Just a swinging!
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Emma is 10 months old!
Today Emma is ten months old! She is such a happy baby! She loves to be outside now that the weather has turned so beautiful the last few weeks. She loves to read and she will sit with her books and open them and turn the pages. She talks to the books and her other toys too. She likes to crawl under the kitchen table and hide, and then come crawling out as fast as she can, laughing the whole time. She’s learning to feed herself with her hands, and she prefers that to being fed with a spoon. She’s also now sleeping for 11 hours straight at night!! I never thought that would happen! She is also taking a lot of steps while holding onto the furniture. She says ‘mama’ and ‘dada’ and ‘kidy’, which I think means kitty. I have taught her how to do a back flip off my lap. She loves it! I tell her “want to do a flip?”, and she immediately starts to lean to back. I hold her hands and her legs go over her head and then she hops to the ground! Then she crawls up to my lap and wants to do it again.
I want to take this opportunity to record some of Emma’s nicknames that we have used in the last 10 months. The first one was Baby Poots of course, which our family blog is named after. We also called her Bean Bean before she was born, based on her shape during the first ultrasound. Once she arrived and we named her, Emmerkins became the nickname of choice. And then when we had so many problems learning to breastfeed (both Emma and I) I came up with “Little Miss Milk Maid” and “Little Miss Milky La Rue” to help me get through each feeding session. I know she will love those in about 13 years!
I really liked the “La Rue” and sometimes call her “Emmerkins La Rue”. There are also Emmers and Emmer-fish. I made a whole rhyme for Emmer-fish, she’s my little Emmer-squish, she’s my little Emmer-dish. Then Tony created “Boutros Boutros-Ghali Girl”. I don’t know how he came up with it, but we started singing it to Emma and it would always get a smile and stop the tears. Boutros Boutros-Ghali was the Secretary-General of the UN in the 1990’s. I know it’s weird but it sounds so catchy and it really did make Emma smile. In the first few months of her life she would have very fussy evenings, crying for hours, and singing “Boutros Boutros-Ghali Girl” just worked. I am sure that I am leaving some out, but I’ll include them next time!
I want to take this opportunity to record some of Emma’s nicknames that we have used in the last 10 months. The first one was Baby Poots of course, which our family blog is named after. We also called her Bean Bean before she was born, based on her shape during the first ultrasound. Once she arrived and we named her, Emmerkins became the nickname of choice. And then when we had so many problems learning to breastfeed (both Emma and I) I came up with “Little Miss Milk Maid” and “Little Miss Milky La Rue” to help me get through each feeding session. I know she will love those in about 13 years!
I really liked the “La Rue” and sometimes call her “Emmerkins La Rue”. There are also Emmers and Emmer-fish. I made a whole rhyme for Emmer-fish, she’s my little Emmer-squish, she’s my little Emmer-dish. Then Tony created “Boutros Boutros-Ghali Girl”. I don’t know how he came up with it, but we started singing it to Emma and it would always get a smile and stop the tears. Boutros Boutros-Ghali was the Secretary-General of the UN in the 1990’s. I know it’s weird but it sounds so catchy and it really did make Emma smile. In the first few months of her life she would have very fussy evenings, crying for hours, and singing “Boutros Boutros-Ghali Girl” just worked. I am sure that I am leaving some out, but I’ll include them next time!
Monday, October 27, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
291!
Emma is 291 days old today! I carried her for 268 days and now we have past that number of days with her here. Yesterday she took a few steps while holding onto the side of the bathtub. Today she took a few more steps while holding onto the couch. I still think it will be a few months before she takes any steps on her own.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Emma is 9 Months Old!
Sunday Emma turned 9 months old! Our baby is quickly approaching toddlerhood and we can see the little girl she is becoming. She’s a very happy girl, full of smiles, giggles, and lots of hugs and kisses.
Bath time has become very challenging. She wants to sit up and grab everything! Gone are the days of her laying happily in the tub, content to just kick her legs! She turns over, crawling around the tub, it’s really scary because I’m afraid she will hit her face or head against the tub. It’s time to get out the tub chair, I hope Emma likes it!
Tuesday we went to the pediatrician for her check-up. Here are her stats:
Weight: 23 pounds, 97th percentile
Height: 29 inches, 95th percentile
Head circumference: 90th percentile
Emma can now eat meat, cheese and yogurt, so we will be starting some new things soon. She is pulling up on everything, but so far she’s not taking any steps. She did manage to crawl up onto a paper box, which has since been removed from her reach! She is learning to pet the kitties gently, with our help. She loves Sesame Street, and anything that has music. She likes to dance to the music; her little booty shaking to the beat is the cutest thing! She also loves other babies and children, she smiles and laughs and tries to grab any babies she is near.
What Emma is watching: Sesame Street’s 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
What Emma is listening to: Giggly, Wiggly, Silly Songs, Vol. 1 & 2
What Mommy is reading to Emma: Baby Animals, Hippos Go Berserk, The Runaway Bunny
Bath time has become very challenging. She wants to sit up and grab everything! Gone are the days of her laying happily in the tub, content to just kick her legs! She turns over, crawling around the tub, it’s really scary because I’m afraid she will hit her face or head against the tub. It’s time to get out the tub chair, I hope Emma likes it!
Tuesday we went to the pediatrician for her check-up. Here are her stats:
Weight: 23 pounds, 97th percentile
Height: 29 inches, 95th percentile
Head circumference: 90th percentile
Emma can now eat meat, cheese and yogurt, so we will be starting some new things soon. She is pulling up on everything, but so far she’s not taking any steps. She did manage to crawl up onto a paper box, which has since been removed from her reach! She is learning to pet the kitties gently, with our help. She loves Sesame Street, and anything that has music. She likes to dance to the music; her little booty shaking to the beat is the cutest thing! She also loves other babies and children, she smiles and laughs and tries to grab any babies she is near.
What Emma is watching: Sesame Street’s 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
What Emma is listening to: Giggly, Wiggly, Silly Songs, Vol. 1 & 2
What Mommy is reading to Emma: Baby Animals, Hippos Go Berserk, The Runaway Bunny
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