How she has grown!!!

So this little girl just gets cuter by the day, ok I am biased! Well since our last blog, we have started the adventure of solid foods (or Mom's pureed specials) - she loves Zuchinni and Mom's homeade applesauce. Our little girl is also very vocal and continues to string words and sounds together, and likes to hear herself screach. Her giggles, her giggles will melt your heart. We are surprised to learn that such a little baby can be so ticklish as well. Here are a few photos of some of our adventures, trips or just hanging out with the little girl.

Happy Thanksgiving @ 5 months old !!

Happy Thanksgiving! Wow how quickly these little things grow and develop and grow up! Jaden is now 5 months old and had a wonderful 1st Thanksgiving with some of our family members. Dad, Mom and Jaden headed back east to NY to attend the Wright family reunion in Syracuse, visit Mom's childhood friend Bethany, visit the Morris's - Mom's Moms side of the family, and the Pietraszewski's Mom's Dads side of the family. Jaden had a wonderful time and had her first experience with Western NY weather - (although our 2nd day there was a beautiful blue sky day). Jaden first spent some time with Grandpa Paul P. Then et her Great Grandma Morris, met some cousins of Mom's, and had dinner with the Morris family. Jaden showed of her voice skills at Great Grandma Morriss when she met the stuffed doggie - she loves doggies!!! It was wonderful to see Bethany, Mommies childhood friend, and to meet her 3 kids, and talk to her about her own business ! Mommy is so proud of her bestest friend and so happy for her. Then Mommy, Daddy and Jaden drove from Liberty NY to Syracuse to meet Uncle Dave and Aunt Annie and the Wright family !! Wow - there was too much fun to even stand. Uncle Dave and Aunt Annie LOVED baby Jaden, so did everyone else!! Mommy and Uncle Dave even got to go for a special run together - that was great fun other than they got rained on! Jaden even got to go swimming in the big grown up pool!! Her first swim! Then we had a wonderful Thanksgiving meals together as the Wright family. Beth and Joe invited us over to there house a number of times, which was wonderful - Jaden had fun and she especially liked their new dog Copper. We got to see Aunt Paul, Uncle John, Grandma Nancy and Grandpa Mike, Aunt Pat, litte baby Margaret and the list goes on. Some group photos were taken, but have not been sent yet - shucks... Jaden tried her first bite of blueberry pie (ok blueberry juice in the pie) - YUM. .She loved pie juice!! Whew - what a trip! We are all glad to be back home in Colorado, where we are now getting some snow and we can concentrate on relaxing and getting better from our little cold we all caught. Jaden is about 14 lb at 5 months and growing like a champ! Next adventure solid foods and more sleep training ! Wish us well !!!

13 weeks and not so tiny !!!

Jaden is growing so very much in so many areas, she is 'talking', she is pushing up on her arms, and she has figured out that she has hands! Although she would rather play all day - rather than nap, we are getting a schedule down, especially now that Grandma Nancy is watching her during the day - while Mommy is at work. Mommy misses Jaden terribly, but at least she is able to nurse Jaden at lunch. Jaden has a number of adventures including lots of runs in her chariot, hikes in her baby bjorn, visits with Meadow ( 8 weeks ) and Xander (6 months old ), visit to the butterfly pavilion with Navon (2 1/2) and Niya (1) and lots of other fun places in Boulder. She is 'sleeping' well at night, although she still snacks on Mom up to 2x at night - some nights none, some nights 1 and sometimes 2... Hmmm.. must be nice!
Jaden also saw her first bear - in our front yard about 2 weeks ago... He / She was snacking on our neighbors trash.. yummy.. Sort of a very large bear... Photos are not too great but you get the idea!!!

Road Trip !!! (to Iowa)

On the Road to Iowa we go!!!

Family reunion was calling so we made the 2 day, 800 mile trip to Iowa with Jaden. She had to see Grandpa and Grandma Cooper again, meet many of Grandma Wrights relatives and friends, and meet Great Grandma and Grandpa Cooper.

Jaden did great and almost complained less about the drive than Mom did!!!

We had a wonderful visit to Iowa, stayed with Grandma and Grandpa Cooper and Janden met a wonderful group of people!! We even got to meet Maisie who shares a birthday with Jaden!

High Mountain FUN

********************************Dad, Mom & Jaden decided it was time to take a 'REAL' mountain hike - not just the daily hikes in the foothills that Mom and Jaden take.

So we headed up to Brainard Lake area, the start of many of our longggg training runs in the past few years.

On Sun am it was cold and rainy and just plain yucky in Boulder. However the clouds wete low in the sky - and although Mom worried it was rainy up high - Dad indicated he knew otherwise (checking some high mtn cams likely helped!!!)

Off we went - after 30 min of prep at least.. takes much longer to head out the door these days..

Beautiful blue sky appeared behind the clouds as we made our way up. What fun!!!

Jaden, Mom and Dad completed a 6 mile hike, along with 2 nursing breaks along the way. Jaden got to 11,000 feet ! Wow, what a mountain girl!!

The altitude made Jaden very sleepy!! Take a look at this relaxed girl!!

More Jaden Photos

So our little Miss Jaden is growing very fast on Mommies milk - today she is at 7 lb 12 oz (little more than 1 oz a day). Some of her newborn clothes do not fit her anymore! I expect next week, some of the clothes that fit her today will not fit any longer.

About 3 weeks ago, we had a professional photographer come and take photos of Jaden. You can view them on her website at the following link

www.abbyphotography.com

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Click on CLIENTS
type in password baby_jaden

The photos will be avalible for another week. After that, I will have to post some of the digital photos here.

Here are some photos Dad took that are really great.

Also - She has begun to SMILE at MOMMY and DADDY !!!! That is really neat !

Jaden Hope Cooper - The Beauty

Jaden will celebrate her 2 week old milestone this evening!!! What a 2 weeks it has been - both wonderful and exhausting. Jaden has been steadily gaining weight - which is our parental priority thru both nursing and bottle feeding breastmilk. Of course she prefers the bottle since it is no work, but she needs the calories....so we provide both thru much effort. She is worth it!!!!! So enough talking lets look at some photos...these some 2 weeks old, some much more recent.