Rainbow Pancakes

This morning I got up early to get laundry started, and Emma came downstairs with me. She said she wanted to make pancakes for Daddy in bed, so we decided to make fancy pancakes (the newest Reader's Digest had this idea). So we made the batter, separated it, and put food coloring in it. 

Cook them like normal pancakes.... I made small ones. 

Stack them up and voila! Rainbow pancakes. Emma and I piled a plate up, went upstairs and gave Daddy breakfast in bed (and she crawled up back into bed with him and ate half of the pancakes). It was really cute. 

She and Aaron snuggled in bed after pancakes, and I was able to capture this little moment. They're sweet together. 

Happy 11 weeks old little guy! He started cooing this week, which is adorable. He's starting to get better, thank goodness. He's been sick for the better part of 6 weeks now. 

Big Day (Again)

Yesterday was Daddy's "trial" day and I think it went ok, although she wouldn't take the bottle from him (even though she had previously). My theory is that she was just so shaken by her day at daycare that it carried over into yesterday. I thoroughly enjoyed work, since Wednesday is my favorite facility, but it took me until 9pm last night to finish my paperwork.

So today was just a Mommy & Emma day, and went to the OPA office to visit the staff, and then dropped by another facility to visit the social worker and some of the residents. Emma, as always, was a big hit. She just adores getting smiles and although she got fussy towards the end, she did really well. We changed 3 diapers while we were out and breastfed twice.

She was eating about every hour today, I think catching up from yesterday. When we got home, we had to change clothes (because of spitup) and then we took a nap together. She was wearing her new outfit that my friend Joe from California sent, and then she got her new crochet blanket from Great-Aunt Janie! It's so super-soft and just a perfect color... we love it.



Emma is "talking" more and more each day. It is amazing to watch her develop and her world expand. She's had many a conversation with Daddy, and is giving more frequent smiles. When she is smiling and cooing at me, my whole world melts away and it's just her and I -- I'm so amazed by this little girl of mine. I still can't believe I'm a mother. Seems so strange to say that, but very awesome.

Emma is Cooing

She's doing it much better, but this is all I could capture last night on the video (it's dark because it was getting close to bedtime and we had the lights turned down). It absolutely melts my heart to have her "talking" to me.