Emily is 3 weeks old

Emily is 3 weeks old today. So far she has been a great baby. She had her 2 week check up last week and it went really well. She's a drama queen just like Rach about shots though. She cried so hard she had to take breaks to catch her breath. She now weighs 9 lbs. and is 22 in. long. She's 90th percentile in height and 75th in weight. It was really nice going to a well baby visit again- I forgot how easy it is to have a healthy kid!

Travis and Robyn were here this weekend for the baptism. As usual Rachel wouldn't pose for the picture!

Playtime

We decided to get out of the house one evening and take Rach to the park. She had a great time on the swing, it's her favorite. She also ran around the playground and we actually had to chase her- this is a first for her! Normally when we go to the park we have to carry her around because she won't walk but she's really starting to want to explore and we're very excited about that. :)


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Great Grandma & Grandpa Came to Visit

My grandparents come down for about a month in the winter to escape the cold Iowa weather so they got to be here when Emily was born. It was really nice having them around. Grandma loves babies and she's very good with them because she's had lots of practice with 7 kids, 20 grand kids, and 7 great-grand kids!

Emily at home

Emily has been a great baby so far. She loves to eat and sleep. She only gets up about once in the night and it's been really nice. :) She's content most of the time just to suck on her pacifier and be held.

Rocking with Papa

Mad about "tummy time"

This is about as close as Rachel will voluntarily get to her

Rach likes to model now

It's always been real hard to get Rach to take pics but lately she's been loving the camera. She's not liking the competition for the spotlight so I think she's making sure we don't forget to take her picture! We took these pics in the morning before we could comb down her wild hair so she has pretty bad bed head!

Sitting on her potty with her posse

Rachel's a big sister

Rachel got to meet Emily a few hours after she was born. She's not excited about having a baby around but she will pay her attention from time to time. She was more interested in playing with her lip gloss than she was in playing with Emily. We did manage to get some cute pics of her near the baby but she won't hold her or lay next to her. Emily looks almost identical to Rachel when she was born so I think they're going to look a lot alike.

Rach actually gave her a kiss!

Putting lip gloss on Sweetie

dragging my purse around so she could dig through it and get out her lip gloss

Rach loves to pose for the camera now but she closes her eyes when she says cheese

More hospital pics

Emily finally came on February 23rd! She came very quickly and I only got an epidural to push- not something I would recommend! She weighed 8lbs 4 oz and was 21 in long. She is slightly bigger than Rachel was but not by very much. Her middle name is Helen after Michael's grandmother and we really liked the name Emily for the first name. I know it's taken me a while to post more pics but we've been a little busy. We didn't have a ton of pics in the hospital because we were only there a day. We got the choice to be discharged early and since the 24th was my birthday we decided to go home the day after she was born. It was a change for us to have our family close by for the birth. Everyone came shortly after she was born and it was really nice for us. Rachel got to hang out with GJ and papa while we were in the hospital and she loved it!