Week Eleven - cousins

Eden continues to grow and get more active and verbal daily! It's so fun to hear her testing out her voice by trying to make new sounds. Sometimes she surprises herself with the sounds she makes! It's so fun and sweet to see her personality developing. She has been sleeping longer stretches at night, some nights she will sleep 9 hours and then go back to sleep for another 4!

Aunt Lauren and Cousin Benjamin came to babysit Eden so John and I could go out for a real date. We hardly knew what to do with ourselves, but it was a much needed outing! We are so grateful to our family and friends for being such an awesome support!

Here are a couple pictures of Eden with Benjamin and Lauren.

Benjamin loves Eden! He likes to "pet it" (touch her) and "hold it"(hold her) and he even asked if he could help Lauren "slap it" (burp her). Such a sweet relationship these two little cousins are going to have!

Shout out to Mary

I wanted to share a couple photos of Eden in the adorable onesie that our friend Mary Hanks sent. She has an Etsy store and also sent Eden a precious embroidered burp cloth and bib that I love!! Thank you Mary! You can check out her online store here.

Baby Blues - 10.5 weeks

John and I have come to the conclusion that Eden will NOT have brown eyes. If for some crazy reason she does, we will be VERY surprised! Right now her eyes are a beautiful dark blue with a light ring around her pupil and I really hope they stay blue.

We are loving her little coos, smiles and laughs that seem to increase daily. It's so fun to see her little personality taking shape. Right now she loves trying to get her hands to her mouth, and I am afraid to say she will probably be a thumb-sucker. We have tried again and again to get her to take a pacifier instead, but she will not!

We love this sweet little girl - she's such a blessing from the Lord!

Week Eight

I cannot believe Eden is already 8 weeks old!! Yesterday (Thursday) was 8 weeks exactly and Eden had her 2 month visit to the doctor. She looks like she's been growing like crazy the past few weeks so we were very eager to see how much length and weight she had gained.

Eden weighed in at 10 lbs 13 oz and 23.5 in long. At birth she was 7 lbs 14 oz and 20.5 in long, so she has basically gained 3 lbs and 3 in over the past 2 months. She is in the 50% for weight and 90% for height. This girl doesn't have a prayer for being average height, much less short. We have so many tall family members!

She also received her first round of immunizations and she did great! She of course cried when the nurse gave her the first shot, but as soon as she finished and I picked her up she stopped crying. She slept wonderfully through the night (8 hours the first stretch of the night) and has not had a fever. I am wondering if these immunizations can become a weekly event, just kidding!

No news on her hip ultrasound yet, but the doctor is suppose to call when they get the results, so we're still waiting on that.

I took a few pictures of Eden enjoying her swing this morning - she loves it!

Week Seven

This week Eden had her follow-up ultrasound on her hips. This was a recommendation by our pediatrician after her 2 week appointment. We were told to go to the hospital to a certain wing at a certain time and that was all we were told! Needless to say, by the time we got to where we were supposed to be, we were both pretty frazzled and a little late on top of that. We were very pleasantly surprised when our ultrasound tech was a girl from our church and it was a comfort to have her working with Eden! Eden did fabulous, didn't even cry once. We will get the results from the ultrasound when we go for her 2 month visit this Thursday. We are praying she has no looseness in her hips so we will not have to go forward with any other treatment - please pray with us!

Week Six

We went up to Jaemor Farms with Aunt Lauren, Benjamin, Gram and Pop on Saturday, October 9th. Benjamin visited the petting zoo and rode the hayride. Eden pretty much slept the entire time while daddy was carrying her in the Baby Bjorn. We had a great time, even though it was crowded and much warmer than we hoped for a fall event!

Next year Eden will be old enough to walk around the petting zoo and see the animals!

Week Five

During the 5th week, Eden began to smile!!! This might be the most precious and amazing thing for a parent to experience! Eden had smiled many times in her sleep, but this was when she started to smile voluntarily when she was awake and would look and John or me. I think I would do just about anything to get her to smile again and again!

Here are some pictures from when we went over to the Owens for a cookout! Eden got to meet a lot of her cousins and we had such a nice time with everyone - thanks for having us!