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Emma Catherine Jaggi

She is here! Emma Catherine Jaggi. She was born Friday morning at 10:20, weighing 7 pounds 8 ounces. She has been wonderful. We had the normal challenges early on with breastfeeding, but that is going well now and we actually got a good nights sleep last night. She is so precious and has her Dad and Mom laughing often and completely in love with her!

Here are a few pictures you can check out, but they'll only be available to see for another week.

Check out this website for some pictures of Emma:

bellababyphotography.com
Click on "newborn portraits" and then "view my photos - login"
password: 0312emmajaggi

Let us know which ones are your favorites!

Maternity pictures

My friend Marisa gave me the extra boost of courage I needed to make sure I snapped a few maternity photos to document that our baby truly was growing and growing and growing inside me.. Here they are.

The Nursery

Back when we first started contemplating making our "spare uhm"/"storage room"/"Sarah's room"/"Jeff's room"/"the computer room" into a nursery, I decided it would be fun to take pictures to catalog the progress we were making. I probably didn't start soon enough or take enough pictures to truly show the transition that has been wrought in this room, but it's fun to get a taste of the progression.

So here we begin.. Momma and baby's exercise equipment..



After much re-organizing of the whole house and a few trips to D.I., Here we are finally getting to put the nursery furniture together and in the room. (Thanks neighbor Seth for helping carry stuff up our stairs and Kenny who lent us the truck to get the things to our home.)

Beautiful furniture, handsome husband..

It's all ready, we're just missing a baby now..

Thanks to everyone who helped us get the things we needed to make it so beautiful!

We've made it to the due date!

So I was thinking about how I was due to have a baby today and am clearly not at the hospital.. It's a little disheartening. I'm hoping she'll arrive by the end of the week. My mom said way back that I should plan on her being 2 weeks late so I won't be disappointed when she isn't early. She was right. I really should have realized with this whole having a baby thing that it never goes according to my plan. It's all been a waiting game. But then I was thinking about how a chick hatches after ages of just sitting on the eggs and waiting for them to hatch (YIKES!) and how difficult it would be to wait while the poor little baby does all the work. I'll be glad to have my work cut out for me when she finally comes. We sure do have it easy in comparison to so many others. And she'll be healthier with all the time she's had to prepare to enter the world.



And the good news is I'm having braxton hicks contractions quite often today. My body is in training for the real event. Hopefully my next post will be about having a darling little baby in our arms.

Baby Jaggi

"Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
And the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe and good and gay."


We are ready for Baby Jaggi to arrive and it is hard to just wait now. I know I still have 2 weeks and a day until her estimated time of arrival comes, but babies come early ALL the time. I have the Laurels in our ward coming over tonight, so that motivated me to get rid of all the gift bags from our baby shower and put everything in its place. For family night last night, Jake took me shopping to get all the last little things we need to feel ready for the baby. Unfortunately Target didn't have quite everything, but we are 95% ready. We went through my list of things to pack for the hospital and realized there are several things we can get ready ahead of time, which will probably be tonight's project after Young Womens.

Jake informed me last night that he has a birthday wish. I was delighted to hear what he would say until he said, "I don't want any presents for my birthday." I've been planning for his birthday since before Christmas! I don't have many things for him, but I do have some. He said that was okay, but not to buy him anything else. He is such an endearing husband! He is super helpful and sweet. He is a wonderful example of needs verses wants. And when I come home from work and smile because I'm so happy to see him, he gets the cutest smile on his face. I am so lucky and cannot wait to experience what a wonderful daddy he is! I'm glad he's getting a little girl, because he will seriously be so great with her!

I've heard rumors that more babies are born during a storm, a full moon, or on a Tuesday. I checked the weather and there is a storm forcast for Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday this week. The full moon is on Sunday. More women also go into labor more often at night because they are more relaxed. So basically, our darling daughter could be born at any time. It's hard to stay focused on the regular day to day things when we have such a remarkable event coming right around any corner! Luckily we have a busy week with Jake's birthday on Wednesday, get-togethers with friends on Friday and Saturday evening, a baptism on Saturday, Jake speaking and myself teaching young womens in church on Sunday, and work as usual. But baby Emma or Sarah or Alyssa or some other beautiful name, you are welcome to interrupt any and all of our plans. We would be delighted to have you here at last!

Tango in the Tongo and Lollipop Jungle

The time is nearing for the arrival of our baby girl and I found some things to greet our little Emma or Sarah or whatever our little girl ends up being called in the end. I thought these things were just too cute to pass up and hope our little girl has a sense of adventure! She'll be tangoing through the lollipop jungle before we know it! How exciting!!