11 Month's Old

I say this every month but "Where has the time gone?" Cooper has brought so much joy to our lives and I can't imagine life without him.

A few things I want to remember about Cooper's 11 months of life are:

• You are still wearing size 3 Pampers, however you prefer to be naked! You hate getting your diaper changed and we have to bribe with whatever we have lying around..and sometimes that doesn't even work. Your diaper just ends up a little twisted is all.
• You have outgrown your 9 to 12 month clothing and we have officially cleaned out your closet and dresser drawers. You are now wearing 12 month clothes. 
• You have one tooth (bottom right) that's popped through, and it's sharp! The left one next to it is just about through, no top teeth yet that I can feel.
• You bite your lower lip and/or suck your lips in, it's so cute, your little cheeks puff out and I just want to grab them and squeeze them they are so darn cute.

• You had lots of sickness this month, it seems about for 2 weeks you were just battling a bug. You did have double ear infection but we got you some good meds and you cleared up in no time. You are very clingy when you were sick and just want to snuggle and sleep with mommy.
• You celebrated your first Valentine's Day! You had so much fun at school, mommy forget to send Valentine's with you, but you didn't seem to mind one bit. You came home very dirty so I know you had a blast.
• You are starting to sign.. you say 'all done' you wave 'bye-bye' and you are starting to blow kisses (thanks to Sissy, she's been teaching you this)

 Blowing kisses to Micayla (you even make the noise, mmmmaaaaaa)

 

 

Waving Bye-Bye

 

 

• You also give High 5's! Especially to Brother, he's the one who taught you that.
• You just light up every time your brother or sister walk into the room. You love them so much and they just adore you!
• You moved up to a new car seat this month and you love it! I think you like it because you just talk away as we are cruising down the street. I think you like being up higher and you can see more.
• You love playing peek-a-boo! You'll grab whatever is around and put it in front of your face and we'll say "peek-a-boo" and you show your face, it's so sweet!
• You are also starting to give kisses! Momma loves this.
• You are such a noise maker, you are constantly making some kind of noise. Like I said, it's music to my ears!
• You talk with your hands all the time. You'll say OHHHH and raise your hand. You turn your hand up so you palm is up.

• You love playing with balls, any kind!
• You love bath time.
• You are starting to ween yourself from breastmilk. You are still exclusively breast fed, no formula! Only one more month to go. Today, Tuesday the 19th, I did not bring my pump to work. I received a note from school that you don't seem to interested in the bottle and would rather have people food. I'm so alright with this! I will still feed you in the mornings and before bedtime for at least one more month, however you don't seem to interested in that either but I'm still going to try!

• You do not like baby food, such as Gerber Stage 3, you seem to throw it up all the time so we've just decided to feed you whatever we are eating. You threw up your whole dinner at Grandma's the other night. I forgot to tell her you didn't like it.
• You spent your first night at Grandma and Grandpa's and you had a blast, except for puking and taking a bath, but other than that you had so much fun. They even fed you some malted milk and ice cream! Yummy....
• You went swimming with mommy and daddy and you still love the water - Thank God because we'll be doing a lot of swimming this summer up at Whitetail!

• You always seem to be so happy, there is not much that you don't like, you will let us know when there is something you want or when you're not happy, but for the most part, you are the best baby!
• You don't really like getting your picture taken, you always look the other way. However, I try to get a few good ones when I can.
• Your pacifier has become your buddy! Momma doesn't like this! I take it away, you go find a new one, there is usually one lying around somewhere. You'd keep two in your hands all the time if you could. I like to see that cute smile of yours with out your pacifier.

• You still have not taken your first step but you're close! You'll walk around anything to get what you want. We thought the other day you were going to take off but then you thought about it for a minute and just fell down and crawled to where you wanted to go.
• You are fast crawler and will sneak off into other rooms. You love playing with the shower door, you knock it off track all the time and daddy yells at you, but you just smile and everything's OK then.

Cooper you are such a joy every day and I thank God to have you in my life. I just love to come home and play with you and I love when I walk in that door I see you just light up like you're so excited to see me. It sure melts this momma's heart! I can't believe I'm starting to plan your 1st birthday party, it's amazing to me! But I'm so excited and I think you will be too!