This week in Pictures

Cooper

Taylor found Grammies make-up! She looks like the Joker :) She was so happy... and kept asking for Allie ( my sister ) wonder why?

Birth announcement outtake. Grammie making Cooper giggle

First time meeting Papa. They were instantly smitten with each other

Cooper 6 weeks old. ( birth announcement outtake)

Taylor caught a baby lizard in the house!

Taking Bowman for a ride.

xoxo

We have had the most wonderful emails from friends and family... and lovely readers of the Pickled Bean with best wishes for Super Coop. We are a blessed little bunch. xoxo a million thank you's.

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The Scoop on our Coop

Hello Lovely Readers

As most of you know Cooper was diagnosed with a heart murmur tow weeks ago . We had our first cardiology appointment on Wednesday and after a long morning and a bunch of test we finally have some information!

First: heart murmurs are very very common, 30% off all children have a murmur at some point in there life. A murmur only means that the heart is making a different noise than normal, the tests are to check see why the noise is present. Thus, there are many many different kind of murmurs. Most murmurs are "functional" and the children can live until they are 110 years old and never worry about it.

Here is the Scoop on our Coop

His murmur is due to his Pulmonary veins ( the veins that lead the blood from the heart to the lungs) being very narrow. Because they are so narrow his right ventricle ( the bottom right potion of his heart) is being over worked and is thicker than normal.

At this point he is fine, we will be going on follow up appointments over the next few months to make sure that the Pulmonary veins are not narrowing more as he grows. If they stay like they are now Cooper will lead a very active life and no one will know any diffrent. The news was a little more serious than we thought but not horrible news. The cardiologist thinks he will be fine since he has gained a good amount of weight and has great oxygen levels. They were very reassuring and optimistic.... which makes us feel like everything will be fine as well!

We will keep you posted after our next appointment! Thank you all so much for you prayers, emails etc.

Happy Birthday sweet Lucy Faye!

Tomorrow is Lucy Faye's 4th Birthday! We love her so much, she is kind and gentle with the babies... even when she is taking a beating from Taylor. We will spend the day like we have for each one of her birthdays. A nice stake dinner (one for Lucy too). A doggie birthday cake and her usual gifts: a new collar and stuffed toy.