Busy October.....

Big changes this past week.  Baby Cook has decided to let Mommy know he is here.  He has really started to move around.  He's been giving me some pretty good kicks.  The last week while sitting at work I felt 31 weeks pregnant instead of 21 weeks. (I am now 22weeks)  I can finally feel him from the outside to.  Still not too many kicks though were someone else can feel it.  It is going to be so fun when I can get K.C. to feel the kicks, he is already such a good big brother.  He has not only been giving his baby brother "loves"  he now talks to his little brother.  He puts his face right next to my belly and just starts jabbering.  It is so cut. Last Saturday I went to the quarter sale at Other Mothers and got some really cute new born clothes. (I don't recommend going unless you are ready to really dig through stuff, I only went cause I had a coupon to get my first 20 items free, not hard to get to 20.  I prefer the Kidz Again grab bag sale, much better deal!!)  Well doing some "baby" laundry and seeing how little those clothes are started to make me get excited about this new lil guy.  I think I am finally grasping reality that I am indeed pregnant.  Well that and there is this huge belly in front of me that is already getting uncomfortable and just getting bigger and bigger. 

22 Weeks!

This has been a really busy week for James.  He finally got his "P" card in the mail from the state!!!  He has his pretty paramedic patch and everything.  I am so proud of him for his achievements.  He is going to make such a good paramedic.  He has already been put to work on Sundays with his buddy Rich pulling shifts.  With our stove still not fixed I have enjoyed being able to go to the station to use the oven there and cook dinner for the boys.  On Saturday James helped test the EMT advance class, congrats to them all for passing!! Now they just need to take their written exam and Parma will have more advance EMT's.  It's amazing the growth that our small department has made in the last 10 years.  (I am sad that I no longer have time to play with them, but hey the flip side is I get more time with my family and that is much better!!)  James has really done a lot with the department since he became chief and it has kept him really busy.  But even with his busy schedule he finally found time to work on the truck.  The fuel pump in our Chevy went out this summer and it has been sitting at the station ever since.  Poor James has been stuck at home without a second vehicle while I am at work.  Thankfully my parents have allowed us to use one of there vehicles if James needed to do something.  Thanks Mom and Dad!!  James is very happy to have the truck back though.  Once he got the part he needed it didn't take long to get the truck up and running.  He decided to go an easier route to the pump and he just took the bed off the truck.  He said it took just a few bolts and a few guys to get the bed off and back on.  Yeah we have a truck again!!!

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Keegan has had a pretty busy week to!  On Saturday his marching band had a competition at Vallivue High School.  Congratulations to the Weiser High School band for taking FIRST in there division!!!  James, myself, and K.C.  made it to the school just in time to watch them play.  This weekend they have their last competition at BSU, we are all going to go and cheer them on. 

 Keegan had another big day on Sunday.  He went hunting with his step dad Jack up near council and shot his first elk!!  The shot was from about 200 yards.  Congrats Keegan!!

Cameron gets to start hunting for the first time next week.  Both boys will be going after deer I believe.  James loaned Keegan his 7mm mag and he has been practicing with that.  He told his Dad that they were sighting it in the other day and now his arm is numb! Cam wont shoot it.

First Elk!!!

Mr. K.C. will not stop growing!!  Seriously that child is becoming such a big boy.  His last 2 lower cuspid teeth are pushing through this week so the poor lil guy has been a bit sick.  On Sunday he got a slight fever and that lasted almost 2 days. He was up almost every hour that night and ended up sleeping with Mommy and Daddy.  Well actually sleeping ON Mommy.  That made for a very long night for me since I had to work Monday and was up at 4:30 to get ready.  Monday night he was only up a few times and by Tuesday his fever was gone.  I can't wait for the teething to be all done!!  But even with a slight fever K.C. does not miss a beat.  With James working on Sunday I now get to take K.C. to church by myself (James was going with him alone while I had to work)  I wait until after the childrens sermon until I take him down to the nursery.  That way he can be there during the singing to.  This last Sunday I took him up to the front with the other kids and well he decided he had had enough and took off.  I knew he wasn't going to go far so I didn't follow him (we were in the front of church and well I am a big girl and if I went after him he would have ran and it would have been more of a scene!)  He went down the second pew and when he came back to me after about a minute he had a sucker!!  Not sure who gave it to him but thanks!  He came and sat through the rest of the childrens sermon and then we headed down stairs so he could play with the rest of the kids.



Lookin all sharp, headed to church!!



Yummy cookie spoon!!