Meghan’s Baby Blog

We are out of here. We packed out bags, and we moved to:

http://babycryan.blogspot.com/

I hope you come visit us at our new, easier to post, home!

love,

Meghan and Emma

I just love Earl in this picture. He looks like he thinks he’s in trouble. He has been in trouble lately. He has learned that when I’m breast feeding Emma, there’s not much I can do to him if he acts up. So far, just today, he has eaten almost all the bows on the Christmas presents I just wrapped. He has turned on the stereo, by standing on top of it. (He apparently liked to listen to very loud static.) He has eaten pieces of the tree. He also keeps trying to stand on the baby. He tries to get between Emma and me when I’m feeding her. I can’t wait until she big enough to pull his tail!

Emma is growing quite big. She has outgrown her first set of clothes. She has outgrown her socks. The main problem is that she has outgrown her swaddling blankets. She really likes being swaddled, so we had to find a new solution…and here it is. She is swaddled in a large fleece blanket that I gave to Marc in college. It’s about 5 ft by 5ft. And believe it or not, this is starting to be too small to reach around her. I just think it’s so funny that it’s such a dismal color. She looks like a little baby saved by the red cross. Like she was just pulled out of a hurricane or fire. We bought a new blanket for her. It’s bigger than we thought. Stay tuned for that pic.

I wanted to take this picture at Halloween time, but I kept forgetting. Here is Emma and her bear Harold in matching outfits. I think it’s great that she’s the same size as Harold now. I also like that I can prop her sitting up between the couch cushions.

We went to the Christmas parade the other day. It was lots of fun. It was my first time seeing a parade while it was snowing. Emma hated the fire trucks. She thought they were too loud. She slept through seeing Santa. She tends to sleep through most of our activities. And of course I forgot to bring the camera to the parade. But here she is afterwards, all tuckered out:

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Over the river and through the woods to Grandmothers house we went. Emma was a very good girl this weekend. We drove three hours, and she only cried a little bit. We visited lots of people, and kept her out kinda late, but she was very very good.  Here are some 4 generation pictures:

Here’s the 4 Cryans.

And here’s 4 from the Sheehan side.

Emma’s all ready for christmas.

I got her some Christmas outfits, (thank you Sue) so that I could take her picture for the Christmas cards. (This is not the picture. I didn’t want to ruin the suprise) I like to send out my Christmas cards the day after Thanksgiving, because I’m crazy.

I can’t wait for baby’s first Christmas!

Maybe I should focus on Thanksgiving first.

We had a big weekend.

Here’s Emma with her spiked hair do.

Emma got to meet Keri.

Here’s Emma ready to go out. 

Here she is in her boppy.

  She went apple picking.

  We had a picnic at the sculpture park.

And now they’re all worn out.

Hey, check out our birth story: http://www.birthsong.net/BirthStories.html

This web site belongs to the woman who taught us hypnobirthing.

And for a quick update:

Emma weighs 11 pounds 1 oz.

Her jaundice is all better, and she’s starting to look quite rosie. She is sleeping a good amount, and feeding well. We saw a lactation consultant today (I finally called for help) and now she can feed without the nipple shield and without me having any pain! Hooray!

This is from the Halloween party. So far Deb is the only one Emma really likes to be held by other than Marc and Me. It must be the furry pants.