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We can't keep it in any longer! We just had to share with everyone the news about Baby M. We just had our 28 week appointment everything is measuring right on time and the heartbeat is nice and strong. (Although for one brief moment the doppler faltered and Jim swore he heard two heartbeats. If I could have had a picture for the first time I've ever seen his face pale!) In case you can't tell the gender in the picture Jim has circled the evidence :-) No names yet we can't seem to decide on anything.

Pick Me Up

Sorry but this is just too cute. This is the look we get when he's screaming for us to PICK HIM UP!

Cooper's First Snowstorm He Could Actually Enjoy

Little Stinker

Feeding Himself

Cooper is getting pretty good at feeding himself although it doesn't always end up in his mouth!

Asleep At The Wheel

Like Father Like Son

We can all see where Cooper gets his hair tips from :-)

Cooper's First Hair Cut

We were really worried that Cooper would cry through his first haircut as we've been told to expect. As is his norm now whenever we expect him to do one thing he does another. He pretty muched watched Elmo or giggled through the experience.

Cooper's First Hair Cut

Cooper's First Hair Cut

Cherished Moments

Last weekend Cooper started to enjoy rocking in the rocking chair in his room. So early one morning I tried to catch a few more zzz's while we rocked and he snuggled in over Baby M. He started babbling and then suddenly Baby M started to kick. Cooper started to babble and then started to pat my belly. I listened to him coo and felt Baby M kicking and then to my amazement I hear Cooper say something that sounded like, "hold on." I felt my eyes start to tear and he said it again, "hold on." So I sat there rocking Cooper and Baby M crying with tears of happiness hoping the moment would last forever.

Super Bowl Sunday

As Cooper FINALLY goes to sleep and Abbie and I watch the Steelers up on the Seahawks and I attempt to ignore the Rolling Stones geriatric halftime show, I got to thinking about Cooper and what he's going to be like and get involved in as he gets older. More on that in a sec.

This week, Cooper has been a walking mo-fo. He started walking a bit last week with GiGi, and has been really going at it since then. This weekend, I had a cheer competition in Baltimore on Saturday and Sunday so Abbie had Cooper pretty much all weekend (y'know, coaching pre-teens really helps me see what we've got ahead...and I dread it). When I came home on Sunday night, he was walking all around the kitchen.

From Friday night walking four or five steps at a time to Sunday where he's walking around the kitchen, and then walking into the living room. Of course, he gets tired and plops down, but damn, I can't believe how quickly they grow up and mature...at least until they reach their teenage years.

I'll say this, though....there's nothing better than watching your own child grow and hit milestones. Its watching those points occur that really makes being a parent special.

Anyways, I was saying about what he's going to do when he gets older and his walking around was making me think about it. Y'know, I'm not one to be a "typical man" and want my boy to just be in sports. Whatever Cooper wants to do, Abbie and I are going to support him 100%. Would I love it if he played football? Hell yeah! Baseball? Hell yeah! Wrestling? Cheerleading? I'll coach him myself. But we're also of the mindset that if he wants to be a theater nerd, we'll be at every play. If he wants to do music, we'll be at every concert. If he wants to do ballet, we'll be at every recital. We just want to be there for our children at anything they want to do.

Okay, enough being schmaltzy. Go STEELERS!