Excuse me, Mr. Standy Standerson

 Little Cohen is LOVING standing up!! I can always tell when he stands and turns to look at me, how proud he is of himself. 

We are proud of you too big guy! 


We have recently purchased new shoes for our little tike and I must say I was quite shocked at his current shoes size! A WHOPPING size 5! I am completely obsessed with his New Balance's...just makes him look like such a grown up fella. He has not quite gotten the hang of crawling in them yet. He more or less crawls like he is carrying around ten pounds worth of shoes behind him! But no worries, I'm sure he will get it down soon, seeing as how nothing has held him back so far!


Cutie has been growing so fast and his personality just amazes me. These days if you were to visit our house you might notice a few things:


1. We have these lovely hair rubber bands tied around the knobs of all of our cabinets. Our Curious Cohen likes to pull things off of our shelves...i.e. casserole dishes, paper towels (which he absolutely destroys in a matter of minutes!), Lysol spray, and mixing bowls. Needless to say the rubber bands are an absolute necessity!


2.We keep a variety of Cohen's books in the living room. He has become enamored with having books read to him. At night we sit in the recliner and look at books. If I close the book however, it turns into a crying spell! He just loves books right now, and I'm hoping that he will stay that way:)


3. Our bathtub consists of about 10 rubber duckies in a variety of colors. Cohen is now taking "big boy" baths and he  could play in there all night if we let him!


4. The pantry is packed with cuties new foods! Since we are on a Lean Cuisine for supper diet, it makes it kinda hard for me to share our food with Cohen. So, we started him on toddler foods!! And OH MY does he love it! His favorites are ravioli bites!


Needless to say, we are enjoying every minute with this guy and would not change our new lifestyle for anything!!

Way to go big boy!!!!

Here are his 9 month stats:

Height: 29 3/4 inches!!! He is in the 90th percentile!

Weight: 22 lbs! 

Number of teeth: 7!!!!

I've got a feeling...

that little guy might take his first steps soon!!

Soon to come, updated 9 month blog with stats!! He gets his shots tomorrow:(

The Sweetest Thing

I have had a couple of really sweet mommy moments lately that I need to record now, because at the rate my child is growing, he will be heading off to college next month and I will hardly be able to remember his baby days. 

First, am I the only one guilty of scheduling my child into my day? I feel like more often than I would like to admit, my day goes something like this...

"Wake up for work, chunk cutie into the car and take him to the sitters, then after work return home and give Cohen his afternoon snack , then keep him from playing with the remote while I eat a snack myself and catch up on my shows, then Ill corral him into the kitchen while I run a load of laundry and put away last nights dishes, then Ill give him some toys to play with while I put some comfy clothes on, pick up the house a little but, ok- change his diaper, try to get him down for another nap so I can work on ______ (insert bills, floors, or bathrooms here... geez Cinderella)..."

Sometimes I feel I can get so hung up on getting things accomplished that I don't take as much time as I should to really enjoy getting to know this little person I am in charge of. 

But a few days ago, Cohen had tubes put in and  he was a extremely fussy afterwards (I mean screaming so loudly that we could here him as we exited the waiting room to go back and see him!) So,  I went back in with the intention of putting his bottle in his mouth and then getting him to fall asleep. But I walked in and there he sat. In the nurses arms,  hand stretched out, big ol tears running down his face, just looking sort of pitiful and I thought this might take a while to get him to calm down. I walked him back and forth on my hip for what felt like an eternity all the while listening to him scream in my ear. I tried to pass him off to his daddy but that was a no go. Finally, he took his juice and let me begin to rock him. As I sat down in the chair he laid his little head on my shoulder.

Precious. I sat and held my little, but now, not so little, baby and just rocked him for at least  an hour. I thought of nothing that needed to be done at home or things that I needed to do for the rest of the day during that time, but I didn't care. It was perfect :)

Then today, not but three days later, I scooped the little guy up in the middle of his nap when he woke up screaming for some unknown reason, and as I rocked him, one of his little hands held on to the neck of my t-shirt and the other one just rubbed my back until he fell asleep again. 

Dreamy. :)


These pictures have absolutely nothing with the above post, but I would like to point out that I think we have our own Handy Manny!

Helping daddy fix the door!

Of course he wanted to be a little more hands on!

He likes to help with the laundry!

Putting the books on the shelf! And, then takes them off!

He likes to play with the grocery bags, after I have done all the work of course!

He even takes the dishes out of the dishwasher. He got exactly what he wanted out of there!

I just want you to know....

Cohen, 

I'm not trying to go all "Kate Gosslin" on you, but there are some things I just want to make sure you know so that when you are older and you think that my ONLY purpose on this earth is to ruin your life and be totally uncool, maybe Ill stand a fighting chance. I cant remember if Ive actually written this down before, or if it has just swirled around in my head, so just in case...

1)It is NEVER easy for me to see/listen to you be upset. Even though right now you are fussing in your bed at  night and you are angry at the whole situation, you are SO tired and its in your best interest to get some sleep. If I stay up there with you, you will squirm and play until you have missed your sleep time altogether and are miserable the next  day. You might even thank me one day when you have the ability to fall asleep anywhere, and easily. I thought after 8 months of hearing you, that listening to fussing would get easier, but it hasn't. Please know that sometimes I have to let you go through some things to learn how to deal with them on your own. That ability will serve you well later in life.

2)You will NEVER be able to use the lamp cord as a toy. You will not win on this. It is 100% for your safety and has nothing to do with wanting to take away the "fun". Please remember this when you are older and I am keeping certain other "toys" away. No, if I can help it, you will never be able to play with cigarettes, drugs, fast cars, fast women, or fast friends. And the reason why is as simple as a lamp cord.

3)I love to see you explore your world, but I have boundaries set for a reason. Remember this at 16, please.

4)When you smile at me or call out for "mama", my heart melts a little. Every.Single.Time.

5)Parents aren't perfect, and disciplining is not easy. Your Daddy and I wont always get it right the first time. We try our best to study up on different ways to approach the subject, we ask for insight from friends we trust, we try to take your little personality into account, and then we cross our fingers and hope we get it right.

So, if you want to make all of this really easy, you can just be perfect.

But then we would have to change your name....

Little stinker!

He could play in the window all day!

I could not resist! Look at that potbelly of a profile!

You can't tell but he was jumping on the bed!