Happy One Month Birthday, Emily!

Emily,

From Monthly Growing Photos

What an awesome last month of our lives! Where do I even start?!?! You have brought so much joy and many smile to our faces since you entered the world. Your dad and I totally love being your parents. It is amazing to care for you and just stare at you each day. It is a privilege to feed you and change all your diapers throughout the day.

Emmie, your dad and I think you are so beautiful! We love your sweet eyes when you are sleeping, your oh so soft skin, your bendable ears, your beautiful and delicate pink lips, your long eyelashes that are growing every day, your blue eyes, when you cross your eyes, your blond eyebrows, your cute nose, your chubby cheeks, your beautiful complexion, your cute little shoulder blades, your long fingers, your cute belly button, rolls forming at the top of your legs, your 10 little toes, your ticklish feet and your wild long hair. We say often that you look like an angel. Your dad's favorite place to kiss you is on your cheeks and lips. I love to kiss those sweet lips.

We have had such a fun month with you. We are proud to show you off to whoever will look and listen as we talk about you alot. When we take you somewhere, we are so gitty to get to bring you home with us. You are OUR'S and we don't have to be away from you long, since you live with us! In your first month, you met lots of people that love you unconditionally, you have been to church 4 times, wore a bow in your hair, lost your umbilical cord, ran errands with me, had your first babysitter, taken your first bottle, used your Baby Bjorn, gotten your social security number, attended playgroup, took your first overnight road trip, gone out to dinner, first Valentine's Day, been to a movie, had your heel pricked 4 times (it was very emotional for dad and I), had a slumber party with me because dad was gone for the night, have started drooling a little, your belly is getting wide because you are such an awesome eater, and you have grown out of your first 2 outfits (they were "up to 7 lbs" outfits). You are a great stretcher when you get up from your naps and you are released from your swaddle.

You have been a very easy baby and have spoiled us for sure. I love that when I come in to wake you up from a nap and I talk to you, you recognize my voice and you start squirming around. You have taken to a schedule very well so you are very predictable when it comes to needing to nurse. You love to put your hands in fist up by your face when you nurse. It is so cute! You are very consolable and if you need a little help settling down your dad is so great at rocking you just the way you like to be rocked so you will be more content. You are very flexible in that if we need to feed you at 2 hours or 5 hours during the day you can stretch (for times like church). You are an amazing sleeper at night. The past 3 nights you have slept anywhere from 5 hrs to 6 1/2 hrs, which is very uncommon at your age. You are a great pooper and fill many diapers a day, but also have managed to poop on dad and I both during changing your diaper.

More and more people are saying you look like your dad. Most of all, you have been a huge helper to me. I praise the Lord that you have relieved the 4 clogged milk ducts that I have gotten over the past week. It is amazing how God made us the perfect team.

Praise be to the Lord that He entrusted you to us for this past month!
It has been a privilege to be your mom!
To say "I love you" is not enough!
-Mommy