Rock-a-bye

I'm drinking in Piper's sweet scent and heavy breathing while she's deeply sleeping in my arms. It's intoxicating. I feel like I missed this with Emberly. Everyone told me how I shouldn't rock my baby to sleep because they wouldn't learn how to go to sleep on their own and you'd still be rocking them to sleep when they are leaving for college and yada yada yada. So I tried to be so careful. And looking back, I feel like I missed out. Cuddle time with Emberly is limited to injuries and sickness and an occasional insecure moment. And I wish I had soaked up every possible cuddly moment.

So new mamas, cuddle that new sweet bambino with no reservations. It goes way. too. fast.

Doctor, Flu, and Library all in one day

Dear Life,

Piper had her two-month appointment today. At two and a half months old she weighs 12 lbs on the nose (50th percentile) and is 21 and 3/4 inches long (15th percentile). The doctor questioned how accurate the height measurement was... but whatever.

Piper handled her shots like a trooper, but has been extra fussy all day. I'm praying she'll sleep long and hard tonight.

It was kind of an exhausting day. Jordan started working nights last night. Came home, slept most of the day, and then woke up with the flu. A really un-fun case of the flu.

So we tried to avoid being home as much as possible. We spent a lot of time at grandma and grandpa's house and took our first trip to the downtown library.











It was almost magical. I've been waiting to share the library with Emberly since she was teeny tiny. And today she went to the wiggle room and played with all of the toys and then we picked out a few books to check out. Made my mama heart so so very happy to see her enjoy it and bury herself in her new books on the way home.

It was nice in the midst of the rest of the chaos of the day.

And now I am chilling on the air mattress in the middle of the living room so I don't catch whatever Jordan has. I think I'll call this camping. Air conditioning. No bugs. I'll take it.

Gem

My little gem of the morning:

Piper was fussing and I picked her up and was patting her back and bouncing. I look in the living room and Emberly has a burp cloth on her shoulder, is patting her baby's back and bouncing up and down saying "ok sweet baby. Ok." And then she said "burp! play now?" and put her on the play mat and got right down in get face and started talking to her.

Ah sweet child. :)

Bedtime

E just could not fall asleep tonight. And seriously there was crying from one or both children in my house from 7pm to 8:30pm.

But after going back into Emberly's room to see if I could settle the sobbing one more time I explained to her that it was very late and it was time to sleep.

And she stopped crying immediately and looked at me with understanding and said "ooooooh! late! Eight nine two o'clock mommy??? Soooo late! Sleepy time now!"

Where does she come up with this stuff?? :)



Molly

Cookies

Emberly tripped on some toys tonight and took a huge fall. I try to hide my reactions so Emberly doesn't react based on my reaction, but I couldn't help but gasp and ask if she was ok.

She stopped and looked at me, and then looked at the floor and explained that no she was not ok because her (pretend) cookies had spilled. All over.

So we picked them up together and blew them off and it was all ok.

Oh Mr. Sun...

Grandma Go-Go saw this hat and just thought Emberly needed to have it... :)

Sleep

Last night piper slept from 9pm-8am and Emberly went to bed at 7:30pm and is still sleeping. And I am just so thankful for babes that sleep. What a blessing!