Thursday, January 8, 2009

What's New in the New Year?

First of all, HAPPY 2009!!

We had a quiet and uneventful new year. Sean had to work New Year's Eve and was on call that night so we were actually on our couch in our PJ's watching the ball drop in Times Square. Cooper was down for the night. How time changes...

Sean was off New Year's Day though so we had a productive day taking down all of the Christmas Decorations. I love putting the decorations up each year but loathe taking them down - the price you have to pay, I guess...

All of the Christmas pictures are coming soon in a slide show, I think, but for now here's a list new Cooper things:

1. He has another new tooth (bringing the total to 3). I found it on Monday. It is on the top and is the tooth beside his front tooth on his right, my left. This is in addition to his bottom front teeth that he has had for a couple of months.

2. He is rolling everywhere to get places. He can roll both directions and can rotate himself around to get to the direction he wants to go. Case in point, he rolled himself out of his room the other day, turned himself around and rolled down the hall to our room. He cried when he got to our room and noone was there. I was watching him do all of this from the door in his room, where he started. He has been doing this for about a month, I guess.

3. His hair is growing fast! It still stands up in the back and we have the hardest time getting it to lay down. We will wet and comb it down at home but by the time he turns his head in his carseat a few times (or wears a hood), it is standing back up again by the time we get anywhere. We joke that his hair has a ton of spit in it from us licking our hands and trying to get it to stay down. It's actually probably not far from the truth...

4. He is eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner of baby food each day now and still nursing in between. For a while, he was waking up in the middle of the night again and we figured out that he was hungry so he has been eating more baby food to help - and it has. He is back to sleeping about 10-11 straight hours at night. Hallelujah!!

5. He also LOVES those Gerber Puffs or Cheerios. HATES yogurt. It is the only food that I have ever seen him refuse to even open his mouth for.

6. He is holding a sippy cup by himself and drinking out of it. He reaches for it if it is on the table when he is thirsty while he is in his high chair. He drinks mostly water out of it. Occasionally some juice but he isn't too crazy about juice - and water is better for him anyway.

7. He doesn't like cold foods or drinks which may explain part of the aversion to juice and yogurt. He prefers everything to be room temperature or warmer. I pour his water out of the tap instead of our fridge filter because he won't drink it if it is too cold. Funny boy!

He has his well baby 9 month check-up on Monday so I will update with new stats then. Again, Happy New Year!

1 comment:

The Grushes said...

I love hearing your updates. How did you get the center of your cute background to be just plain? I used the site you did and have been frustrated bc test is hard to see. :)