Emma Anne

The sweetie pie was born on March 31st.  I was induced 3 days early and everything went well. I wrote about labor and delivery in my journal, so this is just a post about Emma's life day 1 and 2. :)

She came out and the doctors were surprised at her size (as usual for our family lol).  They quick checked and weighed her ( and she was already gnawing on her hand starving!)

And 30 seconds later I was holding her! 

First pic with mom and dad:

Dad's turn:

Mom's turn: ( you can see her looking for food, thats all she wanted to do her first couple hours was eat!!)

Then we went to our room downstairs and they didn't take her away to do a bath and tests like usual, they did it all in my room! It was awesome and so cute, she was so relaxed! 

 After a couple of hours, the kids came to see her.  It was adorable!!  The pictures tell the story pretty well:

 Also, giant shout out to Derek and Raycelan.  Photo credit goes to her for all these hospital pics of the kids.  And basically they are the best ever!!  They came over at 6am that morning (and were on call all week just incase!) and took care of the kids all day!!  After taking them to dinner they came to the hospital.  And the best part is, they were ready to spend the night at our house and keep babysitting the next day!  They didn't know Mom was on her way yet, they thought I needed them to do it, they were in for the long haul!  So wonderful, so kind.  They deserve medals and we will owe them forever!!

Derek's beard is a little scary in this picture though haha.

Owen wanted another turn but afrter a minute he was like "my arms are getting really tired!"

Whitney wanted one million turns lol

First family pic!

soon Grammy arrived to see Emma!

And then I was in for a night of sweet bonding time/getting woken up way too many times by the nurses to "check on" me and Emma.  Really it would have been best for my recovery to just get some SLEEP!

But at least Emma was adorable.

The next morning Eric came back to hang out with us and watch General Conference and eat hospital food and pick out her middle name!  I only had one emotional breakdown "I can't be expected to make big decisions like this today!!" But Eric was awesome, holding her up to me and saying "look at this face, I don't think she cares what we name her, she will be cute no matter what" so we decided on Anne for her middle name, even though it's like her first name backwards almost, Eric likes it like that. :) And he has an ancestor named Emma Anne.  And my great-grandma was named Emma.

I just wanted to enjoy every precious second with my last newborn baby.

Every baby hates their first outfit!

First car ride!