Life right now

Well Baby is the size of an onion!  I am always tired and craving chocolate.

My days are entertained by this 19 month old!  He loves to play music on this Christmas decoration (which he broke!)  We watch and dance to Mickey Mouse Club House and say "oh toodles".  He cries everytime Daddy goes back to work and is SUPER excited when he comes home.

 

 

Fridays we to hang out with Dekon too!  Dekon doesn't understand why he doesn't go to school on Friday when Cooper and Taye do, he quickly gets over it when he gets to watch cartoons.

 

 

And Saturdays I get to freeze my butt off at the practice field in Eldora for flag football.  Taye LOVES to play and is actually pretty good.  It is so much fun to watch him.  This is Cooper's first year out and last weekend he actually carried the ball for a few yards!  Cooper is going to be built like a line backer and Taye has running back down!  I can't wait for them to get older and watch them play sports.

7!?!

     Cooper Addison Gardner turns 7 today!

I cried so much last night thinking about everything I went through to have this kid!  I ended up getting toxemia, dehydrated and put in the hospital, being sent to Des Moines because I was putting on so much water weight, gaining 10 lbs while sleeping, having the baby, baby ended up in the NICU because he wasn't eating and then being put back in the hospital after being realeased because I couldn't breath.  I ended up having fluid around my heart and lungs, so I was put in a padded bed (in case of seizures) and  didn't get to go home and see Taye or even get to go see Cooper in the NICU because I wasn't allowed out of bed!

How we shared our news with extended family

             Doesn't he look so proud already??