2 Weeks!

Emma went to her two week check up today. Chance's sister works at our pediatrician's office so it was nice to see a friendly face and have her show off our daughter. :) Emma now weighs 8lbs 5oz! We are so proud of her for eating so well! She still is 21 inches long so she must be just getting fat. :) Everyone at the doctor's office thought she was adorable, we have to agree. Emma loves to suck on anything and everything and has the funniest obsession with her tongue. She does not like her baths at all so we try to make them quick because she screams the whole time. But for the most part she is a great baby and we are so happy to have her with us. I never thought I could love something so much. I love being a mommy.
Thanks to both of my sister-in-laws for taking such cute pics. Val took some this past Saturday and then Chance's sister Summer took some as well. Here are some pics for all to enjoy!

Val took a lot more pics but I couldn't figure out how to get them from facebook to here, so there are more on facebook or on her photography blog. Thanks Val!

The rest were taken by Summer...

Check it out

We had a professional photographer come in today and take pics of our little one. Basically they do the pictures for free but then offer you different packages if you want. But since I am an IHC employee we got one 8X10 for free. Yeah! They turned out really nice. To view them go to this website: bellababyphotography.com and enter the password which is 0612emmarasmussen Enjoy!

LIttle Emma

Here are some pics of our little one for all to see. Alot are on my facebook page too. Emma came at 2 o'clock this morning after a long labor. Thank goodness for epidurals or I would have never survived. I started having contractions at work on Thursday night, they continued but were inconsistant. We didn't end up going to the hospital till 3 on Friday, I just mainly went hoping to get an epidural so I could sleep, which didn't really happen. She progressed slowly but surely. Towards the end they were going to let her head descend on its own but she started to get naughty and was having decelerations in her heart rate, indicating stress. So the doctor came and delivered her with forceps, which was kind of nice cuz I only had to push for five to ten minutes. Its the craziest thing looking at her and knowing just moments ago she was inside of you. Its crazy carrying for nine months and never knowing what she acctually looks like until the blessed delivery day. But its one of the most amazing feelings in the world to know that she is ours and will be with us forever. She is so cute and we are so lucky everything went so perfect and she has all of her parts, etc. Every birth is seriously a miracle. Emma is eating well and pooping and peeing like we want her to, its funny that that's all she knows how to do besides melt our hearts. :) Thank you to all of the visitors and for the many more to come. Here are some pictures of our little angel:

Right after birth

She got some oxygen. She sounded kind of junky for a while, but they sucked out some amniotic fluid which did the trick.

The proud daddy.

Our little family.

Mommy and daughter (I think she looks more like Chance)

Our nurse taking the temp...

After they cleaned her up a little bit...

Her first bath, she looks like she is enjoying it.

They did her hair so cute! Did I mention all of the hair, definatly a Rasmussen trait.

Getting her footprints done.

Today, she still is adorable. :)

The waiting game...

Its a good thing I'm working full time still and keeping extra busy cuz otherwise I would be waiting at home full of anxiety wondering when in the world is this baby going to come. I went to the doctor's yesterday. He told me I am dilated to a 2 (which is progress for me) and 80% effaced, which means I'm thinned out alot. He did strip my membranes, which didn't really help Tammy's case but I'm hoping it will help mine. hehe. So basically I'm just waiting, and waiting, and waiting. :) No contractions yet at all, but I'm hoping they come quickly and my labor will be fast. My doctor does not think I will make it to 41 weeks and have to be induced so that is a good thing. I'm trying not to get my hopes up. So today after cleaning the house, going to the gym, doing laundry, and going grocery shopping maybe it will put me into labor. :) Hopefully my next post will include pictures of our cute little girl. Here's hoping!

Almost Done!

So this post is mainly for Tammy cuz she has been begging me to post a baby bump picture. And although it is definately not the greatest picture, it will have to do. I am 36 weeks pregnant, on Friday I will be 37. Its crazy to think that we will have our little girl join us so soon. I don't know if I am ready for the responsibility. :) I am way excited to be a mother though.

So everyone I talk to can't believe how far along I am. If I had a dollar for every time that someone said I'm tiny I would at least have a hundred dollars by now. :) But my doctor assured me today that I'm one of his most perfect patients, hehe. He told me not to worry. I personally think I look huge in this picture. :) Only three and half weeks to go! Woohoo!

To the McCorristin Family

So I hope you all got your invitations to the baby shower Chance's family is throwing for me on Saturday. Please don't get me any gifts since you already have but if you would like to come for good food and company please do! It will be a lot of fun!

Reliving the glory days

So for the past six weeks Chance has been putting his pads on playing football for a city legue. Its made me a little nervous that he is going to get hurt when he is now the provider of a family, but besides the few battle wounds he has recieved he has been okay. I have really enjoyed watching Chance play and he has really enjoyed playing, not to mention he is pretty much the best player they have on their team (no offense to the others on the team.) :) Most of Chance's friends are on the team so it has been good for them to all get together and relive the glory days. But after every game the boys are realizing more and more that they aren't as young as they used to be in high school.
Here is some video footage. If I showed you every video where Chance made a good play, it would fill up this whole page, so here are just some from this past Saturday's game.They played the opposing team twice and the first time they lost, and the other team was pretty caucky about it. So our team came out for revenge this past Saturday and revenge was granted. Here are just a couple of highlights of my man! I love you babe!

Its kind of hard to see but Chance is the one running with the ball. :)

They were joking on this play that it took the whole other team to get Chance down.

And here is Chance running one of his three touchdowns in the game. :)