The Documented Smile

Having a beautiful daughter and an incredibly talented photographer for a wife is a fantastic thing.  

Emma has been sneaking in smiles over the last week or so, but during Emma's happy morning time, Kristen was able to snap some incredible candids of the little girl having a blast and loving life.  

I hereby present to you the first documented Emma smile.

I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

~Poppa

Pumpkin Patch

So, we have made our first trip to the pumpkin patch with Emma.  We went with our two families and had a great time.  Yesterday our church had their annual Pumpkin Patch party and we went as Mr & Mrs Claus and one tiny reindeer.  There will never be a time when we have eight tiny reindeer.  We will leave that to others and joyfully settle for our one tiny reindeer.  The unexpected result of going as the Claus family is that it proved very confusing for a number of the children that attended the party.  Our Youth did a Trunk-r-treat and our small groups each decorated a trunk.  Many were the wide eyed children that couldn't believe Santa would come at Halloween.  One such child dressed as a lizzard backed away from us after getting his candy from Santa shaking his head saying "not right, not right".  He was about four or five years old.  I had a couple of parents jokingly chastise us for confusing the children which I turned right around and blamed on corporate America.  If Fred Meyer hadn't put out their children's Christmas clothing before Halloween then Jeff wouldn't have seen the reindeer jumper, complete with reindeer antlers on the hood and booties, and thought it was the coolest thing and wanted to get it.  I wasn't so excited about it and after talking with my small group girls we agreed that he should get it only if he promised to be santa for the party.  Of course I couldn't let them go with out Mrs. Claus so there you have it.  We don't have any pictures of it ourselves but I will try and snag one and post it soon.

~Mamma H

2 Week Check Up

We have had a successful two week check up.  Emma has grown an inch and is now at 8lbs 14 oz.  When we left the hospital she was 8.2 and the doctors like to see that new born babies get back to their birth weight by their two week check up.  Emma is an over achiever already surpassing her birth weight.  We had to go down to the lab and complete Emma's second PKU test (this entails poking her heal and filling a card with five circles with blood).  She was a trooper.  She fell asleep while we were in the waiting room and fussed a bit when they poked her heal then seemed to decide that she wasn't going to make the nurse stop and calmed down.  All in all it went very well.  Next appointment will be her 6 week check up complete with shots.  Our doctor made sure to mention the shots so we could be emotionally prepared for the trauma.  

Emma is still a big sleeper however she is starting to have more alert time between sleeps.  Here is a photo of her waking up process.  We have to unwrap her from her blankets and then she starts her stretchy dance and then wakes up.  We are pretty amused by it.  Enjoy!

~ Momma H

An Explosion of Poop...of Death!

Today it has happened.

That moment we were all waiting for has arrived and it was pretty unbleivably amazing.  

Emma seemed slightly distressed and was rooting around and pushing when this massive explosion came from her tiny rumpus.

Which I was holding in my hand. And she was resting on my chest.  

And I want to share this with you.

hicoughs

We've been missing for a bit and I apologize. I've had a hard time lately getting up the energy to do anything productive of late and the blog has been part of that.  

But that is not because we haven't been busy taking pictures and coming up with some fantastic things that you all would like to know about.  One of those is this video. 

In the womb we all used to get excited when Emma would get the hiccups.  It was by far the most reliable indicator that Poppa could actually feel the little girl squirming around.  

And it's one of our favorite things that she still gets them.  And if you look very closely in this video, you can see her convulsing in hiccups of joy.

=)

Poppa