Here is Emery all ready for her first sponge bath! Who knew it took so many supplies to bathe someone so little!
She loves having her hair washed, it is so cute to watch!
After her bath her hair stands straight up, it is so hilarious and cute!
This is Emery right before her "real" bath in her tub, her cord fell off when she was only five days so we didn't have to wait long to give her a "real" bath.
she wasn't the biggest fan of the tub I have to admit, she is starting to warm up to it though.
Today we went with my mom, sisters and grandma to Ephraim for Scandinavian Days, they had a lot of really cute booths, and Kate had a blast getting spoiled by grandmas!
She discovered one little booth full of dresses, purses and bows and charmed my grandma into buying her this dress, she also worked her charm on the owner of the booth and she gave her a free purse! I guess I need to take lessons from her.
This last week we met up with my cute cousin BrieAnn and her adorable little boy Braxton and went to the zoo. Kate loved it so much that I could never get her to sit in the stroller, we chased her around the entire day!
The favorite animal of the day was definitely the monkey! Kate will tell you all about them if you ask! She watched him swing around and carry his blanket in his mouth and thought it was hilarious!
Here is our picture to officially document Emery's first trip to the zoo! (she slept the whole time).
To celebrate Kate being totally potty trained my mom promised Kate that we would all go out for ice cream. Kate waited so patiently that she fell asleep and would not even wake up for a bite! So this is our proof that we actually did take her, and she really did get ice cream as promised.
Along with all the play, we have also had plenty of time to rest. I found Chad snoozing on his books last week, poor guy has been studying so hard for his dental application test, but he will do awesome!
Kate snuggled up in her chair for a nice afternoon nap.
And depending on the day this swing may or may not be Emery's favorite place to nap. She has now learned that it is more fun to have everyone hold her while she sleeps.
We also went up to the Gateway Childrens Museum with some of Kates BFF's Savannah and Emma. They had a blast!
It has been a fun six weeks so far and we have done alot of fun things. It will be hard to leave my girls and go back to work but it was a really nice break to adjust and welcome our adorable new addition to the family.
I am happy to report that we have had two days of zero accidents! Kate is doing awesome and has really got the "potty" thing all figured out. We have been using a suggestion from my neighbor and after Kate uses the potty she gets to call her favorite cartoon character to celebrate her success. So far we have called Dora, 
Kai-Lan,
and the Wonder Pets...
multiple times. I usually get to act the part, or my mom- when Chad is not home to place the call. We even took her to church and nursery and she told her nursery leaders when she needed to go! We are so proud of her, and happy to be done with her diaper era.
So we are on potty training round two. We have tried this multiple times before with no success. I have officially decided that I can only handle changing one childs' diaper and Kate needs to be potty trained. This all began on Monday... It is now Thursday and I am ready to die! She still goes in her pants about 90% of the time, she will come tell me she needs to go after she has already gone in her pants. It is seriously driving me crazy!!! I need help, does anyone have suggestions for me? We have tried treats, books, rewards, punishments and still no success. We told her when she is all potty trained we will take her to pick out a bike but she doesn't care, and she asks for her diapers. Let me know your suggestions! I'll keep you updated :)
Our little Emery is finally here! We are already completely in love with her, Kate is her biggest fan. She was born Tuesday April 13th, 2010. I went in to be induced early tuesday morning, Chad was stuck in his lab (which his professor would not excuse him from) and finally arrived at the hospital around noon. My doctor was really nice and let me start the pitocin slow until Chad could make it. Once he arrived they were able to speed things up, things ended up going so fast that Chads mom and his sister Amber were not able to make it to the hospital in time and Kate was stuck in the delivery room, (luckily Alice and Wonderland made an excellent distraction in the corner for Kate that she was totally oblivious as to what was going on). One push and Emery was here, not to mention that my epidural had almost completely worn off at this point... ouch!
She weighed 6lbs 13oz (which was almost two pounds less than Kate!) and she was 19.5 inches tall. So far she has just been a little sweetheart, she hardly ever cries and is so easy to console. We hope she stays this way forever.
Kate loves being a big sister! She loves to give her little kisses and show her all of her toys. They are going to be best friends!
We were able to come home from the hospital on Thursday afternoon and so far things are going well. I forgot how fun newborns are, and also how much work they are! It is quite the transition getting used to two kids instead of just Kate, we have been so blessed to have so much help and love from family and friends! Thanks for all your love and support, and I will try to keep plenty of pics posted of our cute new addition.So here is a quick baby update, I am officially getting induced on tuesday (the 13th), but today I visited my doctor and she stripped my membranes, which so far has equaled out to lots of random contractions but nothing too exciting yet. Poor chad is determined to get the baby out today, we walked all over provo this afternoon and every five minutes he asks me how im feeling, its very cute but I feel bad there is not much to report so far. Any suggestions for us? If not I suppose we can wait until tuesday. Hopefully my next post will be of our new little baby!
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