At the start of the month Cooper developed a bad cough, and we put the baby monitor in his room for a couple of nights so we could check his breathing. We didn’t get much sleep because of the coughing, and the doctor thought that it might be a type of asthma. It wasn’t fun trying to get the Ventolin into him though.
We snuck into Daddy’s good black Holden SS when he was at work one day, to take some photos. They didn’t really turn out too good because Cooper was tired, and I had to hold him up with one hand to take a photo with the other hand. When I ‘fessed up to Adam, he didn’t tell me off like I had expected, but offered to help take some better photos after he has given it a good clean.
Cooper’s salivary glands have developed more, and it isn’t unusual for me to get a wet shoulder when I hold him, because he loves sucking on my shirt. In the baby harness he sucks the bit of material closest to his mouth, and it is always drenched. Spit is a big problem for Adam, but the health nurse reassured us that it might only last until Cooper’s swallowing action has developed more (well, until he starts teething anyway). Cooper’s hair has also started to grow to cover the bits of his head that grew and left what looked like bald patches. It looks like a really blonde colour, and it will be interesting to see what colour hair he ends up with.
Just before Christmas Cooper learned to roll from his back to his front, but only seemed to do it when I wasn’t in the room. I’d come back in to find him on his tummy. Although he didn’t move around much aside from a little commando crawling in the bath, when we put him in the walker he gets into everything. He loves it so much, especially when he learned to steer and could get to the Christmas tree ! Drawers are also within his reach, and he stands near the kitchen drawers banging them until we stop and move him. I guess that’s one of the perils of a hard floor without carpet – there is no stopping him!
Christmas day was a big day, and Cooper loved to suck on the wrapping paper, he helped to unwrap some of the presents. He was a little overwhelmed when we went to Grandma and Grandpa’s house to open more presents with my family, and the noise made him cry.
Cooper loved seeing his cousin Alison again when she visited from the Hunter Valley, and all he wanted to do was to touch her and would have sucked on her arm if we hadn’t intervened. We had Alison in the bouncer here when Cooper was in the walker, and he spent ages just sitting beside her and stetching out to touch her hair.
Touching faces is a new thing that Cooper likes to do, as well as laughing when I yell ‘Boo’ to him, and he looks at me with anticipation when I sing and play ‘Round and round the garden, like a teddy-bear’ on his hand.
I so happy that Cooper smiles heaps, and also smiles with his eyes. He goes to bed smiling, and wakes up smiling, which well and truly melts our hearts!
