The Cutest Baby Ever

Emma and Aunt Carrie at a picnic over spring break.
This giant sun hat on Emma's tiny head brought me no small amount of joy. I've been waiting for all this rain and cold to pass so we can use it again.
I absolutely love when Emma falls asleep like this.
Another of Emma's funny faces.

Sterling wishfully thinking that he could just put Emma in bed with him and go back to sleep.
Mom and Emma snuggling on the couch in our freezing cold living room.

Emma has the cutest faces. This is her totally content chubby face. Note the complete absence of a neck.

A Day in the Life of a New Mom

2:00 am Get up to feed Emma, change her then rock her back to sleep while watching Home Improvements. Thank Heaven for cable TV.
2:45 am back to bed. I have to read a little bit before I can fall back to sleep.
5:00 am Repeat of 2 am except I'm so tired from not getting much sleep this week I start crying and make Sterling get up and rock her to sleep.
7:00 Awake for the day. Feed Emma. Get spit up on and pooped on. Blowout.
7:30 Bath for Emma. She loves her bath time.
7:50 Try and get Emma to stop screaming. She hates getting out of the bath and being naked and having a onesie pulled over her head.
8:15 Emma falls asleep cuddled up to me. It's one of the best feelings in the world. Half of me really enjoys it while the other half really wants to put her down and eat breakfast. I was starving.
8:30- Eat breakfast as fast as possible in case Emma wakes up. Pump a bottle to freeze for her for when I go back to work. Our freezer is full of bags of breast milk. Weird I know.
9:00 Emma wakes up. Change her, play with her, feed her and put her down for her long morning nap. This is finally my time to change out of my crusty spit up on and pooped on pajamas and take a shower. My hair also looks super awesome by this point. Today I squeezed in a little nap as well.
11:30 Eat lunch pump another bottle. Have I said how much I hate pumping. I feel like a cow. Start to do some work on lesson plans for the my sub on the water cycle, but Emma wakes up.
12:30 Change Emma, feed her, play and sing songs. Try to work on my lesson plans but she wants me up walking around with her.
1:30 Make brownies for my dad. I lost a bet. Put Emma in her swing to mix up the batter. She goes crazy with her "How could you do this to me?" cry. Takes me almost 30 minutes to calm her.
2:00 This time when Emma falls asleep cuddled up to me I don't put her down. After awhile Ido try to hold her and work on my lessons. Not a lot of progress made.
2:30 Change Emma, feed her and pack her up for our daily trip out of the house to keep me from going crazy. We deliver the brownies. Go to the library where some teenage girl had just run into a tree. Glad it wasn't me.
4:00 Go home. Sterling gets home to! My favorite part of the day.
4:40 Feed Emma then head off to Zumba.
5:30 Great zumba class
6:45 Eat dinner, pump another bottle, this one to take with us because Emma is asleep right now.
7:30 go to my brother's house to celebrate his birthday.
8:40 Head home
9:15 change Emma feed her. Sterling rocks her to sleep while I update the blog.

And thus ends my glamorous day. And I'll be up again in 3 and a half hours to start again.

Zumba

The rec center in town offers Zumba classes for $2, so I talked my sister Emilee into going with me. I have never done zumba before. I have never actually even seen it done, but since it's all the rage in the aerobics world I've been wanting to give it a shot. For those of you who don't know zumba is like regular aerobics mixed with Latin dancing. And in Latin dancing there is a lot of booty shaking. Most of you probably know how stiff and awkward I am, so zumba was an interesting experience. I actually had a lot of fun, but the booty shaking was somewhat lacking. I really did try, but most of the time it ended up looking more like marching. It reminded me of the time I accidentally tried out to be a cheerleader ( a story for another time) and we had to do a dance where we swiveled our hips. I did more of a hips jazz square. So if you have any tips on how to get my swivel and booty shake going let me know. Overall it was a really fun class and I will definitely go back.