Cooper Playing Patty Cake

Here is a cute video of Cooper playing patty cake with Grammy Terry.

Cooper Dancing

Here is a video of Cooper dancing to music. We play the music on the laptop computer and Cooper can watch a visualization of random shapes and colors that change to the beat of the music. This time he decided he wanted to dance.

Busting Out!

Recently Cooper has been busting out of his swaddle wrap more than ever! He will not stay wrapped. We've tried putting him to sleep without the wrap, leaving his arms out, but that hasn't been going too well. This video was taken two minutes after Cooper was very tightly wrapped up and placed in his crib. The video is dark but you can see his crib toy going on and off. I can't believe he busted out so quickly. Since he has learned to turn on and off his crib toy it doesn't put him to sleep any more. If you turn the volume up you can hear him clicking the button on and off.





This is a picture of Cooper not sleeping for a nap. He was placed in his crib tightly wrapped and again within a few minutes he busted out completely, arms, legs and all. During this process he lost a sock, and began chewing on the Velcro straps. We don't understand how he can manage to do this all within a few minutes of being put in his crib almost sound asleep.

Since he keeps busting out of his swaddle wrap we have again been trying to put him to sleep without swaddling him. Today he slept a total of 20 minutes from 10am-8pm! Paul had to handle most of this all by himself because I had to work half day. I'm so sorry Paul had handle this alone. It made for a very long, tiring, grumpy day for everyone. Anyone have idea on how to get him to sleep without swaddling him or how to get him to stay swaddled?

Cartoon Cutie!

This is what Cooper would look like if he were a cartoon character, created on Be Funky. Pretty cute! Here is Cooper being the Super Star he is!

Thanks for the fun idea Lara.

Cooper's New Toy

On Friday we went and got Cooper a new toy. Reyna has an exersaucer at daycare that he loves to sit in so we found this jumper that we thought he's like. He absolutely loves it. Music, lights, jumping, what's not to like about it.



Here is a video of Cooper jumping.



Last week Cooper finally got his first tooth. It was a long awaited process for everyone. Hopefully the next ones won't be so bad.

Baby Shower

Today my wonderful belly dance friends gave me a baby shower. It was so nice of them.
Cooper even got to come and enjoy meeting everyone. Daddy was so nice to come and pick him up when he got tired and fussy.

Here is a picture of all the yummy food we ate.

These cup cakes were so cute with handmade blue chocolate buttons on top. Jill is always so creative.

These are the favors that we got to take home. Because I was the guest of honor I also got to take home the beautiful peach roses. So beautiful!

Here is Jill holding Cooper. He was watching us play a game.

Danielle playing a game: draw a baby while blindfolded.

Cooper liked to play with the strings on Sandy's brightly colored shirt. Luckily he didn't pull too hard.

This game was called pin the nappy (diaper) on the stork. Although instead of real diapers we used paper napkins.



This game was called guess the melted candy bar "poop" in the diaper. It's not easy to identify melted candy bars. Although it may look disgusting, I'd much rather smell this in a diaper any day.

Candance was holding Cooper while I took a turn at a game. At this point he was really tired and fussy. We were waiting for daddy to come pick him up.

When Danielle was holding Cooper it looks like he has some red hair. It's probably just the light reflection of her red hair. Too bad his isn't truly red.

Here are a few pictures of me open some of the fun gifts Cooper got.
This was a cute jungle animal summer outfit.


Toys that make noise! Cooper will love these cut drums.

More toys that make noise! Cooper's so lucky.

A gift card to Home Depot. What a great idea. Now we can get all the baby proofing items we need.


Thank you so very much to all my wonderful, fun belly dance friends for throwing me a awesome shower.

I can do it all by myself!