Our happy boy

Cooper has been a super happy little guy lately. He is now over his ear infection, and he seems to be over the cold he had as well. I am glad he is well since it is the week before his new brother is scheduled to arrive. I am having a huge range of emotions about this new baby ranging from complete elation to sadness and fear. I know that God will guide us and we will be just fine. Thankfully that knowledge is surpassing all my fears and I am able to enjoy the fun of having only one baby for another small while. This weekend he has started turning in circles, a dance move he learned either from the cat chasing his tail or his daddy dancing for him while he tries to eat dinner between fits of laughter. I don't know which, but either way it is so funny to watch and adorable when he tries to walk afterward and falls right down. He gets back up and spins again and again, walks and falls down. So cute!

Well, as I type I am having contractions, not enough yet to send me to the hospital, but enough to be checking the clock. I am scheduled for a c-section on Monday the 1st of December. So, please pray for me and Ben that morning as I go through the surgery and as Ben looks on and becomes a father for the second time! Also, pray for Cooper to handle the new adjustment as well as any 16 month old can.

We, will keep you all updated and have pictures of the new baby as soon as he gets here.

OH, guess what!? We finally have a name picked out, but we are not telling! It's way too close to delivery.

Stacy

No More Tooths

Hey everyone. Some of you may know that I was having my wisdom teeth taken out today. Well, they were successfully extracted, you'll be happy to know. One of them was "easy" two of them were "regular" and one of them was a "difficult bony impaction." Wee-haw. I actually don't think I've ever had real surgery before. Just some stitches for a bike wreck. so today was my first IV and anesthesia. it took the surgeon 3 tries to get a good vein. I've given blood before and never had trouble, but i guess today was special.

Anyway, the narcotics seem to be working, and Stacy made me some very nice soup tonight. Thanks to David for getting up early and driving me around this morning. I was supposed to be asleep throughout the procedure, but I remember some of it. Maybe I needed a horse tranquilizer?

So speaking of Coop and teeth, he's added another one to his growing stash. No molars yet, so he's not the best chewer, but he's good at breaking up chips and tearing chunks off of things to eat. He's also walking around like a breast cancer awareness junkie (maybe we should send out some sponsorship letters?) and saying a bunch of words. I think he's entering the 'try to repeat whatever anyone says' stage. This week we've been hearing a lot of 'yellow' 'stairs' 'juice' 'stars' ' moon' 'elmo' (good grief, he's only seen elmo in the store and he's already obsessed!) ' shoes' 'night night' and 'this'

Everything is 'this'! Very cute. Anyway, i'm going to get some sleep now. I hope you are all well.