My mom sent us an awesome easter package that we got yesterday, Thanks ssooooooo much mom for the cutest most non-annoying singing rabbit in the whole world!! ....... lol i heard that song in my sleep last night....... aaaanyways! We are so tired of it being cold!! the lake looks sooo nice every morning i hope and hope it will be at least nice enough to play in the sandbox but no...



on Saturday while nick was home with the baby we went exploring outside! the best part of having a grandma upstairs that never throws stuff away is all the sweet stuff we find!! while digging through the garage we found a swing and 2 of the coolest bikes! plus lots more misc toys and fishing poles for little kids lol



I was so worried for weeks that this poor kid was going to have an outtie belly button, not that there is anything wrong with outties... they just look a little wierd, and for a baby with a chin and cheeks like that with funny poofy curly hair the LAST thing he needed to top it all off was an outtie!!! but its officially not an outtie!! hooray!!! takes a little worry outta my life lol

for grandma

Wil got some new church clothes a few weeks ago, grandma wanted to see how studly he looks in them. Here ya go grandma, Wil was having a chapped face day, so hes got vaseline all over his face, hence the red and shiney glow :)

what we are up to

A little bit of this



A little bit more of this



lots of this


and a little more of this


and we've gotten to play outside a little too :)

So its been a little more than three weeks with the new baby and we are surviving. yeah thats what you can call it, it was great the first week when my mom was here, she made everything so easy and played with Wil and kept everything clean. Having to do it all myself is exhausting, i can't comprehend what it would be like to have more than 2 kids.... ever, but we'll talk about that again in like 4 years... Cooper looks like a cabage patch doll with his huge chunky cheeks and curly hair, it cracks me up, he is super sweet and cuddly, he only likes to take naps in his bassinett when its quiet, if Wil is around he gets super angry, and he doesnt like to sleep in a chair, or really with you holding him for too long, hes kinda particular. But i am learning lol. Wil is adjusting great, he is gentle and a huge help, puttin binkis back in the babies mouth, getting diapers or finding the binki when it is lost. He's only tried to poke Coop's eye one time, maybe 2.
I am having the hardest time getting back into real life. especially because my car is broke and stuck at my sister-in-laws and nick takes the other car, soooo i get to sit inside all day everyday, its been since saturday since i have gotten outta here.... im going nuts.... and nick is going out of town for the weekend so there goes my only form of adult conversation till monday.... lol its really not funny but i gotta laugh so i dont cry. I didnt really get to depressed with Wil at all but after this baby, living in my in-laws basement, with no working car right now.... its really really really hard to stay on the sunny side of everything. i have lost the will to shower, very sad, but hopefully it will warm up, the car will get fixed and we can play outside, and go to the library like normal.

Cooper James

This is alot for journaling purposes as well as to tell the whole story so if its long or boring or i say somethin gross ... sorry... lol
So Nick and i were playing video games on our romantic valentines day evening when i started having contractions every few minutes, which wasnt really uncommon for me because i have been having contractions for weeks now, but as usual i start timing them they were 3 mins apart and sort of strong for a while, when it got to be around an hour i told nick and decided to call the dr. we packed up quick and headed to the hospital, it was about 10pm when we got there, i was 4 cm so they kept me, it seemed like it took longer to get all the paper work filled out then the actual having the baby part. the dr came in about a half hour later and broke my water so i asked for an epidural, they were still waiting for my blood work to come back and said that they needed to wait for that before they could get me one and that it would slow down my labor anyways so they wanted me to wait a little bit...... i was not happy, 5 minutes and 2 contractions later i asked again, cuz they hurt really freaking bad and she said that "we dont want to slow down the labor so we want to wait just a little bit if i could hold on" 5 minutes later (prolly longer but it seemed real quick) i called the nurse again and said that i didnt care if it slowed down labor i wanted it now so they got the epidural guy in there real quick and he was awesome, he had the paper work done and everything in in only 6 mins lol. so once i was feeling a little better, i pushed the med button one time they came in and checked me and i was at an 8-almost 9!!!!! no freaking wonder it hurt so bad, my gosh, im still really glad they didnt check me before the epidural because they prolly wouldn't of let me get it. like a half hour later i was ready to push already, after a few pushes they got the dr in there, with barely enough time, he comes rushing in and im in the middle of pushing and the nurse tells me to stop!! im like stop?!?! are u serious?!?! get it out!!! lol the dr is throwing on his cape and gloves as fast as he can and 2 pushes later the baby was here!! lol, checked in at 10 cooper was born at 2:30 am, 4 hours, not bad at all


8lbs 6oz, with the biggest cheeks and double chin i have ever seen on any baby in my whole life lol

Wil and Nick came back the next morning at about 11am so that Wil could meet his brother, he was so sweet, all he wants to do now is give the baby hugs and kisses, and gets so worried when he crys


its so wierd how completely different he looks from Wil, Cooper looks just like his dad, he has this tiny little man face, every time i look at him i see nick and i love it. i never thought i would love havin so many boys around, its totally great!


this video is rather long but this is wil meeting his little brother cooper for the first time, he is really unimpressed, and still seems to be no big deal about it, im so glad, but we will give it a few more days.

Today we took Coop in to the dr and she said he looked a bit yellow, i didnt really think so, he has been an amazing eater, latched on right away and has had no problems at all since, but we took him to the lab and waited for test results all afternoon, well when they called i got all scared aparently his billiruben level is at 15, so they sent over a billiblanket for us to leave him wrapped in for 24 hours, or until his levels go down lol, it is the wierdest thing, he is like radioactive baby glowing blue, i can take it off to feed him and thats about it, we go back to the lab in the morning to see if it went down. hopefully it did, otherwise i dont know the next step. Wil's levels were high but never that high to need any treatment, i really hope itgoes away.

baby's here!

We are home! everyone is well! i posted some pics on facebook cuz its faster, im too tired to put a bunch up here, maybe tomorrow ill blog about how everything went down.



Cooper James
2-15-09 2:37am
8lbs 5.8oz

I forgot to write about our ER experience with Wil!! it was last Thursday night, wil went to bed fine then woke up coughing/breathing really weird at about 1130, i got him up, got a drink of water but he was gasping for air, it sounded like he had aspirated something into his airway and couldn't breathe or cough it out. and his cough was this scary dry bark. i brought him into our bed to just listen to him for a lil bit to see if it would stop he was really hot too, and of course i couldn't find the thermometer, but after another 20 mins we decided it would just be better to take him to the ER than sit and listen to him gasp, i wasn't going to put him back to bed like that. so off we went. they took chest/throat xrays and his airway was swollen, and his O2 saturation was a little low they had him hooked up to all these machines and he was freaking out the whole time, hysterical. they gave him some motrin and steroids in liquid form that tasted real bad, he kept that down for about 30 seconds then it all came back up all over me... super gross lol, they ended up giving him a steroid shot after we sat and gave him a breathing treatment, the steroid shot was to relax his airway so that he could breathe,
whew so after all that they finally diagnosed him with Croup, got him breathing normally again, still with that awful barking cough though. no antibiotics needed and sent us on our merry way, all smelly covered in vomit at about 3am, with the most wired boy i have ever seen. They said that he prolly wouldn't sleep cuz the steroid would make him crazy, lol the ride home made me worried as he sang really loudly to himself lol but once we laid him back down he was out till about 10am the next morning.
I kept asking that since we were there anyways if we could make it a 2fer and start me on a pitocin drip to get this baby out too so we wouldn't have to come back... they just laughed at me like i wasn't serious, silly er people,
but we are almost back to normal, wil's croup turned into a really bad cold that he is still sort of fighting off, he got this nasty cough. he is getting very very good at covering his mouth when he coughs though. he's so polite. I gotta say that was a really scary night. probably my most scary moment with him ever. it hit him so fast and the gasping was awful.