This is a typical technique to keep us from putting the spoon in his mouth. Purse lips and blow.
"Oh, please just stop already!"
On another note, he loves Fisher's old foam books from Aunt Jeanne.
As I was working out today (so that I can beat my brothers in our little weight loss bet we have going on) I told Fisher my bum was burning. Next thing I know he is grabbing on my pants trying to pull them down. What the heck?!?
Our sweet little baby has become a monster lately. He wakes up about every two hours and is extremely fussy these days. We're thinking maybe he is teething but there is no sign of a tooth. In other words, we are stumped.
Today as the boys were playing with each other on the floor, I had one of those moments where I remembered exactly why I love being a mom and what true happiness is all about.
Then Fisher decided to show me his sore finger...
Todd went back to school after a three week break and this is how we are all feeling about it. 
Fisher has been coloring snowmen because there was a skiff of snow and ice on the ground this morning.
He's even so creative as to have drawn a pregnant snowman. I guess he has little snow babies on the brain.
His gumball machine from G&G Church has worked great for bribing Fisher to clean. He has been doing a lot of chores to earn pennies so that he can buy a gum ball.
This picture wasn't taken today but he has spent a lot of time quietly playing with his new little building blocks.
This picture is not from today either, but Cooper has spent a lot of time wandering off his blanket to play with the DVDs. 
There was a time when we were concerned by the fact that in all the family pictures Fisher drew Cooper was about this big and he was about this big. Now, Cooper seems to have disappeared from the family portrait masterpieces completely. Hmmm.....
You would think he'd have learned his lesson with the tic-tac.
Although Fisher loves Cooper most of the time, he has become a little annoyed with Cooper trying to grab his toys. (Never mind the fact that he starts it by shoving the toys in Cooper's face, taunting him.) Last night Fisher had one of his "episodes" and yelled:
F: " Look Mommy!..."
F: "I'm Rudolph."
At Fisher's four year check up his stats were as follows:
This year I was not in the mood to make sugar cookies. It might be due to the fact I had made them recently for the Halloween party. Fisher was dying to make them and so for his birthday I promised him we would. We did all the wet ingredients on the 23rd, finished the dough and baked them on the 24th and then they just sat, un-frosted, until a few days after Christmas. Finally on the 27th I made Fisher some frosting and let him frost a few for him to eat.
And eat he did.
"The face."
He has been much better in the behavior department over the last 3-4 days. Todd and I were talking last night about how much fun he can be when he is not acting like a monster. Go figure. :)
He loves his transformer gloves and hat.
Fisher is always tired which is the cause of a lot of his problems. Lately he has taken a liking to napping on the floor. It still is hard getting him to go to bed before 11pm when he has napped, but sometimes it is so worth it to have a happy kid. On the other hand, sometimes it is nice to have a tired, grumpy little boy all day that then goes to bed by 7:00. Tough call.
He is starting to care when we are upset with him. You can see that he is trying to control some of his impulsive behavior.
He still has some of his perfection issues such as when he draws and it does not turn out how he envisions or if he is building something and it breaks. This often turns into a tantrum of frustration. It is the same with racing at anything. If Fisher is not first he freaks out. We have started telling him (frequently) that we love him even if he does not win and if he is not perfect.
He still jumps a lot. 
This kid is just about the happiest, most perfect baby we could ask for.
But despite how angelic he looks when sleeping....he is a spaz.
Cooper is much more energetic as a baby than I recall Fisher being. Does this scare me?
He has a little curly Q cowlick on the front of his head. His hair is starting to grow in more and has a similar strawberry tinge to it just like his brother.
Cooper is unstoppable when it comes to him grabbing objects that he desires. He is always moving and always trying to grab something.
He has been mobile in the form of rolling his way around to wherever he wants to go. Yesterday he was actually pulling himself with his arms a little.
He will get up on all fours but does not attempt to crawl.
He starting to jabber more "Da, Ba & Ma" with the occasional velociraptor screech.
After almost 2 months of being sick and coughing alllll through the night, he is finally healthy. I understand that by mentioning this on the blog I have now jinxed myself.
He drools more than a rabid dog and has an affinity for blowing massive amounts of bubbles.
Todd has this magic touch of being able to put Cooper to sleep whenever he is fussing.
He started sitting up, very unstably, right before Thanksgiving at about 5 months but now can sit up on his own with no problem. We do have to stay close for those occasions when he decides to shoot back.
There was a random, but funny, incident a few week ago when he developed some strange love attachment to my friend Julie's shoe. He laid down on it and cuddled for a few minutes until she had to leave.
Everything goes into Cooper's mouth with the exception of bottles and rice cereal. We had a late start on the cereal since he had been sick for so long. Thus far he only sees the spoon and bottle as torture devices meant to make his life miserable. 
He loves balloons as much as Fisher and would become very upset when they were out of his reach.
He started out as a bigger baby but when we took him in for his six month check up they were surprised to see that he was down in weight from his four month visit. The doctors finally realized that he must be sick (which we had been telling them about the coughing, diarrhea and vomiting for over a month. They did not take us serious until the weight drop and finally tested for RSV (neg) and gave him breathing treatments & antibiotic.)
