walking AND sleeping?!!?

i know it's hard to believe but our little guy is now almost a little man! he decided a couple weeks ago that walking may not be a bad thing and started walking in short stretches. since then, it's been slow but he's steadily increased how often and how far he'll attempt to go. it's funny because if we sit him down on the step in our bedroom, he'll just lift his little behind up and take off like it's a runway!!!! it's TOO funny!! oh, and he just thinks he's hot stuff when he's walking and has the biggest grin on his face every time he does it. it's so fun!
The other major accomplishment has been, following his all-clear from the ear dr on the 4th, we decided it was time to let him cry (and scream and cry and scream and cry) himself to sleep. so for a week, a very long and extremely exhausting week, he slept. the last night of him crying, we were so tired and just utterly exhausted that I'm pretty sure we slept through a couple hours of him crying (or at least whining) and I'm pretty sure I got the worst mommy of the year award that night, but it's all good but now he sleeps!! and it is FABULOUS!! he now goes down around 8 each night and sleeps until about 7:15. it has been A-MAZ-ING!!! every morning i wake up and think that i'm literally living in a dream world. the best part about all this is that we've come to the conclusion that cooper may not end up having to be an only child!!!! haha
here's a couple random recent pics....

I seriously went upstairs for 2 secs....

This one is interesting because Ryan and I are two of very few people we have ever met or come across who can completely flip our tongues (without using our fingers or biting it) :P