Happy Birthday Cooper!

Today is the day my little boy turns 10!!! Cooper is the child that we prayed and prayed and prayed for! Scott and I got married in 1996 and immediately began trying to have a baby. It wasn't until a year later I finally got into a new OBGYN for an appointment. I was having female issues and was put on fertility drugs to help things out. After six months nothing happened so I had a test to check for a block in my tubes. Nope, all clear, no problems, but still no baby. Scott had to get checked too, yep all good! Then I had a laser laparotomy to check things even further. We found out that my tubes were tied with scar tissue from my c-section with Jarika. So the doc freed up one tube with the laser and we had another surgery schedule to go in and remove all of the scarring. We schedule it for the beginning of June so I would be out of school. I went in for my pre-op appointment and that night I got a call from my docs nurse, "Cammie, you must call the office first thing in the morning, it's urgent." Okay I'm thinking I'm dying! Nope, I was pregnant!!! I was so ecstatic!!! I went to the doc for further bloodwork and tests. Unfortunately my results were not good. It was obvious that the baby wasn't growing and I would most likely miscarry. I did twelve days later. We were devastated. The doctor told me to just relax and we would reschedule the surgery to clear things up. We weren't to "try" and if nothing showed up in five weeks to give him a call to get "things" flowing :) Well there goes five weeks and I have the worst PMS ever. So, I tell my mom and she suggests I take a home pregnancy test. Yeah right, it took over two years to get pregnant the last time, there's no way! Well God had a plan and his plan was to create my first son, Cooper William! His pregnancy was definitely full of complications, stress and worry, but on March 19, 1999 after two and a half years of waiting for this gift, my prayer was answered. God meant for Cooper to be my son. He is a wonderful, amazing child who I love so much and I am honored to be his mom. Cooper has Asperger's syndrome, a form of high functioning autism. He is a gift. I have someone who always knows what the temperature is going to be, knows the number of every highway we have ever driven on and the number of every hotel room we have ever stayed at! He also does his sisters math much to her dismay!

Happy Birthday sweet boy!!