I’m just a TAD late writing this post, being that he will be 16 months this week. BUT better late than never. So much has happened the past few months, it’s been craziness! We moved to Florida the first week in December, then have been traveling back and forth a lot more than we had expected ever since! Once the holidays finally calmed down we finally began to get settled in to the new house and neighborhood. As of January I got 99% of everything hung on the walls, furniture set, everything in its place. My Mom helped me clean out the garage and had a yard sale and what we didn’t sell we donated. So much junk! So now I’m very aware of what I bring in the house, no more clutter… we’ll see.

Cooper LOVES the new house. It’s such a better layout for our family than our old house. I can easily block him in the kitchen or living room, we can go out to the patio, and we got a safety fence so now we don’t have to worry about him running out there! He plays on his slide out there and his basketball goal. He loves it. Our days are full on running from the moment his feet hit the floor in the morning. We are either playing in his play room, playing on the patio or taking a walk in his wagon through the neighborhood, and playing at the playground. Now that it’s hot out we are going to start venturing more to the pool. We are still trying to get ours right, we have no clue what we’re doing. But the Clubhouse pool here is heated so that’s awesome. Not like it needs to be. We lasted about 10 minutes the last time we went. He would laugh and then get nervous, wasn’t too sure about it. But I know eventually I won’t be able to keep him away.

He was just under 24lbs and right at 33in at his 15 month appointment. He is growing so much, getting tall! I’ve already had to revamp his clothes to 18-24 mon because all his 12-18 mon are too small. He is saying more and more each day. He will try and copy almost every word you try to get him to, but it doesn’t always sound like it. He says Mama, Dada, GG, Grandma, Bo Bo (Bojack), Meow Meow (for kitty cats), more, bad bad (any time something hurts him he points at it and says bad bad, haha), banana, milk, wa wa (water), no, and he will put his hands up when something is all gone and say no, Mo (For Elmo and Nemo), Mee Mow (Mickey Mouse), ball, duck, dog, Moo, whirl (squirrel) he will snort like a pig, says Bahh when someone sneezes for bless you….. and that’s all that’s coming to mind right now! He’s doing so great!

He’s pitching tantrums like no other right now. Screaming…. especially in public… He’s been teething a lot lately and I thought that was part of it, but I don’t know. Hoping he grows out of that!

So back in December we started noticing his right eye going inward a little. Called the doctor and they said it would be fine to wait until our 15 month appointment and they would probably recommend us to a specialist then. Which they did. So we went that same week and they diagnosed him with Accommodative Esotropia. Meaning, in order for him to see clearly/focus, he has to cross his eyes to accommodate for it. If nothing is done to help improve it then his brain will eventually stop working so hard to focus on that side and he will just lose vision in his right eye. All kids are farsighted when they are born, some more than others, and they all grow out of it the older they get. Cooper is just a little more farsighted than average so in order to fix the crossing and protect his vision from getting any worse is to wear glasses. We will go back in 2 months to see how well his eyes have adjusted with the glasses, and at that point they will determine whether we need to patch the eye for a few weeks to further help it, and then after that if it doesn’t work, surgery might be needed. He has been doing amazingly well with the glasses, we don’t even have to “bribe” him to wear them anymore! That only lasted about 2 days honestly. He loves them, he adjusts them, you can even mention the word glasses around him now without him taking them off. Now, just as any parent does, you get defensive immediately and don’t want to believe what they’re telling you. Not that it was such a bad diagnosis or anything, but we had always commented on how WELL his vision was! He could focus on things so well, see things so far away, point at birds and planes in the sky, it just didn’t make sense to us at first. And so, to help ease our minds and make sure we were doing what was best for Cooper we decided to go to Atlanta to see another pediatric opthamologist that my nephews had gone to before. We would have gone to her if we hadn’t have moved so we felt like it would just be better to hear from someone else that we were on the right track. She came up with the same diagnosis, but her prescription was a little lower than the other doctor. We went ahead and ordered a pair of glasses with each prescription, but once the Florida doctor’s came in we stuck with those. We go back to see her in April so we felt that was the right thing to do. He is doing AMAZINGLY well with them. When this all went down I was honestly more nervous about being the one in charge of him wearing them all the time, knowing how important it was for him, and just thinking how HARD it was going to be, and a constant fight. But after the first couple days, we haven’t had to fight with him hardly at all. Now, when he gets frustrated, his first go-to is to take them off and throw them. But other than that, haha, he’s doing great. It’s hard because I find myself thinking, why Cooper? Why are his eyes so bad? Why does he have to be the kid with glasses now? But then I feel so guilty for thinking that because in the grand scheme of life, we are so blessed, for more reasons than we can count, but more so because the diagnosis we came away from the doctor with was that….he had to wear glasses! It’s just hard for me right now because I could tell an automatic difference in the way people looked at him while out and about. And it makes me so sad. He doesn’t know any different, and never will. But I personally think they make him the cutest, coolest little dude around.

So, he has stopped taking his second nap the last few weeks (insert crying face). I knew the day would come, but he was doing SO WELL I just didn’t expect it yet. It didn’t help that we were traveling back and forth to Georgia so much either. It just makes for one LONG day at the house, and not much time for me to get my work done at all. But he’s still waking up about 8ish, going to be about 8:30ish. Takes a 2 hour nap. Drinks a sippy of milk in morning and at night (10 oz each), he’s a super picky eater. Loves Wendy’s and Chick-fil-A chicken and that’s all. (ughh what have I started). He loves fried rice and hibachi chicken, pretty much any fruit, vanilla wafers, fruit loops, puffs, eggs and bananas are still ok but he doesn’t LOVE them like he was. He stopped all bottles back in January and didn’t skip a beat. Took a few days for him to drink a good bit of the milk in the sippy but he caught on.

So much to cover over a 3-month span. Can’t believe how fast time goes!

Likes: Reading books, going outside, riding in his wagon, playing on the playground, going down his slide, playing with his ride-on car, playing with the pots and pans, his play food, putting things in and out of stuff, stacking things

Dislikes: Being told no, having diaper changed most of the time, brushing his teeth (he used to like it, but not anymore!)

THINGS HE CAN DO: Say several words, understand demands, climb up his mini slide by himself and go down, point out body parts, identify people, surprise face

SIZE: Size 4 diapers, 18-24 month clothes, although some of his 24 month stuff is looking pretty small!

 

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