Summer and Fall of 2013

My darling Em!  August 2013

 Cousin JoJo came to visit us - they swam for hours and hours!

 

 

 Isabel on her first day of Kindergarten!

 

Watson cousins and pool fun! October 2013

 

Halloween 2013

The Hulk, Fairy, Cheerleader by day and Ladybug by night!

Emily at 1 year

Em's 1st Birthday

1 year old!

Eating my special low-sugar cake.  Oh wait I am only eating the frosting, and it is loaded with sugar!!

Standing on my own.

 

My beautiful girl!

 

This First Year has flown so fast.  Can we hit the pause button please!?!  Emily is the sweetest baby, so loved by all.  Matthew and Isabel think she is the best baby and tell her so everyday.  They have to kiss and hug her almost as much as I do.  Em lights up when Daddy walks in the door, still her favorite word (mostly only word) is, 'da da'.  She crawls as fast as she can to him.  She still loves mommy's milk but will sneak away Izzies or Matthews chocolate milk.   She will stand all by herself but no steps yet, soon I am sure.  She is my cuddle bug and will pretend to be shy and give hugs.  She is 19 lbs and is in the 25-50 percentile on all her stats.  And she has 7 teeth.  I love this sweet girl so much!

11 month old wiggle worm

 Em is so wiggly - so sweet - so darling - so growing up to fast!  I need a person to hold the camera, one person to keep her hair-bow in and another to keep her attention for the camera.  All well you get to see all her craziness.

 She has received 4 new teeth this month -poor baby!  And she has had the flu this past month.  Hopefully this next month we can have a smooth sailing one. 

This is how my girl is, happy.  If she find something on the floor and wants to eat it and I see her she will hold her hand out to me and give it to me. 

I love this one.  She loves her big sister.  All my children love each other.  That is one of the greatest gifts.

11 months old.  My Em.

Emily - 10 months old - January 2013

10 months old.  She got spoiled this month with Grandma and Papa Stewart helping us move down the street.  I don't think she touched the floor she was held all month!  However she is still not spoiled - easiest going baby!

Emily 9 months -December 2012

9 months old!

8 month - Emily

 

8 months - Cute as a bug!

Emily - 7 months old - 10-15-2012

My happy baby!

Hey Baby, can I borrow that dress, so cute!

Her little wave, but looks more like -power to the people!

Her 'power to the people' pose.

 

 

My sweet baby is 7 months!  The time is flying and I am loving every minute of this snuggly, sweet smelling, chubby, love bug.  Emily is about 17 lbs now, cutting her first bottom tooth (yikes for mama!)  Still not a huge fan of baby food, rice is ok.  She is almost sitting up all by herself, few moments than falling over.  She is not crawling on her knees, but pushing and army crawling all over the house.  She loves to laugh and smile.  She loves her Daddy's attention and loves to watch her brother and sister dance around to music (We host American Bandstand -Jaggi style at our home most nights).    We are working on the sleeping issue, we went from sleeping all night to now waking up  2-5 times a night.  We now think cutting that tooth as helped that issue. We will get some sleep one of these days, but now with my sweet baby so little, I am enjoying every snuggle moment from her.  I am so in love with her and I know the rest of the family feels the same, Happy 7th month Birthday, Emmi Em.

My 6 month baby

Oh my precious baby is 6 months already.  
She weighs about 15-16 lbs.  Rolls all over the place.  Loves toys.  Sucks her thumb and toes.  She smiles all day.  Sleeps all night.  She is such a joy - I wish I could freeze time and keep her this way. My Emily Alese you are such a special spirit - I LOVE YOU SO!! 

My school goers plus one cute baby.

Matthew, my sweet 1st grader. "Hey Matt, are you excited for school?" What do you think?!

 

"Are you going to miss your mommy, while you are at school?"  "I will miss you too buddy!"

 

Izzie after her first day of Pre-K (2nd year)

My beauty queen 

 

 

My baby doll who I get to dress up!  Emmi, so cute at 5 months.

Emily Alese 4 months today 7-15-2012

My name is Emily, or Emmi, or Em, or Stinky (Daddy calls me that) or Emily Alese Jaggi (Izzie calls me that), Sister, Girlfriend, or Baby.  I turned 4 months today.  Where did the time go?!  I still don't sleep through the night yet, I love to be held and snuggled.  I will not take a bottle.  I smile and giggle.  I love to be outside, play with my pound puppy and to see my brother and sister.  I am adorable and just plain happy all the time.  Can't wait to see what next month brings!

Emily Alese's birth story

Emily Alese Jaggi


Having two kids you can grab each one by the hand and walk or drag. With three, what do you do with the extra kid? Do you pray they are a very good listener and will walk beside you? Yell or scream or threaten they stay near you as you go out into the world? I have been very blessed with my children. Matthew is very sensitive and if you raise your voice to scold, he can very well cry (he will hate that I said that in the coming years), Izzie, has always been my little buddy and will always stay right beside me. As I got pregnant for the third time, I worried about this. Do I have what it takes to have one more? Will this child be as good as her brother and sister? Well the worry was on my mind, as I continued to grow sicker and sicker with this pregnancy.

As soon as I saw that double line on that pregnancy stick, I would go from my bed to the couch the first few months. I would turn pale and run to the bathroom. I never had to deal with this with my other two. I had a few weeks of morning sickness, but nothing like this! I lived on saltines, ginger ale and yogurt for the first couple months. Finally around month 5 I felt better, I got off my morning sickness drugs and was able to be me again. Then month 7 I started having Braxton Hicks. Month 8 I was having contractions every so often. By month 9, I was having contractions 5 minutes apart for hours then it would stop. We had the induction date set, March 15, 2012 since I have big babies and I would rather have a newborn and not a month old baby. (Matthew 9 lbs 9 oz and Izzie 7 lbs 13 oz (2 weeks early)).

My parents arrived a few days before to hang out with us and to watch the kids. I kept thinking with all my contractions and how this pregnancy has been, I would go early. My body was preparing but no early baby. We arrived at Southern Hills Hospital, in the wee morning, got all set up and was set to go. I was already dilated to a 4 when I arrived. By 9:30 am I had an epidural and my water had been broken. My doctor (J. Pollock) came to visit and we thought we would have a baby by 1 or 2pm. Time came and went, I was stuck at a 6 for hours, at 4:30pm I started feeling all my contractions, however I was still numb from the waist down. We couldn’t figure it out. So we called in the anthologist and we had to redo my epidural. The pain was so bad I cried and screamed. I thought this baby was hanging out of me. Of course as we finished my new epidural I had progressed to a 10 and was ready to deliver. Thank heavens my new epidural had kicked in and I was feeling somewhat better. As I got ready to push, my nurse called my doctor and told him that she thinks she just poked the baby’s eye. With meant the baby was “sunny-side up”. Yes, facing up and that is why I had been in labor for so long. She was stuck, a little. I pushed and pushed, one hour later out came the vacuum to help get this little baby out. By then I was asking the doc to just pull her out! Out came our little baby girl, all slimy and one funky looking head (which went back to normal in a few hours). I cried for relief and joy. My poor John, watching this roller coaster of a ride, I think he even cried for same thing. My mother, who stayed in the room with me (cause at this time, I really didn’t care who was there) was a mess, was praying and crying for me. But we had our sweet girl, our number 3. She weighed in at 7 lbs 14 oz and 18.5 inches long. Perfect. She had a smashed nostril (right side) which all my babies have had, so I know she is one of mine.

My baby girl looks like a Jaggi to me and my heart has already been taken. She is so perfect, so precious, such a gift that all my thoughts of how can I take care of three kids has been lifted away. My love has grown so much in such a short time that it has amazed me. I always have loved the special bond that I have with my wonderful husband when we have a child. I feel Heaven has opened up for a short time and I feel the love that our eternal family has created. We named her Emily Alese, both family names, Emily for a great grandmother and Alese after my niece. She has been a wonderful baby. Only cries when hungry or very poopy. Her siblings are her biggest fans. Matthew can’t get enough of her and thinks she is the cutest baby alive and Izzie just watches her with awe. So far life as a mama with three kids has been pretty great, I don’t think I would trade it for anything.

(I hope this makes sense, writing this with a kid on my lap and lack of sleep causes run-ons and grammar mistakes!)

Emily's 1st Photo Session - by Kashina

My sweet baby, Emily Alese

Emily Alese Jaggi
Born: March 15, 2012, 6:42 pm
Stats: Weighing in at 7 lbs 14 oz, 18.5 inches long

Here are some pictures of our sweet baby #3.
Sorry they are so random - but I am one tired mama and this is what you get!
I will write the birth story a little later for all who are interested.




Grandma Stewart with Izzie and Emily



Grandpa Stewart with Emily



Emily resting! Loving the bracelets already!



Daddy and daughter



The Family - we have 3 kids now!



Proud mama!



The kids and I




Emily, a few minutes old.


Big Brother and Big Sister - so proud and Emily's biggest fans! They jumped up and down when they saw her for the first time. Matthew kept saying, "What a cutie-patootie (sp?)!"