6 Weeks...Almost

As of tomorrow, Cooper will be 6 weeks old. I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel with his sleeping! Saturday night he slept from 10:30pm until 5:00am! I guess technically he slept from 8pm to 5am, I did get him up to eat at 10:30, but he barely woke up to do so. Last night, he did the same with a brief intermission at 3:00. I would have fed him when he woke up at 3:00, but I thought it was 1:00, so I just gave him his paci and went back to bed.

My alarm clock is one of those atomic clocks that sets itself and keeps time based on some highly scientific method that, I have no clue how it works, I just know that the time is accurate and I don't have to worry with changing it come Daylight Savings Time. So last night, when I heard Cooper waking up, I checked my clock as I got out of bed. When I saw that it was only 1am, I simply gave him his pacifier and went back to bed. Keith asked me "Is he done eating already?" and I told him it was only 1am, so I was going to have him hold off till 3:00 if he would do so.

He said, "But it IS 3:00."

And I said, "No, it's only 1:00. Your clock is wrong."

Garrett is notorious for playing with Keith's alarm clock and changing the time on it, so we both assumed that was what happened and went back to sleep. When Cooper woke up 2 hours later, I got up and headed to his room to feed him. When I turned on the lamp in his bedroom, I glanced at his clock and, surprise!, it was actually 5:00, not 3:00. Apparently my clock WAS wrong. I felt badly because had I known it was actually 3:00 2 hours prior, I would have fed Cooper. But thankfully he didn't even take the full bottle that I offered him, so he wasn't THAT hungry. When I got up later this morning at 7:00, my clock had fixed itself! I hope it doesn't do that again because now I'm not going to trust it to be correct.

On another note, I know I badmouthed summer television programming, but I can say that I'm thankful for "Wipeout". Garrett LOVES this show. He will readily agree to just about anything in order to watch it. Inevitably, he will have his own obstacle course set up in the living room by the end of the show. He also enjoys giving us a play by play, along with a visual, of what each person has done. Thank goodness for baby equipment because it gives him more items he has to maneuver around.

Tomorrow we're headed to my cousin's house to see her and her new baby along with a visit with my grandparents. This will entail a 1 hour car ride there and back. It will be Cooper's longest car ride yet and our longest amount of time spent outside of the house so far. When Garrett was about this age, we did something similar, except we drove 2 and a half hours one way to meet up with my family in Huntsville for a day. Just me and Garrett. He did really well and slept the majority of the trip. So hopefully the same will apply for tomorrow.

And finally, the prerequisite picture.

About a week ago, I went in to check on him at naptime and found this. The sucking of the thumb.