welcome baby cooper!

2010 has been a crazy year for our good friends having babies. The latest addition is darling Cooper Grace whose parents, Scott and Polly, are long-time dear friends from my early days in Alaska. (Scott even helped marry us!)

Isn’t she beautiful?

Scott and I have been cracking each other up texting about all the future family vacations we’re going to take with our kids to super cool places, and how embarrassed by us they’ll be when they’re teenagers.

Us, embarrassing? Here we are keeping it sexy on St. Barts.

Congratulations Scott & Polly!

welcome leo!

Our friends Tamara and Rob welcomed their first baby, a boy named Leo, last Thursday up in Anchorage. (September 30th was a big day for babies!) Tamara looked absolutely amazing after giving birth, don’t you think? I looked like a hot mess after delivering Matteo but look at her sitting there, batting her eyelashes, all serene and lovely like it ain’t no thing.

We got to meet Leo when he was still on the inside, when he and Tamara came to visit us this summer after Matteo was born.

I can’t wait for Matteo’s first Alaskan adventure. I know he and Leo are going to be good friends. Leo can teach Matteo how to climb mountains and Matteo can introduce Leo to the wonders of fresh cheese curds. Congratulations Tamara and Rob!

welcome ayla!

Exactly one week ago tonight our friends Stefanie and Adam welcomed their first child, a daughter names Ayla, into the world. Ayla came six weeks early and gave her parents quite a scare, but aside from being teeny tiny is absolutely beautiful and perfect.

She’ll be in the NICU for a few more days until she gains a few more ounces and can eat a little better on her own. I went to visit her and Stefanie yesterday and was able to hold her myself. This is how amazing it felt to hold a 3 and a half pound baby.

Right now she’s in an incubator until she can regulate her own body temperature. Adam is getting his PhD in child psychology and decorated hers with pictures of them, their dogs and Wimmer Ferguson cards to keep her busy when he and Stefanie are away. She’s going to be a baby genius in no time.

Congratulations Stefanie and Adam! She’s absolutely precious.