Yay for sleep! Thanks to Daddy...

Last night Emma slept from 9:30 to 4:30 in the morning!!! 7 whole hours of sleep and therefore that meant that Mommy got almost that (I went to bed at 10). So when she woke up to eat I was wondering why I wasn't as sleepy as normal and to see a 4 on the clock was a miracle! :) It's amazing how much the little things mean. Well, this miracle all came to pass because of what happened a few hours before...

Emma was not a good girl for Daddy in the evening. I went out for a couple things and told Cade if she got hungry to feed her a bottle. For some reason when Cade tried to feed her, she ate some, but then got really upset and just started screaming. He tried feeding her more...nope...didn't help. He tried everything, but when I returned after about an hour of screaming and learning that she was being a difficult little princess, I tried breast feeding her and she immediately was calm. That's all...I think she isn't fond of the milk that I've kept in the freezer because we've tried it twice now and it wasn't what she wanted and she got all worn out trying to put daddy in her place! Well, this is what Emma had to say...


Too bad I am probably going to have to throw away our year supply of Emma milk...


Hopefully not. That was a lot of work on my part. But as long as she's a happy, adorable baby for me...I'm okay!

Well, for an update on Emma:
She is a whole 8 1/2 pounds now!!! Little chunk. I took some pictures cause I think it's so cute that she is finally getting a belly and a double chin and all the cute fat that comes with being a baby:).




Emma has developed a rash this last couple weeks on her face, head, and neck. I took her into the doctor's and found out it is just a dry skin rash (can't remember the technical name). So we have to put lotion on her a few times a day. She definitely doesn't like that either. It's helping the rash go away. But these are her before and after poses when it's lotion time...



We get to bless her this Sunday and I am very excited for that. Cade's family gets in to town tonight from Arizona...fun, fun!

Cousin David and the Suns!

This is a late post, but last week we had the fun privilege of seeing Cade's cousin David. It was so fun to hang out with him and catch up on life. He was here because he works for the Phoenix Suns and they came here to play the Jazz. We picked him up from his hotel in Salt Lake and went to Bountiful to have dinner with my family. We got some cute pictures of him with Emma...I'm sure Emma already loves him :)!

Cade and I also got some tickets from his work to see the Suns-Jazz game. It was such a fun, intense game! Yes, the Jazz came back in the last quarter and somehow won...boo...but it was still very fun and exciting to watch it and be there. Luckily I got a picture during half time...the scoreboard shows the Suns winning :)! Oh, and props to Cousin David...Cade and I got on T.V. in Arizona, so Cade's whole family got to see us! They were happy, although they managed to capture the one time during the whole game where we looked bored! Promise family...we were much more excited during the game than that!

To Church in Style!

So yesterday morning I was getting ready for church. Cade and I have to switch off each Sunday staying home with Emma because she's not supposed to be around big crowds yet. Cade got home from his meeting and ran down the stairs. He said "There's a surprise for you. There is someone here to take you to church and I told him you'd be ready in 10 minutes so hurry and finish up." I was really confused and kept asking "what's going on?" I didn't understand why someone needed to take me to church...I'm a big girl. I got ready, Cade grabbed the camera, walking right behind me and went upstairs to see this out my window....


Yep. I've never been to church in one of those :). Cade had his early morning meeting and one of the high council members had brought his new toy (another one of his businesses) to church. He asked Cade if I'd like a ride to church...it was hilarious!

Babysitting Wills

Cade and I got to babysit Emma's cousin, Wills, last week. We had so much fun. Two good things that went together....Wills is obsessed with Basketballs and we just happen to have a basketball hoop in our basement (not ours of course). But just give Wills a basketball and he's a perfect little angel.


However, I think Cade's shoulders started getting sore. Every time we would try and introduce something new...Wills would just point over to the hoop and say "baketball? baketball?" It was so cute.

As I was sitting on the rocking chair with Emma, Wills would go through Emma's entire box of toys, pick one up, say "baby?" and bring it over to me. He was so sweet in making sure Emma had enough toys to play with. I was covered in her toys by the end.

Emma got this duck book from Steph's sister, Amanda, and Wills LOVES it. Cade would stick his finger in the duck's head from behind and just sit still. Then as soon as Will's would touch it Cade would immediately started quacking loud and it would scare Wills. He would jump and start cracking up...he thought it was hilarious.


We love Wills...as does everyone that meets him. He is such a doll.

Spit up and Bunnies :)

Last night was an interesting night...the foreshadowing of many nights to come as more kids come into our lives, I'm sure :). So I was feeding Emma at about 3:00 in the morning. She fed for a while and then I changed her diaper to wake her up a little. As I sat back down in the chair, she got a really concerned look on her face, stopped breathing, and started gagging. I knew she was about to spit up so I leaned over the bed to grab the burp cloth. Well, spit up? Not exactly...she threw up over, and over and over everything she had just eaten. But in a panic (mind, this is 3 am) while she was throwing up I managed to get about everything around me drenched. The bed had spit up all over it...and believe me when I say "all over". I had never seen her do that before. I yelled for Cade in the other room to help. He ran in and immediately collapsed to the floor (he hadn't been feeling very good all weekend). Then he crawled back into the other room and went back to bed! :) Ha ha...I am cracking up as I type this. I thought "great, now I'm going to have to clean up after both!" After the comotion was over...Emma was ready to eat again.

But how could I ever be upset at a cute face like this???

For Christmas last year, I got some bunny slippers cause Cade calls me "honey bunny". So to go along with them, Cade's parents got some cute little bunny slippers for Emma. They are so adorable! Obviously too big still, but I wanted to try them on her :).



These are the many faces of Emma....

This is the "Mom, there is obviously something more interesting to look at over here" look.

The "I'm looking happy and drunk off of too much milk" look.

The "I'm tired and really mad you are making me still sit here" look.

The "okay, I'm happy you moved me to the changing table" look.

The "I want to be like cousin Wills and flex my muscles" look.


Oh, she is so much fun to be around. I love her!

Whoa Baby!

Emma had her two month check up on Wednesday. She is getting so big...as she now weighed in at 6 lbs 14 oz and 19 3/4 inches! I know, I know, BIG girl :)! It's at least more than twice her birth weight and has grown almost 6 inches. The doctor said she is doing really well and is looking really healthy. I had a whole book of questions to ask the doctor (being a first time mom), but overall Emma is doing great! Cade and I are so happy about it. Her current stats are:

Weight %tile: 0.21%
Length: 0.16%
Head Circum: 2.09%

Needless to say, she is still tiny for her age, but being a premie that is to be expected probably most of her life. It is important however that she keeps going on her own curve and that she is growing...she is eating great and seems to be completely healthy!

Funny story....
Emma got her immunizations at this doctors appointment. It was so sad to see her screaming that hard in the doctor's office. I've seen her lungs work hard, but definitely not that hard. I fed her at the doctor's office and when we got home and she slept for a long time. However, when Emma woke up and stretched as she usually does, she realized her legs were in pain and she started screaming! I hated seeing her scream and the tears running down her face. (Okay, you are asking yourself "Kellie said this was a funny story...". Well, after she fell asleep again, I realized it was time to cook dinner. Normally I would stick her in the sling and she would be fine. However, I knew the sling would probably put pressure on her legs and she wouldn't like that. And if I tried putting her in her crib, she would soon wake up and move her legs and would immediately start screaming. So I decided to put her in her car seat. Well, the carseat is great as long as she is being rocked in it. So I put her in the carseat and stuck her on the table so I could rock her and do dinner at the same time. It was hilarious! I had to get stuff out of the fridge, chop up items on the kitchen table while trying to rock her because as soon as I stopped she would wake up. It was the ultimate test of multi-tasking. I rocked the carseat, sliced some food, rocked the carseat, chopped up some more...you get the idea. Then realizing there was in item on the far side of the kitchen, I rocked the carseat hard enough, just in time to run, grab the item and be back rocking before the carseat stopped and she had the chance to think about waking up.

Oh, it was one on the funnier times figuring out how to live life with a baby! Good times!
I laughed so hard I had to take a picture of it:



Emma is now starting to coo, and she smiled at me for the first time this week! She can now hold up her head pretty good too! It is so fun to see her developing. It's the little things, but when it's your child...it means everything.

Late Merry Christmas :)

Our Christmas Holiday was wonderful!!! We went up to Bountiful to spend the holiday weekend with my family. We had a lot of fun! Here are some pictures that highlight our fun adventures...

We started out by celebrating Kristen's birthday. She was born on Dec. 23rd. She gets to open lots of gifts within a few days! :)




Right before dinner on Christmas Eve we got a big package on our front porch. Someone had rung the doorbell and ran. We opened box after smaller box after even smaller box, until the contents revealed...a can of prego sauce. It was great news from Nathan and Steph...they are expecting again!!! Yay! She is due in June.


Everyone got ready for the Christmas Eve program. All the kids got into their onsies....

We always have a Christmas program with lots of music and everyone in the family shares something that night.


We have a tradition in our family called "gift from the heart". A couple months before Christmas we all draw names in the family. Then you have to be creative and make something for that person. You can buy the things to make it, but it has to come from the heart!





Christmas morning Cade and I woke up with some sobering news. His sister Tara went into labor that morning at 32 weeks gestation. She was pregnant with twins and lost one of them (Abram). Cade flew on Christmas day last minute to go be with them. It was extremely sad news, especially for Christmas day. But the Lord also blessed them...the second baby was delivered fine and life-flighted to Portland, OR to the NICU. They named him Ashur. He is doing wonderful and progressing so fast! We are so happy that he is doing so well and that Tara and Johnny are parents to him! They will be such amazing parents and he is such a cute baby! Oh, not to mention...he was born at 3 lbs 6 ounces- the exact same as Emma! What are the odds...



One happy part about Christmas morning was seeing Wills that morning! It is so much more fun with kids again! And we spent many hours just watching him...he is very entertaining!

He loved his new horsey.

Apparently Boose did too :)

Aunt sisten with the babies.

Wills was so cute with Emma. He loves babies!

One of his favorite words now is "stuck" and will say it whenever he is stuck or a toy gets stuck and he says it in a very panicy voice. Emma was sitting on him and after he gave kisses, he started yelling "stuck", "stuck!" He was done with her:). It was hilarious!

Some cute pictures of Emma. Cade loves the outfit with the snails! Too bad she is growing out of her premie clothes!


Well, needless to say, we had a great vacation full of surprises. It was also a great time to give gifts as well as remember the greatest gift of all: our Savior Jesus Christ. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas as well!