Turkey Day and other happenings

Here we are on our first Thanksgiving, Cyris is even covering himself up for the picture :)

Here is our chubby cheek baby! He got lots of Grandma snuggles on Thanksgiving

Aunt Gemma found him this reindeer coat thing to keep him warm, so cute

Our Friends Mikey and Whiteny came to visit, Cyris lovers them soooo much!

Cyris like to be under the table when I feed the baby, he stole the book and the burp cloth, silly dog

He is a pirate, Arrrgh!

All smiles!!

On November 20th Emmett turned one month old!! He weighed 9 lbs 6 oz and was 21.5 inches long!! He is getting to be such a big boy!

We are all doing good! Emmett is getting into a pretty good sleep pattern at night. He has gone 5 and 6 hours between feedings and he goes back to sleep really easily after I feed him. He has tummy troubles so the days can be a little rough. I hate it when he just screams and screams and get little tears in his eyes :(

Only 2 1/2 weeks until the semester is over. Some how me and Greg have survived the semester!!

3 weeks old!

We have made it to 3 weeks! I cannot believe Emmett has been in our lives for that long! He is such a sweet little boy. He only fusses when his tummy hurts so in our house we are grateful for gas drops :). He spends half the day awake and the other half asleep so that is pretty good. He is a good sleeper at night, he eats every 2-4 hours and is usually pretty coopretive in going back to sleep after he eats. He giggles all the time in his sleep and has the funniest facial expressions. He thinks his tongue is really cool and is working hard on getting his thumb in his mouth. He has gained a pound since last week which is crazy!! He is getting so big and I love it but at the same time wonder where my little baby from the hospital is :). Greg and I are a pretty good team! We are all a little tired but a happy little family!!

The Sleepy Wrap

My sleepy wrap came yesterday and I will tell you right now it is the most awesome thing in the universe!! Look how snugly Emmett can be but I still have my hands free to get stuff done!! I would recommend this to any of you moms out there!

2 Weeks Old

2 weeks old!

After his bath, poor little baby was shivering so bad!

As of yesterday Emmett is two weeks old!! The good news is we are all still alive, a little sleepy and wondering when we will get in a routine/normality in our lives but happy and healthy! Emmett has been such a good baby. We have had our rough days and night but overall we he is a good baby. He isn't the best napper during the day but sleeps really well from about 7 pm to 2 am and then has some rough spots from 2 am until I decided to finally call it the start of the day (between 7 and 8 am). He just wants to eat more often then and doesn't want to go to sleep on his own. I was trying so hard to get him on a routine where he ate every 3 hours and didn't sleep right after I fed him. I was trying to follow the baby whispere but Emmett really just has a mind of his own and trying to make him do things just made him really mad so we stopped that. The doctor says not to worry about getting him a schedule and feed him when he is hungry. We have been a much happier family since we started doing that. Sure it is a little frustrating not knowing exactly our routine everyday but he generally follows the same pattern so it is okay. At his appt. today he weighted 7 lbs 13.5 oz and is 20.75 inches long. I can't believe he is getting so big!! Guess I don't have to worry about his eating :)

Halloween adventures

This is when he was being a panther and sleeping
Cyris and Emmett, poor Cyris thinks he doesn't get any attention but he is doing pretty good with the baby other than that

He was pretty sleepy and feel asleep like his pappy would with his belly poking out

Cyris stole a piece of pumpkin while we were carving them, he ate it and keep looking for more the rest of the night

I don't scoop guts so I just carved Emmett's little pumpkin while Gemma and Greg did the dirty work

Here we are, our first Halloween as a family

A skeleton in a pumpkin

He was so totally out of it when we put him in his costume, he played the part of skeleton quite well.

It has been an adventerous 12 days since he was born. It has been a lot of work and a lot of tears on my part but Greg has been so patient and helpful and my mom has been there to help when Greg was at school and give advice. He is such a cute and sweet baby. He has been so good at night, puts himself back to sleep if he wakes up, eats every 2-4 hours. During the day is a diffrent story. It would be hard to be a baby, just trying to figure everything out and make your body work. He is either eating, trying to sleep (doesn't do so good on the napping) or screaming. I really don't know what to do when he screams so sometimes I cry with him :) We will get it all worked out and hopefully soon be able to actually cuddle and have fun playing instead of being so upset.

Adventures of the baby

The last two nights have been kinda long ones for everybody. Poor baby boy has tried to sleep, and be a good sleeper but it just wasn't working out. Whenever he was laid down it sounded like he was major congested and when I would hold him on his side to feed him it was the same thing. Me and Greg got to listen to him both two nights try and breath. It was very distracting to all three of ours sleep! I tried like 500 different ways of laying him down to help, elevated, not elevated, swaddled, blanket on top loosely, etc. and nothing would work! At his appt on Monday the doctor said to get a saline mist to put in his nose and use the bulb booger sucker thing but those weren't doing anything for him. We went back to the doctor today and got the good news that he is perfectly healthy, his nasal passages are just so tiny that any little congestion will make it hard to breath out his nose. We were given a nebulizer with saline mist we are to do twice a day for a week to get everything cleared out. When the doctor gave it to him today I was afraid he would scream for the 10 mins it takes to go through all the mist but he fell right asleep :). Other good news is he weights 8 pounds, I can't believe it, he is growing so fast!

Pictures are out of order and are too much work to fix. if that causes problems please respond to the editor. In other news at his 5 day visit to the doctor baby had gained seven ounces and a quarter inch. making the grand totals 7lb 3 oz and 19 3/4 in

1 week old

My best friend

My friends Lynsie and Hadleigh

Dino day with Aunt Gemma

Our first adventure( to the doctor)

Da boys

Grandma and Grandpa Pearce

Bath time

Grandma Koontz