Baby pictures!!

I may be two months behind, but our baby is here!! She is such a cutie, sweet baby and all I want to do all the time is snuggle with her and curl up and sleep next to her and hold her.

She was born about 45 minutes after we got to the hospital and the doctor barely made it there in time. Good thing, too, because I wasn't waiting!!

She was born with with very loud lungs, but she doesn't really cry at all now. In fact, every night we can tell when she is ready for the night and Danny wraps her up really tight and puts her in her car seat and rocks her. Once she is asleep, she sleeps until 5 or 6 am, which is wonderful!!!

The kids are loving having her and she loves them, too and gives them lots of smiles, even if being around them sometimes means a bonk in the head. 




Look, here she is, already crying at Alex. It's like she knows......

Here she is sleeping in my bed at the hospital. I just love having them snuggled next to you. Especially when they are as big as she was!! 

 

When Tristan first saw her, he was so sweet and started singing "You Are My Sunshine" to her spontaneously. I think for him, it was the only way to express his emotions.

Emme is sooo baby obsessed, even before the baby was born. Now she just has a real baby, too. But she likes to love, love, love- hit! So we have to keep a close eye on her. Alaina is so motherly and now she also nurses all of her stuffed animals. So, of course Emme does, too. She drops things like small toy spiders, down her shirt and says, "Baby!" and then makes sucking sounds.

This was our first week back to church. We were doing pretty great, and then Danny found Emme in the sink, in her dress, with the water running. Then we were a little late.

Our little baby is already two months old, and now I need to put up newer pictures of her! Sometimes it is pretty interesting with 5 kids, and a little crazy with a newborn baby, but gosh, there is something so heavenly about a baby in your home.

I should probably mention, too, that we are calling her by her middle name, Irelyn. I swore I would never do that again after having Alex go by his middle name, but as she has gotten bigger her hair has gotten redder and she just looked more and more like an Irelyn. And it sounded right, like it fit in our family.  Mmm... just looking at this picture almost makes me want to go wake her up and hold her. Almost.....   :)