The Beautiful Mess: 25 weeks!

ok, so I know that I say every week is busy but I believe this past weekend was our busiest weekend in the past 25 weeks! Whew! Where to start!

Friday, Meaghan came to hang out for part of the day! We love having here here to play! It's always nice to have a conversation that is two sided and doesn't consist of babbles and gurgles! :) Today, Cooper also figured out how to do the "rock away!" He gets up on his hands and knees now and rocks back and forth...it won't be long until we are crawling!
Saturday morning we headed to Winston early so that Carrington could help his dad with a mowing job. While they did that I headed to my mom's to put together a baby shower gift for that night (I made a diaper wreath that turned out so cute....and I JUST realized I didn't even take a picture of it when it was finished! :( ) Around Noon we headed to a park in town for a big family reunion for Carrington's extended family. i would say that Cooper was definitely the hit! he was so well-behaved and got passed around a LOT! I like for people to pass him around and hold him because it gets him used to other people and he won't be completely attached to me or Carrington. After the reunion, Carrington went to help a co-worker move some furniture (they are moving to Chicago and were giving their living room furniture to a friend). We scored a grill out of it! yay! THEN we stopped by to see sweet Darby (the precious little girl of some great friends of ours!) and take her a gift for her 2nd birthday! It was ALL Sesame Street themed...she LOVES her some Elmo! :) They were having a small party for her that night but we couldn't stay for it because we were then headed out to a baby "sprinkle" for a long time family friend. I thought this term was completely made up....as in, not quite a shower....just a smaller sprinkle. But it's actually a term used to refer to showers for 2nd (or more) time moms! Who knew!?!?! :) Anyway, we had dinner and got to catch up with some friends we don't see often enough! Cooper was able to play with his buddy Jackson, who is 8 days older. They were so funny together! Again, Cooper was passed around all evening and did really well with it! Needless to say, on our way home....Cooper realized that he had just HAD ENOUGH for the day and he screamed for about 15 minutes straight on our way home! Poor little fella was just so tired and had such a big day; he held it in until he couldn't hold it in any longer and he just melted!
Sunday Cooper slept pretty late (thank goodness...he needed it!) and then we helped my mom make some food for my bother's wedding shower. We then spent the afternoon at the shower. I was (I guess) kind of the photographer of the event (I tried to get lots fo good pictures of them) so, again, Cooper was passed around. My grnadparents were there so they got to spend some time with Cooper. My cousin also has a little boy who is a couple months older than Cooper and they got to play together too. They were cute together too! I said, Cooper was getting lots of lessons on how to share this weekend! :) My grandma informed me that Cooper likes babies and that perhaps he needs a little sister! yikes! I told her that he was just going to have to wait a little longer on that one! whew....couldn't imagine another child right now!
Monday we were back at our house and it was a relaxing day! We both (Coop and I) slept late and did absolutely NOTHING all day long! :)
Tuesday was another uneventful day.
Wednesday we headed to Winston so that Carrington could help his dad again (although they ended up getting rained on and didn't get the job done....or even started for that matter! :) it was definitely a dreary day!) Cooper and I spent most of the day hanging out with Sara, her mom, and Darby. Sara is pregnant with a little boy who is due July 23rd. It was interesting to see Darby and how she felt about Cooper being there and wanting to play with her things....it will be interesting when there is a baby in her house all day! :) I also went to meet with the owner of a little shop in Lewisville. They stock their store with handmade items that people sell on consignment there. I'm so excited to have this consistent "income" in the very near future! Wednesday evening we went to the church for a meeting about baby dedication this coming Sunday and then headed home. Another late night for Cooper (he didn't get into bed until around 10:30! yikes!).
That brings us to today....Cooper was up and at 'em at 7:30 this morning! I'm so surprised that he was ready to go so early when he went to bed so late! I was definitely NOT ready to go for the day! But, alas....I operate on his schedule! :)

At 25 weeks Cooper:

weighs 16.4 pounds, which is .2 less than last week....so I don't know if that's accurate.
is still about 27 1/2 inches long.
is SO close to crawling! he does the rock back and forth and propells himself forward until he gets where he wants to go! Many times he has landed right on his nose, but it doesn't slow him down! If he sets his sights on something....he's going to get there somehow! A few times I've seen him move one knee or one hand forward....he just hasn't quite gotten beyond one hand/knee moving.
is still doing to fake cough for attention....it's actually increased in frequency!
LOVES solid foods! We started Sweet Potatoes yesterday and he loved them! I think they may have given him gas though because last night was a very unsettled night....he kept crying out and scrunching his body up as though he was bothered by gas really badly. Today he seems to be better, in that respect. He had some more sweet potatoes at lunch time and this time he acted like he didn't love them as much. I don't know if it's because they weren't as warm today, but a couple times he gagged a little bit but them opened his mouth for more! we'll see if he's gassy tonight! :)
Loves being outside! He really enjoys looking around at the world around him! I love that I have a little boy that will love exploring the creeks and and woods and looking for critters and interesting things! I can already tell he will be into EVERYTHING! he'll probably come in with rocks in his pockets (if he's anything like his mama....I used to do that all the time!) and I'll probably wash them and hear them clanking around in the dryer. He'll probably bring some creepy critter to show me and I'll have to act like it doesn't scare me. He'll probably try some daring maneuvers (if he's like his daddy!) that will scare the poop out of me.....but I can't wait to embrace the special little adventurous boy that he will be....creepy critters, daring "tricks", rocks in his pockets, and all!
has discovered the bubbles in his bath water now! Usually he just loves to lay in the water and relax while chewing on a toy, but occasionally he splashes his hands in the water and flicks the bubbles. He's also gotten VERY interested in, and eager to help with, the shower head. We have a removable shower head that I can stretch down to his little tub to fill it and rinse the bubbles off of him....he's now very quick to grab to cord and want to help. He also loves it when I spray it on his belly! He sucks in because it tickles! So cute!
has quite a bit of hair filling in where he lost a lot of it before. It's so funny because since it's so short he just has a little bit of fuzzy hair starting to show up! it's amazing how fast it's filling in! Every day I think it looks thicker and thicker!
likes to play with my toes! If I'm sitting in the chair and he's on the floor, he rolls and scoots until he gets to my feet and then proceeds to scratch at and grab my toes!
is FINALLY napping really well! I hope I didn't just jinx it! Monday he slept for 3 1/2 hours, Tuesday he slept for 2 1/2 hours, Wednesday we were out and about....so no nap, and today he's been asleep for an hour and 15 minutes so far! (**update....before I finished this post, he woke up...slept for a total of and hour and a half**) I REALLY hope that this is starting to become habit! It's so nice to be able to shower, eat, clean up a little, and get a few other things done while he sleeps. Those things definitely don't happen while he's awake.....I'm too busy keeping him out of the fireplace, away from computer cords, out from under his swing, etc. etc! I think we need to do some baby-proofing very soon! :) Maybe I pen to corral him in! :) haha!