Visiting Daddy at work



I took Emily to visit her daddy, grandpa and aunt Kelli at work this week and to meet Becky and Stephennie. She did really good!

Emily and Grandpa Riney



Emily and Daddy



We also went to vote on Tuesday!  She's republican in case you're wondering :)

It was a fun trip and one of our first out with just the two of us. I'm getting more comfortable taking her out by myself. The most nerve racking part is that we're not on a schedule so i never know when we can leave or when she'll want to eat.  She's pretty much on a 2 1/2-3 hour feeding schedule but its not consistently at the same time from day to day.  :(





On Wednesday we met my friend Carrie and her newborn daughter (and Emily's BFF), Clare at Panera for a little date to get the mommies out of the house. It was great until the ride home when she was screaming at me out of hunger. I couldn't get home fast enough and of course hit every red light in town!  But we survived and will venture out again on some errands, timing them just right of course.  She likes to ride in the car though, so that's good.  And we have plans to meet up with Carrie and Clare every week to hang out. :)  We'll keep venturing out and getting more comfortable.

A day in the life of Emily

So I'm not very good at keeping this up unfortunately :( I promise to do better, but when you have a newborn in your arms all day its sort of hard to type. I'll catch you up on what we've been doing lately. 

A day in the life of Emily is pretty good.  Mostly sleeping, changing diapers and eating. We usually get out for a walk in the BOB if its not too hot.  We'll sit out on the back porch in the evenings too sometimes when its nice.

Emily has been spending lots of time on her play mat and she seems to enjoy it. We've even managed some tummy time!  Usually after she eats we need to spend some awake time before going back to sleep (according to the book anyway) and this is a good way to get that done.

She also spends some time in her swing. She'll only tolerate it for a little while.  My friend Amber visited the other day and said that her daughter had the same swing. She showed me some cool features on it so that we can move it to face outside, the TV or us having dinner (which is always quick and usually not together).  It was an ah-ha! moment, this stuff should come with an instructor! I think she likes facing outside best where she can see the trees against the sky.

We haven't brought out the bouncy seat just yet, we're saving that trick :)  And there are other toys for her to be entertained by although right now she really just like watching her friend "Fanny"-the ceiling fan in our living room. Pretty much anything that is dark on a light background she likes since i think that's all she can see.



Her Daddy likes to take her outside to check out the yard every evening when he gets home. He thought she needed to wear her sunglasses though since it was so bright out. They walk around bouncing and making sure everything is growing like it's supposed to.  Seriously, they do this everyday.

 Over the weekend Emily had her first trip to Wal-Mart. We were in and out in 20 minutes, i couldn't believe it. I just needed to pick up some parts for the breast pump so that i could start pumping some milk to give her a bottle with at night. More on that later :)  Kelli and our friend Lauren came by on Sunday for a visit and then to get out of the house we went over to her Grandpa and Grandma Riney's to watch the golf tournament. 

Its a pretty good life if you ask me!