This Labor Day weekend was a big one for Cooper! After several false alarms thinking we actually had a real live tooth, he finally got one!! Its just barely visible, but it is a super sharp little razor in there--ready to bite anything in its path. Don't fall for his sweet smile!! LOL This weekend Cooper also figured out that chasing and being chased is great fun. He crawls away as fast as he can, then flops over on his butt and waits for you to catch up to him, screeching and giggling the whole time. He is truly one of the happiest kids I know. I spend a lot of my evenings doing everything I can to make him do the screech and giggle routine. Hearing his laughter and seeing his great big smile is the highlight of our days right now.
He is really moving fast these days. He is walking around anything he pull up to. He's even attempted to take unassisted steps a couple times, but he goes splat pretty fast because he just isn't steady enough without something to lean on. As far as his toys, right now loves balls, cars, the big tractors at Jackson W.'s house, and his Leap Frog learning table from Auntie Tracy.
Over the weekend we went camping at Bennett Spring and also discovered that he is really into banging on pots and pans with big plastic spoons. That entertained him for a whole hour, which is a very long time for anything to hold his attention. We recently got a Kelty backpack to carry him around in and we hiked through the State Park at Bennett. He really loved looking around at all the different sights.
In other very exciting news, we decided to take Cooper to a family doc here in town a few weeks back, to try to determine if there was any reason for his continuous night-wakings and painful crying fits he'd been having way too many of. We'd had several people recently suggest that we check with our pedi to see if Cooper maybe had some reflux. But our regular pediatrician just said it was normal baby stuff and not to worry about all the spitting up he was doing that every baby spit up and they can't medicate them all. So after discussing things with Dave, we decided to see that other family doc in town because he'd actually been to see Dave at work and had talked to him about the reflux and ear infection connection.
So we got our second opinion and with Cooper showing so many of the typical reflux symptoms and seeminly in quite a bit of pain, he gave us some reflux medicine to try. I cannot tell you all how much that medicine has helped Cooper. He's eating better. He's sleeping 8-9 hours now instead of 1-2 at a time. And he's almost stopped spitting up and vomiting completely. It's so nice!! We're all happier because we're rested, that's for sure!!!! So far, since Cooper had that last round of antibiotics at the beginning of August and started the reflux meds, we haven't had any more ear trouble. We're crossing our fingers that he stays health for a while now!!
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