Weekly Emilia

 

 

I obsessively take pictures of our baby. That is just a fact! Every giggle fest I video tape. Everytime she learns something new, I take pictures. What did I blog about before her?? Oh right, my dogs!


 Hy has been working out of town a lot lately. They have a lot of work going on and everything is under deadlines! So he doesn't get to see Em everyday which he would like. So when he is home, she is in his arms almost constantly! He just loves her so much, and I really don't think that I could have found a better father for my child!

 

 

 

 

Because her daddy isn't home during the week, I try to cuddle her as much as possible! I do that anyway. But now I have even more reason to! I am so glad that my baby is a cuddler, I don't know what I would do if she wasn't! 



 

We decided that Miss Em was finally big enough to get a Jenny Jump Up! She is still a little bit tiny in it, but we have found that if shove a towel in the seat it helps prop her up! She loves it! Mostly she just swings right now and kicks her feet. But when her feet finally get to the ground, I know she is just going to be a little rabbit!

 

Em has started into teething! She has been much more drooly lately and gnawing on her hand, but the other night it really hit a high note! She couldn't really sleep much the other night and was just super unhappy! The only way that I could get things done the next day was to strap her to me in the sling! 

 

On a side note, I did go and get teething gel the next morning and ordered a Baltic Amber baroque teething necklace. It's pretty stinking cute, and hopefully will help.

 

She is really cute... what can I say? She will be 4 months this Friday! I can' believe how fast time is flying, and how gorgeous she is.

 

 

 

Our favorite thing to do right now, is to go put a blanket in the grass and lay in our front yard. We look at the sky and around our neighborhood and just talk. It's really sweet.



 

I HAD to post this picture! If you know Rueger, then you know he has some serious OCD. Once he starts licking, it is really hard for him to stop. The reason I posted this picture is because this is the look of some serious self control and focus

. I told him " You only get one" and he licked her once and stopped. Such a sweet dog.

 

After Em gets up in the morning, I usually bring her into bed with me for a morning cuddle. She likes to roll all up in my armpit. Silly girl.

 



 





Lots of Miss Em

I just have so many cute pictures of the baby, that I have a hard time now posting every single one of them!

When ever she gets out of the tub, her hair is sooo curly! Just like her mama's! It makes me pretty proud and I think it's pretty adorable! If you look up close, it might be easier to see them, because they are pretty blonde!

This is the face she gave me when I put her down and she let me know (pretty clearly) how she felt about it!

I love this picture because it was such a nice day to lay in the grass. I just happen to catch her sticking out her tongue at the perfect moment! What a ham!

 

 







I love this picture because you can see what her hair does when it's dry! It forms this one curl and makes her look like a who! Also she is pulling a little sass face, which I think is pretty funny!

 

 

I am obsessed with this video! She was up way past her bedtime one night and just suddenly starting talking my ear off! It was so stinking cute! And her laugh at the beginning is so funny!

 



 

 

Em is the biggest snuggler on the planet and I love it! I try to get in at least one prolonged snuggle every single day! 

 

During the summer, we try to get to the farmer's market as much as we possibly can! It's located in downtown Vancouver and is always a great place to walk around with the baby. It's much more fun when Hy comes with me and holds Em though! You should see the women check him out while holding that baby!

 



 

 

This picture makes me so happy! If you didn't know, Em had a really bad bout of colic for about 6 weeks. It was not a nice time! If you have ever dealt with colic then you know what I mean! We were desperate and nothing was working! Colic calm, tintures, gripe water, pure diluted chamomile tea (which actually improved her digestion a little), baby massage. I gave up milk (actually all dairy), caffeine, carbonated beverages, even chocolate! The only way that we could get her to sleep was in her swing! The elevation and rocking would calm her down and let her pass the gas more easily. So when we moved her into her nursery, we had to rework her sleeping habits! This was the very first time that she actually stayed asleep after being put down in her crib! Still a work in progress!



 

 

 

This picture is sweet because I had been talking to her while holding her up with my knees! She smiled and fell asleep! All of her tiny cubbies onesies are getting too small! She is growing so fast!



 

 

She amazes me with how strong she is! She has been standing for a few months now and can pretty much hold herself up! She just needs a little help with the balance part! If she wants to stand up, she will push off of you and stand up herself. It's insane!Also she has a lot of strawberry blonde in her hair. Who knew!

 



 



I just am so smitten with her sweet face!

 

 

A few weekends ago, the three of us went out boating with Hy's work people! It was really fun and they have a very nice boat! I was a little worried about how miss Em would do, but she LOVED it! I was so relieved! We got her a baby life jacket, slathered her in sunscreen, and put on her tiny swimsuit and off we went! She fed, took naps, and played! We were on the water for like 4-5 hours and she was so happy and calm the entire time! When her daddy would wake board she would fall asleep from the vibrations of the engine! We all had a really great time!

 

 

There is so much more, but I better break it up a little and not over fill this post! I hope everyone has a great week!

 









Baby Blessing

On our southern Utah trip, we decided to have Emilia blessed. Hy and I are pretty low key kind of people. We like to keep things pretty mellow and laid back. So when we were thinking of having the baby blessed, we decided that we didn't want anything crazy. We didn't want to do it in front of a million people, and we didn't want a huge party. So we decided to do it at my grandparent's house in Cedar. There were only like 10 people there and it was perfect.

(It was really special to have it at my grandparent's house because they were the first family we told! A year or two all of this, grandma had made me promise that when we finally did get pregnant that I would tell her before any one else! I told her on her birthday last year and we both bawled like babies!)

We wanted my grandpa to bless the baby and as always it was beautiful. That man can make a tear jerker out of a gnome. Jeeze. Hy held the baby and there were only a few others in the circle: my brother, my dad, grandpa, and a member of the bishop rick. It was short and sweet and exactly what we wanted!

My sister-in-law Jess took some photos after of the family. (all of us, except for her!)

All of the gentlemen from the circle (with the exception of the random clerk)

You can't forget my favorite boy of all time

 

 

A bunch more of the family!

 

 

 

Just need to photoshop Jess in on this one!

 

 

After all of the pictures we had pizza and ate my dad's famous cheesecake bars! They are my absolute favorite and practically the only thing I wanted to eat when I was in the hospital having the baby.

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I was just remembering the other day how the week before I found out I was FINALLY pregnant, there were signs every where. I mean EVERY WHERE! I would sit down and watch t.v. and there would like 4 first response pregnancy test commercials back to back. The first time it happened I thought that was someone was just really bad at their job, but like the 5th time it happened I started to get a little bit crazy! I would drive to work and suddenly there would be a billboard up saying things like " Are you pregnant? Do you want to be a mom?" and then a random number. This stuff went of for a solid week before I finally got to my test day. If nothing had happened by that day I was supposed to test. I was totally set on not testing and just being a grumpy jerk for a solid chunk of time, but those signs were everywhere!! Pretty crazy.

Gorgeous pictures avalanche!

I wanted to just post a couple of my favorite pictures that Jess at JLD Photography took!! They turned out absolutely gorgeous! If she can make my pasty post pregnancy butt look great, she can do anything! And I love that we have really good pictures of our little family now!

 

I love this picture of Hy and the baby so much! He doesn't think it looks great because she is crying, but I think it has so much personality! It makes me smile every time!

 



 

Here is one that we both love

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She seriously took over 300 pictures and there were honestly only like 4 that weren't perfect! And that was only because I was adjusting my position! I love all of them and have to decide which ones to get printed, or I will just end up putting them all over EVERY SINGLE WALL. And that would look crazy!

 

 

 

The lost pictures...

I was uploading pictures onto my new computer from my Nikon and found some random gems! I love finding pictures that you totally forgot about!

 

This one is one that Hy took when I was about 7 weeks pregnant. All I could do was: sleep, go to work, nap, and barf my brains out. I was SOO sick! I could barely drive to work, even being in the car made me have to barf. Watching t.v. even got really bad! The flashing images and bright colors got to me!

 

 

Side note: I don't think I will ever look at wheat thins or brown rice the same. Un-barfable my butt.

 

 

 

This picture is from the Peach Days Parade 2012. There are a couple of things going on! My nephew was giving attitude to the kids who weren't following the rules about staying out of the street ( such a good boy!) as you can see by his face!

 

The next thing I want to point out is the almost finished tray of nachos in the bottom corner. I was 10 weeks pregnant and had been okay with the nausea for the last few days. I ate breakfast, we got ready, and went to the parade. Well right as the sirens started, I felt like barfing my brains out. I needed food stat! All of the booths were closed, but my dad (the saint that he is) got the nacho stand to open and make me a huge plate of jalapeno and cheese nachos. I plowed through them and they were seriously the best nachos of my entire life. Also: it was 9 am.

 

These are my husband's feet, wearing his Christmas socks that I gave him in McCall Idaho! He wore them all day to make me happy. And I don't think I have seen them since.

 

The beautiful ladies that I used to work with at The Dessert Tray in Beaverton threw me a baby shower! They took such great care of me and Robin made this cake just for me! I never thought I would go to a baby shower that didn't make me feel a little empty inside, but this time there wasn't any room to feel empty! There was already a big old baby inside!

 

It was yellow cake with pastry cream and fresh berries inside. I ate it for about 5 days straight before I made Hyrum get rid of it! 

 

This is the group shot of all of my favorite co-workers/ friends! And yes there is a man in there! Hy came and took lots of pictures! I was 36 weeks pregnant and it was also my last day of work!

 

 

This is one of the very first pictures of Hy holding our baby for the first time. She started crying after she left my arms and then he started talking to her and she just stopped. It's like she instantly recognized his voice and calmed down. It was pretty beautiful.

 

This is the very first picture of me holding baby Emilia. My legs are still in the stir ups and I had just barely given birth! They plopped her on my chest, covered her with a towel, and put a little hat on her head. It was the most life altering moment of my universe. She was gorgeous from the get, no weirdly squished head and swollen features. Just big lips and a perfect face! I am totally biased.

 



 

 

 This one of the pictures that you could try to pose, but it just wouldn't ever be as special. My mom and grandma Zola talking to Em. No one has their hair done or make up. My mom is wearing her tie dyed Mumu. But look how happy everyone looks! Even the baby was chatting it up! 

 



 

This picture makes me laugh because my mom was high lighting my hair and mid process the baby got fussy. So my mom strapped Em on, covered her with a blanket, and danced her to sleep; all while dying my hair! It was just one of those things!

 

 

 

 

There are so many more, but I think that's all for now. I better get to bed before the baby decides it's time to be awake! Goodnight!