Cooper's First Time at Church

We took Cooper to church for the first time this past Sunday (12/27/2009). These are some pictures that I took before we left the house. He was so good during the service! Thanks to Kelly for the precious outfit!

Merry Christmas 2009!

Here are a few pictures that we took of Cooper with the intention of ordering Christmas cards. I've been sick with a bad sinus infection so I'm not sure if I am going to have the time to get cards ordered and mailed out so I thought I'd share these with everyone. Merry Christmas!

Cooper - 1 Month Old

Cooper - At 1 month you are:

• In between a newborn and size 1 diaper.
• Wearing 0-3 month clothes (mostly 3 month sizes).
• At your 3 week checkup you weighed 9 lbs, 3 ozs and were 21 1/2 inches long, but you are growing like crazy and are even bigger now!
• You are getting stronger and are able to hold your head up for longer periods of time.
• You are noticing everything now and you love being in new surroundings.
• You are sleeping in 3 hours intervals at night. When you wake up to be fed and changed, you usually stay up for about an hour and a half before you are ready to go back to bed.
• You like your pacifier and love to suck your thumb.
• You like to nap in the mornings.
• You are very active and are always moving!
• You are such a good baby - Daddy and I are very lucky to have such a good, sweet boy!
• You have become the center of Daddy and Mommy's world and we love you very much!

Maternity Photo Shoot - October 2009

We did a maternity photo shoot in October. This was something that we really wanted to do to document my pregnancy with Cooper. Jeanie Cone and April Cone Pearson of Two Scoops Photography took our pictures and we were VERY happy with our photo shoot! We had a really fun time taking the pictures with them and we LOVED the photographs! We highly recommend them to anyone wanting to have pictures made - we will definitely be using them again! I know that they also do weddings, infant and children's pictures. You can check out their website at www.twoscoopsphotography.com.

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Random Pictures of Cooper (Birth thru 2 weeks)

Cooper Reece is here!

Cooper Reece
11/10/09
3:21pm
7 lbs, 15 ozs
20 1/2 inches long

Cooper is finally here! I was admitted to the hospital on Monday, November 9th at 3pm after my water broke at my OB/GYN's office (pretty convenient, huh?). I started having pretty strong contractions that night but wasn't dilating. At 6:30am, my doctor started me on Pitocin and Cooper arrived at 3:21pm on Tuesday, November 10. He was 7 lbs, 15 ozs, 20 1/2 inches long and was healthy and beautiful! We were suppose to be released from the hospital on Thursday, November 12th but Cooper's billirubin levels went up and he had some jaundice and had to stay under the billilights to try to get those levels down. We ended up staying there until Sunday, November 15th. We had him at UAB West, because that's where my doctor practices and we wanted him to deliver Cooper because both Chris and I think the world of Dr. Stephen. We had a wonderful experience there! The staff and nurses in the Women's Center were SOOOO good to us and took excellent care of both me and the baby. They were so attentive and supportive that we began to feel like they were family (being there for 6 days could have had something to do with that!). I've heard that some of the larger hospitals can make you feel like you are in a "baby factory" so I was hoping that delivering at a smaller hospital would be different and it was. We have nothing but good things to say about our experience there! I was released on Thursday but they let us stay in a room with Cooper until he was able to come home. As long as they had an extra room, they let us use it so we didn't have to leave him there alone and we really appreciated that. I don't think that there are many other hospitals that would let you do that! I will post more later once I have another free minute to download them off our camera.

Fur Babies

I couldn't resist adding this picture of our fur babies, Murphy (on the left) and Darby (on the right). They each have their own doghouse but are inseparable and will always stay in the same house. They love children and I know that they will be so good with Cooper when he gets older!