and has figured out the people he does whatever he can to make sure someone is always watching.  He is such a cute little booger, yes I am biased.  =)  

I'm going to leave you all with some recent pics of our adventures these past few weeks!

Playing...

 What Mom?!  I'm watching Mickey!

The new stickers on the wall drive him CrAzY.

He thinks he is helping me cook in there.

9 month check up!

We had Coop's 9 month check up on Wednesday the 3rd.  He is perfect!  He weighs 21 lbs and 6 oz and his height is 30 inches.  She said he his weight is in the 50-75% and height is 90%.  He looks like a butterball and has a roly poly tummy but he is perfect.  =)  I already knew that he was.  

He is really close to walking.  Yesterday I let go of his hand and he attempted a step.  He loves to push tables, baskets, a cooler and chairs around the house.  He can walk around furniture (like the coffee table) really fast.  He loves to hold your hand and walk beside you.  As soon as he realizes that he can do it by himself he will be all over even more.

He loves to eat.  Right now some of his faves are grilled chicken, grilled cheese, toast with apricot jelly, sweet potato fries, scrambled egg yolk, anything with garlic, and pretty much whatever is on mom and dad's plate.  We still are doing a little baby food.  I did stop making baby food for him.  I made it for a few months but I just kept getting so busy that I never had time to replenish it in the freezer.  He doesn't seem to mind.

He babbles a lot.  Apparently he talks like his mother...all the time.  Poor Brett!  Haha  He can say dada, baba, and mama- but only when he is whining or crying.  

We are working on some sign language so he will stop throwing fits and can try and communicate with us better. He has quite the little temper!!  That he gets from his daddy!  =)  He understands when we tell him NO but he loves to test us already.  He says, "Hmmm?" with his big blue eyes like mommy I have no clue what you are talking about. He can also wave bye-bye (if he feels like it- haha) and can clap and squeal the yay sound!  So proud he finally picked that one up.

He is quite the handful!  We have baby-proofed the house, but I feel like it will never be baby-proofed for that destructo baby!  He does not like to be confined to a space or room.  He always finds a way out.  He is such a joy to us and we can not imagine life without him.  We look forward to watching him grow and learn something new each and every day!  Very blessed to be a part of his life!!