3's at 4

emma had her four-year checkup the other day. this appointment was so different and kind of made me a weepy mom as i realized my baby is getting to be such a big girl. she had to answer so many questions about things she can do, different things she knows, and more. she also got to do a hearing and an eye test.

she weighs 33 lbs now and is 39 inches (or 3 feet 3 inches). makes it easy to remember with all the 3's! so cute that she's still in the 25th percentile for height and weight . . . always our sweet little peanut.

still just amazed how quickly these four years have flown by. they've been so wonderful. and sometimes i think that i can't even remember what life was like before we had emma!

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Fun with Family

we enjoyed a fun weekend celebrating farmor and farfar's 40th wedding anniversary. (for those not familiar with swedish ... farmor and farfar are grandma and grandpa in swedish ... it actually means father's mother and father's father, which i think is pretty cool compared to english where we have to say grandma gerborg and grandma nemeth. much easier!)

anyways, it was a busy and fun weekend with lots of activity. it was so fun to watch emma and isabella with their cousins lukas and jack who are both just a few months older than isabella and emma.


we also enjoyed celebrating with tom's parents and thinking about their 40 years together. tom and i are going to celebrate 10 years this year and it's amazing to think that 10 years has passed so quickly, and to think about how many things have changed in 10 years. it made me think about how many more things would happen in 30 more years.


hope you enjoy the pictures!

Let it Snow ...

emma got to enjoy the snow at her nana's today. she kept taking her gloves off so she could feel the snow! and, twice she ended up with only one boot on. the cold didn't seem to bother her at all. here are a few pictures of her having fun in the snow ... including the gerborg snowfamily we made! i'm hoping to have more pictures up in the next day or so of our trip to the north!

celebrating 4

here are some pictures of emma celebrating her 4th birthday ...

happy 4th birthday!

i cannot believe that is was four years ago today that we were given the most wonderful christmas gift ever . . . sweet little emma. after three months of bed rest (one month at home, and two in the hospital), we were surprised to find out i was 5 cm dilated after my water had broken on the morning of december 26. the dr looked at me and said, "we're having a baby today." i started to cry ... first, tom had left the hospital, so i was afraid the baby would arrive before he got back. (i had no idea how long labor could last!! in the movies, they say 5 cm dilated and the baby arrives in the next scene!!) and, i also was crying because i knew how early this was for me to be in labor.



at least 10 hours after my water had broken, emma kristine arrived. she was seven weeks early. she weighed only 4 lbs, 9 oz! she was so little. we were so afraid we would break her when we held her. she spent 15 days in the hospital ... one day in NICU and the rest of the time she was in the special care nursery learning to breathe, suck, and swallow at the same time (preemies don't have all the reflexes to do those three things at once). we were so nervous when they told us we could take her home. and, in fact, within five minutes of us getting home with her, i turned to tom, started to cry, and said, "i don't think i can do this. i think we need to go back to the hospital."!!! ok, am i the only first-time mom who's said that?? i was terrified, but somehow, here she is turning four years old today.

she was definitely a miracle . . . a beautiful, most precious gift. she is full of life, so sweet and funny. looking at her today, you would have no idea that she arrived in this world so early. i think she was just eager to get busy in this world!



happy birthday emma!

merry christmas!

we enjoyed our christmas together. with two kids now, it was even more fun ... and more full of presents under the tree. this was the first year where emma was very aware of what was going to happen. she was asking about presents under the tree as soon as we put the tree up!

we celebrated a little both christmas eve and christmas day. tom's family celebrated on christmas eve when he was little, so we continue some of the traditions from his family on christmas eve now. tom prepared swedish meatballs (he makes turkey ones for emma and i!), potatoes, gravlax, herring, and eggs. it was delicious. on christmas day, we continue some of my family's traditions. it's fun to continue some of those traditions, while making our own new ones as well.

emma was very eager to start opening her presents christmas morning. before we were all ready, she ran over to the tree and started looking for gifts with an "e" on it ... we told her to look for her name on the gifts to know which ones were hers. anyways, we were still giving isabella breakfast and she was peeking at all the gifts. i looked over and she had one on her lap. i told her she needed to wait just a few more minutes. she said, "oh mommy, this one just fell on my lap."!!!! cracked me up!

we'll have some pictures of all the fun to add on the site soon. hope you all enjoyed your christmas as well!