Week Twelve - Eden Singing(video)

Eden has been so much more verbal in the past 2-3 days and we just love hearing her sweet little voice! It's so fun to talk to her or sing to her and have her "talk" and "sing" with us! John was singing to her here and she started singing along. We have tried to capture her doing this on video before today, but she usually sees the camera and becomes distracted and stops. Today I caught her without her knowing, but you will see she notices the camera near the end of the video!

(This is my first attempt at loading a video on the blog. If this works well I am planning to add more in the future!)

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!