Cooper is 9 months old today!

Happy 9 months baby boy! I can't even believe that you have been here with us for 9 whole months. Some days it feels like I never had life without you and other days it seems like everything has happened so fast. Either way your hear and doing great and daddy and I couldn't love you more. You have been nothing but an absolute blessing to our lives. Your smile lights up our every moment. God has blessed us so greatly by bringing you into our lives.

Here is what is going on with Cooper these days....

-You are walking along furniture so smoothly and so well. Your crawling is so fast its insane.
-you are smiley and giggly all the time, always smiling at strangers and anyone who will look your way. You are a huge flirt.
-You are saying Dada, and mama and I truly believe you know who we are because you say them only to us.
-You love to give Eskimo kisses, your papa taught you this new little trick.
-You love the song "the wheels on the bus".
-You are into everything, literally. You go from room to room seeing what you can get into. I have to follow and re-direct you often :)
-You are so smart (daddy and I believe you are). You seem to pick up on new things so quickly and you are very intuitive and curious.
-You love to sing songs with mommy and you even sing along in the car with me :)
-You love to push the handmade crocheted coasters that Dorthy made for your mommy and daddy. Luckily they are soft and safe so we let you play with them. You will push them around on the wood floor like they are matchbox cars or something. Its so cute.
-You LOVE your ducky stuffed animal that sings the A,B,C's. Its the only thing that will get you to sit still while I change your diaper. You just can't wait to get up and go play but once you hear that song you smile at me and we sing together.

Your stats...
-You weigh about 17-1/2 to 18lbs. (We haven't been to the doc to have you weighed in over a month so this is a guess)
-You are wearing size 2 shoes but your getting close to growing out of them.
-You wear size 6-9 months in pants, except a few pairs of select shorts (like swimsuits) that run big and you end up in a 3-6 month.
-You are wearing 9-12 month pj's, onesy's and shirts. You are so tall you need big boy shirts.
-You still haven't gotten any teeth yet. But I am guessing in the next week to two weeks we will be announcing your first tooth. You have become quite the little slobber king the past 2 days and you haven't been as chipper as we normally would expect.

I could go on for days on so many little amazing cutie pie things about you. You are so much fun and you're learning so fast. Daddy and I love you more than anything in this world. God is amazing to us.

Happy 9 months angel baby!
Here are some pictures of you we took this week. :)





We think your teething, your a little slobber monkey and chewing on everything. But what do we know? We have thought you were teething for like 3 months now? Who knows.

WE LOVE YOU COOPY MONSTER!!!!

The bachelorette last night

A fellow blogger mentioned something about last nights episode of "The Bachelorette". I suddenly felt compelled to type up a little something about my feelings on the show last night.

I will skip the previous episodes and just move straight into last night...
I want to start off by saying that I did the naughty and read "reality Steve"s" blog yesterday. For those of you who haven't, and don't want to. Good for you. I couldn't help myself but to want to read all about the spoilers. You might think this would ruin my watching the rest of the season but amazingly it didn't at all yet. I watched last nights episode in amazement that reality Steve was so right about everything. It was fun to see it all drawn out in the show after already knowing what would happen.

Ok onto the show.... (No spoilers included).
Holy cow Kasey "tattoo freak" McGee over here. What are you thinking??? I mean really? Really?
You went and got a tattoo that you say represents your "protection" over Ali's heart. Again REALLY? Do you really find it necessary to go get a permanent tattoo for a girl that is dating multiple people and to top it off did not even give you a rose because she needed to think about her decision some more. She mentioned so many times throughout the show that Tattoo man is over the top on the things he does. She tells him to be more down to earth. What does he do??? Yes that's right. The most logical thing for him to do after being told that is to go get a tattoo for her. Hahaha! Wow! FREAK!
Run Ali Run away as fast as you can...

"The Wrestler" A.K.A creepy, hiding something, crutches man who sits in the back ground all pretty boy and squinty eyed watching everyone else make such fools of themselves with some slap happy grin on his face. Then he suddenly decides to start crap with people out of the blue. I don't like this guy! He might be semi attractive compared to the choices we are working with here but he is not trust worthy and although last night he chose to pick on crazy Kasey. I still don't like the guy.

"Weatherman" :) We have such a love hate relationship Weatherman. Your girly crying nature like your a 8 year old boy annoys me to no end. For whatever reason though, you make me laugh. You are such a shorty Tom Cruise like, goofy little guy. As badly as I feel you should be nixed and as badly as you can be oh so annoying. I think I secretly like you for viewing purposes. I mean your hysterical! You have gossiped like a girl from day 1. Last night when you tried to go talk to Ali the night she was sick and got shot down hard chore! You immediately went back to the guys to talk about it and let your feelings out.
Oh and when you sang to Ali. I about lost it! Did any of you ladies see her facial expression, PRICELESS! Thank you Weatherman for entertaining me so.

Frank, I like you! You are adorable and down to earth. You don't try to hard. Your funny and cute.

Oh and Ali herself seems so fake. She is a terrible actress. I loved her last season (minus the "I have to leave the show" moment of fake crying). But this season she seems so unrealistic. I feel like its even more of a planned fake show than I ever have before.

And the last person I will mention is Roberto. Because I think he's a hottie! But I'm not sure if I love his personality?

As far as the rest of the guys, I have nothing to really say about them today. Maybe next week :)

The amazing adventures of Cooper. Picture post!

Well the title says it all.

Cooper is everywhere, I took the liberty of following Cooper around the house with my camera so I could share how curious Cooper has gotten these past few months. Gone are the days when he would lay quietly on his blankie looking at the flashing lights of his infant toys hanging above him.
I'm not complaining, I think he's so much fun now. However, he is scaring us big time with all his little daring adventures. I wouldn't dare leave him alone for even a split second.

Cooper just started his new 2 days at Mrs. J's house this past week. She told me he did great :)
Cooper flirted with the college girls that work for her and played great with the other kids. I was so happy to hear that. The rest of the week he was with his Mimi. He did great all week but all of his caretakers made it a point to say to me "oh my goodness, he's just so mobile and into everything". The New Mrs. J's daughter told me that they thought that Cooper was one of the most well behaved babies they had ever had at the in home daycare. Then she goes on to tell me that he is also one of the most active 9 month old babies she's ever had. Can those two even go together?

Yes everyone, we are fully aware of him being so mobile. We new this day would come and boy did it. I can remember mentioning to you all just a couple months ago how mobile he has been getting. I had no idea what was in store for us. He is ten times more active and all over the place now then he was then.

So here is a small highlight of what Cooper did today (ha ha for like 20 minutes). You can imagine a full day. Its not like I didn't realize he would be this way one day, and its also not like I don't think other babies are this way. Its just never been my kid that was all over the place. Now that it is, I'm just going to come out and say it. Its exhausting!

He made his way through nearly half of our house, and quickly I might add.
We have had to do some new baby proofing. We had decided to watch him closely and add on some of these baby proof things as we go. He's never really been all that interested in going anywhere near the fireplace and we never leave him alone or un-watched to even take a chance at him getting hurt by it. However this week he decided he wanted to climb on it. NOT COOL COOP.

Here is the lovely new baby proofed fireplace. Check out the stylish foam lining around the edges. Anything to keep our baby boy safe :)


"Hey mom, I think I should show you how I can climb up and hang off of this table :)"
"Ha-ha, I 'm hanging "

Look another table.
" I bet I could get that thing open"???

"Too bad Mom took all the good stuff out of the drawer that I could play with"



"They don't like it when I go over here"

"What is this thing"?

" My toys"

"oops! Now how am I going to get it"?
"I'm just going to take this little thing over hear"

"and put it in this thing"
"My mom made me get away from the fireplace"

"Fine, then I'll just play with my school bus".

"Hey, I want to go play with those...."
"I'm ready to move into the next room"
"Mom, are you coming"??

"OOh, my diaper bag :)"

"Is that my paci"??
"IT IS, IT IS"

NEXT....

"I think I'll go this way now..."

"Hey look the computer room, and my play table :)"

It went on from here. I just got tired of chasing him around the house.

He is one busy little curious boy that's for sure.

Lake time

We made plans this weekend to go visit my family. However Julian ended up finding out Friday he was going to be on call all weekend :( I was prepared to tell my family we weren't coming, but Julian insisted I go with Cooper and enjoy the weekend. (I think he secretly wanted some no baby, no wife relaxation daddy time). So off to my parents Coopy and I went. My dad ended up coming to my house to help Julian with some outdoor things he was working on. So it was just my brothers, my mom, my sis in law and my niece that we got to see.

We had a great day, we went to a baby shower and then met up with my brother for lunch. My mom, sister in law and I went shopping after lunch while my brother watched his daughter Natalie and Cooper. That was so nice of him.
We went to Target. I got some really cute summer clothes. :)
Saturday afternoon we all went out on my brothers boat. It was so much fun. I was really nervous and uneasy about taking Cooper out on a boat but my sis in law had a life jacket that my niece wore when she was teeny tiny and it fit Cooper perfectly. My brother Matt of course is very responsible and careful so I trust him. Off we went.
Cooper LOVED it. He was smiling at the water, coo-ing, and occasionally he would let out a little giggle to himself while watching the water move from behind the boat. Off course I had a good grip on him at all times. I hooked my wrist into his life vest so if for any reason I need a good hold on him I had one. (I know, paranoid much????).
Anyways we had a great time. My brother, Jamie and I tried the new "wake skate" that they got. In case you don't know what this is, its like a boogy board but it doesn't have any ankle and foot straps to hold your foot onto it. Its basically a skateboard with no wheels. They just got it this summer so we were all trying it out. I got up on my first try but let me just tell you, it was awkward. I think just knowing that my feet were free freaked me out. I fell a few times of course, and on my last try I for whatever reason couldn't even stand up. I got up, but instead of standing I stayed in my crouched position. Here I am being pulled by the boat in sitting position on a skateboard and I can't get myself to stand up. I knew if I did I would fall, So I just sort of stayed there like that all crouched low to the board for a while cruising along :). My mom was cracking up, I'm sure I looked absolutely ridiculous.

Here are a few of the weekend shots....

Jamie, Natalie, Cooper and I
Uncle Matty and Coop
Mommy and Coop, he's checking how cold the water is...
Hanging with his best friend and cousin Nat.
Loving the sun.
Cooper and Grandma





Cooper sure did miss his daddy. When we got home Sunday they played outside. Cooper was all smiles and loved seeing dad. But he was also all about the dirt we are using to back fill a wall we just built. He kept trying to eat the dirt. So yes we popped in the pacifier as a deterrent. I didn't want him to eat mud!

Proud to be a women

Last night I went to see SATC 2. Can I just start by saying that I LOVED it!
If you haven't seen the movie yet please stop reading and don't scroll down. I will be posting a few pictures.
I'm not going to say to much about the movie, but I will say that it was all I hoped it would be. It made me laugh (out loud quite a few times), I loved seeing the girls together. The fashion MY LORD THE FASHION!!! I was immediately obsessed by a few things I saw. I loved jewelry, purses, shoes, etc.... But I will post just a few pics of my fav outfits. :)
These ladies looked fierce! I can only hope and pray that my body is rockin like the SATC girls are when I'm in my 40's and 50's. Inspiration is what they are.

I am loving this white Halston Heritage dress. I want it! NOW!

The Louboutin shoes are gorg as well. :)

I LO-HU-VED Kristin's red dress she wore in this scene.... It looked beautiful with her dark hair.


Lets not exclude these two adorable summer dresses also Halston Heritage.
I want them both.



And last this tunic type top that Kim Cattrall wore in a scene. I couldn't get a good image of the outift but I think its beautiful. Kim had on hot red lipstick. The look was smoking hot. I definitely would love to wear that.
I wish I had a picture of the front of this one. It is so pretty.

Don't you love being a women! I love how good it feels to wear something that you feel confident in. To get all glammed up and feel amazing.


Just in case anyone was wanting an update on the fam. We are doing great. I'll post after the weekend and update on the Coopster and how our weekend went. I hope you all have a great weekend :)