My Baby turns 5 today!!

and I am a just a little bit sad about the whole deal.

Happy that he is growing up (because let me tell you, having older kids is turning out to be pretty cool) but just a tad sad that my baby is getting bigger.

The good news is that he is still a peanut, loves to snuggle, tells me I am beautiful, and asks me to marry him almost every day.

Cole arrived via planned c-section at almost 39 weeks, our smallest baby at 7lbs. 14oz.  He was so mad when they took him out, the doctors laughed and said he had a temper.

It was an easy one, and I was packed up and ready to go home 24 hours after he arrived (my choice with the previous two kids, I hate staying in the hospital).  But they wouldn’t let me go because they thought my incision was infected.  I knew it wasn’t, but I had a major allergic reaction to the sterry strips and it took them forever to figure it out that it wasn’t an infection.  They made me stay an extra night.  Of course I freaked out, I had to get home and bake a birthday cake for my oldest who was about to turn 6.  I cried, I yelled, I called my doctor…they told me I was hormonal.  So I stayed 48 hours instead of 24 and made it home in time for the next birthday.

I wish I had access to older pictures but they are all stored on a back-up that I can’t get to yet.  So here  are a few from flickr

Here he is celebrating last year at the farm- stinker

in the garden at the farm

celebrating at the beach in Texas last year

On the trampoline.

So Cole has been our wild child from day one.  He is small, tough, and has a temper.  But he is also sweet and smart and very loyal.  With Cole we had to learn a whole new side of parenting.  He scares us with his bravery, and drives us crazy with his stubbornness.  But we love the fact that he is the toughest of the bunch.

Happy Birthday Keekster- we love you!!