High Five for Friday!

February is almost halfway over!  So I thought I'd do a quick little update on our month so far.

{One} We kicked off our month with our first trip to After Hours Urgent Care for Cooper.  He had a cough most of the day on a Friday but it was off and on.  After dinner time it started getting worse and sounding pretty bad, so we tried sitting in the steamy shower room for a while and then called our pediatrician's after hours line.  They listened to him breathe and thought we should take him in to have him checked out.  So we loaded him up in his pajamas and went to urgent care.  Luckily there was not a long wait and we were seen quickly and diagnosed with Croup and an Ear Infection.  He got a shot for Croup and then a prescription for an antibiotic for his ear.  We went back to his doctor today and she said his ear seems to be healing--he's still got some fluid, but it's not infected, so we're going to try some allergy medicine for a few weeks to see if that clears up his congestion.

{Two} We tried out our very first music class this week!  We had registered for one at our church, but there weren't enough babies so they combined it with the toddler class which put it right at Cooper's naptime, so we decided not to do it for now.  Most of the local library storytimes are also during Cooper's naptime so we hadn't gone to any yet.  But after our music class fell through I started searching more intently and found one at the library in one of the Dallas malls that is free and is at 12:30, which right now is a perfect time for us!  So we tried it out Monday and Cooper loved it!  There were scarfs to play with, egg shakers to shake, and songs to dance and clap to.  We'll definitely be back again!

{Three} We enjoyed Cooper's first Valentine's Day with a day at home together.  He wore his Valentine outfit and shoes and we played and didn't do a whole lot.  I did snap a few pictures of him in our nursery chair-- I think this is his last "first" holiday that we'll celebrate since he's already had his first Easter, so crazy that his first year is almost done.  (and after I took this picture, it reminded me of a few other holiday pictures in this chair, so if you want to reminisce here's Cooper's first Halloween, Father's Day and Easter.)

{Four} Valentine's Day also brought our second after hours urgent care trip of the month, this time for me.  I burned the palm of my hand while cooking dinner (grabbed the handle of my skillet forgetting it had been in the oven and was hot--so dumb of me) and it was still hurting pretty bad and starting to blister some after we finished eating, so we decided to go ahead and have it looked at.  I have some second degree burns on a few of my fingers, but luckily it's healing pretty well and I'm able to use my hand again some--which is a must for chasing around Cooper all day!

{Five} I am so glad Friday is here!  We've got a fairly low-key weekend.  I am hanging out with a few friends tomorrow for lunch.  Sunday we'll have church, but for the first Sunday in a long time, we don't have any plans in the afternoon or evening, so we'll be resting and enjoying some family time!

Happy Friday!

Cooper's Cubbyhole: 10 Months

10 months

Weight: 19.6 pounds

Diaper Size: 3

Clothing Size: 6-9 months

Things you Love: Lily, Lily’s bowls, Lily’s crate, looking out the window, opening and closing doors, Little People, Walker toy, exploring and crawling and getting into all the things, being chased, chewing on beaded necklaces

Things you Don’t Love:  Car seat, diaper changes and getting dressed (being laid down), separating from us at church nursery, being in your high chair or the kitchen without food, being told no or redirected

Eating: You still love to eat.  You have slowed down a little this month I feel like, but you still eat a good amount for breakfast and dinner (you only do lunch if we are eating out).  You love oatmeal, eggs, blueberries, chicken, raisins, cheerios, yogurt, sweet potatoes.  You’ll eat vegetables that we give you, but you have started showing a real preference for food by picking out the foods you like first and then eating everything else after that’s gone-- usually blueberries are the first thing you eat all of if they’re offered!

Milestones: You learned to drink from a straw cup pretty well and started trying to bring a spoon to your mouth with yogurt on it.  You’ve started waving and saying bye bye pretty intentionally this month.  You love to clap your hands and will clap when we sing “If you’re happy and you know it.”  You are taking lots of steps when you are pushing things and cruise and bridge between things all the time.  You also like turning pages in books when I read (that’s about the only part of books that holds your interest!)

My silly boy, you have had such a big month.  You suddenly look so big to us (even though you’re still really little compared to most of your friends) and you are doing so much!  You make silly faces and laugh all the time.  You have also started testing boundaries now that you’re crawling more and you do not like being told “no” or being moved away from something you are trying to get.  You are definitely into doing lots of screaming this month, but you also are babbling like crazy and I love listening to your sweet little voice.