Cooper James Lambert is here!!!!

My mom took me to the hospital while AJ and his mom stayed at Haley's party at school. Once AJ got Haley settled at home and down for a nap, he met us at the hospital. I got my IV in around 2:30 pm and my doctor broke my water not long after that. They started pitocin around 3:30 or 4. Around 6:30 I felt like I needed to start pushing, and pushed from around 6:40-7pm. Cooper was born at 7:00pm on Wednesday, October 28, 2009.

He was a big boy(especially for being over 3 weeks early). He weighed in at  7lbs and 6 oz and was 19.5 inches long! I am so glad he decided to come early. The doctor said he would have been over 9 lbs if I had carried full term!

My parents were both at the hospital along with Matthew and Courtney. Mom was in the delivery room with AJ and I, just like she was with Haley. She even cut the umbilical cord because AJ didnt want to (he says it's the drs job!).  After my family saw Cooper and held him, they went home to relieve AJ's parents of Haley duty so they could come meet their new grandson!

We stayed in the hospital about 24 hours and came home Thursday night. I was excited to get home so Haley could meet her little brother. Because of the swine flu outbreak, noone under the age of 18 was allowed in the hospital.

We are excited to get settled in and start this new journey as a family of 4!!

Halloween Party at preschool

I was so excited about going to Haley's preschool Halloween party, that I went to it for a little while, even though the dr had told me that morning that I needed to be admitted to the hospital. I had a doctors appt that morning and my dr said that Cooper would be coming that day. I didnt want to miss her first school party. The kids went outside to a "pumpkin patch" and got to pick one to bring home with them. They also got to go trick-or-treating at the other classrooms.

Pumpkin carving

While Haley napped, AJ and Uncle Jacob cleaned out Haley's pumpkin. Then the 3 of us took turns tracing the outline of Elmo on the pumpkin so AJ could carve it out. Haley woke up when it was almost done being carved. Once it got dark, we took it outside and put the candle in it, so she could see it. She was kinda scared of it and wouldnt stand next to it to get her picture taken unless I was standing right next to her. She really liked it though and wanted to show everyone her "Elmo Pumpkin".

Planting flowers

Haley helped daddy and Uncle Jacob plant flowers and bushes around "Haley's house". She had fun and even got a little doing it - even though she doesnt like being dirty.

Visit from Nanny and Granddaddy

Nanny and Granddaddy flew in on Saturday Oct 3 for 2 weeks to stay with us. Since I was on bedrest, they came to help with Haley, cook, and help around the house. It was so nice having them here with us. Haley loved having Granddaddy as her playmate. They colored, read books, played play doh, did puzzles and everything else you could think of.  We all were very sad to see them go, and cant wait for them to come back to visit once Cooper is born.

Haley and I made a brown bag apple pie with some of the apples we picked. Haley likes to help cook. She even got to wear her new apron that Nanny got her.

Pumpkin Patch

After we left the apple orchard, we went to Burt's Pumpkin Patch. Haley loved all the pumpkins and couldn't believe how many there were.

Apple Picking

I got off bedrest on Friday, Oct. 9th at 34 weeks. I really was looking forward to this fall when we could take Haley apple picking and to the pumpkin patch like we did last year. I am glad that we got the opportunity to go. We went to R and A Apple Orchards like we did last year. It is a small orchard that is family operated. Haley liked picking the apples and eating them along the way. My parents went with us this year (last year only my mom came).

with Pop and Bitz

34 weeks pregnant