it took him a couple of minutes to realize his baby sister was finally here. we have been talking about "baby emma" coming for a few months and he was excited to meet her and wanted to hold her right away. rusty actually picked emma's name. we were in between two names and when we had him say emma, he started to chant "emma, emma, emma". she has been "baby emma" ever since.
grandma strong was able to come out the day before to stay with us as i was in the hospital and recovering. grandpa strong came up a little later and was great at keeping rusty busy. it was 