Our Newest Addition...

Cooper Jed Riding was born on February 21, 2008. He weighed in at 7lbs 10oz and was 21 1/2 inches long. I woke up that morning at 3:45am and thought I just had a stomach ache from something I had eaten the night before. Then I realized that the pains were coming on every ten minutes. I thought for sure it must be pre-labor pains, not the real thing. I still had a week and a half until Cooper's due date (March 3). At 5:30am I finally got out of bed and decided that I would not tell Cody about my contractions-he would make me stay at home. I taught my first graders the whole day while having contractions five minutes apart (despite the concerns of the other teachers) and finally went to the doctor that afternoon. He told us that Cooper would be coming that night. We checked into the hospital at 7:30pm, I got an epidural at 10pm (already dilated to an 8!) and Cooper was born at 11:40pm.