The Cook Clan: January 2014

Monday, January 6, 2014

A one month old and 22 month old....

One Month old...

David and I must have done something right to deserve two wonderful little girls... Caroline is a wonderful baby who cries when she is gets hungry (which is like clock work 3 hours on the DOT... no need for a watch with this lil girl).

Watch out... I am already 10 lbs and growing everyday.

23 3/4 inches tall and taking 4oz milkevery 3 hours

Our first month flew by during the Christmas Season with great family and friends... The cold weather kept us inside snuggled up by the fire or a billiblanket... Caroline had jaundice pretty bad and had to go to the doctor every other day from 4 days old for a little over a week and had her foot poked every time (5 TIMES she was running out of space on her little feet :( ...)

My lil Glow Worm (baby)... :)

Hannah cannot get enough of her baby cousin... She is great with babies!

Her typical position for the first week or so at home of SLEEP...

She looks so big... its the camera she's itty bitty!

Typical position for Caroline and me... like really all the time!

Daddy time...

We also made the trip up to Greenville a week before Christmas for Caroline to meet her Great Grandmommy Baldwin! Grandmommy was in love.

4 Generations! I love them!! The sweetest ladies you will ever meet... And I call them Mom and Grandmommy :)

Ellie has really gotten into holding babies and rocking them :)

While in Greenville we were able to celebrate Christmas Eve at Gigi's with some of Caroline and Ellie's cousins (Gracie and Adeline Howard)

When did she grow up??

These TWO equal TROUBLE!

CHRISTMAS TIME!

Caroline was 4 days old... I think she did pretty good.

Ellie on the other hand was not feeling it...

Santa Came!!

Christmas with the Grandparents!

Christmas at the Cooks

Girls and their Jeeps.... -oh goodness

Howard's Christmas in the Mountains

Silly picture... you can almost see everyone...

Cheesin with Daddy

Complete CHAOS for 10 minutes while everyone tears into their gifts!! So much fun :)

David being a good sport about the Caroline/Clemson game bet..

Waiting for all the kiddos to go down to enjoy our Christmas dinner..

Caroline is totally blessed to have so much family that loves her and spoils her unconditionally. We have been blessed this Christmas Season...

I might have gone a little overboard with the picture, but who knows how long I will keep up with this blog :) (just being honest - but will TRY)

Ellie thinks she can fit in the bassinet....

Caroline in the bassinet, family tradition...

My name is one of the ones at the top... but it has gone through the entire family!

Got to have a little adult time while in Greenville with the cousins!

One great sister... she has to be touching her or pointing out her eyes and nose at all time :)

Look who found her THUMB!!

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Black Friday Deal!

One heck of a Black Friday... I think we got the best deal ever!! :)

Caroline Frances Cook

11/29/2013

Sweet Caroline.. SWEETHEART

After one great day of shopping the black Friday deals, on November 29, 2013, David and I decided to drop Ellie off at her grandparent Cook's house just incase I should by chance go into labor, kinda thought it was the night!. After visiting with everyone for a while David and I decided to take advantage of the night and have a date at Yamoto's Japanese Steak house. After our meal we got back to the house about 7:30 and asked David "what do you think about going and picking up Ellie for the night, I am not going to go into labor tonight" and within a couple of minutes my water broke!!! We got in the car thinking we had plenty of time and there was no reason to rush. However, David apparently could hear it in my voice and knew we were out of time and raced to the hospital! Upon arrival he had to run and get me a wheel chair and rush me in. The nurses took me into the triage while David checked us in at 8:25. Caroline had decided not to wait any longer and was on the way! The nurses rushed me into the delivery room and didn't even have time to take off my Fripp Hoodie!! Then after no pain medicine at 8:57 beautiful Caroline was born. Weighing 7lbs 1oz she was just perfect and we could not have been any more excited to meet our new baby girl!

WOW... that was crazy!!

After settling down for a minute we then decided to call all the grand parents to let them know that Caroline was here and doing great! However, Nana didn't believe David at the time and even asked where he got the sound of a baby crying!! haha. Everyone was very excited and shocked that we were at dinner at 7:30 and holding Caroline at 8:57!! What an exciting, stressful night!!