Introducing Emma Josephine

On July 6th we welcomed our 3rd daughter to the world, Emma Josephine Schmidt.  She was born at 12:36 PM and weighed in at 8 lbs. 10 oz. and was 20 inches long.  It's hard to believe but this was our smallest child yet!  Tim and I have gotten over the shock of being parents again and Abby and Megan can't get enough of Emma.  Tim has to fight for time to hold and feed her with them, but it's the most adorable thing to watch.  Emma will have 2 body guards for life I think.

Emma after she was born - we thought she looked a lot like Megan did when she was born.

The girls get their hands on Emma - we are working on sharing.

Proud Daddy, still remembers how to swaddle.

We are adjusting to being home and a newborn again.  Emma is a good baby so far, I'm just waiting for a little more sleep.....maybe next month.

Final Weekend as Family of 4

This past weekend was our final weekend as just the 4 Schmidt's (so yes that means I am still pregnant and #3 has no intentions of coming early).  So we tried to do a few things the girls had been asking to do for a while that were inside due to the high temperatures we have been so lucky to have lately.
On Saturday we went and saw "Brave".  It was a good movie and Abby has a new princess that she likes.  Megan might have enjoyed the popcorn more than the movie but still said she liked it.  Tim survived it and personally I thought the AC could have been a little cooler - but I'm sure that was just me.

On Sunday after church/brunch we headed to the mall to do the other thing the girls have been bugging us about since Christmas.

Train at the Columbia Mall

 

 

 

 

 

We've been avoiding this for a while and decided it would be a good opportunity to get it out of the way with happy kids.  It was a slow morning so I actually was offered a free ride as well and declined, the bench was fine with me.  So we have handed off the kids to Grandparents and are now patiently waiting for Friday and doing all our last minute baby preparation that we have been avoiding for the last 9 months.  We're not exactly as prepared for the third as we were for the first two, but then again we aren't that worried about it either.  So we'll see what happens.........until Friday!