Cooper and Standing

I'm Mad (and standing!).

Check out my new cousin Cooper - I liked to touch (maybe too hard) him though mostly ignored him except when mom held him, then I got jealous.

We had a great trip to Ft. Worth to visit Aunt Jessie, Uncle Bryan, Uncle Nick, Katie, and new cousin Cooper. I even got to meet Dad's friend Corbin which was so fun. I walked all weekend and looked like a drunken sailor while doing so. Of course, no one could keep me off the stairs - I would make a run for it as soon as mom turned her head.

I love drawers

3 nights without!

I am leaving for Chicago today - returning Saturday. Without little B-Man! Time for major bonding with daddy and B. And while I know they will be fine, I am still nervous and already miss him! Little B and I sleep side by side @ night - which is full of little nursing bits here and there. What will the next three nights be like for both of us? For me - well, uninterrupted sleep (though why do I have the feeling that I will still wake up?!) and some dreaded pumping sessions. For B and P.....well, I guess we'll see. I actully think it might encourage longer sleeping stretches for B-man, though tonight, not so much.

I left a note with some tips for P, and he rolled his eyes and was like - KYLE, seriously, I am his dad - I know what to do! And I was like, yeah I know you know, but do you really know all the little things that I always do? Though, if he didn't know, would it matter? No - they'll do it their B-P way regardless of what I say, think, etc........

Okay - here goes!!!!!!

Double wide?

So we went to the shoe store to try some on B's feed. Okay - seriously, is it necessary to spend $50 on a pair of shoes for a baby?!!!!! So we didn't - we are sticking with robeez for now, and are going to wait until he starts walking. But i am shocked at the cost for a good pair of shoes - okay, I'll spend more than that on me, but I don't grow out of them anymore!!!!!! And wear them forever!!!!!!! (or once - whatever!).

When the lady measured his feet (while he was napping in my arms) - she commented that he was a size 4.5-5 double wide! So narrow feet in this family! Double Wide?! Double Wide!!!!!!!! It just makes me laugh - he must have gotten his foot size from a pregnant me - when my feet were triple wide and only a comfy pair of crocs would work!

Brushing his teeth

So Brennan went from refusing to even have the toothbrush in his mouth to letting me brush his 4 teeth to now doing it himself (kinda). It is SOOOO cute! We brushed our teeth together this morning (of course, then he wanted my toothbrush).

And he waved at me yesterday - it was the first time he had done that! So cute!

Brennan is really excited to share the news that his cousin was born yesterday - Cooper Robert - born on Sept 17th @ 7am - 7.4 lb and 19 inches long. Mom and Cooper are great! We can't wait to visit in October!

12 month well-child check up

So here are B's most recent stats:
31 inches long (75% percentile)
22.7 pounds (50% percentile)
And his head is growing nicely too. :)
So he is a long skinny boy - who ate an entire piece of homemade pizza last night for dinner (that is a lot for a little one!).

Dr thinks he is growing well - he is doing what he should. We talked about our favorite topic - sleeping :) and are again making some changes which I will discuss at a later time depending on how things go and how we opt to proceed. PJ and I were both at the visit (how great is my husband that he opts to attend all of the well-child visits?!).

Dr. K thinks that Brennan had cocksackie virus a few weeks ago and was shocked when I told him we had to go to Urgent Care b/c we couldn't get in to see them - which is totally not their policy. Oh well. Next time I was instructed to ask to talk to our nurse directly so she could squeeze us in. I LOVE our doc!

We also talked about walking/crawling. I guess I have been hoping Brennan would have walked by now - he crawled at 7 mos - but as Dr. K pointed out, the earliest crawlers, especially those that are overly effective crawlers (LIke fast moving B-Man!) are not early walkers - makes sense! Though he took 1 step yesterday toward me while we were in the waiting room - I cheered very loudly!

Wordless Wednesday