Quick visit from Cincinnati

G& G Church came down for a quick 24 hour visit a couple of weeks ago. Fisher had a fun time, I got some "me" time, and Cooper was left with someone other than one of his parents for the first time. Oh...and I purchased Edward for the party. Definitely noteworthy.

This picture makes me laugh. No one looking at the camera...grandma strangling Fisher....just another ordinary day :)

Slightly better but both of them were holding him down while trying to smile and Cooper was still not looking at the camera.

Ah ha! The best one we were going to get that day. Cooper, unfortunately, was caught in the middle of a blink. But three out of four is not bad.

Stickers are fun at all ages.

Getting some love from G&G Church.

Sizing each other up.

I love this one.

Five Months

Cooper's five month post was put off due to something that started with New and ended with Moon. Now that I am looking for excuses to put off cleaning and packing I am all about blogging.

Things Cooper is into these days:
Grabbing.
Chewing.
Rolling.
Jabbering.
Jumping.
Blowing.
Not so much Pooping.
Coughing.
Eating.
Not as much sleeping.
But getting better again at sleeping.

Other things he likes:
His exersaucer.
His swing.
His Rocker.
(which he likes to rock himself in.)
His Bumbo.
His Blankets.
His bathtub.
His car seat.
His toys.
His baby bjorn- facing out.
His mommy, daddy and big brother.

Cooper's wearing a lot of 6-9 month clothes now and has been for a few weeks. He can still fit in his 3-6 but they are starting to get tight.

He had his first cold starting about three weeks ago. It was so sad. He was coughing like crazy and could not sleep. We had to give him steam showers multiple times a day to help the cough and there were a lot of sleepless nights just holding him. Thankfully he seems to be on the mend.

We left him alone with someone other than Mom or Dad for the first time when I went to get my hair done and Todd was at school. He slept the whole time in Grandma Church's arms after crying for a few minutes and giving me the saddest, quivering bottom lip look you have ever seen as I walked out the door. I almost turned around and went back home...but I didn't.

All about the toes.

We put him in the exersaucer for the first time a few weeks ago. Loves it plus more.

Loves analyzing where he is going to bite something.

And grabbing on to anything he can get a hold of.

And any toy for that matter.

Loves the bumbo even though I might return it since it is so expensive. But then I think about how it will work great for when we start him on cereal (as soon as we return from Thanksgiving) and that would take up a lot less space than a high chair.

To fall sleep he has to snuggle a blanket up to his face. It freaks me out a little bit but when I move it he will move it right back.

It is fun pulling out all of Fisher's old clothes. I had forgotten how much we have although he can't wear all of them due to the 6 month seasonal difference in their birthdays.

He watches Fisher and Fisher's friends play with a longing in his eyes to be doing the same.

He likes to flip the bird every know and then. Being naked while doing so just makes it all that much more fun and rebellious.

Drooling.

Blowing raspberries.

Chewing on anything in site.

And licking...yum.

The full view. I think we have another future wrestler to add to the Lund side of the family. The kid has an awesome bridge- especially when he's on the floor.

The Fishster

(Second post of the day.)

Let's see...it has been a while since I have posted Fisher's going-ons. His biggest interests at the moment are drawing, coloring, art projects of any kind, singing & music, playing at the park, pennies & nickels, transformers, robots, helping me clean, playing with friends, dressing up in super hero costumes, racing cars on his track, not sleeping, eating sugar and treats (Darn you Halloween!), NOT eating his meals since he would prefer sugar and treats, reading books, telling stories at night (us to him and vice versa.), sneaking on top of the fridge where I keep off limit items, Disney Channel, Alvin & the Chipmunks, holiday decorations, watching for planes in the sky, talking to his friend "the moon." Yes people. The moon is his friend and he talks to it all the time. We will be driving down the road and he'll yell "There's my friend the moon!" He also loves playing with Cooper, picking his nose, wiping himself after #2 and using a whole roll of toilet paper in the process, and last but not least he loves talking about his birthday party and presents.

So lately Fisher has not been sleeping. He goes to sleep late, resists napping, wakes up multiple times during the night and is up for good in the 6:00 hour. One night I went in to turn off his light after he FINALLY fell asleep and this is what I came across. I actually whacked him with the door when I walked in and he stayed asleep.

We had a major breakthrough when he finally learned to blow out his nose. Remember the tic tac incident? Well, I did not help the situation when I said "Fisher- blow out your nose" hoping to shoot the tic tac out. Well, I forgot that Fisher had not mastered the concept and instead snuffed it up into the dark abyss of his nostril. Silly Mom, as Fisher would say. Here Fisher is demonstrating his new skill.

I have had a hard time getting ahead of the cleaning lately (especially while we were all under the weather.) G&G Church gave Fisher a Halloween Alvin & the Chipmunks movie that is his favorite movie ever. One of the episodes has a babysitter who is making them clean up. She says the line "A clean house is a happy house." Fisher looked over at me one day and said "Our house is not very happy." I told him to go to his room. :)

Getting Fisher to wear pants around the house is next to impossible. What was really bad is one day he was in the bath and I was changing Cooper's diaper or something and Fisher climbed out of the bath and ran to the front door. When I finished with Cooper I ran over to Fisher only to find him standing buck naked in the window right next the front door, curtain drawn aside. He said someone had knocked on the door. A lady who wanted to tell us about Jesus...oh dear. We have a lot of Jehovah Witnesses who come in our area and I am hoping Fisher was imagining things and not flashing innocent passer-bys. We had to have the talk about keeping himself covered.

Fisher loves helping me in the kitchen. I have found that he is happiest when we are doing some sort of project together. It is frustrating at times though because he is very hard on himself and throws tantrums if he is not perfect at something. It almost seems borderline OCD at times.

He love splaying the game "what letter does this start with?

Like most little boys, he loves building things.

"Oh gross! I ate the beetle bug! I swallowed it!"

We have had a lot of allergies and colds lately so Fisher has heard a lot of talk about both. One day he looks at me with a very serious look and says

"I feeled my allergies and they were cold."

To Todd one day when he came home from school:

"Oh, I guess you can come in here and play." motioning to his bedroom before Todd even had a chance to set down his backpack.

Fisher decided to scratch his back on a tree.

Seriously.

Tic tac toe is a favorite along with puzzles.

He's still doing the lining up thing.

"I guess I'm not having a happy day."

Fisher's idea of a pogo stick- a bike pump.

What I have to deal with every time I try to take a picture of Fisher. There are a lot more pictures of Cooper on my camera these days than this child.

Fisher making his Mummy art project (this is how far behind I am in pictures.)

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One day I was giving Fisher some sort of talking to...who can remember what since there are so many, and he looked at me and said "I'm the mommy!"

Fisher's art work for Halloween.

Lately Fisher's good days have been more frequent compared to the one okay for every six horrible days in the week. I'm not going to get ahead of myself but I can't help but hope that four will be a better year than three has been??

We love you Fisher!