Emery's first week home has been great. The Lord has truly blessed us with an angel baby who quickly figured out sleeping and eating... leaving her new parents pretty well rested. She is really alert for a newborn and has several hours of awake time every day in which she's always so content and happy! She is so much fun to have around and Aaron and I think she's the stinking cutest thing that ever was! Here are some pictures to prove it! :)
It only took Emery about 3 days to find her hand to suck on... and only about 4 days to find her thumb. Her newborn dexterity doesn't allow her the control necessary to keep the thumb, so she settles for sucking on her fingers and knuckles most of the time. Grandpa Wimmer calls it "Suck a knuck".
Okay... this hat is way to hilarious with her tiny head and body! Thanks again for the cute hat, Amy!
Emery hates sponge baths but she loves having her hair washed!
Em posing for daddy's picture-taking frenzy.
Grandma, I like kisses! I promise! I don't know why I'm making this face!
We think her squished burping face is so funny... especially when she falls asleep like that!
The world has become a little brighter with the birth of our new angel baby girl. Emery Mae was born Saturday December 29th at 9:08 am, weighing in at 6 lb 8 oz, and 19.5 inches long.
It all started when we first went into the hospital on Friday the 28th for a non-stress test at 9:30 am, and while we were there Emery's heart rate drooped really low. It was low enough that they decided to induce Britt. Britt ended up being in labor for around 20 hours, but was a trooper the whole way. She really is my hero!
Britt and I wonder if we are biased because Emery has to be the most beautiful baby we have ever seen. We are so excited to start this new wonderful phase of life with her.
I promised Amy Parker that I would put something in our window when we went to the hospital... but that isn't going to happen (until later tonight when my parents put something up for us) because it was a bit of a surprise that we're here at the hospital and staying! Since I'm now overdue they sent us to Utah Valley Hospital this morning to have a "non-stress test" to make sure everything was okay with the munchkin. When they were monitoring her, her heart rate dropped really low at one point (which it luckily hasn't in the 9 hours since) but with overdue babies in these cases they induce labor. So Aaron and I are hanging out at Utah Valley about 3 hours away from my next round of prostaglandin gel and 9 hours away from them starting the pitocin and breaking my water! It looks like we'll be welcoming baby Wilk tomorrow! I hope this post is a good substitute for the lack of window notice! :)
I've never actually done this blogging thing before, so here it goes...
So, I've been tagged. Being in the blogging world it was bound to happen. My Aunt Heather who lives in Kansas (right on the border of MO though, I belive - right Heather?) and apparently in the KS/MO area when you are tagged you have to write 7 things about yourself! Provo style is 6, so for those of you wondering why you'll get 7 funny facts - that is why!
1. I can't remember my first day of 6th grade.
Why you ask? Well, the night after my first day of 6th grade I decided to attempt some pretty daring tricks on our family trampoline. Unfortunately, I ended up landing my double back flip on the in-ground barbeque behind the trampoline. My concussion and short-term amnesia wiped out my whole first day of 6th grade. It made for an interesting and embarassing second day!
2. I'm allergic to milk... sort of.
My mother discovered this fact shortly after I turned one and was okay to have cow's milk when she fed me a bite of cream soup at a restaurant. My face blew up and I stopped breathing, so they rushed me to the hospital to pump my stomach... and also informed my mom I had a deathly allergy to milk. Weird part - I completely out-grew the allergy as a pre-teen and then grew back into it as a young teenager. Though I don't risk death in eating it now I usually stick with a child-sized ice cream (and even that makes my throat ichy and my lips a little bit puffy!).
3. I have a talented tongue. 
Now don't take that the wrong way! I can make a three leave clover with my tongue and tie a cherry stem in a knot in a matter of seconds. Proof (though blurry) of the first is to the right. It's hard to take a picture of your own tongue. Cool though, huh? :)
So Aaron and I started the real, intense baby preparation last weekend. We were supposed to have a 6 hour prenatal class that covered everything from labor signs, to breathing techniques to breastfeeding. Unfortunately the instructor got a bad case of the flu, so Aaron and I will go into labor and delivery only slightly more educated than we are now (I'll be gathering LOTS of advice from experienced moms in the next 5 weeks). Women delivered babies for 1000s of years without birthing classes - I can do it too! :)
