The Fabulous Month Four

The fourth month has been a great one!  Cooper and I have "clicked" and I feel like we have a really good routine each day.  He is starting to show his easy going personality and loves flashing his smile.  He does great around new people and crowds.  He doesn't like to miss a party!  So much so that he still only naps for 30 minutes :) He's growing up so fast!

at 4 Months:

Weight:  15lbs 02ounces (50th percentile)

Height:  25.5 inches (70th percentile)
Head: 46cm (70th percentile)

wears size 3-6 month clothes, size 2 diapers

Is Formula Fed 4-6 ounces every 3 hours
Takes 3 naps/day mostly 30 minute naps.  Every now and then he surprises us with a longer one! I usually can help get him back to sleep at his afternoon nap to make it an hour-hour and half.  He is pretty consistent with 2 hour awake times before needing some rest.

Sleeps at night for 8-9 hours average before waking to eat...then goes back to sleep for another 2-3 hours!!!  Typical bedtime is around 8:00pm and wake up is around 7:30am.We are thrilled with his nighttime sleep returning after the last month!!!

Cooper loves going on walks and being out and about running errands with his Momma.  He attracts lots of attention when mommy wears him in the baby carrier!

Watching football!  look at those rolls, our big boy

Loves his turtle chair

 one of our target/starbucks trips

making his daddy proud in red and black

We had a photo shoot one day in this perfect weather!  He's a great little model 

enjoying play time in his exersaucer!  he really loves this new area to explore in

getting some lovin from his cousin Harrison

spending the evening at Scott's work for a family festival

trying to roll over!!  almost got it, Cooper!  We have had some success rolling from stomach to back but not consistently yet.

Cooper also just started grabbing his feet and toys.  He loves putting the toys in his mouth (maybe the start of teething?!)  He is always putting his whole fist in his mouth, too.  It's so fun to watch him reach these milestones.  He is trying to sit up on his own as well.  I'll keep you updated!

"Sophie" the giraffe is our favorite toy right now

Cooper's Baptism

Cooper was baptized on Sunday September 21 in Louisville at the Episcopal Church of the Advent.  The Reverend Tim Mitchell who also married us performed the baptism.  It was a great day!  Cooper did wonderful and didn't even cry the whole 1.5 hour service.  He did let out a nice loud burp after his bottle in front of the congregation!  Typical Cooper!  He loved having the water poured on his head and smiled at me the whole time.  He also loved it when the reverend carried him around the church to show off the newly baptized.  The boy does love being social.

Cooper's Godparents are Emily and Dan

 The whole family

 My parents held a brunch at their house afterwards.  Thanks, Mom and Dad!

We actually got to town on Friday night (makes all this travel easier if we space it out some) and spent the weekend with the Holemans.  My sister had planned for us to go to the balloon glow in Jtown.  Cooper loved it and even got to stay up a little past his bedtime.  Luckily he made up for it ok.  I'm trying to be flexible these days!  He proved to me its ok to bend the rules for some fun every now and then.

I'm one lucky lady to have these handsome boys in my life!

3 Months (better late than never!)

Well, this 3 month post is tardy to say the least.  The third month proved to be a tough one for both Cooper and his parents.  As a result, this blog was totally abandoned!  I want to catch up and hopefully moving forward we will continue in a positive way.  Cooper, Mommy, and Daddy are all in a great place now!  Long story short,  Cooper was struggling with lots of spit up, poor sleep and fussiness.  As I've mentioned before, he suffers from reflux which we felt came back with a vengeance.  After multiple trips to the doctor and our 3rd medication change to no avail it was time for desperate measures.  I tried everything possible to help poor Cooper feel better, but everything we did only gave us short term fixes. Finally, we tried to stop breastfeeding and went to a hypoallergenic formula (I vowed it would be our last resort, as I really love and am pro breastfeeding).  This change was just what Cooper needed, though we still aren't exactly sure what the issue is, possibly a food allergy.  Whatever the reason, Cooper's little body is doing great with formula.  He is sleeping through the night and is so happy during the day.  It makes figuring out what he needs so much easier.  It's like we can all breathe again.  Here is sweet Coop at 3 months old.

at 3 Months:

weight:  13lbs 3ounces

was exclusively breastfeeding 6x/day (every 2-3 hours)

taking 4-5 short naps a day (vary in length from 30 min-2.5hours)

sleep was inconsistent at night (poor uncomfy boy) but mostly was waking every 2 hours :( 

on good nights he would go about a 6 hour stretch before waking to eat then wake every couple hours after that til 6-7am.  He loves to wake up at 5am, too, and say hello!

wears 3-6 month clothes and size 2 diapers

loves:  Laughing, "talking", smiling, his play mat and stretching when he wakes up

See this cute smile!  Melt my heart

You wouldn't know from these smiles that he was having a rough few weeks!

enjoying some time outside in this nice weather

by far my favorite picture of us yet!  We don't get many together since I'm usually the one taking the pictures.  This was after a night of good sleep, we both were having a great day!

We spent alot of time this month at my sister's house so she could help me and let me catch up on some sleep.  What would I have done without them?!  Thank goodness I am not living in Florida for all of this!!! Harrison wanted to get in on the action of teaching Cooper to take a bottle.  I'm still mourning the loss of breastfeeding, but so glad to have a happy baby again (and to be sleeping!)

our first bottle in the car was a success!  Notice the sleepy eyes, he fell asleep about half way through the bottle :)

In other news, we also had our first anniversary this month on August 3!  What a year it was!!  We went to dinner at Bone Fish Grill right across the street from our townhouse to celebrate.  In a risky move we decided to bring Mr Cooper along with us.  We bathed him and drove around in the car to put him to sleep and he was an angel during the whole dinner.  We ate outside and were prepared to leave early if need be, but he allowed us a night out!  I even had my first martini since pre pregnancy! 

 the top of our wedding cake was preserved (thanks, Papa!) and it actually tasted pretty good!

Also, we met the builder at our house for our first walk through.  We are still hoping to move in around mid to late October.  We can't wait!

 this picture is with our realtor, Adam.  Oh and Cooper fell asleep to the sound of hammering?!  He's such a mess :)