THE HILLEBRAND'S: 14 and 15 month old!

Since I missed Cooper's 14 and 15 month pictures and all his stats, I thought since we went to the doctor for Coop 15 month check up, I thought now would be a perfect time to write on how much he has grown!

Cooper's 15 month stats:

Weight - 21 pounds, still a little peanut

Height - 31 inches, here he shot up...we went from around the 10th percentile to about 40, so we were happy with that.

He received two shot yesterday and handled them like a champ. He screamed for a second then once mommy grabbed him and the nurses left, he was good to go! He even slept in until 8:30 today! Glad I got to work from today.

A few things I want to remember of Cooper 14 and 15 months of life!

He is in size 4 diaper, we moved to a Target brand, but I think since we've done this, he's broke out in a rash so I will be switching back to Pampers.
He is wearing size 9mo to 12mo pants, however tops, we prefer 18 months. I sure we could mix and match sets. LOL Pajamas we buy 18 months, shorts are definitely 12 months and shirts are 18, so right now we have a variety of cloths and sizes. I went through all his clothes the other day we are set for summer! It has finally arrived, now if we can just get rid of this rain!
He takes one nap a day and it's usually a long one! Normally about 2 hours, right after lunch and he usually sleeps until 2 or so. Daycare said he loves to sleep! Like I said earlier, he slept until 8:30 today. He rarely wakes up in the middle of the night, if he does, I just let him fall back asleep. I'll peek on the monitor and if he's sitting up, I'll have to go in, but if he's just tossing and turning he'll fall back asleep.
He goes to bed around 8:00 - 8:30
Lately, I've been giving him a bath every night, especially in the summer. I hate him going to bed with sunblock on. At school they will go outside and play and they always lube him up with sublock so I like to wash all that off and get him cleaned up. I also think he sleeps better too.

I have to tell a few funny stories, not really stories but things Cooper does. For example, Cooper is fully walking now and every time we go into the refrigerator, he can reach the little drawer, we have a new fridge where the freezer is on the bottom and 2 doors to the fridge. Well, we have a little drawer that slides out, we usually have string cheese in it and Cooper can get up on his tippy toes and reach in and grab it. He immediately wants it. He will take it to whoever we ask so they can open it, then before giving him the cheese we'll say "go throw the wrapper away" and sure enough, he walks over to the garbage can and puts his wrapper in there. I was floored! I didn't know he knew that was the garbage, he really catches on to things. And he comes back for his cheese. This boy eats a whole string cheese, sometimes we have to ask ourselves if he ate it or hid it because he eats it so darn fast. You'd think he'd be constipated but nope, not this kid!

Another thing he does, is he loves to feed people. Today, we were at the Yacht Basin Pool, and Cooper was eating Goldfish and we asked him for some. I would say "give one to Grandma", he would walk over, we were out of the pool at this time, and give one to her. Same for Grandpa and daddy and Tom's uncle Bob (aka Boner) Cooper knew exactly who was who and would take one or two fishy's to each person. This kid is so smart! You say, let's go take a bath, he walks to the bathroom. I"ll say, let's go sit in your chair and play the computer, he'll walk and sit in his chair. I guess I'm just shocked because you always wonder if they hear and know what you're saying. And lately he's just been blowing my mind! If he hears someone coming from the basement, he'll run to the gate at the stop of the steps. Oh one other thing, he loves to walk up the steps, he'll get to the top, wait for someone to open the gate then he'll go in turn around and close the gate. He's trying to figure the gate out, this is next I'm sure. But we're trying to not let him watch us open and close it because we know he'll figure it out!

I just can't believe how much he has grown and is excelling at everything. He loves to listen and play on the Ipad. I think daycare has so much to do with this because I know the days I stay home with him, we just play. I think daycare is much more structured and I'm very happy with choosing ABC Learning.

He is starting to say a few words. It's funny, because he whispers them. His favorite words are Ball - "ball", Puppy - "baba" he says "bah bah" for a lot of things such as Brandon, we call him bubba... he can say hot and blow on his fingers like he's blowing whatever is hot. He says acky.
He loves to be outside, he'll go and get his shoes or sandals when I say "let's go outside".
His big brother and sister are still his favorite people. Daddy's still on top too, it's getting better. The other day camping, I was trying to get him to go to sleep in the back of the camper while Tom was watching TV. Cooper got up and walked over to Tom, held up his arms, and went to sleep on Tom. It was so sweet!
Both Grandparents are his favorite too. Cooper got to spend the night at my parents a few weeks ago and he had a blast. Mom and dad loved it and I'm so glad he was a good boy.
Cooper loves to swim! He could be in the pool all day and not mind one bit.

Cooper you are amazing and everyday there is something else you do that I say to myself "wow, you're mine" I love you to pieces and I just don't know how I will be able to love another as much as I love you. I know I will but it just makes me wonder how. Hopefully you'll be a big brother soon, we find out in one week! You will be a great big brother, lets hope you're a big brother to one at a time!

Here are a few pictures I want to share:

We went to our company's picnic last week and Micayla took him to get a tattoo, don't he look tough?