Our little Emma

So I realized I have a lot of posts about Bailee... so here are just some shots of our little Emma. She is such a happy baby! She's 4 months old now. She is LOVING her rice cereal. She is sleeping pretty well at night and is just very chill. I can sit her on the couch while I clean or do laundry, cook dinner, etc. and she just hangs out!!! She has learned to put her binki in her mouth by herself. She is already starting to put herself to sleep.... SO NICE! She is such a blessing in our lives. There's nothing better for a mom than to hear her children laugh. Emma is finally laughing and interacting with Bailee. I am so blessed to have such wonderful girls.

Can we say mini Clancey?????

Bailee taking care of Emma

So I have finally started to get used to having two kids at all times! I have a big helper during the day. Bailee LOVES Emma so much. She is always wanting to help out. When Emma starts to cry, Bailee runs to her to put a binki in her mouth or put a blanket on her. I do need to watch her, however, because Bailee forgets sometimes that Emma is not one of her dolls. Here is an example...

Emma was in her swing and Bailee wanted to help out! She thought Emma needed some dolls to keep her company. She placed all sorts of toys on Emma so she wouldn't be lonely. So sweet!

Bailee Dressing herself.

Bailee is going through the dress-up phase right now. She LOVES wearing mommy's high heels, dress up clothes, and all her clothes.... at the same time. She loves to decide for herself what to wear each day. I usually have a few different outfits picked out for her to choose between. This day I had not... So she decided to go in her drawer and pick out her own clothes. Here are a few shots of Bailee one morning after giving me 8 shirts to wear. And yes... she wore them all day long!

Does she kind of remind you of Ralphy's little brother from The Christmas Story????

Hee Haw Farms!

A few weeks ago, we blessed our little Emma (pics to come). While my mom was in town, we thought it'd be fun to take Bailee, Emma, Kylee and Beckett to the Hee Haw Farms! Bailee had so much fun! We got a few pics of our little adventure. We all had a great time!

Here's Bailee on the train... We were the only two people taking the ride! Bailee liked it.

Here's Bai on the tire swing.

Checkin out the bunnies with Grandma!

Emma Sue Dollard

Our little Emma Sue is finally here! She was born on Friday, September 11th at 4:30 pm. She was 7 lbs. 1 oz and 18 1/2 in. long. We were so blessed with a fairly easy delivery as well. I was feeling pretty miserable that last week of my pregnancy. I went in to get my membranes stripped on Thursday. All it did was make me really crampy and achy.... no baby. So, they decided they would induce me friday morning. We went in and they got me all set up on Pitocin at 12:30pm. I was progressing quickly. They came in around 4 to check me. I was at a 7 1/2 dilated and 90% effaced. They told me I'd probably be ready to push around 5. I was so excited!

Well, about 10 minutes after they left, I felt a big contraction. That was unusaul because I hadn't been feeling ANY contractions once I got my epidural. I told Clancey I felt like I needed to push but they had just BARELY checked me so I knew I couldn't. Clancey decided to ask the nurse if how much I could up the epidural so I didn't feel the pain. She brought in my wonderful Midwife Kathryn and she said let's push! This baby was ready! I told Clancey to hurry and call my mom and family to GET OVER HERE!!!! They were only 5 minutes away, but that was too long!!! This baby was ready!

I had to wait for them to come with the Midwife and all the nurses waiting... and waiting... talk about PAIN!!! I felt I couldn't wait anymore... they would just have to miss it... I started to push and here comes Mom and Kate!!! They barely made it! I pushed for 15 minutes and she was here!! I couldn't believe how quick she arrived! 10 hours faster than Bailee.

Here she is right after birth. I couldn't believe how much hair she has! Bailee never had hair so we were excited.

Our first family pic together. This is us right after they brought Bailee in after delivery.

And of course I was STARVING after delivery... so Bailee and I got to eat some much needed food. Bailee was pretty excited to sit with mommy and share her food.
Bailee absolutely loves her little sister. She is so gentle and good with Emma. She goes up to her and says "Hi Memma!" Can't quite say just Emma... but it's so cute!

And lastly, here is Grandma Eyre with Emma..... that's right. She has some pretty bad Jaundice and had to be put under Bili Lights.... :( It has been very hard to see my sweet little girl under those lights basically all the time. She's only allowed out to eat and change her diaper. She was just put on this morning, so we are not sure how long she'll be under the lights, but we're praying it won't be very long.

My mom has been so great helping out with Bailee and Emma, cleaning and cooking for us... Thank you so much mom!

What's in a name?

As some of you may know, a couple of weeks ago, Clancey's mom had a stroke. She had a mini stroke a few months earlier that she was able to recover from pretty quickly. Unfortunately, her second stroke has been a lot harder on Linda. She is still in the hospital recovering. As of now, she is paralyzed on her right side. She is still all there, but has a hard time talking or moving her body. Her mind is not able to tell her body what to do.

Clancey went to see her last weekend. Our good friend was able to drive out there with him to allow her to see him. It was good for Clancey to spend time with her and also be there for his dad.

The good thing is she is not getting any worse. Slowly improving. She only says a few words at a time. It takes a lot out of her. We are so grateful for all of your prayers. With all of that in mind, now I can tell you the name we decided to choose for our baby girl coming any day!

We had narrowed it down to a few names. Clancey and I decided on a name but were planning to keep it a secret til the baby was born. But.... we've now decided to let everyone know after hearing the following...

Clancey had spoken to a good friend out in Sacramento who had recently spent time with Linda. While they were at the hospital with a few other close friends, the topic of our blog and the results of the baby-name voting was brought up. Without her knowing what the name would be for sure, Linda, who was recovering from a recent surgery and was not very lucid at the time, uttered the name Emma.....

It was definitely an exciting thing for us to hear since that was the name we had decided on, without anyone knowing. We know now more than ever, that this baby is to be named Emma. We decided a few weeks ago to name her Emma Sue Dollard. (Sue is Linda's middle name). And how perfect to have her middle name after her grandmother who had uttered her name before even coming to the earth.