Blogging isn't easy. Especially, when you have a 7 week old little guy living under your roof. Although I guess I probably wouldn't have a blog if that wasn't the case. We've had the best intentions with the blog but for those of you who do not know babies are a lot of work and leave little time for other things. Amazingly enough, as I write this at 8 pm, Cooper is sleeping. Call it luck for us or just over feeding but we got him down nice and early this evening.
Cooper has been busily growing and developing a little personality these past few weeks. He is now just about 7 weeks and is tipping the scales at a bit over 10.5 lbs. I had planned to have him pose with the turkey because it tipped the scales at more than 3 times Cooper's weight but completely forgot about the camera with craziness of the holiday. He was an amazing sleeper at Thanksgiving. I think he must have inhaled some of those triptophans because he was awake for no more than 20 minutes the whole day. He was happily passed around the house all day like a flask at a high school party (that simile is an example of showing not telling for all of our teacher friends that enjoy the blog).
Cooper has started to smile but we've had little luck catching one on camera. He is now making more and more eye contact on a daily basis and has started to enjoy some of his toys and his mobile. A quick sidebar on the mobile. The mobile wouldn't fit onto his crib and we didn't want to get another because this one is really quite the mobile with the lights, the fish, and the music. So I cleverly turned to my trusty drill. Since we live in an apartment it wasn't the aesthetics we were after, but the functionality. Cooper couldn't be happier with the results. I can't say our landlord will appreciate it as much as Cooper, but luckily he is not a blog reader. End sidebar.
Cooper has continued to make his way all over town with us. He came into school the other day to meet some teacher friends and our classes. He was sleeping at the time so we told the kids they had to be quiet and to give him a friendly wave. My class has not been that quiet all year. We've successfully taken Cooper out to a bunch of restaurants and even take him to our neighborhood dive bar on Thanksgiving morning. Before you get too alarmed and call DSS it was following a race I ran and he had other baby company in there. He did enjoy the dark and dank surroundings while I enjoyed my post race Guinness.
I set out not to be wordy with this post. The long and short. Cooper is doing great. He keeps us awake at all hours, makes us smile, could possibly be the cutest baby ever, and we love every moment with him.
Enjoy the photos. PS for those of you that do not know, you can just click on the "enjoy the photos" and it will take you directly to shutterfly to see the album. You can also find the links to all the other photo albums on the right side of the main page.
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