Everything But the Birthday Cake

Cooper loved reaching for the balloons hanging down from the ceiling fan

 Especially when we turned the fan on and they went whooshing by

 Ethan and Madeline had fun collecting toys from their rooms that they don't play with anymore and then wrapping them up for Cooper.  Ethan was disappointed that Cooper didn't care about opening presents and was quite surprised to find out he didn't care when he was one either!

 The kids also wanted to duplicate the photo shoot of the three of them when Cooper was 2 weeks old. Pictures of them lying in a row.  I knew it wouldn't work, but decided to humor the kids:

 Well, I thought it was humorous...

 Entirely too many presents...

 Yep, the balloons are still up there

 Well, he liked the gift tags...

 and patting the presents.

 And eventually, he decided the xylophone was his favorite gift of the night!

Cake pictures tomorrow.

And in other Cooper news, he had is one year check-up today only to find out he has an ear infection!  He hasn't been sick or acted fussy at all.  Poor thing.  Now we have to do antibiotics for 10 days...

He's 20 lbs. 12 oz. which is 20th percentile.  And 31.5 inches, 94th percentile.  Ethan was about two pounds heavier and two inches longer!  But one thing I found interesting was that Cooper has been going up on the height chart each visit.  He started at 50th percentile, then jumped to 70th, then 90th, and now 94th.  He's definitely mine.  :)