Happy Birthday Cooper!

Happy First Birthday Cooper! Well I can safely say that I know exactly what I was doing one year ago, at this exact time. I had woken up at 3:45am, why? Well of course, being 81-2 months pregnant, I had to use the bathroom, so I got up and used the bathroom and was not having any contractions or anything. So I went back to bed but I was having a hard time falling back to sleep. At 4:00am my water broke. Jeff insanely became a nervous wreck. Really, I couldn't get him to focus on anything. But he did manage to call a good friend of ours who lived a few blocks away, she came over to be with Mason and we were off to the hospital. So by 10:00am I had been in labor for six hours and was less than one hour away from delivering Cooper. Around 10:40am I began to push, I pushed three times and Cooper was born!

I remember the first time I saw Cooper... the first thing I thought was how chubby his cheeks were, little did we know that they would stay that way and get even chubbier. The second thing I noticed was how fat him umbilical cord was, there is a picture at the bottom of this post of his fat cord, look at it, it really was a fat one! The next thing I did was check out his genitals- just to make sure he really was a boy. :)

I love this little guy so much! I am amazed sometimes at just how much I love him. Definitely a blessing from our Heavenly Father.

just born! (at 10:44am)

Cooper weighed 7lbs 10ozs and was 20" long

Check out the fat cord. See I wasn't joking, it was really fat!

Crystyne