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{My sister, Casey, took this adorable picture of Cooper the other night while babysitting for us. She’s the kind of Aunt who will play with you outside all day, and when it gets too dark, play board games with you inside, while feeding you brownies and milk. In other words, she’s the good kind of Aunt.} We let Cooper sleep in our bed with us the night before Mother’s Day. He would not fall asleep when we laid him down for the night and I was too tired to rock him anymore, so instead, I plopped him down in the covers between Brad and I. He smacked his almost sleeping Daddy in the face with his chubby hands several times to say hello and fidgeted a lot until I’m assuming he eventually fell asleep. None of us slept as well as usual but I enjoyed it anyway. Sleeping babies are the best and it’s so hard to leave them in a bed all alone when all you want to do is just hug them close and breath in that baby smell all night long. So, it wasn’t that hard for me to give in. You can call it a little Mother’s Day gift to myself! Tonight I ate a huge container of homemade blueberry sorbet that I made myself a few nights ago (frozen blueberries and coconut milk). What can I say? If it’s healthy, I don’t really hold back. My lips and teeth and tongue were dark blue, frozen, numb and tingling when I was finished. I asked Brad for a kiss to warm my lips back up, thinking I was being cute (but also because they were seriously freezing and he’s always so warm.) ”I don’t want a kiss from the Wicked Witch.” He said, after noticing how blue I was. Haha! And I just thought of a new question for the “Would you love me if…” game. If you liked this post, vote for our by admin no comments We had family over to our house the day after Cinco de Mayo for a Mexican style fiesta last week! We had Margarita Mocktails, Mexican style turkey burgers and beef burgers, Mexican Street Corn and Nutella Rice Krispy Treats. It all turned out so yummy! I was really excited about the Mocktails as you can tell by the fact that I took about 500 pics of them! Afterwards, everyone watched a movie on the big screen, in the movie room (aka Bat Cave). I stayed upstairs, played with Cooper & cleaned up a little. It was such a fun night! I really enjoyed trying out new recipes & having my family over to enjoy them with!
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Baby Boy, I can’t believe how fast the time has flown! Are you really 6 months old already??? You are definitely out of the infant stage now. We can safely call you a baby. I can’t believe how much your appearance has changed since you were first born. Daddy was just saying the other day that when he looks at you he doesn’t really see how much you look like me or him anymore, he just sees you. Now that we are seeing more and more of your personality, we see that you are less of a combination of the two of us and more just your own person altogether. You’re really cool and we love how you fit in with us just perfectly!
You love being outside and on the go in general. So far, I think you’re attraction to it is out of a love to explore and see new things. Daddy thinks it’s also out of a love for being around people. We’ll see! We’re still really just guessing on the details of your personality. We’ve noticed that you sometimes do this thing where you stare searchingly into people’s eyes without looking away for several minutes. When you do it to me, I feel like you are peering into my soul! Most of the time I have to look away before you do. It’s so funny & a little unsettling! But I love your big, crystal blue eyes – sometimes I think they look like little moons. I have blue eyes but yours are bluer than mine. I’m assuming that they are going to stay this color and not change anymore.
I figured out just recently that, when it seems like you are trying to eat/maul my face it’s actually that you are trying to give me kisses – extremely wet and sloppy wide-opened mouth kisses! Sometimes you will grab my face to do this properly and it is probably the sweetest thing I’ve ever experienced. A close second is when you lean towards me, and almost reach your arms out for me to pick you up. I love it SO much!!! You do this to Daddy too. It’s the best! We are letting you cry yourself to sleep a little more at night. It’s not fun at all, but you have different types of cries. Some are more serious than others. Depending on the circumstance and the type of cry, we’ll often times rock you to sleep instead. We want you to learn to fall asleep on your own, but we also don’t want you to suffer. We’re working on finding that balance. You take two 2 hour naps during the day and are still sleeping through the night for about 11hours. We gradually weaned you from swaddling during the past few weeks, so now you just sleep in your pjs and that’s it.
We love how playful you are and Daddy is having fun playing with you now that he can be a little rougher. We could still watch you all day long if that didn’t bore you to death. I wonder if that ever goes away? Probably not. You are a miracle and a blessing and the best thing we’ve ever done together! We love you so much! XO, Mom & Dad by admin no comments |
It seems like you’ve been hitting a bunch of milestones all at once this month. You’re sitting up pretty well and rolling over – back to tummy. You got your first tooth (with the second one not far behind), and you were chanting “Mammamamama” when we laid you down at night for a little while (which made me want to just pick you back up and hold you forever). You enjoy laughing and kind of have the fake laugh mastered (which is very good for Dad & my self esteem). You became extremely interested in food this month and would watch us eat & drink non-stop. You were definitely ready to start eating real food when we gave you your first bite of squash on your half birthday. Your face said you didn’t like it but you kept pulling Daddy’s hands to your mouth, to try some more. The next day you finished the entire jar and took each bite like you had been eating from a spoon for weeks! I was very impressed. We took you to the zoo for the first time and you did SO well, despite missing your first nap! There were a few animals that caught your attention (they had to be moving for you to notice them.) You were really interested in the goats and sheep in the petting zoo. They made you smile.
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