Cooper Updated & 100 days

Thanks to everyone who gave me great advice (no panicking) about the boogers / sniffles / blahs Cooper's had.

When I got home (armed with a brand new electronic boogie-sniffer, saline spray, a new thermometer and a toy) he was all smiles and coo-ing.

Maybe it was just a blah day?  Maybe he's starting to get / fight off a cold? 

For now no fever and he's my smiley little Cooper-Man.

Which is good because today his is 100th day in the world !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   In the Korean culture the celebration of the first 100 days is a lot of times larger than the 1st birthday.

No - Cooper isn't Korean, but my sister-in-law is and I love the idea so much I had to at least "celebrate" the day.  Which is also why we choose this coming weekend for Cooper's Baptism. 

Here is video of Cooper on his 100th day.  (No I am not shaking him -- -that's my hand shaking trying to hold the camera and wave his arms around)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgaNXVvY_nI

Cindy  

Happy 100 days! I love cultural celebrations! In Moroccan culture we celebrate the 7th and then the 40th day so I am all for any and every opportunity to celebrate our little ones!

True!  I celebrate every week with him....although I know that will fade as he gets older. 

What is the significance of the 7th and 40th?  Similiar to the 100th in that it's just a mark your baby is healthy if they made it that  far?

Thanks!

Cindy

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Day 40 they usually cut a lock of hair as well....also this is the day the mother sort of takes over as for the first 40 days she is pretty much waited on hand and foot. Henna lasts about that long so she gets henna soon after the birth and as it fades the 40 days nears.

LOL I would have thought he was in a bouncy chair.

Actually just waving his arms around (one or both of them) makes him go into a fit of giggles!

It's a new "trick" this giggling out loud  that he started last week and I love it!

Cindy

How cute. He's like a dog with tricks. LOL

Happy 100th Day!!!  I'm Korean and we celebrated this too with Holden.  I think we forgot with Kellen...typical middle child syndrome?  LOL!

Did you guys eat lots of Korean food and sea-weed soup too?  :-)  It's much better than it sounds.  I promise!

Glad he's feeling better!
Sandy

I LOVE dried seaweed... .my brother and sister-in-law always have a pot of rice and snack on rice wrapped in seaweed.  I just eat the seaweed as the rice is too carby for me ! 

When my sister in law was pregnant with both babies her mom made gallons of seaweed soup.  After both my niece and nephew were born she brought jugs of it to the hospital.  They kept a pot on the stove and just boiled it once a day to get rid of germs and ate it often.  
 
I did go through a Kim-Chi phase while pregnant, but I  usually substituted Sauerkraut as my mohter-in-law is pure polish and makes it almost weekly. 

The only Korean tradition I am not fond of is keeping the house so warm!  It's always 90 degrees in their house "for the babies".  (Who inherited my family's ability to sweat like pigs and are always soaking from the heat!) 

Thanks for the well wishes!

Cindy

He is soooo cute!