6/8/2010
Emme,
My goodness little one, you are already 2 months old! How quickly time passes. You are growing up so big! You are still very long and lean, but filling out some in your face. You can hold your head up by yourself somewhat – although you are still in need of some support. You like to look around now, and especially love our faces! You have begun to coo, which just melts my heart . . . as do your endearing smiles at Daddy and I! How did we get to be so lucky to be your parents, darling!

You are an absolutely perfect little girl, so darling! Your hair is a beautiful auburn red, and you get many compliments on it! Your eyes are a dark blue color right now. I can’t snuggle with you enough!! I love to rub your little soft downy hair on your head too.

You are a great sleeper at night – sleeping 8 or more hours, what a dream! You like to be swaddled tightly to sleep at night, and you look so precious and tiny all wrapped up! You are starting to enjoy swinging in your baby swing, and also to lie on your back and look up at toys hanging over head. You get excited, and kick your feet and flail your hands while you are looking at the toys dangling above you! I am so thankful and awestruck at the wondrous and precious gift you are, we sure are blessed from God with you!

You and Mommy have thrush, a very common thing for breast fed babies and their mom’s to get. Grace got it too, as she took your pacifier and put it in her own mouth several times. The medicine for it has to be taken 4 times a day, and hopefully it will go away. Unfortunately it has a tendency to re-occur. Hopefully that is not the case for us. We just got home from a long trip to Georgia. Your second trip baby girl! Your first trip was 5 hours long, when you were 2 weeks old. On this trip to Georgia you were about 7 weeks old. We stopped in Tennessee on the way down and stayed at a hotel. Then, we stayed the night at your Great-grandma Bebe’s house. Next, we went to a Resort near where we stayed for 2 nights for Uncle Dan and Aunt Jenna's wedding.

You were beloved by all of your great-aunts and great-great-aunts – they all wanted to hold and snuggle you! You were a big hit, especially with Daddy’s Grandma Grace (not actually his relation, but a neighbor of his when he was a child). She held you a lot during the bridesmaid’s luncheon. Your great-aunts Bridget, Sharon, Melissa and Cynthia were very fond of you – as was great-great Aunt Delene. For the wedding you wore Clayton’s Christening gown – you looked like a living doll, so so beautiful – like an angel sent straight from heaven. On the way home from our trip we stopped at the Zoo. It was soooo wonderful to be home!