A visit from Great Aunt Peggy and Great Uncle Dennis. They drove from across town to come and see their great-niece. What a treat for us and them. As a bonus Emma stayed awake for their visit!
Uncle Dennis knows all about raising little girls, he raised three of his own. Josh can call him for advice as Emma gets older (especially when she is a teenager). Emma seems very content with him.
Aunt Peggy meeting Emma for the first time...love at first sight!
December 28, 2008
Emma's first Christmas present (thanks to Nona and Papa)! The little dog is about half her size and I am sure she will love playing with it when she can stay awake long enough!
First Christmas outfit...also thanks to Nona!
Emma's first X-mas
This is where Emma spent her first day at home. Sad for us...it was hard to lay her in there when all we wanted to do was hold her. At this point we were hoping this would only last a day (and it did). We took Emma in the next day for a blood test and we got the all-clear! Her levels came back great and she could finally wear clothes and continue with her life---without the lights!
This picture makes me laugh. I really don't think she minded the warm lights, it was Josh and me who didn't want her under them.
Who knew she could smile already!
Enjoying some time with daddy outside of her suitcase of lights. We were allowed to take her out for short periods of time (30 min or less).
Our sleeping beauty, looking a bit yellow, but she also takes after her dad with her coloring. We think she will have a more olive skin-tone like Josh, and NOT light ivory-almost white skin-tone like me!
Here Emma is all bundled up ready for her first car ride to her new home! The little round thing on her forehead is where they test her levels for the jaundice so we couldn't take it off yet.
Auntie Anna was there to greet us. This is her meeting Emma for the first time.
Uncle James looks on as Tucker has a good look and sniff. The dogs did very well when they first met her. They gave her lots of licks on her head and then decided she was ok and could stay. We had Oscar bring home a little hat and blanket the day before so they could get use to Emma's smell.
Buster did try to sit on her at one point though. But I think he was really just trying to share Anna's lap and Emma got in the way.
The day we were going to leave the hospital Emma had a slight case of Jaundice. I say slight case because apparently she was right on the border of "normal" and "jaundice", so nothing too big to worry about, but all day Sunday (starting at 6:00 am that morning) she had to lay under the lights. So, we thought we would be there another night. The Doctor came in later that morning and told us if we wanted to we could go home, but we would need to have her under the lights at home. We decided to go home, I had had enough of the hospital, so we prepared to go home.
I love this picture! Emma looks so comfortable and warm all spread out with her arms up and her legs crossed. I think she is going to be like her mom and dad who enjoy the laying on the beach in the warm sun!
