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  • Up, up, and away! Moving day.

    Up, up, and away! Moving day.

    So the time finally came. Moving day. Terribly long day I must say but luckily I can’t lift anything so the adults pretty much took care of everything. All I had to do was look cute and play in this wonderful stuff they call “packing materials”. WOW! This is fun stuff. Mom and dad didn’t have room in the car so they put me in this box. I was not complaining. Then, after I started eating all the paper, they took me out. Mean parents. Moving went well. Again, long day but all went really smoothly. As you can see though from the thermostat picture, moving out of Hoboken was a little cold. Luckily mom and I were already down here so it was only dad who had to deal with that.

    In case you were wondering that number was the thermostat INSIDE the Hoboken house at the time of the move.

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  • Getting the new year started

    Getting the new year started

    And a glorious new year is upon us indeed. Cold as anything here today but we are getting through it. First order of business, get mom and dad a new bed. After much to do we finally go one. Hooray. It is their first king size bed so they are psyched and now I have a bigger place to crash when I have a bad dream. All good. Now off to get food or go home, mom is crazy sick.

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  • What I missed at midnight…

    What I missed at midnight…

    So I was clearly in bed here but dad wanted to put a few shots of midnight this year so that I could see them later. To boot, mom was deathly ill and stayed home while dad stayed up and then came home early. Of particular interest was nothing really but the Clinton’s pushed the “2009” button here in NYC so, for all of dad’s Republican friends, he posts this picture.

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  • I can finally sit up in a chair!

    So we all knew the day would come and this is it. Mark this down, New Years Eve 2008 I, Cooper Hampton officially sat upright in a high chair at lunch with mom and dad at The Mile Square in Hoboken. Yeah! The I tried to eat the menu, throw the napkin on the floor a thousand times and basically use this chair as a perch for grabbing and eating anything in my path.

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  • The dogs now rule bath time

    The dogs now rule bath time

    So after almost 6 and a half months of peeking around the bathroom, the dogs have decided it is high time to investigate further. They just can’t get enough. This time though, they may have been persuaded to not come back. Wednsday finally jumped in (which mom and dad thought would have happened weeks ago) and Pugsly went crazy barking because he was stuck. It was all quite traumatic. Somehow though, we managed to survive.

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  • Aunt Viv puts me on my first bar!

    Aunt Viv puts me on my first bar!

    I suppose it is the duty of every child to have a devious aunt or uncle who get them into trouble. Since my real aunt and uncle live a long way off, I have all of dad’s friends to fill in on this. Today’s topic, my first time sitting at the bar. Didn’t quite know what to do but I was sitting there! Aunt Viv pulled me aside on the way out and said she was taking me backstage at the Rolling Stones concert next. Sounds exciting. Something about roadies?…

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  • First Christmas/Hannukah

    First Christmas/Hannukah

    So aside from Easter, this is the last major first holiday set I think? It was good. Given the economic issues around us this year and the fact that mom and dad are moving in 3 weeks, Christmas was very light this year for everyone BUT me. Against mom’s wishes, aunt Jenny got me 1000 things. The car was packed! So I have been a buzz playing with the stuff. Good times. A bunch of mom’s family came over and we ate at aunt Jenny/Nik’s. Dad briefly lost his iPhone when the silly dogs ran into the farm next door which would have dramatically impeded the progress of this blog. Luckily, Nik found it and the world went back to normal.

    Here are the highlights of the day

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  • It is far less interesting after the third time isn’t it?

    It is far less interesting after the third time isn’t it?

    So uncle Ryan is back again and decides to jump in on the feeding endeavors. First time is all fun and games until I puke on him. Then second time, no puke but a little like the first time. Third time, well, it is just not that exciting any more now is it? By my count, I was born on June 9 and was there for 3 days. They did feed me a bit there but mostly was the nurses so let’s call that even. From that point until this day (dec 21) we are talking about 194 days. Now, I ate like a madman for the first two months so, let’s say 60 of those days I was eating 8 times a day. That brings us to about 480 feedings. Then, for a spell in the middle, let’s call it 20 days, I was eating a bit less, say 6 times a day. That adds on about 120 bringing us to 600 feedings.(This number is likely a bit higher because it was not always 6, sometimes 7. Who’s really counting anyway right?)

    That leaves us with approximately 114 days between then and now where I have cooled off to about 4 times a day. That is a big one, 456 feedings. Let’s tack that onto our previous number of 600 and get to about, give or take that is, 1056.

    Now, you have to factor in day care too. He started that around September 8. They take over the two during the middle of the day 5 days a week. From then to today was about 15 weeks, 5 days, 2 feedings each; that will back out about 150 feedings from that list. Brings us down to 906 feedings.

    Then I started solid food on uncle Ryan’s birthday on Oct 31. That leave November and most of December that I was eating solid meals in there too but we won’t count those.

    Then we now have to back out uncle Ryan’s contribution of 3 and we get 903. Now other people have fed me too but I can’t count all of that so let’s back out another few dozen for that. That still has to leave in the high 800’s for mom and dad right? Man, that is a lot of food.

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