Can I tell you what's happening? Of course I can.

With the impending arrival of our next baby boy, *******(name withheld to protect the innocent and unborn) in May, we've started taking steps to get Cooper used to seeing another baby around so he won't be jealous with Momma's time being taken away from him. The best way we could figure was to bring in another baby. We tried seeing if our neighbors who have an infant would loan us their baby for the next month and a half, but that didn't work. I mean, c'mon, it ain't like we're going to sell their baby on the black market.......yet. Our compromise was to buy a baby doll. Cooper's fascinated by this baby doll (Abbie will post a pic of the two when she gets a free minute, which nowadays is about as common as a monkey flying outta my butt). He says "Baby" and strokes the baby's head, and takes its pacifier, and is getting playful with it. We do need to continue to tell him to be gentle and that the pacifier is the baby's and not Cooper's. Too much fun. Can't wait for the real thing to arrive and start screaming...let's see how the toddler handles THAT. :-)

Okay, now that you've had a chuckle with that, let's update y'all on his health. We noticed this morning that Cooper wasn't standing and wouldn't put his right foot down when we tried to get him to stand. As the morning went on, his right ankle has puffed up...really bad. Abbie remembers that on Wednesday when she picked him up from Cheryl's, one of the boys there was telling her about something. She couldn't understand a word he said, so she asked Cheryl to translate. And she said that the boy was talking about getting his own leg stuck in a drawer and hurting his ankle. Um, okay. Sure. But we noticed that Cooper was limping that night. The next morning, he was fine...no limp and walking around like usual. Last night, he barely walked around and stayed in Abbie's arms or on the couch with her. Which brings us to today. We're going to take him to Urgent Care and see if there's anything they can tell us. Keep your fingers crossed.