Happy Halloween!

Crawling Everywhere!

I couldn't think of a better title for this post. Cooper is crawling everywhere and loves to crawl up everything too. Luckily he was born with a hard head because he falls and hits it all the time. At Church today the members of the Gospel Doctrine class were getting a kick out of Cooper because he would crawl to the front of the room, crawl up one of the chairs and turn to look at me with a big smile as if to see "Look what I've done Mom!". He is getting so big I can't believe it!

PS Cooper has 4 teeth now (2 front teeth and 2 on the bottom) and loves to bite anyone who holds him. Just to caution you all.

The Big 2-8!

Aren't Cousins the Best?

Cooper loves playing with his cousins, especially now that he can crawl to wherever they are and then crawl all over them. Elizabeth is so funny because she let's Cooper crawl all over her and if she starts to get annoyed, she pretends like she's asleep. I think she learned this from Logan (he pretends like he's sleeping whenever Elizabeth wants him to do something he doesn't want to). Below is Elizabeth, Thatcher (Cody's cousin's son...would that be Cooper's second cousin?), and Cooper.

By the way, Cooper had his 6 month check up about a week and a half ago and all the shots that came with it. He weighs 18 1/2 pounds (75%) and is 28 inches tall (95%). I don't think I'll ever know what it's like to have a "petite" baby.

Update on the Home...

I decided I better update you all on our home since the post "The Pleasures of Owning a Home". The water softener's circuit board ended up not being blown; Cody just had to jiggle a few parts to get it up and running. Yeah! We don't have to buy a new water softener. The roof is still leaking, but our home owners insurance is paying to have a new roof put on as well as the dry wall replaced where it leaked into our bedroom (Cody actually did a little "happy dance" when the agent from our insurance told us the good news) and Monday our house will be de-termited (did I forget to mention we had termites?). Hopefully this takes care of all the big expenses our house could incure for the next few years (knock on wood).

Proof!

I decided it was about time to show you all proof of Cooper's spitting up habits. I have to admit that it has gotten a lot better since he's been eating cereal and vegetables, but he still spits up several times a day. The picture below happened a couple of months ago when I was on the phone with my sister, Anna. Cooper actually began choking because he couldn't breathe (too much spit up coming up and no time to take a breath). This was his second spit up in 15 minutes.The picture below was taken purely by chance. I was taking photos of Cooper to use in my scrapbook page (Many Faces of Cooper) and just happened to snap the picture at exactly the right time. Cody thinks it looks like Cooper's blowing smoke out of his mouth, but trust me, it wasn't smoke.

How to Steal a Toy

The Pleasures of Owning a Home

I'm sure many of you got hit as hard as we did the last couple of nights with rain and wind. Tuesday night I came home from Mutual (it was pouring!) to find that we had a leak in our roof that was dripping through to our bedroom. This is the second leak we've found this Summer. Cody went up and tarred the roof Wednesday afternoon, but it began leaking again last night. Because of the placement of the leak (right along a beam) we're not quite sure where the water is coming through. With all the wind we got last night, one of our trees in the back began to tip over. Cody went out in his swimsuit during the worst part of the storm to try and tie it up so it didn't break the roots, but with all the rain the ground was so soft that the stake kept pulling out. So after giving up on that and placing a towel on the floor in our bedroom to catch the water, we decided it was time to read scriptures and go to bed. In the middle of reading, the power flickered off, turned back on, then went out again. Cody and I got the flashlights, finished reading the chapter, then decided to get ready for bed. Without fans and ac (our ac was already set at 82 degrees) the house began to heat up. After 15 minutes we gave in and drove to Cody's parents house to sleep. When we came back this morning we found out the power had turned back on around 2:30am. I'm glad we didn't try to stick it out at home. On top of all that, our water softener began to fill with water a month or so ago. We called a plumber friend of ours who said we needed to special order a part. $40 for the part and $115 for labor later, we found out that the circuit board in the water softener rusted out when it filled with water. Ugh!

So, with all that I'm saying, isn't it lovely to own your own home?

We need a new roof and a new water softener. Too bad we don't have a money tree (granted, it probably would've blown over in the wind yesterday too)!