First Cravings...

Cooper,

FOOD!

Gosh, I do love food and almost every aspect of it! Except shopping for it...I hate that part.  I was so excited for you to get here so I would finally have someone to go shopping with me.  I remember going grocery shopping with Nana growing up.  When I was younger, I remember I woulr always try to convince her that there was something that I just couldn't 'live with out' on each trip.  I'm sure Nana saw right through it but she loved us and very rarely refused not getting buying whatever it was.  I couldn't wait tell you were old enough to do the same thing.  I have a good friend who has two boys and she hates taking them with her because whenever they pass by the toy section, they will cry until she lets them pick out a '$50 truck', aka one of the little matchbox cars.  I would gladly buy you any ACTUAL $50 truck if I had the chance.

Daddy's dad and step mom are the best cooks ever!  And boy did you enjoy their cooking! I'm so glad you had the 'chance' to try it! Everytime we would go home to visit,  I would go straight to their refrigerator and raid it!  I was one happy pregnant momma!

The whole point of this post is about the first foods I craved when I was pregnat with you.  There's an entire list of foods I craved when I was pregnant. 

1. Pot of Gold Soup  This is what tipped Daddy off to the fact that we might be expanding out little trio (Me, Daddy, and big fur brother Binx) to a family of 4.  I randomly found it while I was making out a list of groceries in a cookbook that your Mimi had given me at Christmas.  It's apparently an old scout cooking recipe that is super easy to make over a campfire.  It's nothing more than tomato soup with a pound of hamburger meat and 1 chopped up onion.  Then you take a roll of biscuits and in each biscuits you put in a little cube of cheese.   Daddy thought it was the most horrible thing ever but I could not get enough of it and ate it for DAYS!  About a week after making it, we found out we were pregnant.  And much later, Daddy finally said that's what tipped him off the pot of gold soup.

2. Ranch dressing I could not get enough of the stuff I would literally eat it on everything.  I bought ranch dressing in the huge bottles and would run out pretty quickly.

3. Cheese and pickles I love cheese and I love pickles.  Very early in my pregnancy with you I would actually eat them together.  I'm now gagging at that thought.  But's also something I craved when I was pregnant with Colby.  Nana and Papa came down to visit while Daddy was in Korea very early on.  Nana and I went shopping and I bought 6 different kinds of pickles.  I think I still had one of the jars in the fridge up until we moved a few weeks back.  I have a feeling this we will be a recurring craving in future pregnancies.

4.  Sweets This one is a little different.  I love LOVE love different types of candy, especially peanut butter cups!  I love Easter because they put out ones that look like eggs.  I swear the peanut butter in those bad boys is sooo much better than in the normal ones.  When I was pregnant, I could NOT eat anything sweet.  It would just make me even  more sick to my stomach.  I could not stand anything sweet.  I thought it was the most horrible thing ever.  We told our parents and siblings you were a boy but having red velvet cupcakes filled with blue icing.  I ate one and it ended pretty poorly.  I couldn't even enjoy my favorite cupcake from my favorite bakery.  Daddy was okay with it though, he happily ate my share of the cupcakes. :)

5.  Salads & Fresh Vegetables  I've never been one to choose to eat a salad or fresh vegetables.  But it seemed like I couldn't get enough of it!  I would eat broccoli and cauliflower almost everyday during the sumemr. And whenever we ate I would end up ordering a salad.  Daddy and I were convinced that between my revulsion for sweet things and my sudden desire for anything green and from a garden you were going to be one healthy little guy. Perhaps that's why you were so healthy for 34 weeks??

6. Spicy foods  Anyone who really knows me, understands that I hated foods that were spicy.  I would avoid them at all costs.  Spicy foods did not touch my lips.  I would refuse to touch Daddy if I knew he had eaten something spicy recently.  Daddy LOVES spicy foods.  Well, that changed with you little monkey.  I LOVED spicy foods.  There were even somethings that were too spicy for Dad that I loved.  And Daddy, Papa Don and Kimmy love to do it spicy at their house!  Whenever we were home, I would spend my days in the pool with a bowl of salsa and chips.  You would kick and roll and flip all over when I got into the pool.  I think you would have been right at home this summer in the pool.

love you to the moon and back,
Momma