3 Weeks

Eden is three weeks old today and what a fast 3 weeks it's been! In 3 weeks we've learned a few of her preferences:-)

• She enjoys sleeping on her side with her hands up by her face
• She eats every three hours and is on a pretty dependable schedule: 7, 10, 1, 4, 7
• Her nighttime feedings are around 10 PM, 2-3 AM and again around 6-7 AM (although getting her to sleep between these feedings has been an issue!)
• She has slept in her Boppy between mommy and daddy in bed a few nights. You do what you got to do to get sleep!
• Around 2 weeks she started having more wake time and we are seeing more of those big eyes
• She takes a paci some and seems to like the Mams (like Macy did) and Soothie's
• In newborn diapers and I think she fills up her newborn clothes more than Macy did. She seems to be longer!
• She loves to be cuddled and could possibly already be spoiled :-)
• She is doing really well taking bottles here and there

Love these sweet girls!!

Macy Meets Eden

Comparisons

From the second Josh and I saw Eden we couldn't get over how much she looked like Macy. I literally had a flashback to the day Macy was born. I decided to look back on some pictures of Macy's first week and see if I could compare them. I'm sure they will eventually start to differ and develop their own looks, but right now I'm having a hard time finding differences in their newborn pictures.

Macy - 6 lbs 4 oz. 19 in.
Eden - 6 lbs 5 oz. 19.75 in.

Macy

Eden

Macy

Eden

Macy

Eden

Macy

Eden

Eden Joy's Arrival

Our newest addition arrived on Monday, June 20th and we are enjoying life as a family of four.

Sunday night around 11:00 I started having some contractions. At 1:00 in the morning they become stronger and about 7 minutes apart. This went on throughout the night and I even got up and got dressed at 3:30 because they became less than 5 minutes apart. Well, right after I got dressed they slowed down and became more irregular (of course!) So we waited until morning and finally decided to go to the hospital around 8:00. The contractions had picked up again and I just didn't want to wait until it was too late! We got checked in and just started waiting!

And sweet Eden arrived at 3:57 that afternoon!

Meeting her little sister for the first time. She was so sweet with her (and possessive!)

Watching Eden take her bath

I had the sweetest nurse. She included Macy by letting her rub some lotion on Eden's tummy. Needless to say, she loved this :-)

Big sister, little sister shirts

"Smile Eden" says Macy :-)

All dressed and ready to go home

Macy rocking her Piglets while we waited

Back home, we finally started seeing those eyes!

First pair of matching outfits

We are so thankful for another healthy baby girl!

Father's Day 2011

I had hoped to get my Father's Day post done before Eden got here but I didn't make it!

Josh is the most amazing father and my girls are so blessed to have him. He is so involved and extremely helpful in meeting their needs; such a great partner! I love that he loves spending time with them and misses them when he's away.

Sunday morning, he opened his gifts from me and Macy...

Macy colored Daddy a picture with her handprints. Can't believe how much bigger her prints were this year than last!!

Showing Daddy her picture

Eden's Nursery and Macy-isms

I think Macy's nursery was set up just a few weeks after finding out we were having a girl (probably around 25 weeks!) Well, I just now completed my to-do list for sweet Eden! Thus goes the life of the 2nd child, I guess:-) At least it's finished!

Macy was starting to get attached to the rocking chair in her room; climbing in and out and putting baby dolls or stuffed animals in it. When we moved it to Eden's room we decided to get Macy a new little chair for her room.

Opening the box with Daddy

Trying it out for the first time

Reading in her room. We love the new chair!

Macy has been cracking me up lately with all her little Macy-isms. I've decided to list as many as I can so I don't forget this fun and VERBAL age!

• Macy is very adamant when she wants Mommy and Daddy's attention. "Mommy....Mommy...MOMMY!" And if Mommy still has not answered, she begins saying "Amy....AAAAAMMMEEEEYYY" I'll say, "Macy, who's Amy?" And she says "Mommy." Josh taught her my name a while ago and it stuck!

• She says all sorts of phrases now. Any time you ask her where something is she immediately says "I don't know" then begins looking for it. When she finds it she says "There it is!" One thing we do when we're walking to the parking lot is look for "Macy's car". As soon as she sees it she says "There it is!" She said her first real sentence a few weeks ago and it was clear as day: "Daddy, I want to read a book!" Yesterday when we were coloring together she said "Mommy color a princess. Macy color Pooh." She was coloring in her Winnie the Pooh book and I was using a Princess coloring book. I'm not even sure when she learned the word Princess!

• When we are riding in the car together I am her personal MP3 player and she requests what songs she wants me to sing...

"Mommy....
-Ta-tales (veggietales): Broccoli, celery....
-Na-Na (Waves of Mercy): Nanananana
Bika Bika Bika (Every Breath I Take)
-Psalty: I'm a little praiser, I'm a Hallelujah raiser...
-Cat (Cat in the Hat): Here we go go go go on an adventure...
-Jesus Loves Me

• She also likes to list her colors and animal sounds while we are in the car together. It's almost like she enjoys being "quizzed" on them:-)

• She is so orderly in how she plays with her toys! She loves to line her toys and stuffed animals up. The other day I watched her line up her animals on the video monitor...
  

She was very strategic about it. She originally had Goofy between Pooh and Piglet and she moved him to the end because she knows that Pooh is supposed to go with Piglet. Then she made sure little Piglet was next to big Piglet. Olivia was a little more challenging and she stopped to think for a minute with her until finally deciding to put her next to the other "pigs".

She truly is a sponge right now and Josh and I find ourselves looking at each other all the time going "When did she learn that!?!"

She is getting very excited about Eden and I know she's going to be a great big sister. Only about 11 days (or sooner!)