It's Been A While....

Wow, time flies! Here are a few pictures of the past few weeks. Enjoy.

Our beautiful niece Ashley will be coming off and on this summer to help me out with the kids. She is great with both Cooper & Isabella. Isabella adores her and talks about her all the time.

Here is Ashley hanging out on my bed with Cooper watching TV.

This is the scene in my bedroom almost every night. My drama queen.

Daddy and Isabella having a bubble bath!!

One of Cooper's many girlfriends. This is Sofia who is 5 weeks older than Cooper, but Cooper probably out weighs her by a few oz.

Me and Cooper

Me & Cooper at his 2 month check up. He weighs 13lb 1oz!!

Cooper loves to be warm! He sleeps better and relaxes when he is all bundled up!!

Passy Girl

Isabella has decided she needs a passy now. She has sucked on every single passy I bought for Cooper, except the actual ones he uses. I think I bought 8 different kinds of passy's and he only likes the one the hospital gave him. So Isabella decided she needs them. Usually it's when she is tired. So, since they don't fit in her mouth (infant size) I let her play with them. I have found them all over the house. But if it makes her happy, she can play with them all she wants. Gotta love it.

7 Weeks Old

Cooper is 7 weeks old today. Here are a few picture of our growing baby boy.

Hi is mad here.... STOP TAKING PICTURES OF ME AND PICK ME UP!!!

I love this guy! He is such an amazing baby. I am so blessed!

Our New Drapes...

We finally got drapes made and hung in our house. We love them.

This is the dining room...

Kitchen

Living room

Master Bedroom


This cost a fortune, but well worth it!

Fun Pictures...

Here are some random pictures of the kiddos over the past few days.

Isabella LOVES to play with my hair accessories, clips, ties, rubber bands, head bands and brushes. Here she is with her shopping cart getting ALL the rubber bands out and putting them in the cart. She'll put them around her arms and legs and I have to bribe her to take them off before the circulation is cut off from her limbs.



She was singing...

Saying CHEESE!! Nice bangs.


OOPS, got caught in Cooper's toy...

I noticed my baby boy has already changed, his face is different.

And, last night this bundle of joy gave me a break. He went to sleep in this swing at 11pm and didn't wake up to eat until 6am...OMG, I loved it! PLEASE baby Cooper, do it again for mommy!


Poor baby's nails are too long, he cut his forehead.

Happy Mother's Day

My children... Happy Mother's Day to ME!

Mother's Day

While we were at my parents house this past weekend, we had the chance to get a picture of all the kids and Michelle and I. It was my mother's only request for Mother's day. Even though we didn't dress for the occasion, the picture turned out pretty good.

Mother's Day Weekend

This past weekend I went to my parents house because Brian had to go out of town. I was there from Thursday afternoon to Sunday afternoon. We had a great time. My folks AC unit went out, so we spend most of the day sitting in front of the fans and the kids were all in their diapers. It got pretty hot! Saturday mom, Isabella, Cooper and I all went to see my grandfather and his wife at the nursing home. It is always so nice to see my Pop Paw. He loved seeing Isabella and Cooper. I was glad we made the trip. Isabella sang all the songs she knew to Pop, Elva and anyone else that would listen. She was a real entertainer.

Pop feeding Isabella peaches


She loves her fruit

Pop holding Cooper for the first time!



Memaw holding Cooper and Isabella looking on...

Happy Anniversary to ME!

On Saturday, May 3, 2008 Brian and I celebrated our 5th anniversary. It was not that big of a deal to us, Brian didn't even get around to buying me a card, he's just too busy these days. Not sure if I should be hurt by it or not, but that's the facts. Brian worked for a few hours at a building installing wires and such and I had the kids to myself. Brian's sister and her family come over for a little bit and let the kids play for a bit. Then Brian, Bella and I took showers and we took Isabella out to Adventure Kids to play and Cooper, Brian and I went to dinner. After a very uneventful dinner, we went to Dick's Sporting Goods store and I showed Brian the jogging stroller I was thinking about buying off CraigsList. It looked great and Brian wanted to just go ahead and buy it at Dick's, we had $200 in gift cards, so the stroller only cost us $38. Pretty nice! As we walked out the door with stroller in tow, Brian looked at me and said "happy anniversary". So for my 5th anniversary I got a jogging stroller. Not bad since I really wanted it. Sunday, I took Isabella on a ride around the block in her new stroller, she loved it. She didn't want to stop and go inside. It was great! We were out walking the neighborhood for about 45 minutes.

I really wanted the stroller so i could join one of those stroller fitness classes. I've always wanted to join one, but never had the motivation to do so, but now I'm all set! I can't join a gym until Cooper is 3 months, and I can't start the stroller strides class until I am at least 6 weeks postpartum. So for now, I'll be taking the kids to the park and walking around the neighborhood.
I'm very anxious to get started on a fast track to fitness. I just need to start in the kitchen!

Perfect!

What can I say, pure perfection!

Cooper Michael Corr

Now on to Cooper! Cooper arrived into the world on April 17th at 10:39am. He weighed a whooping 8lb 11oz and is 19.25 inches long.

I had what was suppose to be a non-eventful routine scheduled c-section. Upon Cooper's arrival before the doctor tied my tubes, she was checking things out and noticed a "large mass" on my left ovary. She started to remove the mass and the ovary wouldn't stop bleeding, so she took some more. She left "a little" of my left ovary and said it my grow back (I had no clue those things grew back!). So she took that out and then tied my tubes. We'll find out soon if we should be worried and what comes next. My recovery had been a lot better this time around. I still have a good deal of pain where she took the ovary, it just feels like someone kicked the hell out of my left side. And with Isabella I was a nervous wreak and I didn't want to get out of bed for fear I would hurt the incision. It is much better this time.

Cooper had been a great baby, he nurses well and sleeps well too. He's all around an easy baby (I pray this doesn't change in the coming weeks!)

Isabella is in love with her baby, she is very possessive of him and always wants to hold him...for about 5-8 seconds and then she's done. When he makes noise, she'll come to see what's going on and she likes to watch him get his diaper changed. She's going to be a great big sister.

Here are a few pictures from over the past 5 days.

our first kiss


resting


brother & sister meet


resting


Thank God for wireless internet


Going Home!


Hold baby!

Major Trey Pittard

Oh wow has my life changed in the past few days. I have a brand new baby boy and a new nephew and my sister has her life. I have so much to say.

First off my sister had her baby boy Major Trey Pittard on Wednesday night at 9:11pm~ish. He weighed in at 7lb 15oz or something like that. He was considered premature, but he's a very healthy baby boy. My sister went through what many pregnant women have nightmares about. She had an awful labor 24 hours~ish and 4 epidurals and feeling much pain through it all. Upon delivery of Major his collar bone was broken and she started loosing a LOT of blood. After her nearly dying (seriously) and 4 blood transfusions later they were able to giver her more comfort and feel that she was in the clear. My mother tells the story and it scares the shit out of me. I almost lost my sister during child birth. I still have not seen my sister or her new baby boy and it will be a very happy reunion for us both. She had to stay in the hospital for 4 or 5 days, depending how you do the math. She was in a world of pain with all they did to stop her from bleeding to death. I just can't get the thought out of my head. We are blessed!

Major's collar bone will heal on its own, he just shouldn't move it (tell a newborn that) and it should be healed in a matter of weeks. He checked out great at his doctors appointment and seems to be on the road to recovery.

Michelle is feeling better from what my mother says. I just can't wait to see her again and hug her. And hold baby Major. Oh, how we are so blessed.

Texas Tornado's

Thursday morning around 4am, here in Allen, Texas an amazing force of wind and/or tornado come blasting through our beautiful neighborhood. From the damage to all the homes here, it seems that our house may have been on the side of the tornado, not in the middle. There are so many, many homes that have major damage and our home did not have very much damage at all. Our roof looks like it is in really great condition, considering all the factors!
Brian and I both took pictures of the neighborhood and here's what we saw.

This is our backyard, nothing was in its place









This is a house that had the 2nd floor framed on it the day before...


This is the front entrance, it was beautiful


Front entrance that did have big builder sign

Was the front entrance sign

Brick fence around new phase

Home at front entrance by Stacy Road

Drees Model Home

Sotherby Model Home - not even a month old. Brand new!

The Estates side, got hit really hard.
This is the Kitty Hawk Airfield, most if not all hangers were damaged. This plane was in its hanger...

This was a red hanger, with two airplanes inside.

This is common, the chimney is either broken or fallen off the roof with huge holes in the roof.

The front entrance, most of the debris is from the aircraft hangers

Home that backs to the entrance, across the street from the Drees Model home

Another look at the Sotherby Model Home

Drees Model home

Homes next to the Drees model home

Front entrance, three flag poles bent over at base

Another view of the red aircraft hanger

Our alley neighbors fence, our was just like it. Just sections down.

Across the street from us, both neighbors fences are down

Port A Potty in front yard, this potty was most likely 20+ homes down the street, there is NO construction near this house.

Blue trampoline in front yard, this trampoline was from the folks across the street.


Tonight on the news, the weather center said that Allen did have a tornado. The DFW area had around 6 confirmed now. I completely believe it. When it happened at 4am-ish, I jumped across the bed on top of Brian and we both said "Isabella" at the same time. We ran upstairs and when we opened her bedroom door, she said "Daddy", I was happy she was not scared, and happy she was awake, because we were in for a rocky ride for the night. When we ran upstairs and back down the lighting lit the GREEN skys. It was a wild sight. I am thankful to God that we didn't have any window, structure or roof damage. We very easily could have and should have, bits of our fence were on our patio and next to our bedroom windows. We are so very blessed!!