march 15th photos by hillary jane

march 14th photos by hillary jane

pictures of my sweet little girl!

pictures from march 11th by hillary jane

i've been a little behind on blogging! so i'm going to catch her pictures up to 6 weeks!

she is growing so fast...every single day i feel like she changes! she is such a good baby! i went to the dr. last tuesday the 13th and she weighed 10 lbs 4 oz.

she loves her swing, her bouncy seat, and her jungle themed play yard (although only for about 20 minutes). we are trying to get her on a schedule and it's going pretty good. she is on a 3 hour schedule where she feeds, then we play, read, or sing, and then she goes down for a nap...we do that all day long! she actually falls asleep to my singing (shocking, i know!)

my sister, hillary, came up to visit on her spring break and she took some amazing pictures of her! my cousin bekah was also in colorado visiting her parents and she is an amazing photographer so we got home good pictures too!

3 days after emma was born i was an....

AUNTIE!!!!!!
emilie and gabe had their precious boy (and my precious nephew)!!!

mack lewis schmid was born on march 8th at 2:38 am! he was 7 lb 3 oz and 20 inches long!

emilie's water broke sunday morning....my parents got russ and i situated at home on sunday and took the first flight out to go meet their first grandson on monday morning! what a whirlwind weekend they had! i was so thankful to have them here to meet emma!

mack is just precious and i'm counting the days until i can meet him (may 6th!)

pictures of emma's birth experience!

gramie and emma
popa and emma (they arrived 15 minutes after she was born!)
proud daddy and emma (they look just alike!) so precious
on our way to the hospital! so excited and in shock!!
clearly we weren't prepared...you can also tell russ was in a panic!! haha
proud parents! my nose and face was so itchy from the drugs! i was one tired mama!

emma's birth story

it was a typical thursday afternoon...i had just come back from lunch with some co-workers and i was chatting in the kitchen with a co-worker whose wife was due shortly after me. we were talking about our future little girls. i felt a little something that down there that was not normal so i cut the conversation short and headed back to my desk to get something out of my purse! my boss came up to me and handed me something (still not sure what it was) but i just grabbed it and threw it on my desk...at this point the something down there was absolutely not normal...i started running for the bathroom and that's when it gushed! i made it to the bathroom but my pants were soaked and so was the bathroom floor! i yelled out if anyone was in the bathroom and a lady slowly answered...yesss. she went into a slight panic asking what she needed to do. she got one of my co-workers and her gym bag. slowly the bathroom started filling up with other co-workers and bosses! i borrowed her workout pants but soaked those too! i called russ from the bathroom stall but no answer...so i sent him a text. "my water broke!" he was in a meeting with the VP and some others. he interrupted them saying..."ummm i need to go lauren's water broke!" since my car had the car seat in it he jumped on the mall ride and met me at my office.

i had made my way down with paper towels stuffed in my pants and was outside waiting for russ. my co-worker was awesome and went to my garage a couple blocks away to get my car (which was on the 7th floor! didn't think i could make it up the stairs). she came to the building but missed us so russ chased after us (i tried but had to stop and sit on the curb...it kept gushing!) he went around the block and came to get me....we were off to have a baby!!!

i had called my doctor and she said we could go home and get our stuff....russ was in panic mode. it was so cute :) the first person i called was my mom...she didn't believe me at first!

we got to the hospital around 4ish (we had to stop by target to get dvd's for our video camera!)

we got all checked in and i was feeling good....the contractions started coming very soon and got stronger and stronger. i was on the "see and wait" plan....haha that lasted until 9:30 pm when i was on the "i want the epidural now!" plan. it was such a relief and i knew i needed it to get some rest. i was progressing really well all throughout the night but my tail bone was an awkward shape and she just couldn't get passed a certain point. the dr. came in at 7:30 and recommended that we do a c-section. at 8:46 am emma jane pfeifer was born! unfortunately, my c-section was not the best experience and i was so tired from all night labor that i don't remember my first moments with her but we do have pictures. russ was such an amazing husband and "coach" throughout labor and after (except when he was secretly video taping me while i was pushing!) makes for funny video afterwards though! we have both been so in love with our little girl since the moment we met her.

there aren't words to describe how much a miracle babies are...the whole pregnancy and birth has been amazing and what we received is just a blessing. i love you emma!

emma jane pfeifer

march 5, 2010

7 lbs 7.4 oz

20.5 " long

precious!

emma's room

for some reason decorating emma's room took me awhile to get together...but it finally came together just in time for her to be born!

i re-did a chandelier from one of our rent houses...i can't find the before picture :( but just imagine brass and really grungy crystals!

my cousin bekah bowman took pics of her room when she was just here! she's so talented!!

you will be able to tell my picture :) but i wanted to show emma's cute chandelier!