Eli Cooper Dickens

"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep"  - Ralph Waldo Emerson My sweet little Coop had a rough time with sleep until about 2 years old. Looking back I'm pretty sure that it was my own fault, having read every sleep and feeding book that there is and trying to do it "right". But I don't think it was an accident because it gave me sympathy for any parent that has to deal with sleep issues and had he slept i would have thought that it was my own amazing self. Sometimes Heavenly Father saves us from our pride. ;   was when Cooper was around 4 months old. I brought to the attention of the Dr. That Cooper didn’t have a soft spot on his head and that he hadn’t had one that I could feel for months. The Dr. was concerned and wanted to have a scan done to see if he would require surgery to break up the plates in the skull so they wouldn’t impede brain growth because the plates don’t normally fuse together until a c...

Here is Coop and Andrew at our friend Steve Berlin's house. We go over there on Sunday's for dinner. Steve and his new wife Kim were Cooper's first babysitters. My Friend Bonnie (was Berlin but is now Burton) Has Taken the most beautiful photos of Cooper from day one. She is so talented. Here he is around 2 months.                                                      A typical Coop face....;) 9-1-11 Yesterday two things happened in Coop world. The first was I left him in the middle of his little play mat (that he loves like you wouldn’t believe) and ran to change the wash over and take the garbage out to the curb. When I came back I found him most of the way off of his mat and facing another direction. He just smiled up at me like “look what I did”. So he is officially mobile, even if it is back inch scooting. He also played in...

Cooper’s Baby Blessing in Utah- - This is an outfit that Andrew's Oma made for Cooper At two months we took Cooper to Utah to meet most of his family. We also did his blessing while there so they could all be a part of it. We were a little antsy about taking him on a plane just because he tended to be a little high maintenance, never liking to be put down and a little loud sometimes. But turns out he loves airplanes! Probably because you can’t ever put him down and the sounds and sights were lulling and fun and new. He smiled and talked for the first flight then slept for most of the others. On one plane there was an Italian lady sitting next to us who would give another baby on the plane who was crying a crusty look then turn to Coop and touch his cheek and say “belisimo belisimo”. I’m not so sure she would have been saying that if she had had to deal with him in the airport bathroom a few minutes prior. But we were glad that he was being “belisimo” Coop n Nana We arriv...

Here is Debby's and Sam's reaction to our baby news. Just ignore the post date on these. I'm trying to play catch up and get on the blogging bandwagon again. :) Here I am 9.5 months pregnant with Cooper. Cooper is here!!! Our little man came into the world on a very stormy Monday night after a breezy (being sarcastic here) 24ish hr labor. He was born on June 27 th  2011 at 9:02 pm. At  Forsyth   Hospital  in  Winston-Salem   N.C.  He weighed in at 8 lbs 1 oz and was 21” long, and was just beautiful. I had had on and off labor for about a week and was oh so ready for things to start for real. He was 4 days over due and I had a bottle of caster oil calling my name. I didn’t use it but had it on hand just in case things got completely unbearable. Then Sunday afternoon I was having the same on off contractions when Andrew suggested we take a car ride. Being in the car always seemed to start things going a little stronger. When things di...

Yup, it is finally time to start a blog. There is a baby on the way and I need to document his/our lives a little bit I guess. So here we go... Here are his pics at 19 weeks. Yup it is definitely a BOY!!!!! Andrew and I are both so excited! He is a wiggly, super  hiccupy  boy. And he is already pretty darn cute. I think he has my chin, eh? I really didn't expect it to happen as fast as it did but boy, this baby was not messing around. I went into work at the salon one day and a friend of mine said "Hey you look good today, you're pregnant" I said "Nope, I'm not". She said "Yes, you are. Run get a test" and  tada ... She was right. I called Andrew and told him that I was really wanting some  Caraba's,  could we go out that night. As soon as I got off I ran to the nearest grocery store and bought a baby pacifier and wrapped in 10 layers of wrapping paper, then shoved it in my purse. I was nearly bursting as...