Big Day Today

It was a big day in the Myers household today. Let me explain.

We're all sitting on the couch enjoying a little family time. All but Lola of course (who I secretly suspect is getting up on the leather furniture during the day...but that's a whole other can of worms). Anyways, I so lovingly stick my finger in Cooper's mouth and I was surprised by A TOOTH! That's right. My baby boy had his very first tooth pop through. The crazy part about it is that in that particular area there was no bump, no raised area, no indication that a tooth was going to come through. We actually thought that his first tooth would come through on the other side. My baby boy is really growing and taking off. I can't believe that he has a tooth. His little toothless grin is going to quickly disappear. Deep breaths Stacia. It's okay.

Cooper had a bath this evening for some, ahem, let's say diaper "issues" while at day care today. This kid is a hoot in the tub. First off, he loves a bath. He takes his legs and kicks and splashes and really gets a kick out of the water. He cracks himself up. Anyways, what I was getting at here is shown below. Awww.....








We also tried bananas for the first time tonight. He tolerates them better than sweet potatoes or squash, that's for sure!









Butler plays tonight and as the BYU/Florida game went into overtime I'm sure that it will be pushed back from it's original 9:57 time slot. However, I will try my hardest to stay awake at least for the first half. My old lady ways might get the best of me. Anyways, let's go Bulldogs! And with that, I leave you with a picture of a very cute bullydog in tribute to Butler.

Another Failed Atempt

Here's Cooper in his new highchair!



See how happy he is? Not a care in the world! Life is great! This new highchair is the bomb diggity

Here's Cooper eating sweet potatoes in his new highchair.











Nuff said.

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Where To Start?

I had big plans to blog every day over my spring break. I was going to do some major updating and be insightful and witty. Folks, it just didn't happen. Sometimes life gets in the way of these major plans. It did for me this week.

I cannot believe that spring break is over. It took forever for it to get here and it was gone in an instant. While it was wonderful and relaxing and everything I thought it would be, it just left me wanting more. I enjoyed my time with my Mom as I always do. She's fabulous. I loved being home with the nice weather and the windows open. Cooper and I walked, watched basketball, and had an all around good week. We visited friends, watched smut TV, and slept in. It was glorious. So now I sit and wait for summer break. Not wait. I LONG for summer break. I think I can, I think I can...

We have made a giant leap into solid foods. Alright, I took a giant leap. I just wasn't ready for it! I refuse to rush this kid through childhood so we have to do one thing at a time. However in the past week he has decided to come VERY close to cutting his first tooth, sit up on his own and start solid foods. I...am...not...ready. Next thing I know he'll be walking, then talking, then going to school...I just can't handle it! And that's why we must take things slowly. So Mommy doesn't have a mental breakdown.

Anyways, when we went to visit Ashley there was a Babies R Us very close so we stopped by to pick up teething rings (which Cooper does not like) and baby food (which he hates!). My cabinet now looks like this...








Squash was the new food of the day and it was like I was giving him mud. He was not pleased.

St. Patrick's Day was this week as well and of course Cooper wore his green. Here he is being a little stud.





And here he is trying to get to some leftover tortilla chips from the Mexican restaurant.





Here he is being his usual flirty self in his sweet pants from Bobby and Cheri.





And here's poor Lola after a week at home with Cooper and I. Poor girl.





So for tonight it's back to switching between some very exciting basketball and the Harry Potter marathon because I am in fact that big of a nerd.

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Shoo...

After being home for a few days I truly have a new respect for stay at home Mamas.  I've always known that it's a hard job.  I've always known that it's exhausting.  But when you are actually doing it, you realize just how hard it is.  You always think, "Oh yeah.  I can get all of that laundry done, folded and put away."  Or, "Oh yeah.  I plan on getting all dolled up and having dinner ready for my husband when he gets home from work."  I say that, but at this very moment it's after 6:00 and dinner is going to be leftovers and I'm still in my pajamas (and no, I'm not ashamed).  Perhaps I would feel bad about this if I did it more often.  But the days of being like this are so few and far between that I like to enjoy them when I can.

Tonight starts the NCAA tournament and I am just so excited.  This is one of my favorite times of year.  In my house it was always a big deal.  My Dad took off work and we always filled brackets out as a family.  Of course, now that has expanded to Nate, Cooper, Lola and Mollie and Lucy.  The winner gets to pick out where we go out to dinner.  Mom won last year thanks to Butler.  Nate has coined himself Nate "Golden Boy" Myers. Nate gets some trash talk going that usually involves calling my Mom some character off of the Golden Girls and then when she beats him he makes the excuse that the only reason that she does good is because she chooses her winners based on whether or not she likes their uniforms or the cities that they're based in.  Tournament time always comes with an abundance of smack talk so it's always pretty fun.  One of these years we're going to get the Hoosiers back in and it will be even more interesting for us IU fans.

Last night we were successful at eating sweet potatoes.  This morning and this evening, not so much.  I partially blame it on our lack of a high chair.  We didn't buy one because we knew that we wouldn't immediately need it.  So we plopped Cooper down in the Bumbo and tried to feed him out of it.  He dislikes it.  I think it's too constricting for him.  He's too much of a mover and a shaker to be sitting in a mint green plastic "chair" on the counter.  For that reason, I ordered his high chair tonight.  Hopefully he will enjoy it and the eating will be easier for us.  We had a long discussion about how he CANNOT be breastfed his entire life.  Hopefully he took it to heart.

Here are some pictures of our time together at home.  He now sits in his bouncer as opposed to laying in it.  He's too strong for his own good!  Also included is a picture of what my boys were doing for the majority of the time that I was writing the blog.  Yip, he's a Daddy's boy!

Success!!!

Yay for sweet potatoes!














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Routine, routine, routine!

Being a working Mom is hard REALLY HARD.  Basically, you wake up in the morning and hit the ground running.  Now, I'm lucky because I have a husband that is so wonderful and so incredibly helpful.  I don't know what I would do without him, especially because I'm still breastfeeding and the pump eats up so much of my time.  The easiest thing for us to do is to come up with a routine, which we have done.  The first month of being back at work was not easy.  It's hard to go back to work not only because you're leaving your baby but also because time management is just hard.  Luckily we seem to have it all figured out.  But it wasn't easy.  There are people that seem to have it all together and they are able to do a thousand things while having a child.  I've had to accept that I'm just not that person.  I get done what's important and by the end of the day I'm exhausted.  But you know what?  I'm proud of what I get accomplished in a day.  If I can go to bed at night knowing that on that day I was the best Mom, wife, and teacher that I could be then that's enough for me.

I have a new nemisis.  Actually, maybe Cooper has a new nemisis.  Rice cereal.  The kid despises it.  And it's not one of those take the food, spit it out because I don't know how to eat with a spoon types of things.  It's all out hatred for the stuff.  The kid cannot stand it.  Here is Exhibit A:

To me he seems totally ready for solid food because while Mom and I were eating fettucini alfredo the other night he was longing for it.  He couldn't take his eyes off of it.  It consumed him.  Obviously we're just going to have to try something else.  I wanted to try to hold off until 6 months to go with veggies, but it might not be an option anymore.  Updates to come!  And hopefully no more pictures like the one above.  I don't like my boy being unhappy about anything, and especially not food!