1. Her first week we were all fighting over turns to hold her. :)
2. She slept at least 20 hours a day for her first 2 months! Sleepiest baby ever!
3. She has never cried for more than 5 minutes at a time in her life.
4. She started sleeping through the night at age 6 weeks old!!!! Miracle!!! Only Owen did that, none of the other girls.
Other things she has in common with Owen-- she looks most like Owen's baby pictures, and she has started sucking her thumb! Hence the sleeping through the night! She also got the awful face rash that Owen got, but I knew how to deal with it this time so it only lasted a couple of weeks and was never as horrible as poor Owen's!
5. Emma has the hiccups more than any other human. She's hardly spits up.
6. Shestarted smiling at 6 weeks and it has been SO much fun for everyone to enjoy her coos and smiles.
7. Emma spent her first couple of weeks of life sleeping on Dad. Eric took the week off after she was born and it was the best thing ever!! For all of us.
8. I was super emotional day 2. And the next few days I was pretty good but I still cried almost every day because Emma was one day older and I was never going to have a 3 day old baby again, a 5 day old baby again, etc. It's still sad to me! I was so sad when I realized she wasn't going to wake up in the night to eat any more. I mean don't get me wrong, I am super grateful, but being up in the night with my babies has sometimes been a sweet bonding time. As long as they go right back to sleep after eating, and don't wake up excessively much, it hasn't been too bad. So I was sad to think I would never take care of my own sweet babies like that again. ;( Also getting a full night's sleep makes me feel like I have no excuse anymore, like I should be doing everything again. I put too much pressure on myself. So I need to work on that!
Emma is such a little sweetie and I am so so so grateful we get to have her in our family. I've been trying to not be sad as she grows up-- just to be grateful that we get to do all of this one more time!!
We have been so blessed with our beautiful baby. We are so lucky.
We came home from the hospital to a clean house and a surprise party! thanks to my mom and katelyn and whitney!
Eric took the kids on dates and hikes and was amazing,
post from facebook:
She's done it again! My mom has been here this week working her magic. Playing board games with the kids and reading to them. Cooking and cleaning with them. Making sure I rest--while she works! Taking night shifts with Emma so I can get more sleep. Putting up with my grumpiness or pickiness, talking to Eric...she does it all! I love you Mom! #grammyforthewin #ihavealotofkids
Easter baby!
meeting her cousin Justin, born 3 weeks before her
She had a wonderful first 2 months of life!!
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