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So we are quickly approaching Emma’s 3 month Birthday. As you can tell, we haven’t had a whole lot of time to post updates to our blog. We hope we can share more stories and updates with you in the future.

But for now, we have a video Tim put together that accounts all the excitement of Emma’s birthday.

On January 5, 2011 at 1:02 PM Emmaline Marie Anderson was born into the world at 6lb 15.7oz and 20.5 inches. That was about 3 weeks ago and the Anderson Family is doing great. Just wanted to update to let everyone know we are now a family of 3 (+ Samson) and we’ll be sure to update with more info soon including our stories of Emma’s birthday!

For now here are some pictures of our beautiful baby girl. A few are video clips if you click through.

We’ve have had a fun and busy month and hope everyone else has too. We went to Cincinnati for Kate’s grandparents 50th wedding anniversary and then to Lima for a fun Thanksgiving.  We’ve finished the nursery and have all of Emma’s thing in order, waiting for her to show up.  You can see some pictures of the nursery at the bottom of this post.

On December 1st we had our scheduled normal Dr visit, but received some non-normal news. Emma had not flipped and was in a breech position. The doctor said there was still time for her to turn on her own, but since she had been in the position since 20 weeks, it was not likely. We went home and did all sorts of things to try to get her to turn over. The following Wednesday we had another appointment with the doctor, and Emma had still not flipped. We scheduled an appointment for Monday the 13th to perform what is called a version. Basically they push on the outside of Kate’s belly to get the baby to turn. If this did not work, we would have to have a scheduled c-section. We were kind of bummed to hear this, but knew there were many worse things that could have happened and both Kate and Emma were 100% healthy.

There were some risks, and to proceed cautiously they had Kate prepped in case an emergency c-section was needed. We went in Monday afternoon and went through the whole prepping including many needles (Kate’s favorite thing) only to find out as soon as the Dr arrived that Emma had flipped over on her own during the weekend! We asked the doctor to check and see if Emma was sticking her tongue out at us. This was a huge answer to prayer and we are so thankful to God and all those who were praying for us.  Our little stinker is already playing by her own rules and not listening to Mom and Dad.

So now Emma is in the proper position ready to be born, in her own time. We’re ready for her to come any day, but it could be a few more weeks still.  We’re looking forward to the Holiday Season but even more we’re looking forward to meeting our daughter.  The next update should be news of her birth!