In Emily’s fifth week she developed her ‘melt your heart’ smile. She is sharing it with more than just Mommy and Daddy. It is simply a joy to see her burst out in smiles when talking to her. A good time to see the sweet smile is when she wakes up from a nap and Mommy goes to get her from her bed. I talk to her and she turns her head and looks at me and then she smiles. I reward these smiles by picking her up.

We went to visit the doctor for Emily’s 6 week visit. She had a good checkup. She weighed in at 8 lbs and 21-1/4 inches. She is just right for her small starting size. She got four shots and one oral vaccination that didn’t make her happy. It took about 24 hours for her legs to stop being sensitive to the shots. She was a trooper. She will go back to visit the doctor for a 4 month visit.

Emily has discovered her first toy. In pity one night for both her sake and the sake of her parents we introduced the ‘pacifier’ to Emily. The pacifier worked brilliantly to bring instant relief to a very agitated baby. Since then we have used the pacifier to satisfy fussiness and to ease her into the sleeping world.

One day we discovered that she had spit the pacifier out of her mouth and it landed on her chest just in front of her mouth. With the top lip and tongue she sucked the pacifier back into her mouth. Sometimes she is satisfied with just licking it, but if in the attempt to get it in her mouth she knocks it away she demands assistance to get her toy back. We can spend hours sitting next to her with her playing this game. Mommy is hoping that one day Emily will play this game when we have a video camera around!

The early part of pregnancy brings many wonders and excitements, but it is problematic when you don’t have a name to call your little bundle of wonder. At first we just referred to the baby as “the baby” and used the impersonal “it”. When I told a friend of the baby and likened the baby to the size of a raspberry, she just started calling the baby by the name of Raspberry and it stuck. The small thing of a name has brought even more joy to the expectation of child that will come. I think that even after we find out if the baby will be a boy or girl the nickname of Raspberry will last at least until the birth if not longer.

Well, we finally got our act together and set up this blog for our (soon to be) little bundle of joy. Better late than never!

Welcome and feel free to participate in the poll to the left. You can vote as often as you like; there’s no penalty for ballot stuffing here! Go ahead and make your guess(es) about whether we will be having a boy or a girl. We go for another ultrasound next Tuesday, so the polls will be open until then (hopefully).