Trip to Utah- Logan and Salt Lake

Matt had an accounting conference at BYU and I don't like being left at home so I tagged along! It was such a fun week and we were able to see some many friends and visit with family. I didn't know I was homesick for Utah until we landed and I saw those beautiful mountains up close again. We visited Logan,Provo,and Salt Lake. I have a special place in my heart for Utah and I hope we will get to visit there many more times over the years and hopefully Cooper will want to attend BYU one day! The only bad part of the trip was flying! We changed time zones twice and we had a layover. Coop did pretty good,but it is getting harder trying to contain a mobile little boy in such a small space! We celebrated Charlie's 5th birthday with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Party! Cooper's cousin sure love him and they loved playing with him. My nephew Tucker even asked if the next time we move if we could move closer to them! It was so nice seeing them and I don't know when we will get to again so I'm glad we stayed with them and got lots of time with them on this trip!

Early Morning at the airport = sleepy baby

My sleepy boys / Matt's true feeling towards flying with Coop

Temple Square with the Youngs! Baby Turner is so tiny!

Charlie is 5!

Birthday Balloons

Lukey enjoying the presents

Sister Picture

Lukey

Taking a nap in the pack n play / Cousin Love?

I love these mountains!

Burton!- We love the Bowens and Coop misses having boy buddies back in Mass. Burton used to be so much bigger than Coop since he is 4 months older,but Coop caught up!

Coop loved having so much room to explore and things to pull up on

Happy baby!

love my nephews / cousin Sam

crazy monkeys / oldest and youngest grand babies

Matt with his nephews / Charlie brushing out my wrinkly hair

Trying to change a diaper on a plane / Cafe rio at the airport

Finally back home 

Cooper's first Halloween

This Halloween was so fun! Holidays with babies are the best! We call Cooper on little monkey so I knew that is what I wanted to dress him up as. I also wanted Matt and my costumes to go along with Coop's so we decided to be a banana and explorer/Jane Goodall. I loved how our costumes turned out! I was in charge of the Ward Halloween party this year too. We had a chili cook off and played carnival games and did a trunk or treat! Our trunk won best trunk,because Matt is creative and always likes to play a trick of the trick or treaters. This year he had the spider's lair and dropped a spider when they reached for candy! We also went to chipotle for the $3 boo-rito and we were amazed at how fast the line went! We only had 3 trick or treaters so we had plenty of extra candy to enjoy!

Halloween outfit: a treat for the ladies onesie and pumpkin bum he wore this under his costume

The week of Halloween at playgroup we had the kids wear their costumes. I love all these little animals! We had a Duck,Owl, Monkey and Lamb. Coop was so interested in Lillie's costume and was touching her wings in almost all the pictures.

Daddy and monkey

Mama and monkey- I love how he kept leaning in and putting his face next to mine

monkeying around- it was funny when he would crawl,because the costume head would cover his real face and it really looked like we had a monkey crawling around! 

real life pictures moving kids and a howler monkey 

family picture and our trunk- it was dark so they couldn't see the string or spider

spider pumpkin

always interested in everything we are doing

"trick or treating"

Matt carved these on Halloween,because our first was starting to rot since we carved that one for the ward party

crawling around at chipotle and fun at yankee candy 

8 months

Coop is 8 months! I can't believe how fast time is going. He seems more like a little boy than a baby now. He still only has his bottom 2 teeth,but he seems to be teething so hopefully we'll see some top teeth this month. He is a fast crawler and has taken some steps! He loves to pull up on something and than let go and just stand unsupported. He was standing the other day and I said come here coop and he took like 2 steps towards me before falling and since than he has tried multiple times so I think he'll be walking before Thanksgiving. Coop is quite the traveler and has visited Texas, Utah, and Virginia! He has been on 11 flights! He always makes lots of new friends at the airport and on the plane, he is just a little charmer with the sweetest smile. His sleep has gotten a lot better. All the sudden he stopped wanting us to rock/cuddle him to sleep so we now have to let him cry for a few minutes to wear himself out. Normally for naps he will cry for 10 minutes and then I will go in and lay him back down and put in his binky and he will fall right to sleep. For bed time he either falls asleep nursing and we just lay him down or sometimes we will let him cry for 5-20 minutes and check in on him a couple times until he is asleep. He seems to be sleeping between 4-6 hours then anywhere from 2-4 hours until waking up between 7:30-9:30 for the day. He takes 2 naps normally the morning nap is 40-60 minutes and his afternoon is 1-2 hours. We try to do a 2,3,4 rule. Two hours after he wakes up he goes down for his morning nap and then 3 hours later he does his afternoon nap and 4 hours later it is time for bed. We don't always follow this but most days we do. We try to put him down at 8 but if he has a later nap we will push it back. He is still nursing for all his meals but he does have dinner every night and sometimes I will feed him things that we are eating if they are soft enough. He loves puffs and drinking water from his sippy cup. He says mom/mama and up and we're pretty sure he knows what mom means,so I 'm counting it as his first word. He is a curious little bug and loves being independent,but sometimes I will still get cuddles. I love him and watching him grow!

Height - 28 inches - home measurement 

Weight- 27 pounds on home scale

Head- 18 inches - home measurement 

Wearing-12 and 18 month clothes and size 4 diapers

Our doctor says- Nothing, no visit

Theme: Thanksgiving/Fall

He didn't want to lay down

He is so long!

I love the little hand turkey I made from Coop's hand

A few sitting up ones