Friday, October 16, 2015

Emerson : 9 months



 Emerson had an eventful month this month!

 At her 9 month appointment she weighed 17.2 lbs (30%) and was 26in long (3%). She wears 6-9 month clothes mostly. She doesn't do very well with eating baby food, but she loves puffs!
She pulls herself up on everything and will stand by herself at times too! She has become a very busy baby and curious about everything.  We love to watch her learn and grow!





The month started out with the purchase of our first house!



She survived her first looong car ride to Gulf Shores, AL.


We rented a condo and met Kirk's Sister Karla & Jesse & Wren for the week.


Emy & Wren had fun playing together...or not so much!


We spent lots of time at the ocean and the pool at the condo.  The girls loved the water!





Trying dip n dots! She loved them!


We went to the Naval Base in Pensacola, FL one day. Emy experienced her first air show!









Spent an evening taking family pictures on the beach!










A few days after getting home from vacation, Emerson came down with Roseola, so we had a tough few nights. One night I ended up taking the couch cushions, and putting them on the floor beside her crib because she was getting up every 15 minutes. Thankfully it didn't last for too many nights!

We had our parents and grandparents over for supper one evening.  Emerson liked to chew on Grandpa's cane!

She learned how to look out her window from her crib.  And also how to mutilate the shade...bad enough that we had to buy a new one when we moved! 


Continues to like bath time, we started putting her in the big bath tub this month!
 We enjoyed a weekend at Lake Salleteeska with the Eisenmann family.




 And she popped her first tooth this month!  But I don't have a good picture.  I hardly even knew she was teething!  She was slightly more fussy one day but not enough to really make me wonder but the next morning it had popped through! Hopefully the trend continues!

Monday, September 21, 2015

Emerson : 8 months










 Emerson has really grown this month!  She is officially into EVERYTHING!  Nothing is safe around our house anymore!! She has become a very curious baby now that she can pretty much go anywhere she wishes.

She can sit up and army crawl like a pro!  She will get up on all 4s but isn't quite crawling yet.  She's soo close!





Her new thing is crawling under the coffee table. I quickly realized the bottom shelf of the coffee table can no longer be useful as a shelf.  It's now a jungle gym!



 She is also just starting to pull herself up on things.


She loves to be where the action is!
I thought little miss was sleeping due to the quietness...
however it was only because she was surprised at her new accomplishment!
 She learned how to play "so big" this month...and she also learned how to be stubborn and not do it any longer!  It was cute while it lasted tho!

finally big enough to ride in the cart!  
She is still eating baby food...she's not the best eater. The end of this month I started her on some boughten baby food that I found at a garage sale and now she will not eat my homemade kind! She's also becoming picky with her veggies...we are being creative with ways of sneaky bites of veggies in in between bites of fruit!

 She did try some real watermelon this month...however I'm petrified of choking children so after one episode of gagging/choking, the watermelon disappeared. We'll wait until she's a little bigger for table food.

 Emerson continues to be a happy, easy going baby.  I realized this month that she rarely takes a nook and when she does, it just becomes a toy.  I'm thankful that she doesn't need one very often then! She does well without a strict schedule, thank goodness, because I don't do well with them!

Emerson moved from the pack n' play in our room to her own crib this month!  She was not sleeping very well at night, waking up 2-4 times a night and I was getting tired of it.  So we moved her to her own bed.  She didn't sleep better right away but it has gotten better with time.

It was hard for me at first but once I started trusting the baby monitor and with a little time I decided it was nice having her in her own room!  I wasn't sure how I was going to nurse her when she woke up at night, since I always just brought her in bed with me, but I found out that I fit perfectly in the crib with her to nurse her back to sleep.  Problem solved!

 Things we did this month:

Emerson got a new baby cousin, Logan Joseph!  They aren't quite at the stage of playing together yet...but someday! Love each new little cousin!

Traveled to Leo for the Gateway Woods Auction. Emerson traveled great even thought our AC fan didn't work most of the time!


Spent an afternoon swimming with Grandma and the cousins.



Visited our friend Thelma.  Emerson was intrigued by her walker!


Spent breakfast out at lost in time with Aleya and her mom. They weren't so sure about being so close to eachother!

Spent an evening with my side of the family. Sienna and Emerson learned how to be partners in crime by emptying out Grandmas newspaper basket.  Actually...Sienna did most of the emptying but then left Emerson among the mess so it looked like Emerson was the one at fault!



 Supper with "uncle" Eric.
Enjoyed time out doors!