Emersyn is now six weeks old. Honestly, these weeks are flying by so quickly. I blink and she is another week old!
Emersyn continues to be such a laidback and happy girl. She has done a lot of mental developing the last two weeks. She is able to look around a lot more. She loves to look at faces and her surroundings. I can tell she is able to see a lot further away. Sometimes, I will even catch her looking at the T.V. It is neat to see her vision change so much.
In the last week she has also started to smile. There is nothing sweeter than a newborn's first smiles. I love them! She always gives her dad the best smiles, but I can usually get some good ones out of her as well. She is definitely a happy little girl.
Emersyn continues to sleep most of the day. All that growing and developing must really wear her out! She is waking up for longer periods of time. She just loves to lay there and take in all the chaos around her. One of her favorite things is to just lay on the couch and look around. She will smile and coo and seems to content to just be around us.
Sleep is still going well. She is still on the same pattern she has been from birth. Now that she is six weeks, I am hoping she will drop her first feeding and I could really get a good stretch of sleep. It took her siblings a very long time to get there, so I am praying this time it comes much, much sooner. I have big sleep hopes with this one!
She continues to love her play mat and loves looking at the animals. I am thinking we will need to get out the baby toys soon because she will definitely start appreciating them soon. She isn't the biggest fan of tummy time, but we continue to work on it. The other day she grabbed one of her toys. I don't know if she did it on purpose or accident, but she held it for a some time and I was pretty impressed.
The six week mark also means I got the all clear from my doctor to start running again. I didn't really run during this pregnancy because I was very busy with school and my body just wasn't responding well at all when I ran. I didn't want to chance anything, so I chose to not run most of my pregnancy. I am still incredibly busy with school and the chaos of four kids, but running is so important to my mental well being. I have gone on a few short, easy runs this week and I swear I had an ear to ear grin the whole time. Oh how I have missed my runs! I am really easing back into things and I know it will be hard to get runs in most days, but I will try my best because it really is a great escape for me.
Here are some pics:
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| She really likes her Wub a Nub |
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| Doing tummy time |
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| Cuddle time with Daddy |
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| First smiles. She always smiles best for daddy. Probably because he is so silly. |
