It's Emma's 3-week Birthday!

Emma is 3 weeks old today! It's hard to believe...it seems like she's been here forever, but at the same time that time is flying by! Every morning we wake up and she looks older to us. The past few days she seems more alert and is more inquisitive about the world around her. She seems to be able to see a bit farther and appears to focus on objects better. We also think that she recognizes our voices. The other day, Kurt was holding her and she turned her head toward Carrie when she was talking. Emma has been a champ at tummy time, sometimes likes her swing, and is still working on paying attention to story time (Daddy's story time is about computer coding, and that puts her to sleep!). Earlier this week, we found out that Emma doesn't really like it when Mommy eats broccoli or hot wings. For the most part, she's still pretty laid back, although her witching hour seems to be around her 7ish feeding time...but she's so cute, we really can't complain too much ;)


On Tuesday, we started the process to get Emma her passport so she can come home with us early next year. Unfortunately, the photo place on post went out of business so the easy way to get a 2X2 inch picture was out. We did find one of those photo booths like they have in the mall where you can take funny pictures of yourself which said that it took official passport photos. It was quite an adventure to get her picture...it involved Kurt sitting on the floor of the booth and holding Emma up to the camera. Luckily, she was awake and was a great sport. She was able to hold her head up for two takes and was kind of looking in the general direction of the camera. We were ecstatic when the clerk processing the paperwork said that the pictures were good enough!

Emma had a well-check today and of course she passed with flying colors! She had her kidneys and heart checked via ultrasound. Her kidneys are both the correct size and are functioning correctly...thank goodness, otherwise we would have had to collect urine samples from her! And her heart is normal as well and doesn't have any murmurs (apparently 5% of the population has a murmur or a hole in their heart!). She was also weighed...our "little" girl is now 4500g (9lbs 14oz)! This was also Carrie and Emma's first time out alone together. Emma was a little angel and slept the whole time...both girls were so happy that everything went smoothly!

Tummy time earlier this week:

Although her eyes can still change, we think they're going to stay blue

Emma also had her first date earlier this week. She shared a crib with Calvin, our friends' Melanie and Adam's little boy who was born on June 9.