12 weeks old!

Hello friends!  I am doing a little bit better this time with posting....it's only been3 weeks since my last post, instead of 7!  I call that progress, folks!  :)

Our little fella is 12 weeks old now and is growing and changing so much!  We have also had a lot going on in our family the last few weeks.  hubby lost his job this week (a job that was stressing him out and was more trouble than it was worth, however....he(we) would have loved for him to have already had something else lined up and leave on his own terms, but such is life)  he is hoping to hear from the fire department soon as to when he might get an interview.  We also celebrated our 4th anniversary this week (4 years!  my how things have changed since that beautiful day in 2009! and we wouldn't have it any other way!)
We also found a house to purchase, fell in love with it, wrote up a contract/agreement for purchase, began the process of financing the house....and then the whole job thing happened and the house is slipping away ;(  Thank goodness for supportive family and the fact that we will never be without a home. And thank goodness this happened BEFORE we were in the house with a mortgage to figure out how to pay.  We are trusting that when the time is right, God will drop another perfect house in our laps and until then we are trying to trust in that and be ok with where things are now.....as difficult and disappointing as it is to lose the house we were already "placing furniture in."  ok enough sad, ho-hum, news....onto fun stuff....PICTURES of the cuties in our life!

Week 10:

Cooper has started taking care of his baby like I take care of Colton....he puts him in the bouncy seat, feeds him, and now diapers him!

Starting to enjoy the bouncy seat more....and gets fixated on the tv at times.....I try to tell him that it will rot his brain!

Cooper has taken a new interest in dressing himself....this particular day he insisted on putting his jammies back on over top of the clothes he was wearing!  (and apparently thought he needed a pig nose too!)

Happy boy at 10 weeks old!

Week 11:

Ready for church!

Daddy was out of town for soccer so Cooper and I went to church together (while Colton stayed with Grandma)

Poppy and Grammie came to visit and Colton loooooved having Poppy talk to him!

Grammie is a good snuggler too!

my little 11 week old rooster!  That hair just kills me....it won't lay down for anything!

Colton also started sleeping pretty much through the night this week!  he goes to sleep around 8 and will typically sleep until somewhere between 4:30 and 6:00 before he eats and goes back to sleep a little longer....I call anything more then 4 hours sleeping through the night!  :)  He is also officially a roller!  he can roll from his tummy to his back but doesn't do it consistently because he actually LIKES being on his tummy!  :)

Week 12:

I dyed some rice to make an activity for cooper this week and he enjoyed it!

We were digging for bugs in the rainbow rice!

And now you see why we did it on a sheet....this was about the 4th time spreading it out everywhere!

Colton tried out the bumbo this week for the first time....he did great, but was done with it after about 7 minutes!  As you can see, he has also discovered the he controls those little hands and that they are great for chewing/sucking on!  guess we need to get used to bibs again because his shirts are getting soaked!  :)

Cooper has been in desperate need of a haircut....but in the meantime it makes for lots of fun at bath time!

I love that you can see his sweet little face in the mirror admiring his crazy 'do!

Daddy and Cooper both got the mommy special haircut this week!  Cooper just got enough to get it out of his eyes (the better to see things with) and ears (the better to hear mommy with!)  I didn't trust myself to do too much more than that!

Colton has had some crazy upper body strength for a long time but has now discovered that propping up on his arms allows him to look all around and see the world from a new perspective, and he loves it!

Checking out that fist and trying to decide whether he can get it all in his mouth or if he should just go for the knuckles!

oh my gosh....I love this sweet little happy face!  12 weeks old!

Thanks for stopping by!  next week the fair is in town, so be sure to check back for pictures of that! (and we are supposed to get internet installed next week so I will be MUCH better about blogging on time again!)