We're parents!

This month has gone by so fast. Our little Emma arrived on the 7th at 12:21am weighing 8 lbs 2 oz. She's already 3 weeks old and has had several visitors.

Labor and delivery went smoothly and we were in the hospital for just 2 days.

Emma likes her awake time and typically stays awake for about 2.5 hours at a time. Her sleeping has become more varied lately and she'll sleep for 1-4 hours, sometimes she has had a longer chunk of sleep here and there at night (4.5ish hours), but typically about 3 hours. She very much so likes to eat food and lots of it. She likes to grab her face with her hands. She likes pacifiers. She doesn't spit up which is AWESOME. She's a very calm baby most of the time. She likes baths and feels all warm and cozy afterwards.

She's a very good baby and although her being here has changed a lot of how my day goes it has been great and I'm glad to have her. She's a sweet little soul and we love her. =)

Thanks to Becca for the photos!

 

Funny quotes from Bry's dad

I wish I had written down more of what he said when he was here last weekend, but this is what I did get on paper:

"She could dissect a banana and no one would know it was gone." (speaking of a politician, I think)

"cerfiticate"

"It's good to be disarming."

When will baby come?

Guesses were made without knowledge of other people's guesses - believe it or not. I had it be optional to include time, length and other factors.


Who                 Date                  Time        Weight           Length         Other                          
Bart                 12/31/2014                         8 lbs
My doctor       1/7/2015    
Bry                  1/10/2015                          7 lbs  5 oz
Roxanne         1/10/2015                           8 lbs 2 oz
Mandy            1/10/2015        12:24pm    8 lbs 12 oz     22 inches     Moderate amount of hair
Isaac               1/10/2015        9:00pm      7 lbs 10 oz    20 inches
Laurel Lee      1/11/2015                            7 lbs 14 oz                          Blonde hair; cute
Jane                1/11/2015         1:10am       8 lbs 6 oz      21 inches      Almost bald
Becca              1/11/2015         4:00pm      8 lbs 6 oz    
Allison            1/12/2015                            7 lbs 3 oz      20 inches       A bit of strawberry blonde hair
Liz                   1/12/2015        4:23am       8 lbs 3 oz                            Wisps of blonde hair
Rochelle          1/14/2015        8:42pm       7 lbs 14 oz    21 inches        Full head of dark hair
Aiden              1/15/2015        6:40pm       6 lbs  7 oz

Christmas

Bry and I got up and checked our stockings first. For breakfast we did a combination of our traditions: Bry made omelettes (that turned out perfectly - he's a pro), I cooked linguica and washed strawberries (normally my family has pineapple, grapes, and/or oranges but we picked up strawberries - close enough), and we had juice to drink.

After breakfast, Bry cleared up the dishes and we opened our presents which had been sent to us by family. 

We went and saw Into the Woods which has great music.

I called home and talked with family, watched some family videos that Becca had Costco transfer from VHS to DVD, and went to dinner with friends from our ward. We had a lot of fun at dinner and ate tons of delicious food. 

Overall, it was a wonderful Christmas day, and we were glad baby didn't decide to change our plans and come 2 weeks early. 

January is coming fast

I'm 34 weeks! And definitely looking more definitively pregnant.

Our baby girl makes me feel pretty squished sometimes and it feels really weird when she shifts around. Everything has been looking good, though, and time keeps moving. I can hardly believe it's almost December. 

Thanksgiving in Washington

Interesting note: In the last three years, Bry and I have moved up one State each Thanksgiving (CA, OR, WA).

This year was possibly the quietest Thanksgiving of my life. It ended up just being Bry and I on Thanksgiving day. It was so great to have him home on a weekday (even though it totally threw off my sense of what day of the week it was), and although it would have been nice to have been with lots of family, it was nice to have a relaxing holiday.

We started off the day by going to see Mockingjay, Part 1 which we both enjoyed.

We came home, ate lunch and were able to relax in the afternoon. We both worked on preparing the food for our Thanksgiving dinner. Since it was just the two of us, we kept it small and simple: ham, seasoned red potatoes, grapes for dinner with water and apple juice to drink; Toll House pie for dessert.

While it was nice to have a quiet Thanksgiving day, we were grateful to be joined on Friday and Saturday by Laurel Lee, Robert, and Valerie. We had Thanksgiving food, round 2, on Friday night - same food as Thursday but with stuffing also.

Saturday morning we woke up to snow which was a surprise! I blame Bry since he'd been saying it wasn't winter to him until he saw snow. Now it's winter. Luckily, it didn't snow too much and stopped snowing by late morning so the Corkrans were able to drive back to Portland safely.

Halloween 2014

Our last Halloween before becoming parents.

After changing my mind about 4 times, I decided to be a karate instructor (I have one pupil - she's a natural). Purple belt means intermediate; I didn't realize I was blocking it with my arms in the photo. Woops.

Bry was a Calgary Flames hockey player.