Pulling up! Eek!

As Scooby Doo would say, "Ruh roh raggy!!!" Sunday we put Cooper in his crib so we could both get dressed and ready to head out for our anniversary shopping day in Columbia. A couple minutes later we heard him grunting and, naturally, thought he was doing his #2 business. Another few minutes passed and we can hear him in there cracking up laughing and banging on the crib. I went to see what was so funny and he had pulled up on the side of the crib and he was SO proud of himself! Last night he was pulling up on anything he could get his hands on and even making motions to walk around things!

Seven months... time is flying too fast!

Okay, I'm taking my afternoon break to put down a few notes about what Mr. Cooper is up to these days! He's so busy anymore! We set him down on the floor and whoosh! He's across the room pulling on some knob or unshelving books for us. :) He's also decided that now is a good time to start pulling up. He can't do it in his crib yet--that's too straight up and down for him. But he'll pull up anything with a moderate angle to it--like a mama or daddy laying on the floor.

He loves a variety of food right now. He's learned how to put food in his own mouth, which is fun. He thinks he can grab the spoon from our hands and feed himself. But when I let him try, he usually feeds his hair or the floor. But it sure is fun to watch him try. It's also pretty dang funny when you give him a teething biscuit. In about 5 minutes he's gummed it beyond recognition and smeared it in every hard to get out of crevice he can find....such as ears, eyelids and up his nose.

He's still pretty crazy over swimming pools. In his lifejacket he will lay back and swim himself around in circles, but otherwise he wants you to hold him around the belly so he can splash and kick.

It seems we've kicked ear infection #4 to the curb finally. I think that last round of antibiotics actually worked! After 4 days of the Rocephin (?) you can tell he feels better AND he's sleeping better. A happy baby and a sleeping baby make for a very happy mama and daddy! FOR SURE!!!!

What else? Oh, the little monkey also thinks its cute to crawl on his hands and toes, monkey-style of course. He only seems to do it on linoleum or hardwood floors, but its pretty funny. He's still a nut for the jumpy seat too. It's the only form of containment he still allows. ;) Ah, and he also spends a LOT of his time babbling, talking, singing, screaming, screeching--whatever. He is a NOISY kid! He sing/yells along with the radio and mama in the car and says "da da da da da" all through the evening after daddy gets home.

I think that's all for now!

A VISIBLE TOOTH!

We have a visible bottom toofie! YAY! It's just peeking, but it is there! I hope they come fast now that they've started arriving so he can get over that misery for a while!

Another cute factoid... Mr. Cooper now waves back! If you tell him hi or bye and wave he will flap his whole arm back at you. So cute!