Home Sweet Home

It's been a couple weeks of SICK in our house, as I had pneumonia and pink eye, Jeremy had a bad 'something' that was diagnosed as a virus (and now he has self-diagnosed himself with pink eye, too), and Cooper started cutting more teeth.  So with all of that craziness, I've been sluffing off on updating. 

With so much time spent laying around the house the past couple of weeks, we had lots of time to play with our adorable little man :)  He's pulling himself up now, and loves climbing around on the couch, piled blankets, his parents, and his toys. These past couple of weeks I found myself listening to Jeremy and Cooper's 'conversations' and just smiling to myself about how cute it is to see and hear a dad playing with his baby. 

Laundry Basket Fun!

I see you!

Cooper has been obsessed with his books lately.  It seems as though we can't even walk in his room without taking a break to read to him.  He grabs a book, and when you say "Should we read it?" he looks at you and smiles.  He has a new favorite book. It's called "I Love Daddy," and it's a big colorful board book that Cooper gave Jeremy for his first Father's Day.  I was able to capture the cuteness the other day while Jeremy was reading to Cooper.  Notice how our super-smart boy loves to turn the pages and read along ;)

Thanksgiving Day wasn't quite what we had pictured, but it was still a wonderful holiday week to be spending time with family.  I took a long morning nap with Cooper on Thanksgiving day--which I NEVER do--while Jeremy went to set up tree stands for this weekend's muzzle-load hunt.  Cooper was quite cranky, so that made things a little extra stressful.  We had a string of celebrations, as usual; we celebrated with Mom and Kevin, as well as his family last week, we hosted Jeremy's family for ribs on Thanksgiving Eve (yes, Adam, we're counting that as a holiday), we stopped in to see Dad and Chris and Chris's family for Thanksgiving afternoon, and headed to Prior Lake for a big turkey dinner with Jeremy's extended family.  I weirdly didn't get many photos of our little turkey, but lately I've been getting some grief about taking too many (maybe it's the 350 summer and fall prints I have waiting to be placed into albums!!).  I did, however, get a couple of Cooper devouring his turkey cookie from Grandma Lori.

Gobble Gobble!!

When Cooper goes back to daycare on Monday, Kris isn't going to know what hit her :)  Cooper will have sprouted three teeth in five days!!  Although it's been pretty rough on the little guy, maybe three at one time is the way to go.  It's been a few days and nights of misery, but he'll have TWICE the amount of teeth he had last week!  Maybe it's better than spreading each tooth out to its own week?!  Two have poked through the skin now, and the third probably will at some point in the next day or two.  Ibuprofen, cold washcloths, Baby Oragel, teething tablets, and teething rings are our new best friends.