Welcome!

Welcome to our blog about our new addition, Emmaline Noelle. We'll be using this to update everyone about how she's doing as well as mommy and daddy.

Emmaline is now two weeks & five days old. It's unreal how close you can become to someone in such a short time. It was also amazing how quickly the "parent" instinct kicked in. I BY NO MEANS have it figured out yet. Quite to the contrary, I'm so clueless it should be illegal for me to have a child! But, we are working through it and each day seems to get a little better.

Being born so close to Christmas, Emmaline has already had quite a few outings. The day after she came home she had her first doctor's appointment and then went and had professional pictures made with cherylzettlerphotography.com (If you'd like to see them or order pics, email me and let me know, I'll send you the password.) She's had several Christmas gatherings where she was overly snuggled & smooched upon!

This week, Emmaline lost her umbilical stump and is having more and more periods of wakefulness. We're still battling the gassiness but I hope in time, it will work itself out.

Today was a lazy day for us all. We never even got out of our pajamas today. It was wonderful to be home, the three of us, with no where to go. Right now, she is snoozing away. She's been down for almost 2 hours now. This might be a record. Haha. When she wakes up she'll have her bath and then some good snuggles from mommy & daddy before we all try to get some sleep.

I hope you all will enjoy her as much as we do. Please post any advice or comments you have as we share about her. Thank you all for everything you've done for us so far. We are all truely loved!