All better now

No more snot! Yeah! Hurray!

Sooo sick

Kevin and I have been so sick this week. Kevin stayed home sick this week and I called in sick for tomorrow. The good news is that Emma is better. It really helps not having to take care of three sick people.

Uh oh... we're sick

Kevin and I woke up this morning not feeling well! We're trying to take care of our sick baby and were both sick! Uggg. Help.

Doctor

I had Kevin take Emma to the doctor today. She is so congested that she can't even breathe while she is eating. I feel so bad for her. I hate it when she is sick. I wish she didn't ever have to get sick. Luckily, the doctor we take her to is a pediatrician I work with. It was so nice. She called me to let me know that she is doing ok. She gave Kevin a medicine to help with her congestion. I hope it helps.

Runny Nose

Emma has a runny nose today. I hope that she isn't getting sick.

All done

We have been teaching Emma sign language. It is sooo cute. Emma signs "all done" when she is done eating! Our baby is so smart. So far we have taught her - more, all done, toy, and hungry. Hungry is a hard one to do, that will probably take a while for her to do. She does "all done" and "toy" really well. She is stubborn about "more" she will only do it for something she really really wants. We're going to start doing -thirsty, cat, bath, and I love you. I can't wait for that last one. This is so much fun to have my 11 mo old to communicate with me.

MOPS

I go to a group called MOPS (Mothers of Pre-Schoolers). It is held at my church and they have people watch the kids while the mom's get together and do a craft, eat breakfast, and listen to a speaker about some interesting topic. Well, today's craft was learning how to knit. I was going to knit Emma a scarf, but then Kevin pointed out that I was going to make something to "tie" around our daughters neck. Then I decided on a hat, well my hat started getting smaller and smaller, so I decided on booties. I think they turned out pretty well, and they fit!!

Cookie Monster!

Emma is such a great eater, is that a word, eater? For the last few months she eats anything and she feeds herself. She loves ravioli and bananas. She will even eat asparagus and lima beans. So far there is nothing she won't eat. Although I hear that might change when she becomes a toddler and realizes she has "the power" to not eat. We'll see. She drinks from her sippy cup all by herself too. It is so amazing. I think she may be allergic to pineapple though. So I have held back giving her anything with that. Otherwise it's been fair game. It really helps save time now that she can feed herself. I can give her food and make dinner for Kevin and I. I can't believe my baby is growing up! Whaaaaa.

X-mas!

Being that I have to work all weekend we are going to celebrate Christmas on Friday. Emma is not going to know the difference anyways. It was so much fun. We had dinner here at our new house. I actually cooked everything myself. This is the first time I have ever done a big meal. I rocked! Well, the only flaw was that I was a total over achiever and I had dinner way earlier than it was suppose to be done, so everything was mostly cooked and nobody was here to eat it. So, I called everyone and they came over. I made the best sweet potato casserole. Then we opened presents. I didn't think that I could possibly have fun watching an 8 mo old open presents. It was so cute. She would pull off the bow and play with it. I would take it away, she would complain, and then we would get her to pull off the wrapping paper! It was so much fun.

Perfect Baby

Our First Family Pictures.

Ho. Ho. Ho.

Is this not the cutest Santa picture ever?

New house.

We have been in the new house for a week now. It is so surreal still. I actually drove to the old house the other day, ooops. We are replacing light fixtures and all sorts of stuff. We were planning on having a party, but I don't think we are going to be ready in time. Emma seems to be adjusting ok. We set up her room pretty quickly. She is the easiest baby, doesn't seem to mind much. I love her so much.

Teefers

Emma is getting her upper three teeth all at the same time now. She has her lower three teeth, the middle two and the left tooth, which is how the top teeth are coming in. It is weird, she has her left front teeth but no signs of her right teeth. I hope she had teeth on her right side. I feel so bad for her, she is miserable now, she doesn't want me near them to brush them or anything. Thank God for Oragel, although she hates it. At least there coming in several at a time, makes the process quicker I think. I would hate to drag it out with one tooth at a time.

Moving Day

We hired movers to move all the furniture. We will officially be living in the new house tonight! Weird!! So weird.

Thanks to God for my baby

Emma's first Thanksgiving. We had dinner over at my step-grandmother's house. We gave Emma turkey, she gobbled it up (pun intended)! I think this is my favorite holiday. I look forward to spending holidays with my children, watching them grow and enjoy traditions.

Packin'

Packing, packing, packing.... here we go a packing. My husband and I have been moving stuff over to the new house gradually. It is so convenient to be only two doors down. It is so weird going over to the new house, I can't imagine us living there. Really surreal. Emma has been so good with all this. She really is the best baby in the entire world.

Closing

We closed on our new house today, the construction crew is going to start tomorrow. We are having some walls built, wood floors installed, and painting. This is SO exciting.

SOLD

Our house is sold, we close at the end of the month. Better start packing. Boy this is going to be stressful with the baby. Ahhh! At least she is not moble yet. Thank God for that.

Trick or Treat.

Well, I tortured Emma again by dressing her in her lobster outfit and taking her out to "Trick Or Treat" at our neighbor Eddie's house. She looked so cute, and miserable. Eddie was passing out Trick Or Treat pretzels, she may actually be able to eat these! It was short lived but fun.

Offer

Yeah, we had an offer on the house!!! Hope it works out.

Gerber baby

Now, you must agree that she is the CUTEST baby in the whole world!

Happy Halloween!

Emma is going to be a lobster for Halloween. A lobster you say, that is a weird first Halloween costume. Well, here is the story about how we came up with a lobster costume. A few years ago I had heard a tidbit of information that lobsters mate for life (apparently that tidbit was on Friends, but I didn't watch that show). Anyways, I told my husband and and he would say sweet things like.. Your my favorite lobster, my only lobster, the best lobster for me, ect. Of course we had to have a baby lobster!! So that is how she got to be a lobster for Halloween. When I saw the outfit I had to have it, I just couldn't believe that someone made a lobster costume for babies. I am sure you will think she is a cute as I did.

Selling and Buying

Good news is that our neighbor took our offer, looks like we are closing on Nov 8th. Being that this is the first house we have had to sell this is all new to us. We put it on the market this weekend and have had a few lookers. It is really stressful to have people coming into our house with a 7 mo old and her nap schedule. And trying to keep it super clean all the time with 3 animals is not easy. I am just glad Emma is not mobile and messing up everything. I hope our house sells quick.

Selling our house

This is the first house we have had to sell. We put it on the market this weekend and have had a few lookers. It is really stressful to have people coming into our house with a 7 mo old and her nap schedule. And trying to keep it super clean all the time with 3 animals is not easy. I am just glad Emma is not mobile and messing up everything. I hope our house sells quick.

Pictures

We took pictures of Emma today with her friend Madeline. They are so cute together. It will be so much fun when Emma is walking and they play together. I hope they are friends for a long time.

Flu Shot

Emma got her first flu shot today. I had to work so daddy took her to the Pediatrician to get it. He said she did great.

Strangers....

Today is the first day that I have left Emma with strangers. I went to the Moms Day Out Program at my church and left her in the nursery with 3 volunteers, all older ladies. I think they thought I was crazy b/c I wanted them to clean the toys before Emma played with them. I also wanted them to wash their hands before they touched her, but I couldn't get the nerve to say that. I am such a wimp. I teared up a little when I left her. But overall I did ok, I even resisted the urge to go and check on her. She seemed ok when I picked her up, exhausted. Apparently she didn't nap at all. She feel asleep immediately in the car. Well, it seemed to go ok, so maybe I will go back.

Possible House

After several weeks of looking we found a house on our street (actually on the other side of our neighbor) that we really like. We're putting an offer in and putting our house up for sale next week.

Finger foods

I started giving Emma little baby cereal to practice picking up and putting them in her mouth. Its so funny to watch her. She can get the cereal piece in her hand and then can't figure out how to get it out of her hand into her mouth. She will shove her whole fist into her mouth. It's so cute. Well, just about everything she does is so cute. I just love being a mommy.