The King of Droolerville

I don't have any real up-to-date drool pictures, but I'm sure y'all have seen them already. His drooling is out of control. So much so that he wears a bib about 80 percent of the time. Hope those teeth come in soon, and fast.

Here's a cute one. This was right before a jog. Cooper is becoming like our dog Joey, in that he needs a walk every day or he'll whine until he gets one. It's a great motivation for us to get outside. He loves looking at the trees and feeling the wind.

Cooper hasn't really wanted to roll over in the past three weeks or so. He can, and has before both ways, but it seems like he'll just squirm over on his tummy over to where he needs to go. Same with on his back. Turning over just doesn't float his boat. I think he'll be an early crawler. Great. We're SO not ready for that. He's eating twice a day now, which makes me feel like he's eating all of the time. We're going to try eating solids at work tomorrow. One more bit of fun to the already packed day!

Friday was Luke's birthday. (Happy 27th honey!) We went to PF Chang's (mmmm) with the Dishmans, and then to bed. I got Luke an iPod Nano, so I'm cool. He spent most of the day trying to figure it out (not a Mac user). It's pretty cool lookin'. Saturday we went on a really long walk, hung out with Cooper, and cleaned a little. Luke worked on the yard. The weather was awesome here this weekend. Coop went to Bible class today and had a great time. We've been taking him since he was about three months old, so I think he's used to it by now. I stayed in there a little bit today by the door just to watch. He's so engaged in everything. That boy LOVES to be sung to. Maybe he'll be a singer!

Back to the week. Question: Does anyone feel like they do the same thing every day with their baby? I mean, I move him to the exersaucer, then the chair, then the Bumbo, then Baby Einstein, eat, sleep, go for a walk, then do it all over again, etc. How do you break up the routine without, well, breaking up the routine too much?

I couldn't resist this video. I promise he can say "hi" already. I need to get one of him splashing in the tub and almost sitting up.

Five-month pictures

Click here for a funny video with the Hejl cousins.

Here are a few from this weekend at the RV:






From St. Patty's Day (aka Jeffrey's b-day):

Weekend Update

I realized that I didn't update everyone on last weekend, and I'm going to give an update on this weekend as well. Both were equally fun!

Last weekend, Jay and Ally and their "other wife" Melissa (ha) came down to see us (and the state basketball tournament too ...) for the weekend. We just hung out Sat. morning, they went to watch games while we went to get my car fixed (new battery) and on a walk. Then, the basketball people came back and we went and ate seafood. As soon as we got home, we went to bed. Getting SO old. Sunday morning, we all went to church and then to Hula Hut - everyone's favorite place. It was an awesome day to eat outside, so we ate, and ate a LOT. Ally's the only one with the excuse (prego), but oh well. Then, sadly, they had to leave. It was a fun time.

This weekend, I took Friday off to chill with Cooper and run some errands. Friday night we celebrated Luke's brother's birthday at their house, and watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind back at our place. I liked it.

The remainder of the weekend was spent with my side of the family in Marble Falls at my parents RV. It is such a pretty area out there, but unfortunately, it RAINED THE WHOLE TIME! What a bummer. So, we sat around and ate of course, and got to chill. It was still a fun weekend!

Back to work tomorrow. Nothing new to report. Cooper's five months old and counting. He's getting cuter and cuter every day. He's also learned to whine and throw things. That's awesome.

Let's see: April Fool's Day is coming up. What's the worst April Fool's joke you've ever pulled, or had pulled on you?

A post, not about Cooper.

Just thought I'd do one of those fun posts with all of my fave stuff.

4 jobs you have had in your life:
1. Snow cone stand worker
2. Creative director for a TV station
3. Account executive at a PR firm
4. Account manager at a marketing firm

4 movies you could watch over & over:
1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2. Ocean's Eleven
3. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
4. Clueless

4 places you have lived, not in order:
1. Austin, TX
2. Abilene, TX
3. Cleburne, TX
4. Pflugerville, TX

4 of your favorite TV shows, currently on TV:
1. The West Wing (sadness - it's almost over)
2. Desperate Housewives
3. The Office
4. Scrubs
5. (sorry another one) ER

4 vacation places you have visited:
1. Hawaii
2. Washington D.C.
3. LA, Cali.
4. NYC

4 Websites you visit everyday:
1. cnn.com
2. everyone's blogs
3. all of my client's sites
4. personal email sites

4 of your favorite foods:
1. PIZZA
2. Chips and queso and salsa, especially Chuy's
3. Outback cheese fries
4. Chili's chicken enchilada soup

4 of your favorite beverages:
1. Coke
2. Sweet tea from Bill Miller's
3. Diet Coke
4. Starbucks decaf iced mocha non fat no whip

4 places I would rather be:
1. At home with my hubby and child
2. Hawaii
3. Running outside
4. Any pizza or chinese buffet (my fat self talking)

Boy, am I interesing.

Swingin'

So cute at Granna's today. We need to get a tree swing, but not sure if we have any trees big enough for a swing!

4.5 months

What a cutie. Here are a few pics of the Coop.

We love this Bumbo thing. Everyone should have one.





Kinda blurry, but good perspective.


The church pew, with lots of fam that day.


Cutie. Deer in headlights when it comes to the camera.


Rachel new place - Mom and Rach feeding Cooper.



Bathtime.

Church is early

Luke and I are sitting here watching Big Fish, a pretty weird, but strikingly beautiful movie. As you can read, I'm not really in to it right now.

Thanks for all of the feeding suggestions last week for Cooper. He seems to be getting a little "stopped up" lately, so I'm cutting back a little, and trying some oatmeal.

I just remembered that I didn't say anything about Luke having pancreatitis last week. It was a truly horrible experience for us all. Well, except for Cooper. He slept through it all here at home, all night. Luke's brother came over and slept here while we went to the emergency room at 11:30 p.m. Thanks Jeff. Luke and I were at the emergency room from then until 5:00 a.m. We got about two hours of sleep. Then, Cooper woke up and was wide awake. And, Luke had another appointment at the gastroenterologist (what a word) that morning, AND, I HAD to go into work that afternoon. Needless to say, after that day, we were exhausted. More Luke than me though. Pancreatitis is reeeealy painful. Scared me a lot. There were so many things it could have been. Glad you feel better honey!

We have to be at church at 8:30 tomorrow morning to help serve for a reception for those who helped with the Katrina victims. It'll be a good day. But, when it takes 25 minutes to get to church, 8:30 is early with a kid. I signed up though - go me for getting involved.

I'm going to post a video and some pictures in the next post. Coop's getting cuter every day.

Freaky Scrubs

Did anyone watch Scrubs last night, the 7:30 one? They were both SO hilarious, but the last one was kinda creepy too, about how germs are spread with the green, toxic waste-looking color following everywhere germs went. And the end, when the lady made herself sick again. It was just kinda creepy to me. And, they made a reference to Grey's Anatomy, an ABC show on an NBC station. That was funny too. Anyway ...

Luke has the Coopster today, so I'm working my little hiney off. I've been drinking a lot of green tea lately at work - trying to make myself become more of a weird tea buff. We'll see how that goes.

Question: I'm trying to figure out what a good ramp-up feeding schedule for Cooper would be - solid foods I mean. I've started him on rice cereal, a fairly large serving, once a day. When do I do twice a day? When do I change to oat and other grainy cereals, and then, when to real baby food, and how often? I've seen a lot of different recommendations, but I don't know what the right time is. And, this whole "your baby will tell you" mumbo jumbo doesn't cut it for me. He can't talk people! Then, they still have to have milk. I guess he'll jsut be eating all of time it seems!

More pics later. He'll be five months this month. What the heck?