3 months ago...

...I gave birth to my 2nd baby girl.  She has blessed our lives in so many ways.  We thought we were so blessed with just Claire, but having the two most beautiful girls in the whole world has completely enriched our lives!

Here's a 3 month update on Emma.

We don't know her weight or height, but I would guess she's definitely over 10 pounds now, since she was 9 lbs. 11 oz. at her 2 month check up.  She's also just long; a long, skinny girl!

She's wearing NONE of her newborn clothes anymore.  SAD!

She is so alert, now and everyone comments on her big, bright eyes. She is such a beautiful baby.

Emma chatters like crazy.  If she's fed and changed, she'll smile and coo until your face hurts from smiling and cooing back at her.  What a social bug!

Speaking of social bug, she loves to be around us.  If we have her in her bouncy chair in the Living Room during dinner, she'll get cranky until we move her into the eating area. Sometimes she gets cranky if no one is talking to her at the moment.

She still loves to watch Claire play and is a trooper for handling all of Claire's kisses, lovies, and Claire petting her while chanting "sof, sof, sof" (soft, soft, soft).  She also has her daddy wrapped very tightly around ALL of her cute little fingers. :)

I can't believe she keeps growing so quick.  I love her to bits. Check out the pictures!

Auntie Kali was babysitting.  Such a tough life being tended to by someone who loves you tons! :-)

Emma, are you praying or sleeping?

Keep watching and she'll eventually get that entire fist in her mouth!

She loves to hold her clothes and get kissed by daddy!

Independence Day

The holiday is called "Independence Day" not "The 4th of July".  That's something that totally bugs Kory.  It doesn't bother me so much, but he has a point so I say Independence Day.  It's true--we don't go around wishing people a happy 25th of December or 14th of Februrary.  We use the names of the holidays and so it should be for Independence Day as well.

That being said, my baby girl turned 2 months old on Independence Day.  So, here's a picture (or a few) and some stats:

Weight (as of July 3): 9 lbs. 11 oz.  little porker!  I was NOT expecting her to weigh that much by any means.
Length: 22.75 inches

Favorites: Bathtime, swaddles, Big Sister Claire, being held (this is becoming somewhat of an issue...) and of course, eating! :-)

Non-favorites: being burped in the middle of eating!! (How dare I do such a thing!); spitting up (result of not being burped in the middle of a feeding) and having to wait too long to be fed. UGH!

Milestones: Smiles and coos; mommy and daddy are loving this.

She's a good baby, but very different from Claire as a baby.  I don't remember Claire crying as much as Emma does which truly isn't often but when she does cry, she CRIES! Also, I don't like that she has grown out of the majority of her newborn clothes and is into 0-3mo. clothing now. *sigh*

Snuggles with Daddy! She is so spoiled.

Giant smiles for cousin Amber who had to put forth zero effort to get smiles from Emma!

Double chin = love!

Birth announcement

 So we finally got Emma Bug's birth announcements made!  She's six weeks old today.  I can't believe she's growing so fast.  These photos were taken by my dear friend Laura Johnson when baby was 10 days old.  She is so talented and I'm glad she captured my girls smiling.  The feet are Claire's and Emma's.  It's sentimental because Claire's feet look so great from her treatments for club foot and Emma's feet were perfectly perfect when she was born. We are so thankful we didn't have to go through the club foot experience with Emma.

Enjoy looking at those beautiful faces.

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1 month

I can't believe my baby Emma is 1 month old today.  It seems like she's just been part of our family forever, but the time has also flown by.  We're still adjusting to being a family of 4, but it sure is fun.  Here are some fun facts about Emma (along with pictures, of course!):

June 4, 2013

Age: 1 month
Weight: not sure, but definitely over 7 lbs.  Birth weight was 6 lbs. 5 oz.  At her 2 week checkup she had gained 11 ounces, putting her at 7 pounds even.  Judging by the chub in the 1 month photo, I would say over 7 pounds is a safe bet!

Favorite Things: EATING, sleeping, being swaddled, escaping from swaddling, looking at and listening to my big sister Claire, being kissed by big sister, sticking out my tongue, curling up and snuggling on anyone's shoulder!

Not-so-favorite Things: diaper changes, losing the binky, spitting up, clothing changes

Still on the fence about bath time! :)

What mommy and daddy love the most: how do we choose just one thing?  We love her beautiful eyes, mommy loves Emma's lips, kissing her, how much Claire loves her, snuggling her, heck what's not to love about the most beautiful newborn in the whole world?

Each day I'm so thankful that Claire loves baby Emma.  She constantly rambles on about baby's eyes being open, baby crying, or who is holding baby Emma.  It's never just "Emma."  It's "Baby Emma!"  Claire is such a great helper with Emma, too.  I hope they will be the best of friends.

Claire just loves this girl!

Birthday!

1 month old today!

Making faces

Why is it that we just can't get enough of this girl?  I pray often that both Emma and Claire will be able to feel how much mommy and daddy love them.  It's indescribable! There aren't sufficient words for this kind of joy and love. I'm so glad Emma Kawailani (kuh-why-lon-ee) is mine and that Heavenly Father has entrusted me with her care. Love you baby girl!

There was going to be a "Disney Vacation Part 2" and we're now into November (almoset DECEMBER!!!!) and I think we are going to abandon the Disney Vacay Part 2, for now.

But, I did add that little widget to the right.  Now I can see baby every day, if I remember to actually visit here at the blog.

Yup, that's how busy my life is, and being pregnant doesn't help with the energy level or the motivation to type in a blog.  Really, I should update the 1st grade blog as well.  Maybe on one of these breaks from school I will get around to it.

So sorry for the lack of updates and info.  It happens. Don't judge or hate!

Disney vacation--part 1

I suppose I should at least post SOMETHING about our one and only vacation this summer.  Kory commented a while ago that he could get used to both of us having a summer break.  Well, he will get used to it because that's just how education in a non-year-round school works. :)  So, we decided a few months ago that we would go to Disneyland with the majority of his family.  It was really fun, but really exhausting with a baby.

The first big event came before actually leaving for California.  My brother-in-law proposed to his girlfriend (finally!) and she said yes.  We love Crystal and are excited for her and Kevin to tie the knot!  I don't have any pictures of that, though.  Sorry.


 On the 23rd of July, we started our 2-day drive to Cali. I was a little nervous how Claire would do in the car.  Thankfully she has a wonderful cousin Jase who loves to make her happy so he did what he could to  help her.

She loves to drink water from a sippy cup.  That blue thing under her arm is Jase's stuffed Beanie Baby penguin, Petey.  She loves it and he would give it to her when she got cranky.

We stayed overnight in Las Vegas and again, Claire and Jase love to play together. Jase has his penguin and now Claire has hers.  It's name is Pammy.  Jase actually got Claire her penguin when I was pregnant with her and he got his at the same time with the hope that one day they would play "penguins" together.

We arrived in California on Tuesday.  Kory, Claire, and I got a hotel (thanks again Dad for helping us with this) right near Disneyland for napping purposes.  The others stayed at a friend's house about 45 minutes away from Disneyland.  Here we are on Wednesday, ready to take on Disneyland with a 14-month-old. YAY!

So, since we were so close, we were able to get to the park a little after 8am which is when it opens.  Guess who we saw right away?

Claire was not afraid of them at all and was acutally waving to them while we waited in line to get our pictures.  I wish I had gotten pics of her getting kisses from both Mickey and Minnie.  Minnie even made kissy noises when she kissed Claire.  Awwwwwww!  I was so happy. :)

Since the rest of the family wanted to visit the new Cars Land first, we headed over to Disney California Adventure.  Claire found the waterfall...and would have jumped right in if we let her.  Then here's where things got REALLY cool.

The creators of this place did an over the top job.  They made Radiator Springs.  It really does exist!! This place was so.freaking.awesome.

We'll  leave the adventure here and pick it up another time...

Posting for heritage sake

When Jase (my nephew) is older, I am showing this to any and all girlfriends. :)

Today we were talking about diapers and I said something to the extent of how poopy baby diapers stink.  Jase then said: "Well, then why don't they put air conditioner in them?  Someone should make diapers with air conditioner already in them."  HA!

THEN, later he was talking about having a job of being an unventor--you know, people who make new things for people to use.

THEN, to top it off, he was helping Claire play with a  Disney toy (it's one of those where you push the button and a character pops up then you push it closed and push the button to make it pop again) and he wanted us to guess where "Pluno" was.

Oh, THEN Kory said something to me jokingly and I gave him a look.  My MIL said: "Oh, did you see the look she gave him.  He deserved it."  Jase asked: "What book did she give him?"

Check your hearing aid old man!!!!!