Emery is 3 Months!

Emery is three months! And I have a guest blogger! It’s *drum roll please!* Shaun!!!! Haha. Motherhood is an absolute joy! Emery has blessed us in so many ways! Shaun says that fatherhood is amazing. Emery is like our little sunshine, we get to wake up to his smiling face every day, and it’s so precious! Recently we’ve had some issues with pediatricians and such, but we are working through it.

Dada and Emery at Rainforest Cafe

 Emery’s surgery is coming up quickly! Yikes! I really don’t want this to happen, but I know God is faithful and he will protect our little boy. It’s still so hard though, I don’t want him to have to suffer. The surgery is for a condition called “hypospadias”, and it’s not a major surgery, but it’s still surgery. We have faith that he will be okay.

So we can talk about Emery’s feedings! He’s eating a ton more now, around 30-34 ounces a day! He will usually eat 4-6 ounce bottles at a time, but sometimes he wants 8-10 ounces. I have a feeling it won’t be long before he starts to take 8-10 ounces per feeding.

Emery’s sleep is incredible!!!! He takes 3 naps a day, one around 11, one around 2 and one around 6. The past few days he’s been skipping his morning nap and sleeping from 2-5, I’m hoping to get back into routine but I don’t see that happening with our upcoming Chicago trip! It’s working though, so it’s okay. The naps last about 2-3 hours, sometimes 4 hours, then he’s up about 2-3 hours, then back down. Then he goes down for bed around 9-12 and wakes up for 1 night feeding around 5, then back down until 8. He’s gotten so much better at sleeping since his first month blog!

Emery is a really happy baby (most of the time) and when he’s up he LOVES to look around. Anything that is colorful will catch his attention, anything with noise will catch his attention and anything that moves will catch his attention. He’s also started to “talk” to us a ton more now. I will ask him if he can say “goo” and he will respond most of the time. His crankiest times are when he gets sleepy or he is in his car seat. He really hates his car seat, which is a total bummer.

Emery sucking his thumb for the first time!

 Emery has a tooth coming in! Crazy! He’s got a little white bump on his bottom gum, right in front. When I touch it, it’s a bit sharp. He’s been drooling like crazy, chewing nonstop on his hands and a bit more cranky than usual. Overall though I think he’s handling it like a champ!

Lately we’ve been having some rough days, especially last Sunday, he was crying so hard at my aunt and uncle’s house and he wouldn’t stop! It was the first and only time he’s ever acted like that, and we still don’t know what caused it. Today has been significantly better than the past few days though, and I’m sure it has a lot to do with the fact that we prayed over Emery today. God is so incredible, isn’t he?

We are leaving for Chicago on Saturday; it will be Emery’s first plane ride! Shaun and I are extremely nervous; we just hope everything goes really smoothly. I’m sure he will do fine, but there is that nagging part of me that just hopes he doesn’t have a random melt down on the plane. Any tips or suggestions would be wonderful! We will have to write another blog when we get back about the experience. Prayers would be so wonderful!

Shaun and I are just so happy with what God has blessed us with! We are so underserving, yet his mercy still flows through us. It’s amazing! We just hope we can raise Emery to be the best person he can be, and to have a heart full of Jesus! We wouldn’t trade being parents for anything else in the world. Every day, Emery grows more and more and we know the future looks really bright for us. We are actually really looking forward to having more kids, but right now we are focused on Emery, more kids will come before we know it! God Bless you all!

Emery in his new big boy car seat.