It has been a rough week on this baby boy.  A rough week on all of us, really.  He just hasn’t been acting like himself and has had such a hard time sleeping, which is totally unlike him.  At nine months, he still has no teeth, and all of his symptoms lead us to think that is the culprit of all of his problems.  He has been such a trooper, though, and after a good visit to the chiropractor along with some teething tablets (they really do help!), he has had a much better weekend.

This week was also the first week he spent in the new room with his sister!  Knock on wood, they both have done so well with it.  I am so proud of Rory and how well she has behaved and how quiet she has been when she is in there awake and he is sleeping.  She was so excited about their new room, too.  We still have some more work to do in there.  I have nothing up on the walls yet and Josey has a little project to contribute as well, so hopefully we will get some of that done soon.  Like, maybe when four extra hours are added to the day!  LOL!

So, with the big change of moving into his new crib, where else would these nine month photos have been taken?

Where is my baby?  He looks like such a big boy here!

The smile never changes, though.

Of course, it wouldn’t be Cohen if he wasn’t chewing on or drooling on something.  Notice how the bottom lip is all the way on the bottom of the rail?  I think it’s so funny because now that he is crawling all over the house, there is a constant trail of drool down the hallway that leads back to the bedrooms.

The entire time I was going through these photos, I kept thinking how much he looks like Josey.  And then this one popped up.  Wow.  I wish I had a photo of my brother Adam to put beside this.  I think Adam has this same wide-eyed, mouth open expression in about 50% of his baby pictures.  I think our kids really are a perfect mix of the two of us, which I think it so cool.  It is fun to try to pick out features from each family and to wonder what they are going to look like in the future.

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I’ve had my eye on The Vintage Pearl’s hand stamped jewelry for some time.  Well, look what I’m wearing around my neck these days.  I LOVE it!
 
 
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Our newest little family member!  We are so excited to have him!  He is just over nine weeks old.

Cohen wasn’t too sure what to think about this!

You know how they say the owner and the dog resemble eachother? Well, I didn’t notice until I was editing these, but Cohen’s shirt and Simon’s collar match, and I think their hair color is even a little bit similar!

The time has come.  On Thursday, we painted Rory’s room in preparation for her baby brother to move in.  It wasn’t long after I started in on the task that it dawned on me.  We moved into this house on April 14, 2006, just a little more than a month before Rory was born.  A couple weeks prior to moving day, coincidentally almost exactly four years ago, we were painting this very same room for the first time.  My belly was *out to here* and I was so excited to finally get moved into our very first home and get the nursery all set up and decorated for our first child.  

I rolled this coat of primer on with tears in my eyes.  I am just not even sure how four years could have possibly gone by already.

She has slept in this room since the day we brought her home.  How could she have gone from this…

…to this so quickly?

I started to think about her upcoming birthday, and as if I wasn’t emotional enough already, I realized that only two months after Rory turns four, Cohen will be turning one.  Now, I have never understood why people make such a big deal about birthdays and getting older.  I actually love celebrating my birthday each year, and I’ve never seen it as a negative thing.  Until now.  It is so much fun seeing them change and learn and grow,  but I don’t want my kids to grow up so fast!  I just don’t.

She’s such a goof bomber (her word, not mine)!  Her big thing lately is “movie night.”  She wants every night to be movie night.  Because movie night does not just mean watching a movie, but it also includes mommy making popcorn and she may even get a little pop.

Also, now that Cohen is crawling all over the house, she always wants him to come back to her room.  But then once he gets there, she puts all of her toys up on her bed so that he can’t get them.  So…I guess he’s supposed to just come in there and watch her play?

New favorite for me!  Showing off her outie.

We’re out of here for the long weekend.  I hope you all have a wonderful Easter!  God bless!