Cooper 7 Months

Cooper, Cooper, Cooper HOW are you 7 months already?! Thank you for brining incredibly so much joy to our family. That smile and your laugh can brighten my day at the drop of a penny. I can't thank God enough for picking your dad and I as your parents.

You are one curious little baby. You take anything and everything in while you look around. You play with your toys vert intently and if you fix your eyes on something you'll study it until you've had enough. I just LOVE watching you do new things every single day. You are such a smart, fun, little baby!

Food

You love your bottles. Our doctor told us to try to get you to just 3 8oz bottles a day, well, that hasn't happened but you are only at 4. Sometime we can get you to 3. It really all depends on how much solids you eat. Some days you eat really good and other days you want nothing to do with it. You will not eat any of the meat meals. I really don't blame you, they smell so bad. Your dad is worried you are going to be a picky eater. However, you eat our food like crazy. You even ate some lunch meat the other day and loved it. That made Jon feel better! :) I don't blame you, you know how to chew and gum your food so we are starting to let you try more of our food. Probably why you won't eat your own! ;) 

You love the "squeeze packet" type food. You are really good as sucking them plus you like to hold them. Most the time I have to help you but sometimes you do it on your own. 

You can hold your own bottle however, you haven't figured out that you have to tip your head back to get the milk out. When you're laying down you can hold it like a champ. One step at a time ;) 

When you eat something you don't like you get the best look at your face and shake your head back and forth really quick. It's super cute. Just another thing that makes you, you. :) 

A couple of your favorites are apples+peaches, squash, bananas, banana + squash, and garden vegetables. Oh you almost love bread- just like your momma. 

Clothes and Diapers 

You're still in all the same as 6 months! 

I think I am on my last pack of 3 diapers though. We will be moving up to 4's next time around. 

Sleep

You go to bed at 6pm... we have started trying to keep you up a little later because you're sleeping terrible again/still. I had read that babies who go to bed earlier they typically sleep better. So I'm not sure if day light savings messed you up or your teeth or new house... I just pray that it gets back to 12/13 hours soon! :)  It's actually taken a toll on your dad and I because we aren't used to getting up at 3 anymore. We both say though that since you aren't a cuddling baby, we love, love when you eat because you do cuddle so at 3am we can't even get mad at you :) 

You nap pretty well most days. You typically are awake by 7, nap by 9/10, then nap again by 2/3. The morning naps are shorter most days and your afternoon naps are usually about 2 hours. 

We have to move your bed on the lowest mattress position as possible because you try to escape. You pull up and bang on the sides of your bed. 

Car rides tend to put you to sleep still as well :)

Milestones/first/other

*Crawling

*pulling up and standing

*Jon and I both swear you say "yes"

*Have said dada and mama

*I'm not 100% sure if you know what you're doing, but when you're hungry, you'll sign milk. 

*You wave

*Holds bottle

*rubs eyes when tired

*hold arms up when you want picked up

*you pulled a scentsy off the coffee table that wasn't put up yet and broke it-- first of many broken things i'm sure. 

*You can go from crawling to sitting 

*trying our food

Likes

*Bottle

*Remote controls and phones 

*you're blanket 

*cords {you navigate to them where ever you are}

*standing {you won't sit down if someone tries to put you the floor, you stick your legs up and stand}

*"if you're happy and you know it clap your hands" while we clap your hands... 

*when we change your diaper and get ready for bed I let you run around with just your diaper on and we'll say "naked baby" and you just smile and laugh. 

*smiling faces- you love a happy face

*when your dad or I hold you and the other chase you around the house-- this gets you laughing so incredibly hard. 

*blowing in your face, waving a towel/blanket in your face, the wind... anything like that makes you laugh.
*patty cake: clapping your hands

Disklikes

*getting in your carseat- you fight it and stand up and flip over. 

*sometimes when you're trying to do something like get from point a to point b when standing you'll fuss a tad bit 

*when we lay you down for a nap w/o a bottle.. this is hit or miss. sometimes you will fall asleep sometimes you scream. 

*the word "no" 

*meats {don't blame you} 

*picking your nose {still} 

Teeth

You still just have your bottom two. You're workin' real hard on your top 4 they just won't cut yet! poor baby! 

You're so busy that when I tried to take your pictures on your actual birthday this is what I got:

I got a new camera and it does this super cool thing where it will take a couple seconds of video pre taking the picture. I went a head and did that on some of our photo shoot so you can see what I'm working with here! ha