8 days old

We are doing great! Emily's a sweet baby and Madeline just adores her. She covers her with blankets and brings her toys. So far she's not jealous, that won't change, right?
You'll see the progression of Emily's sad eye. We're not sure what caused it, but it started when she was 2 days old and looked red like a carpet burn. No probs with her actual eye, just the skin. Anyway, she"ll make a cute powder puff football player.

Here's a picture of proud Daddy.
Pitiful eye. Just starting to turn red.
John got a picture of us sleeping. So sweet.
Awake and showing of her beautiful eyes! (and war scars!)

Looking even worse - but check out that hair!

Going home. I couldn't get a good pic of her in the car seat because it was already loaded but she's in a preemie outfit and looked tiny!

Immediately after walking in the door. I looked pained - I'm not and had a better pic of me, but I liked this pic of Madeline better. Madeline LOVES her!

Madeline brought her a blanket and baby and carefully placed them on Emily. My cute kids!

Eye is healing and scabbed over but looks much better. She loves being swaddled up tight! (I think all newborns do.)

In her bassinet that Grammy bought for her. Still in preemie clothes. That's a snug fit pajama, not so snug yet.



Having her first bath at home. She slept through most of it and loved the warm water. John brought a warm towel to wrap her in - she thought that was great!

Same snug-fit pajama. Look how fat those cheeks are getting. She may grow faster and bigger than Madeline did.

more pictures after we have Emily

Some more pictures of Emily.  Jessica and Emily in bed:

Here is Andrew with his Mask on at Jessica's parent's house, making Madeline and Ellen laugh.

Jessica right before the C-section, looking puffy from all the fluids they were giving her.

Emily close-up

Emily is here!

This is a post by John. Baby Emily is here! Emily Catherine arrived at 10:08 AM this morning via c-section. She weighs 6 pounds even, and is 18.5 inches long. Jessica and baby are doing well. We have now been moved to a room and Mom and baby are getting some time together.

Here are some pictures, more to come later:

(in this series, before comes after after).

Papa's B-day and Octoberfest

We celebrated Papa's 80th b day with a party! Lots of people came and the kids did a pretty good job of behaving. .....of course mine is the 2 year old so she was the most challenging. The Gomez kids were great! Somebody forgot to send me the memo that we were wearing blue.....

Here's Papa and the great-grandkids.
We took Madeline to Octoberfest a couple of weeks ago and she had a BLAST! She loved the turkey leg and brautwourst (sp?) but wasn't thrilled with the funnel cake. There were dance floors near the music - she loved the polka! She wasn't at all bothered that the other kids dancing were older and danced harder and longer than the other kids there! It was hot, too! She's the one in pink getting down!

She ran up and down the field about 6 times. John and I took turns following her. Where does the energy come from?!