Catch-Up

I haven't been good about posting, so let's catch up since I was last here...we went to the pumpkin patch in Vidor the week before Halloween for some photo-ops of Cooper. It was great.

For Halloween, we had the cutest little monkey I have ever seen! He did great in his costume and didn't mind the hat with ears or anything! We had a pre-party with pizza at our house and then went to the fall festival at the church. He got to semi-experience some of the activities at the fall festival, but it was fun!

He got to meet his Granny and Aunt Judy and Uncle Charles for the first time when they came down to visit a few weeks ago. He is such a charmer and smiled the whole time.

Last week, Jeremy went hunting so I did the bad mom task of what I like to call "sleep training." It is known as "the Ferber method", "progressive waiting approach", or more commonly, "crying yourself to sleep". I don't know, but in the end....we are SLEEPING THROUGH THE NIGHT! The first night wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but it wasn't easy. After that, it got WAY easier every night. Now, after taking his bottle, he falls to sleep around 9:00 and sleeps all the way until about 5:30 or 6:00 the next morning! No bottle, no waking up, nothing. I have waited 8 months for this! Needless to say, I am pretty happy.

This week he is doing amazingly better at crawling with his hands and knees. We were playing with him in his room earlier and he crawled across the room twice and never once went down on his belly. He is eating more and more real foods. He is pretty much on 3rd foods of baby food for dinner (chunky stuff) and I am starting to just blend up some of the food that I cook so he can start adapting to our "family cuisine". We go tomorrow for our 2nd round of flu shots, so that won't be fun. That is all I can think of for now. I will leave you with one of my favorite pictures that I think captures his personality.