So I have been wanting to meet my friend Heather's baby girl, Ryan Michelle, since she was born on November 23rd. But with the holidays and Charlotte's birthday, I just couldn't make it work. I finally was able to make it out to see her, even if was only for about a day and half.
I took Cooper with me so that I didn't have to worry about pumping while I was gone or creating a freezer stash for Chris to feed him. I also didn't want to leave Chris with two babies for a couple days, since I know it would be really exhausting not to have a break.
We flew out early Saturday, but with the time change and just the travel logistics we didn't make it to Heather's until almost 1 pm on Saturday. Cooper did so well traveling and hardly fussed at all. The plane was pretty empty on the way out so we got to spread out over a couple of seats. The only problem we had was changing his dirty diaper in the bathroom that had no changing table!! Mighty tough to do with a really tall baby and a tiny toilet lid. He was not happy about it at all!
When we got to Heather's we realized that her house isn't quite baby proofed yet! She bought a gate for the stairs, but hadn't installed it yet, so I had to follow Cooper around all over. During our visit he got into the trash, pulled out dishes from her cupboards, empty the toilet paper roll about 4 times, spilled coffee on the floor, tore up several magazines, nearly cracked his head open on her coffee table, got stuck behind her chair, terrorized the cat and ate the cat food, pulled the knobs off her antique furniture, and nearly pulled her drawers out of her closet organizer. Heather said she learned a ton by watching Cooper get into everything!
Heather was nice enough to open up all of Ryan's Christmas toys and let Cooper test them out. He let Heather know which ones were good and which ones were boring. Mostly though I think he missed Charlotte because he wanted my attention all.the.time. Chris said that Charlotte acted the same way and kept crawling all over the house and crying when she couldn't find Cooper.
He was curious about Ryan, but realized that she wasn't that much fun. He doesn't quite understand gentle and hit her on the head once. We had to keep him away from her. He was cute when we were getting ready to go on a walk.
I don't think I have appreciated the fact that Cooper and Charlotte are so close in age. They are pretty easy to take care of because of it. I watched Ryan for about 15 minutes while Heather ran an errand. I was holding Ryan and Cooper got into something, but it was difficult to try and get him away from it, while also being gentle with Ryan. I honestly cannot imagine having a 9/10 month old and a new baby!!
Ryan is so precious. I honestly cannot remember Cooper ever being that little (and maybe he wasn't), but it felt so great to hold her! Heather is a great mommy and is so patient and laid back about everything. She had a lot of questions and I hope I was able to give her some good advice, like my mommy friends did for me. I can't wait to see what Ryan will be like when she is Cooper and Charlotte's age!
Before we went on the walk I had to get the stroller out of the trunk. I needed to put Cooper down so I could open the stroller and the trunk was the most convenient place. He seemed to like it!
Cooper got to feel snow for the first time. He didn't hate it, but he wasn't all that sure about it either.
On Sunday evening we went to have dinner with Mikael, Che and Maile so we could return the high chair we borrowed. Maile, who is 10 months older than Cooper, kept giving toys to Cooper, who gladly took them, but then when she wanted them back she didn't know how to just take them (Charlotte has no issue with that!).
They are almost the same height, with Maile maybe being an inch or less taller than Cooper. Crazy!
Cooper was obsessed with this blue chair and seemed so proud of himself to be sitting in it! (We put him in the chair...he's not climbing - yet!)
It was so tough not to drive all over the city and say hi to everyone, but I just didn't have the time! We got up early on Monday and flew back home. The plane was packed on the way back and Cooper was cranky at the airport. Luckily his stroller kept him busy as he pushed it all over and around and around in a circle.
He slept most of the flight home and then was in a great mood on the plane. The business people around us were very, very thankful.
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