Happy New Year 2012!!!

We had a great New Year's Eve this year, we went to a matinee of Sherlock Holmes with Ry's family and then joined them for an early dinner at Road House. After dinner we went to Ry's parents' to play some games before we headed up to my Grandparents to play some games and enjoy some yummy snacks. We played some games then Coop dozed off and I think we ended up leaving a little bit before the official count down, (we made up our own at about 11:30) and then headed home so we could start our New Year off with some sleep.

We thought we would have a great start to our New Year, but it turns out that that wasn't in the cards for us. On January 3rd Ry was playing in a City League basketball game that was getting pretty heated, and of course, the dumb refs were not helping the situation by making horrible calls or no calls at all. During the last quarter Ry went in for a lay up and was literally tackled by three of the other teams' players, and no foul called, surprise surprise, Ry couldn't get up without help and was in TONS of pain. He was telling me what he heard/felt when it happened and I knew instantly, from experience, that he probably tore his ACL. Our friend Nic checked him out and thought he tore the athlete's triad (ACL, MCL, and meniscus) so he wrote us an order for an MRI, we got the results back and he completely tore his ACL, meniscus and partially tore part of the other meniscus. We met with the surgeon and he wants Ry to get as much range of motion he can before operating so that recovery is easier so he has been doing his exercises to work on that.

Ry has continued to coach his girls team and had their last game this past week against Twin, they won and had a great season. Now Ry is helping with the varsity in their preparation for State, which will be mid February. He wants to put off surgery until after the State Championship, we meet with the doctor again this Thursday, so we will see what he says.

Ryan is in Boston right now, he is in the process of starting his own business and hopes to get it up and running by September 1st, it's very exciting, scary and is going to take lots of faith, so I hope everything goes as planned and it all takes off smoothly.

Cooper is developing such a funny personality, he is becoming more and more independent. He has tried lots of new foods this month; squash, which he hates, blueberries, avacado, sweet potatoes, banana, broccoli, and apples. His favorites are blueberries, broccoli and sweet potatoes, he likes apples and bananas if he can eat them like finger food, he won't eat them off of a spoon. He hates pureed apples and squash, and he is bored with his oatmeal, so I try mixing in foods he likes with it. He watches everyone and everything around him and tries mimicking sounds all the time. His latest sound is growling, he got a new book with a lion and a bear, and ever since we started reading that he growls, it's hilarious! We have been working with him on crawling, but he only scoots backward and then gets so frustrated that he throws himself on the ground and buries his head in his hands. He would much rather stand and jump than crawl, i'm going to try and find a jumper seat to hang from the doorway, I think he would love it. He is getting extremely good with his fingers and hands, he was introduced to the bead roller coaster at my parents' and is obsessed with it. On January 15th Coop's first tooth poked through and eight days later is second one popped through, teething has definitely been a bit of a challenge. He is just not himself, doesn't feel well, and wants to chew on anything he gets his hands on. I cannot believe he is already seven months old, time is flying so fast, before I know it I'm going to be planning his one year birthday party.

Cooper's first New Year's Eve, such a fitting picture... isn't he darling!?

After his little cat nap...

Our little family!

 Goodnight litte one, and Happy New Year 2012!!!

 Mischevious little face.

 Coop has been enjoying his Christmas toys...

 And he loves sitting up by himself, it's his new found love.

Ry and his team, he has had so much fun coaching them and is definitely sad that the season is already over.

 Cooper giving Grandpa kisses!

Coopy loves his broccoli!

He is very vocal, as you can see!

M.... blueberries!

     Seven months old