Big Sister, Little Sister
Yahoo! I am so happy to not be pregnant anymore! Not that I don't like pregnancy, but that I can move around so much better now, I can breathe better, and I feel little with all that baby gone! Major things have happened since I last wrote. Luckily, Randy has been keeping you updated. Yes, I finally had the baby, Oct. 10th, and isn't she a big one for a newborn? On Monday I took her to her 1st check-up and she was already 9lbs 2 oz. She is gaining weight fast, and that's good! She's a great nurser, so I guess that explains it. Emma (you can call her Emmy if you want... I still love that name) is such a good, sweet baby. So cute and mild mannered. She sleeps so well at night, and only wakes up to nurse and go back to sleep. That's nice, except that I don't sleep well. I'm constantly checking on her to make sure she's breathing. I do get nice long naps during the day, so that's good.
My mom got to come and help out for a week. She came on Sat. the 11th, and left on the 18th. I LOVED having my mom here. She was so good with Kenadi, and Emma, and me, and Randy (couldn't leave him out). Kenadi was having some jealousy issues for the first couple of days, but I think having Grandma here to give her extra attention helped her deal better. Anyways, mom cooked for us, and cleaned, and kept me emotionally stable... mostly. =) I was really sad to see her leave. I had a hard time wanting to relax, though, because I wanted to have fun with mom and show her around and stuff. We did a few things, but not nearly as much as we could if Emma was older, and me all recovered. I guess she'll have to come visit again! Anyways, here are some more recent pictures of Emmy's first week home, and things we did. (not in the order I wanted, but I couldn't get the pictures to rearrange, sorry)
There are some statues that we took mom to see, and Kenadi tried to feed her apple to the dog statue. I thought it was cute.
We carved pumpkins...
This is the first whole day that Emma was home. We soak up every minute with her.
Had to see the bombing memorial... I wanted a picture with us girls, but Emma was sleeping, so it's just us three.
Proud daddy of 2 little girls!
She is so alert and likes to just look around at everything when she's awake. What a cute girl!
Of course, October is my birthday month. I love birthdays! I got some great gifts!
It seems like we always forget to get a picture with just us two. I'm going to do it more often.
We are excited for more Grandparents to visit us soon!
Here are more pictures of Emma. It's hard to get different poses when all she does is eat and sleep and mess diapers, but here she is, with LOTS of different poses. I worked really hard to get them, so enjoy!
I LOVE all of these faces she makes. They just make me laugh, and kiss those little cheeks more!
