Giggles

Ryan has started really laughing a lot. It's so cute and funny! Here are a couple of videos from Bangkok where I had the hiccups and for some reason it just tickled him to pieces!

Bangkok #1

Saying Bye to Daddy at the Airport. It's so hard to be away this long....We miss Lee so much. Thank goodness for Skype!!

We've finally made it to our destination. From door to door it took us close to 40 hrs of travel to get here. And keep in mind we did it with a 4 month old! All in all travels went extremely well considering the length of the trip and how hard it was on all of us. Ryan was a trooper.

Baby Tobin was born about 2 hrs after we arrived. Lorraine was scheduled for a csection a couple of days after we were to arrive, but Tobin was ready to come early! Welcome little guy!

The girls loved going to see Mama at the hospital and getting to see Baby Tobin. Sophia loves to hold him! He's going to have two awesome big sisters!

I have forgotten how little newborns are. He's so tiny compared to my big boy. Ryan looks like a giant next to Tobin although they are only 4 months apart in age. He'll catch up with Ryan soon!

Hanging out at the hospital. Ryan napping when we can get him to. Changing his body clock has been a challenge, but over all he's done really well.

The girls loving on their cousin!

Have passport, ready to travel?

We've got about 36 hrs before we leave for Thailand. Mama is starting to have a bit of travel anxiety thinking about the days ahead. I'm wishing my hubby was coming along for the journey too. I'm gonna miss him terribly and I know Ryan will too. We're traveling around the world for the love of family and are happy to do so. We can't wait to see the Coker crew in Thailand and to meet Baby Coker #3!! Here's a bit of the process that it takes to get ready for an adventure like this. Packing for myself is crazy enough...add a 4 month old in the mix and it's a bit overwhelming. I'm sure I've WAY over packed, but the Coker motto is "better to be prepared than wish we had something we didn't bring." (I'm sure David is chuckling as he reads that statement :) ) Little Guy's passport cracks me up. That pic doesn't look a bit like him and never really did. Oh well. I'm sure it'll be fine.

Oh yeah, I think we could have a thumb sucker on our hands. This is what I've been seeing in the last few days. It's a new thing for Ryan.

Ryan had his 4 month old well check today. Things we learned today: He's about 14 lbs, at 25% for growth, at about 35% for height, and seems to be developing right on schedule. Lately we've noticed him finding his feet, especially while getting his diaper changed, sucking his thumb and fingers, and loves his play gym. He doesn't like to sit idol too long and likes to play with his toys. He's a sweetie pie. We'll start solid foods in mid May once we're back from out trip and back on this time zone. He's sleeping at night from about 7:30-7:30 with one feeding around 4:30am. We're ready for the full night, but that will come and we'll work on that when we get back.

pictures

For some reason my pictures didn't post for the last post that had pics. Here they are!

Getting Ready

I'm in the process of getting ready for our big trip to Thailand on Friday. I'm doing some packing, shopping for last minute items, worrying, doing laundry, and worrying some more..... I hope our trip goes smoothly. I'm sure it will have some bumps in the road but hopefully the 3 adults vs. 1 child will help. I'm not sure what Poppy, CC and I have signed up for!!??!! Hopefully we'll have some patient passengers surrounding us and also some helpful flight attendants. We'll need a bit of grace some others on this trip. A 4 month old can be unpredictable as we found out when we went to Georgia a couple of weeks ago. You never know how they'll behave. We can't wait to see David, Lorraine, Sophia, Bella and can't wait to meet Baby Boy Coker. Lorraine is scheduled to have her c section on April 12 (about a day and half after we arrive) so things will be exciting from the get-go! We can't wait to see our family. It's only been about 6 months since we said bye last time, but it seems like forever since so much has happened in our lives since they left stateside in early October. I can't wait for them to meet Ryan....it's a wonderful thing that we can go see them and spend this precious time with them. We're constantly reminded of how important family is especially in a time like this and we're blessed that we have the opportunity to go be with them. I'm sure having all 4 grandchildren together will be awesome for Poppy and CC. Just a few more days to go till we leave.....

Friends

Eli and Katie came over for a visit and here are our two boys together. Eli is so cute with Ryan. He always to refers to him as Baby Ryan. I'm sure he learned that from us calling Ryan 'Baby Ryan' throughout my pregnancy. It's super cute. These boys will play together one day!! I know Eli's ready!

Love the drool....

Jenn, Reggie and all the kids came to Wilmington last Saturday so Jenn and the girls could come to my Usborne party. Here are the little kids together. They've all grown so much!! One day they will interact with each other...we're just not there yet!

Helping Daddy on the computer!