Madison says the darnest things

Madison is 18 months old has found her words! YAY! I am so excited that she is mimicking every sound and word everyone around her makes. We really have to watch what we say!

It is so sweet to hear her say "Claylee" (Claylon)

 when I am nursing Claylon she says "milk" (milk) and when claylon spits up she says "waass aat" (whats that) or "ouuu eeee" (ouch)

She loves "baa tea-m" (bath time)

She has really become super attached to "Da Da"

She loves to "each" (eat) and "nack" (snack) and always wants "MO" (more)!

Her favorite pass time these days is watching "moonies" (movies),  playing with her "abie" (baby). and reading "books" (books)

She is Mrs. Independent and rather "alk" (walk)

She sometimes will say "tank to" (thank you) but she rather sign this word still

Madison has also starting using the potty... teetee only but will always tell me when she has a "oop" (poop)!

I have a video that I will try to post on here very soon, but it is of her wear her big girl panties and going potty! So exciting =) 

She is growing up so fast I can hardly believe it! I cant believe she is almost 18 months old!! I look forward to teaching her new words and watching her learn to use the potty! This has been the best year and a half of my life and things only seem to get better and better... I AM SO BLESSED!

Claylon Jerrel Cooper

Claylon was born on July 1st 2010 at 9:07 am

When Claylon was born we weighed 7lbs 10 oz

was 20 inches long

Claylon was born the day before my birthday, what a great birthday present =)

The day after Claylon was born he became jaundice and had to stay in the hospital for  few extra days. Which we were not too happy about but we are thankful that we left the hospital with a healthy baby boy! 

This is the first meeting with his sister...

Madison loves to hold and kiss her new baby brother and is very sweet towards him! 

Here is a picture of daddy and Claylon: 

When we left the hospital on the 4th of July Claylon weighed 7lb 1oz. 

It's A BOY!

We have kind of known that we were having a boy since the very dr. appointment. At 13 weeks I saw the doctor for the first time and it was so special because Bubba actually was able to come to one of my appointments. Anyway, we were getting the "date ultrasound" and above the doctor talking you hear Bubba go, "IS THAT A PENIS?!" He was so excited he couldnt even keep it under control!! That doctor's response was that it had boy parts but not to paint the room blue just yet. So we didnt really think much of it because we werent 100% sure.

We had plans to find out the gender of the baby on Madison's birthday (early that morning) but on the next doctors visit we found out on "accident"... I went in for a routine check up and they couldnt find the baby's heartbeat so my doctor got me into a ultrasound room and right when i mean RIGHT when she put the thing on my belly there was a baby boy part but since we werent really there to find anything but the heartbeat she didnt stop to take a picture. Once she got a good look at the babies heartbeat she went back to get a picture of his manhood but then he woulnt uncross his legs... silly boy!

I told Bubba by buying him lunch and in the food box I wrote its a boy!!! When he opened his lunch I seriously thought his smile was going to be permeant! He was SO EXCITED!!!

We go this Saturday to get another ultrasound so maybe this time we can actually get some proof!! We are so excited that we are going to be blessed with one girl and one boy. It is just absolutely perfect!

Personality Crisis

I have recently starting going to a bible study called MOMS at our church. The first day we filled out a personality profile. I am sure many of you have heard of it, it's called Wired that way. I thought this would be very easy for me to do because I was pretty confident I knew exactly who I was. I was very surprised when my results came out and I was two completely opposite personalities. At first I was like so what, im a little of this and also this. But as I continued to fill out my profile I read that the two personalities I thought i was detected a personality mask. a personality mask, huh?

So i decided to have my husband help me whenever I got home. My husband lead me to an even bigger problem, he saw things about myself that i didnt see. So I filled out the personality profile just one more time and i finally found a personality haha YAY! If you are wondering I am Perfect Melancholy and Peaceful Phlegmatic. These two personalities are fine together, they actually complement and are not complete opposites.

I got to thinking about why and what masked my identity and made this so hard for me to fill out. The biggest things i can think of are 1) i am pregnant and who i am changes like the weather in Houston lately and 2) I am a young mom who has gone through very dramatic changes in just a little over 2 years!

A little background to my story, in college I was quite the wild animal. I pretty much felt invincible and didn't really have a care in the world but my own personal happiness. This is not to say I didnt get my things done! I still graduated with a 3.4 and worked throughout. =) The last semester of college I found out i was pregnant with Madison and got married. After I graduated i moved to Houston where my husband works and became a stay at home mom. This at first was a huge struggle for myself because i was always a go getter and social butterfly and now I was home with an infant. I love staying home with Madison but it is a completely different life style than I had gotten so used to in college.

This the reason for my identity mask! I am changing as a person and i think for the better! The first day in the bible study the teacher read scripture, I regretful didnt write it down, that really spoke to my heart. It went something along these lines; making everything you do reflect the Lord in a good way. This really opened my eyes because I am right where I am supposed to be!! I am playing with my child, cooking dinner, cleaning house, doing laundry, waking up in the middle of the night, and watching television with husband all in the name of the Lord. I may not be teaching a classroom full of children like I had planned but I am raising a family in the name of the Lord, which in my opinion says a lot and is also difficult at times.

When you are pregnant with your first child people have no problem telling you how different your life is going to be because you have to change dirty diapers and worry about another human 24 hours a day and blah blah. The one thing no one told me about was the "identity crisis"  and this has been the hardest thing for me to cope with so far. I have heard of a lot of moms who have gone through this same 'identity crisis" when they had children. I would like to hear your story and how you figured out your identity and if it is still a struggle! SO SHARE.... I WOULD LIKE SOME COMMENTS YOU CREEPERS =)

Boy or Girl

I cant believe that in about 2 weeks I will be finding out if Cooper #2 is a boy or a girl!! Second pregnancies go by so fast. I feel like with Madison I was counting down the seconds rather than the days =)

Just for fun we have done a few of the gender quizzes and one quiz says boy and the other says girl. The Chinese conception calendar says its a boy and the string over the belly button with with my wedding band says its a girl! Have any of you used either of these? where they accurate for you?

With Madison the chinese conception calendar was correct, so we will see with this baby if we think its accurate =)

Will Madison EVER wean?!

Madison is almost a year old and still hasnt dropped a nursing feed!! YIKES!  This is awesome and I have really enjoyed nursing her but what do I do when the other baby gets here? I am sooo worried I am going to have both on my bottles at the same times! YIKES!!

I offer her solid food during lunch and dinner and some days breakfast but that is only when she wakes up clucking. clucking is that she does when she is hungry for food... she is seriously so smart!

Any suggestions on how to wean or feeding two at the same time... does anyone have experience in that?!

Pillow Talk

The other night while I was getting ready to go to sleep I looked over to the person laying next to me. I started to think how amazing it was that he is the only other person in the world I share "pillow talk" with!! By pillow talk I mean those last minute thoughts and reminders we give each other at our days end.

Anyway, this got me thinking about what an amazing husband I have! He goes to work every morning without even a grunt at the alarm clock and comes home with nothing less than a smile and helping hands!! It amazes me that someone could have such few "bad days"!  I would love to wake up every morning and not grunt at my alarm clock for a few extra minutes (Madison) and by the time my husband gets home STILL have a smile on my face. It seems hard to do but this is one thing I REALLY want to learn from my husband... I hope it rubs off HEHE =)

Not only is my husband a hard worker he is also the best daddy! Im not just saying this either... he truly is! =) He loves to be involved and if that means feeding, bathing, and changing diapers (at this age) well then he wants to do those things!! Also, there are times that I cant even figure out what is wrong with our baby girl and he will be like well maybe it's blank! try this.... and that will be the problem! It is so amazing how in-tune he is to mine and Madison's needs!

In the mix of daily activities and being busy I loose time to recognize my husband for all he does and how much we love him! The truth is, I couldn't do it without him! He is my rock and I am so blessed to have such a wonderful partner as him!