Sister love

Sophie and Emily are definitely becoming fast friends. Sophie is such a fabulous big sister it just melts my heart sometimes. She loves to get Baby Emily's "paci" for her when she is crying and she loves to give her kisses and lean in and dangle her hair on her to try and tickle her. In the morning when Sophie wakes up she used to be so excited to see me and say "mommy!" with such glee. Now, she barely hugs me or acknowledges me some days and just says "BABY EMILY!!" and can't wait to see her. Sophie is often found saying/screaming "Baby Emily!!!! Is she awake????" about 3 inches from her little face while she is sleeping. But honestly I think Baby Emily is getting pretty darn used to the noise level in our house at this point. I am truly so proud of Sophie and the wonderful Big Sister she has already become. It is going to be such a hoot to watch these two in action when Emily gets walking and talking, too. Or, I will poke my eyeballs out with toothpicks because there will be double the noise, mess and drama in our world. Either way - it will be wonderful...

In other news, we took Emily in to see the pediatrician this week because she has been spitting up A LOT. Sure, babies spit up but we thought that maybe this kind of spit up (where we are changing her outfit three times in a 10 minute timespan because of all the spit up) might be unusual but apparently according to the pediatrician, it's not. Maybe we have just forgotten how much babies spit up. We don't remember Sophie spitting up quite this much but who knows... We don't remember much of those early weeks and months with Sophie to tell you the truth (which is of course how we ended up getting ourselves in this position of worrying about spit-up again). The really great news is that Emily weighs 10 pounds and is 22 inches long so she is growing like crazy. She definitely looks different, too. We are starting to see how much of her own little self she is already and we can see glimpses of what she might look like in a few months or years.

Overall, life is good. Jim is working his tail off to get the pool open for the 4th of July. Our friends the GodSnedikers are in town. We have been able to visit with lots of family lately. And my Grandma and Grandpa MacDougall and Grammy are coming up for a visit in July so we can't wait for them to see how big Sophie has gotten and meet Baby Emily.