Well in baby news we have finally hit 36.5 weeks!! I had an appointment on Tuesday and my midwife said that in 4 days he would be considered full term!! So I hope he comes soon! I am so ready to not be pregnant anymore. At my check up I was dilated to a 1 and 50% effaced. I was measuring at 39.5 weeks (hoping that could be a good sign). My midwife also said she didn't think I was going to make it this far. I have dropped but the baby hasn't fully placed himself in the birthing canal quite yet. But heck we are good to go at this point. James is goin away this weekend so I just hope that he does not come between Saturday and Monday. I would hate to go into labor while he is gone :( So I would love for him to come before Friday!! I had my first shift without being able to take my medication that helped with the contractions... and it sucked! I am glad that I am only working 2 shifts a week. On the plus side since I have reduced my hours at work I have noticed that my swelling has almost gone away :) We have finally picked a baby name!! But I am going to keep it a secret :) For one thing you never know..... it could still change. Alls I know is I am SO ready to hold my new son!!
 |
My basket ball belly at 36.5 weeks
|
So last week I made James and K.C. go to JCpenny to get some family maternity pictures taken. James was so thrilled to go!! Ya not really, and apparently neither was K.C. He usually does really good at getting pictures taken but for some reason he was just not having it this time. We were able to get a few shots with him in it but not as many as I would have liked. I would like to order the CD so I have the rights to the pictures but I have to wait until I have a coupon and money cause it is a bit spendy... I am not sure how to get the link added to this blog but if you are my FB friend you can go to my page and scroll down and find where I added the link there or e-mail me and I can send it to you that way (
coostra31@hotmail.com)
So in older Cook boy news.... Keegan turned 16 on the 17th!! I can't believe how much he is growing up, 2 more years and he will be considered an adult... scary I know! On Saturday James and I took the older boys to Tucanos for dinner. It was very nice, we left K.C. with Grandpa and Grandma :) After dinner we went to Cabela's to look at some guns. The boys step Dad has decided to match what they have in gift cards to help them each purchase a gun, that is pretty cool of him and the boys are very excited.
So December seemed like the month of everything going wrong in our house. But things are looking up! The pipes seemed to always be clogging but James has seemed to fix that issue. he did finally partially install my mud sink in the laundry room! That is such a plus because before then we had a very small sink that we had to drain out washing machine into because of pipe issues meaning that you couldn't just start a load of clothes and walk away.. this resulted in many overflows by missing the water draining over the years. But no more!! The sink now can hold lots of water!! Another issue was that our oven stopped working, But thanks to my plee on facebook we had a friend who happened to have an old one sitting in a garage that we could barrow. So thank you so much Barb!! It is so nice to be able to bake cookies again!! That and other food that we couldn't before, you never realize how much you miss it till its gone!!
 |
where the sink was riped out
|
In K.C. news........ Well he is just growing up WAY to fast!! I love every minute with that lil terd! His new thing that his Dad and brothers taught him is "touch down" his Dad had already taught him how to throw his hands up but now the have him actually saying touch down while he does it. It is very cute, that kid loves to watch football to. Actually that kid loves to watch just about anything. The other night while James and I were watching the Biggest Looser was the cutes though. At the end when the do the weigh in he got really involved in what was going on. While they are weighing in the contestants there is this beeping sound that goes for 20-30 seconds and then their weight pops up, the contestants then all clap for the person. Well K.C. was so taken by it that he was standing in the middle of the living room just anticipating the clapping. He knew that when the beeping sound was done they would all clap and he would clap with them. It was the cutest thing. Anyway I could go on and on about him (yes very proud Momma!) but I will stop. Below is a few updated pictures of him.
 |
| Lexus decided that she would go ahead and take a bath with K.C. This was NOT a planned thing! |
 |
| K.C. at Jump Time in Meridian for a birthday party |
 |
| He loved to run down the tramps and then jump and slide down the big one at the end |
 |
| K.C. and birthday girl Madi, he loved this foam block pit, he had no fear with this thing and loved it when I would throw him in. There was also a pulley that you could go on and them let go to fall in the pit. He saw the older kids do it and so he had to also, this kid has LITTLE fear! |
 |
| Madi and K.C. going down the slide, this is where he had a bit of fear, he needed a bit of encouragement to go down. He will drop 4 feet in the air but needed a nudge to slide 10feet... go figure |
 |
| He loves pushing this thing all over the house, to reach on shelves or just sit in |
 |
| Explaining why he does not need to take a nap..... He got out of his bed probably 5x this day |
