Six Weeks

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Emma is now six weeks old!
She is more alert, following the face and voice of the person talking to her.
She can smile and is good at copying a smile that is given to her.
She can almost laugh!
She is kicking and moving her arms a lot more.
She had her first set of shots :(
She weighs 11 lbs. 6oz. and is 23 inches long!

WHAT A BIG GIRL!

We are family

Here is my family. Something I wanted for so long and God has been so good to provide me with a caring husband (who is an outstanding father) and a sweet, precious little girl.

Sweet like candy

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How could you not fall in love with this face!

Her favorite place to be is on her daddy's chest so she can life up her head and check out all that is going on around her!

5 weeks

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Here is the most recent picture of Emma. She is 5 weeks old here (11.14.2010) She has lost some of her hair and has been dealing with baby acne for the past week. It looks awful but it doesn't seem to bother her.

At this point she sleeps A LOT! She has also started to smile and will give us a big mouth open smile when we talk baby talk to her. She is also tracking with her eyes and loves to watch when someone is talking to her.

Here's Emma

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October 9th at 7 am we checked into the hospital to be induced. At 8 am they started the IV drip and after a long day and night Emma arrived!

I won't lie and say it was a bike ride labor. It was very scary at the end and I'm very lucky that Emma and I both are here and healthy!

Emma was born at 5:32am on October 10th, she was 9 lbs. 6 oz. and a little over 20 inches long.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Last January Justin and I found out I was pregnant. 18 weeks later we found out we were going to have a baby girl. In the picture above you have Emma Jean O'Dell's first photo and an afghan, towel, and bib that my mother had bought when Justin and I married 7 years earlier because she just knew we were going to have a girl!

The months past and I grew and grew. I also spent most of time worrying about the health of our baby to be. I had lost two babies during our parental journey (One in March 2008 and the other in October 2009) The days would drag by and I would constantly be concerned with what could be wrong. I was afraid to post or even take pictures for fear of putting a jinx on everything. I daily had to tell God it was in his hands and it took all my will to put it all in his hands and trust his guidance during the journey.
Here I am a tiny thing in July. Little did I know that by my due date I would be much larger than what I was already feeling.
Here I am with two of my nephews a few weeks before Emma arrived!
Here I am just days before Emma arrived. I can't believe I was so big!

Thanksgiving

I'm getting ready for the marathon day ahead. I will shower soon and then watch the parade as I make some goodies for Mom's house. We well enjoy lunch there and then come home quick enough to relax for a few minutes and then off to Justin's mom's for dinner. The contrast of the two places is so different it is almost hilarious!

Yesterday, Bryce got his first deer. He was so proud. He called the house and I dropped what I was doing and grabbed my camera and got a few pictures.