Our Weekend

On Friday, the boys and I went bowling. As I mentioned before, this was Garrett's first time to go bowling outside of Wii and plastic balls and pins. He actually bowled 2 spares, though I will add that his lane had bumpers on it, but it still actually possible to get a gutter ball, even with bumpers. So I was impressed. Though I will add that we still need to work ALOT on taking turns. For those of you who are interested, you can go to kidsbowlfree.com and sign up your kids under the age of 15 for free bowling games each week (assuming you have a participating bowling alley close to you). You only have to pay for shoe rental (which was less than 3 dollars for us) and you get 2 free games each day (3 days a week or something like that). Anyway, it was a good deal. Just be prepared for a headache after listening to little kids bowl 2 games. I ended up with a migraine by Friday night because of it.

Keith had to work on Saturday. He's been working a lot of hours lately. He leaves at 6am and doesn't get home till 10pm. On Saturday he worked from 7am to 4pm. So the boys and I picked up lunch for him, us, and everyone working for him on Saturday and we took it up to his office and ate with them. I'm hoping he'll get this project finished this week because we have plans to go out for his birthday on Saturday, but if he has to work, we won't be going anywhere.

Sunday afternoon, he worked a little here at home while I finished laundry, vacuumed and mopped. A pretty boring weekend.

Since Cooper turned 13 months old on Saturday, I wanted to briefly write down what he's up to this month for my own information.

He has 4 teeth, 2 on top, 2 on bottom.

He stands alone for long periods of time and walks along the wall, but still refuses to take any steps. He physically could, but he won't.

He's saying more and more and his babbling actually sounds like attempts at talking. I remember Garrett's babbling and it never really made any sense or had anything decipherable in it. Cooper seems to say thank you, done, daddy, momma, hi, bye, and night night. Daddy, Momma, hi and bye you can definitely tell that's what he's saying. The others sound very close, but not quite right.

I've dropped him down to one nap a day because he wasn't taking 2 good naps a day. He would sleep for 2 or more hours in the morning and barely sleep 30 minutes in the afternoon. That makes for a very long day. So I try to keep us semi busy in the mornings, and then put him down for a nap around 12:30 or 1 and he'll sleep about 2 hours. So far it seems to be working well.

He's outgrowing a lot of his 12 month clothes and moving up to 18 months. He's wearing a size 5 shoe, but getting close to outgrowing it.

He loves milk. If I try to give him a cup of water, he will throw it and throw a fit because he wants milk instead. He needs to drink some water because he's had a bit of an issue with constipation, but it's hard to get him to drink much of it.

He fell the other day and skinned his chin on the wood floor. I'm afraid these wood floors are going to do more damage to the boys than I'm ready for.