six weeks

emilymae is already six weeks old!

she and her sister continue to teach me something new every single day
and fill our little home with so much joy.
(perfectly balanced with those dashes of crazy i mentioned in an earlier post)

i had my six week check up this week.  my midwife said that emilymae and i are doing great.

while we were there i figured we both weigh in. 
i am down another two pounds and emilymae is . . .

drumroll please . . .

9lb 3.5oz
i could hardly believe it!

grandpa is here

my dad is here to play now and all of his girls are thankful!

my parents are staying in a hotel just down the street so monday afternoon we joined them for a swim and some sunshine at their pool.

anabelle was dressed and ready!

enjoying the walk

time to check out the water

our favorite trick!

and then our little daredevil likes to try to jump from the top

practicing those polar bear arms they teach her at swim school

time for a short break

. . . and a quick snack

(anabelle discovered cheese puffs this past week)

emilymae hasn’t been swimming (well, since day 1) but will be joining her sister at swim school in a couple months.

feeling pretty darn awesome at 6 weeks postpartum

chris’ comment:  holy moly that top is small! 
yah milk!

it was a such a fun and relaxing afternoon.

blog buddy

as if i didn’t already enjoy blogging enough, it’s even more special with with my little blog buddy.

think green

this is one of my favorite pics from when anabelle was starting to smile. 
i’m pretty sure i laughed out loud by myself when she made this sweet face.

here she is at 12 1/2 weeks.

emilymae is surely coming into her own look and style (ok, i’ll admit that i  make sure to style her hair right after bath).  her eyebrows are filling in this week and she has graduated to a whole new wardrobe of slightly bigger cutie things to wear.  when i came across this snoopy onesie the other day it reminded me of anabelle’s smiley picture.  emilymae still just smiles in her sleep but will be there soon.

here she is at 5 1/2 weeks.

(looking slightly serious but i’m sure she’s giggling on the inside)

happy

isn’t it the most delightful thing to be surrounded by happy?!

play time

we’ve been getting out and about a bit more than i expected to with a teeny one (who is no doubt getting less teeny everyday) and have been having a blast!

one morning we headed out to fletcher cove but not before enjoying an awesome breakfast at naked café across the street.  delish! 

  

even more special – anabelle and my mom met mrs. fletcher while they were wandering around the park (e & i were nursing).  yes, the mrs. fletcher of flecther cove!  she was out for a stroll with the help of her nurse.  after introductions, the nurse sweetly told them “this is why she had the park built.”  thanks mrs. fletcher!

another day we went over to seaport village.  so much sun and a perfectly refreshing breeze off the bay.  my mom and i took turns riding the carousel with anabelle.  we had lunch. 
we people watched.  we boat watched.

and anabelle got the coolest balloon helicopter.  i was quite impressed!

bonus that it made it all the way home without popping.

the next day we were off to target (always a fun outing for me).  this one happened to have a party store next door.  ok, i planned that ahead of time.  sneaky mama. 
anabelle loves to point out any balloons she can see from the road so i thought a couple balloons might be a fun treat.  how great that they are only $1 a piece! 

these ones made the journey home too!

so, target, balloons, lunch at panera, and then . . . pedicures!

i wanted to treat my mom (we both were needing some love on our toes) and anabelle too, but i wasn’t sure anabelle would like it.  when i got a henna tattoo last month all she would say was ‘yucky, mama wash’ and make an icky noise.  she also wasn’t a fan of the temporary tattoo she got from a friend when i put it on her foot and she realized she couldn’t peel it off.

a sat right next to me and watched as i got my toes done, only making a couple faces here and there.  she was great the entire time and so was e who didn’t make a peep.  then a started to say ‘anabelle turn’.  i had let her pick out a color when we walked in.  i thought she’d want purple – that’s usually her first guess when you ask her what color something is.  instead she picked a simple pale pink.  she was hesitant to let the lady hold her foot at first.  then she started to ask ‘wash wash’.  she wanted to get to put her feet in the warm water like mama.  silly girl.

well, sure enough, she held out her foot and watched closely as the lady painted each toe.  she was excited when they were done.  ‘pink toes!’ she said.  she showed chris when he got home that night and then said ‘papa, pink toes’.  sorry anabelle, we’ll have to wait and do that sometime when papa is napping.  hee hee!

play ball!

a couple weeks ago chris took anabelle to petco park for a baseball game.  he had been talking about it for weeks, maybe even months.  he finally found an afternoon game when he was going to be in town.

so, off they went!

here are a couple pics of them ‘watching’ the game.

chris said he thought she’d last at least an inning.  turns out she lasted an out!  yep, one single out before she was up and about, ready to explore pretty much anything other than the game.