New Pictures

Hi everyone! We are at the beach with my family and are having a blast. I wanted to put up a new post to let everyone know about the pictures we did recently with Aidan, Emma and Carter. The Vanderveens (love them!) did them and we are going to have a time deciding on which ones to choose. Go to their website: www.vanderveenkids.com and click on web galleries and then on Cousins. I will post some pictures of our beach trip when we get back next week. Hope everyone is doing well!

5 weeks

Here's a video of Emma at 5 weeks in her swing, what a cutie!

6 weeks old

I haven't updated in while, whew...2 babes makes for some crazy days! Emma has been doing great, she's such a good baby. She does like to be held alot and of course I've enjoyed holding her, but its a bit challenging when its just me, Aidan and Emma. She has projectiled a few other times since my last post, I'm still trying to figure out how much she wants to eat, she seems to be the type of baby who likes to suck even after she's full, so we are trying to get her to take a paci, which she does occasionally. We introduced her to the bottle the other day and I was a bit worried at first, she totally refused it and screamed like we were torturing her, so I ended up nursing her to calm her down then we waited until the next feeding and I went upstairs and let Chris try by himself and she finally took it. I swear I think it had something to do with me being in the room. I am going to leave her with my MIL next week for half a day so I can go get a much needed massage!! ahhh! I can't wait! Here are some pics of Emma to update you on how much she has grown!

2 weeks old

3 weeks old

4 weeks old

5 weeks old

5 weeks old

6 weeks old

4 weeks old

Its been a while since my last post, but Emma is doing well and growing like a weed. She just had her 1 month checkup and she is now 11 lbs, 3 oz and 22 1/2 inches long. Such a healthy girl! We had a little scare when I went in for my appt. one of her breasts was slightly swollen and red and had several knots in it. I have read and heard from other mothers that the swollen, hard breasts is normal at this age, but they were worried that one of hers was infected. So, I had to take her to the lab to get blood drawn, now I thought babies getting shots was bad, man try to watch them find a vein in a tiny arm to draw blood! ugh! It was horrible! and then to top things off the doctor decided to squeeze her little boobie to see if anything would come out and low and below milk came out, poor thing screamed the whole time, I would too if some doctor started squeezing my boob!! ha! But, the good news is we got the blood culture results back today and everything looks normal, so we are hopeful that it will go away on its own, its a little frustrating having to go back to the dtrs for 2 additional checkups, but I know they want to make sure its not getting any worse, what sucks is the $20 copay each time I walk through that door!

We had another first with her last night, she projectile vomited on me big time! I never experienced that with Aidan, but I realize all babies are different, its just not something I want to experience too often. I didn't realize it could shoot out of a baby like that, I was soaked from my shirt to my pants, not fun.

I am going to post some new pics and videos soon, I have just needed to re-coop from all this recent craziness!

More pictures!

Wednesday April 9th!

Here is a picture I found of Aidan at 2 weeks and one of Emma I took today, they look so much alike to me! Both are cuties!


Tomorrow Emma will be 2 weeks old! She's not quite back at her birth weight, but she's almost there. She has been such a wonderful baby so far, just like her brother was. She's hardly ever fussy unless she's hungry! ha! She is a very gassy baby, but I'm very thankful its coming out rather than staying in. I am nursing her and it is going so well, I was so worried that I would have trouble remembering everything, but it has all come back to me and she is a natural at it.

Here is a video I took of her today:

more pictures of Emma!