Cooper's Two Week Checkup

This past Thursday was Cooper's first appointment with our pediatrician!  Here were his first appointment stats:

Weight:  7lbs/14oz
Height/Length: 20 3/4 inches
He is 25 - 50th percentile in weight.
50th in length
25 - 50 for head circumference!

Basically at this appointment we heard he is growing by leaps and bounds.  Perfectly pink. Perfectly proportioned and perfectly healthy!!  It was such a relief to hear that all is well and he's doing wonderfully!

Some other Cooper tidbits and reflections on the past week or so:

He is currently eating 2 to 2 1/2 ounces of formula every 4 hours.  He loves to be awake from the hours of 2am to 6am...and naps pretty hard in the morning afterwards.  Hopefully once he is awake a bit more during the day he'll start sleeping through that early morning stretch a little bit for his Momma and Dadda!  But for now there is no complaining.  Both Jer and I have gotten 4 or 5 hours of sleep most nights since he's come home!  That is NOT too shabby at all :)  Thanks Coop for taking it easy on us!!

He is wearing newborn diapers.  We are trying to figure out why he keeps wetting through every other one.  With Owen a simple switch to Huggies did the trick.  But I'm wondering if we need to just get him into size one diapers to help keep him drier during the day.

As of right now his belly button has not fallen off.  But we are anxiously awaiting the day we can give him his first real bath!  We have been doing nightly baths in his bath sling, but since we can't submerge his little belly button...he doesn't enjoy them as much!!  He does however, LOVE having water ran over his little head and us scrubbing it with shampoo and the brush they sent home from the hospital.  We do this over the sink each night.  I think it might be his favorite part of the day!!

Cooper's outfits consist of every newborn onesie we can dig up out of Owen's drawers and any of the small 0 to 3 month clothes that have shrunk up!  Since he has gotten a bit longer in length though...some things are beginning to fit a bit better.  He cracks me up.  Most of our sleep n plays are nice and small...but his little feet never seem to stay put inside the footies!

I love that both of his little feet fit into my hand.  That's something I'll never forget...especially when he's a big, stinky, 17 year old coming off the football field in his size 12 shoes.  I'll never forget that one day, oh so many years ago...his little feet fit right into the palm of my hand!

He has a perfect swirl of baby hair on the crown of his head.  It reminds me so much of Owen.  I can't wait to see if it falls out and comes back in like Owen's did...or if he won't loose it all and it'll be darker like mine!

Baby laundry is tremendous.  Top it off with Owen's 2 to 3 clothes changes plus ours...whoa Momma.  It's tough because I'm not a lot of help on the laundry front right now.  God bless my husband.  And also God bless mothers of triplets and quads and multiples in general.  I have no idea how they do it!

Two children in one house is totally different...but we seem to be balancing everything pretty well for now. There are many new routines.  My day begins and ends with a sink full of bottles and cups. They never seem to stay clean! The house needs picked up 2 and 3 times a day.  The animals have to remind us they need water and food because we have absentmindedly forgotten...and I'm sure that's just the beginning of many new things to come!

Jer goes back to work on Monday.  **TEARS and when I say tears I mean um...big fat cry like a baby tears!!*** I'm already weepy at the idea of it.  This time together has been so wonderful. We are so blessed! Luckily he will hopefully be going back to working 10's and having Friday's off for awhile until summer comes to a close.  But boy am I going to be a lost lady without my hubby around next week!

We took the boys to the park twice this week to enjoy the weather and for me to stretch my legs!  Wow what beautiful weather we've had!!  I am hoping we can fit these trips in the evening once Jer settles back into a work routine.  Last night we also took a stroll around the yard.  I put Cooper in our baby carrier and Owen, Jer and Deci burned off some energy chasing around a ball.  Our poor yard is scorched and neglected from the heat and the arrival of Cooper.  I'm hoping a little water and TLC will help bring some of it back to life!

September is shaping up to be a very busy month for us.  Beginning August 27th, we will celebrate Baby Cincoski's arrival with a shower.  Yay!!  The following weekend we have a large Linley family gathering to prep for...there will be a bounce house in our backyard.  Holy moly!!  Then September 6th we return to the doctor for Cooper's one month check up...one month!  Already!!  September 26th our big man has his 2 and a half year check up.  And the 28th we return to Children's for Owen's follow-up eye exam at the Eye Center.  Then dun dun dun...I return to work October 10.  Life sure does move fast doesn't it???

For now I'm going to take it one day at a time.  Each day is a chance to hold, hug, love on, sing to, play with and enjoy the mess out of my kids and my time at home!

Okay...I think that's a good run down of Linley's going-ons!  I better get back to whatever I was doing before I selfishly slipped in front of the computer to blog!!!