Sweet Sweet Baby

Here are some pictures of our sweet girl. We are loving her in our family! She is a good baby, a bit of a Momma's girl, but good. She sleeps pretty well and loves to smile at those she knows. Emmy has been such a great help, and really loves being a big sister too. It's great to see a sister bond growing already.

We had her pictures taken by

Celeste Ruth Photography

Check her out!

This is how we roll .......

So this is what we've been up to since coming home from the hospital.

Me, well I'm somewhere in between :)

Dan, he's just playing house :)

Baby Maisy Luell!!!

We are happy to announce the arrival of our new little girl Maisy Luell!!! Bekah and I (dan) went into the hospital early in the morning to get prepared for her C-section. Maisy is really little for our family, only 7 lbs 1 ounce. To us, she resembles emmy alot when she was born, except maisy has lighter hair. So far baby and mommy are doing wonderful. We are thankful and blessed to have such a beautiful healthy baby girl.

Here are some pictures...

Lately

Emmy just keeps getting more and more talkative. Today we had the following conversation:

Em: Mommy, you still have that baby in your tummy?
Me: Yep, she's still there.
Em: You sure its just one baby, or two? Huh?
Me: It's just one.
Em: Oh, you sure?
Me: I'm sure.
Em: Does the baby cost fifty dollars, hmm?
Me: (long pause) Ummm, no the baby is ours.
Em: Oh. Good.

During the long pause I was thinking "babies really cost much more than fifty dollars, but Emmy won't understand that. Should I tell her we have to pay the doctor to deliver the baby? No, she might grow up thinking you really buy babies. Hmmm, reality or lie? I guess its the truth that she's ours, yeah, that's what I'll tell her."

Seriously, where does she get this stuff. Fifty dollars? Don't know where that figure came from.

The pregnancy is not the best for this time of year. I am grateful we have a spell of double digits in the middle of June. That really is helping. And I'm double grateful that I caught the flu during that spell of double digits. Yeah, the flu at this stage of pregnancy is not so much fun. I couldn't even keep down water. All I kept thinking is "I hope this dehydration doesn't throw me into labor cause my OB is out of the country!" Luckily all is well and thanks to a great priesthood blessing by my hubby, I had just the 24 hour type of flu. Glad that is over!!!

Otherwise, I am just working and sleeping pretty much. Dan has been great, staying home with Emmy for the few hours I'm at summer camp, and doing the dishes after dinner! It is great to have a helpful husband when I'm this busy, this pregnant, and therefore this useless. :)

Crazy say what?

Seriously, she cracks me up .....

I was getting ready to take her to my mom's while I attended a work function. She played with her toys the whole time, and when it was time to go, we had the following conversation:


Me: Em, get your shoes, its time to go to Mamaw's house.

Em: What mom, what you need?

Me: Em, get your shoes on, you are going to Mamaw's house while I go to work.

Em: (looks at me in the eye, then looks away and shrugs) Ummm, no thanks. I think I'll just stay here, I'm a big girl now.



Yeah right? Then why aren't you doing the dishes and cleaning the toilet!!!! HA! seriously, this girl cracks me up! Gotta love her.

Small Update

Okay, its been a while. The baby is still a girl, whew! So glad my doc was able to do another ultrasound. I am so glad to know for sure!

Emmy has started swimming lessons! She loved the first one, and wasn't so sure the second day. Hopefully next week will go better :) She continues to amaze us with some of the things she says. The other day Dan kissed her on the forehead, and she turned and looked at him with her dirty look and said "No Daddy, that's EMMY'S face. Don't kiss it!" He couldn't do anything but just laugh. She'll probably bring it up in a therapy session someday that when she was a toddler her parents laughed instead of responding to her demands and questions. Honestly, how can we not? :)

The other big news is that Mother's Cookies are back!!! Anyone else noticed the beautiful bags of white and pink frosted animal cookies with sprinkles at their grocery store? I was so excited, Dan was a little embarrassed that I was making a scene in the isle at the store. Then the cashier did a double take as she scanned the item, we discussed how they had gone out of business and we missed them -- I told Dan that I'm not the only crazy one!

Dan is finished with another year of school. Its nice to have him around, especially since I'm so tired all the time. Emmy loves to have Daddy around to build castles, color, and read books. Seriously, Daddy means play time around here, Mommy is always busy cleaning, cooking, laundering, etc. She is probably as happy as I am to have him home!

Favorite Emmy quote of last week:

While she is looking at Daddy and making her obvious poo face, she says "Daddy, I'm pooping, I need you to change my diaper in a minute, ok?"

Is this child ready for potty training or what? Yeah right, she won't use the potty for #2's for anything, and trust me I have tried many many things!