Yayyyyy

Just overnight night our little genius learned how to clap! Now she does it all the time. Clap clap clap.
She also waves hi and bye. But its a funny wave opening and closing her hand and turning it sideways.
And learning uh ohh. She just says uh, but its close.
the wonderful world of games. I drop it and say uh...and you pick it up and give it back for me to drop out again!
Awe you crazy kid. We love you.

Em first Christmas and teeth

(Naughty or Nice???)

Emery has had a great Christmas so far. Daddy got her a beautiful E charm with a pearl attached. Mommy got her mickey mouse and mm clubhouse dvd. And so much more stuff came from Santa.
Then we drove on out to VP and she has been spoiled by Daddy's family. Nanny enjoyed getting her all kinds of clothes, dvds and blocks and minnie mouse. mimi papa got her a vtech walker and clovis crawfish books signed by her great great uncle who illustrated them. And she got so much more stuff I could write a book. Its too much.
And then Santa decided to give her one moore present...Teeth! Yep top left poked through a couple of days ago. now bottom left broke through yesterday and the rights on top and bottom are swollen.
Being off schedule, lots of simulation and teething make a very unhappy baby!

9 months!

Happy Happy 9 months this week to our beautiful Emery Ruth!
My darling in the past month you have learned so much. You have gone from a couple of ba bas to mumbling consteants and saying Dada, mama and pu for Puppy.
You've moved from an army crawl and snake slither to up on your hands and knees and flying across a house.
You went from pulling up to your knees and freaking out to pulling up to your feet and taking a couple of steps with help from Daddy or the couch.
You are climbing on things and scaring the crap out of your Mom!
From eating Stage 2 foods to wanting a bite of everything we have.
And from having no teeth on Dec. 15, to having a Top left tooth poking through!
You my darling are learning at a rapid pace all of a sudden, with no signs of slowing down.
You are still teeny tiny. Just 15lbs, 27 inches. We moved your diapers up to size 3 only for the lenght and clothes you fit in 6-9 months (though baggy) but your waist is 0-3 months still. So pants are a pain to fix!
You still don't smile much or laugh often, but you are so serious and watch and take in everything. I think you are going to be very smart.

38 Weeks

Miss Emery is moving and shaking. In the last 4 weeks she has grown with leaps and bounds. She is now sitting up on her own with her funny leg position (one out in front and one cocked behind her), she is reaching up to grab for someone, learning cause and effect, pulling up to her feet, crawling on her hands and knees, laughing, talking, trying to say Mama, Dada, Puppy, crawling through a tunnel, liking favorite toys, eating hard books, picking up food and feeding herself and so much more.
We are trying to teach her to use a sippy cup. She'd rather throw it across the room than drink from it. LOL!
She is so funny, she makes the best sounds and tries to say Mama especially when she is hurt.
Speaking of...this weekend she fell off the counter. She is fine, I freaked out, ran grabbed her, cried, took off all her clothes and checked every piece of her body. She has a small light bruise on her cheek. This is the first time she has been hurt. I got her in the rocking chair and just held her and cuddled with her until she felt better. My poor sweet baby girl. I never want anything to happen to her. Everynight since I have gone into her room after she is asleep to touch her and stroke her and cover her and just make sure she is ok.
With her pulling up I am so scared she will really take a tumble soon. Every move she makes my heart flutters and I cringe.How am I going to make through the rest of her life without having a nervous breakdown?

How do you erase a memory?

It is with a very heavy heart that I write this blog.

On Dec 1, 2011 we lost our baby. Being surpised pregnant with this new baby was nothing short of a miracle. We didn't worry about a thing the whole time. We just felt it was ment to be. God showed us that we could get pregnant on our own. Our pregnancy was realitivly uneventful. I was sick with morning sickness the 1st 12 weeks or so and had to take medicine. I've always heard that having such sickness ment the baby would be healthy. Yet another old wives tale. We found out a couple of weeks ago that our baby was going to be another girl. We started making plans to get a new crib, new toys and started talking about names.
I went in for a routine visit to our perinatologist, hoping to verify the sex and see our little girl move around. It was just me and Emery because my hubby had to work. I didn't think anything about it. That was when I heard the words I truly never thought I would ever hear in my life. "I'm sorry to tell you this, the baby has no heartbeat." I was told these things happen, it happened in the last week or so, the baby is starting to have some demise. So much that I don't remember. I just remember the Dr leaving the office and calling my husband. Barely inking out the words and hearing the terror in his voice. I don't remember the drive home and as much don't remember the next few days.
Our OB talked to us about options and we settled on being put to sleep and letting her take the baby out. I went into the hosptial. I don't rember going to sleep, I barely remember waking up and going home. I have layed around while dealing with the pain both physically and emotionally for the last few days. Today is my first day being on my own with Emery. She is what gets me through the day. Without her I think I would have gone into a depression that I don't think I could get out of, and at this moment I wonder if that can still happen.

Our second daughter Kristen Frances was born at 3:45PM on 12/01/2011. Our sadness cannot be expressed. I pray that God has wrapped her in his arms and told her of how her parents loved her and wanted her and she was just not ready to be with us.

8.5 months and 17 weeks

(We were trying to take Christmas pictures for cards)
In the last two weeks things are progressing fast with my Emery. She has learned to sit up on her own and crawl on her hands and knees! She is "talking" more too. We have gone from three naps down to two naps. And she plays longer by herself. She is so mischevious! Always trying to get into something. One second she is right next to you and the next she is down the hall almost to the front door. And boy does she love trying to open the fireplace glass doors. I am trying to figure out how to baby proof those but haven't come up with anything yet. Emery is also pulling herself up to her knees on just about anything she can get her hands onto, even if its not sturdy! She loves shoes and untying them and eating the shoestrings. And will put just about anything in her mouth she can find!
Her 1st Thanksgiving was great. We spent it with her Parrain and some friends of ours. Lots and lots of food for us and Emery ate her baby food. She is still on stage 2 foods and we have tried Stage 3 but she doesn't like it. Oh and still no teeth. I think that's on her list to Santa, some teeth! We moved her crib mattress down to low so that if she does get up to her feet she won't topple out!
Still the ever inqusitive baby, she watches everything anyone does and is so serious! We went to see Santa and boy oh boy, placed in his hands it was a no go! She cried and started at him with the look of "oh no!" We got a picture but both Santa and Emery look scared! What a fun memory!
Ah and she eats or chews on her toes alot. Not sure what that is is about, but she wakes up with wet socks or feet on her jammies most days!

The baby #2 is looking good. Everything is going fine. If I could just get rid of this sinus infection and cough and be able to breathe again! I still haven't put on any weight, but the Dr doesn't seem concerned. A couple of more weeks and we will know for sure what sex the baby will be. I still can't believe in about 5 months we will have 2 babies in our house! After everything we went through how blessed are we?!

Well gotta run Miss Priss cannot get to one of her toys and is whining!

Ok sorry 34 weeks and 15 weeks

Yes I know BAD BLOGGER! Its been a while. SORRY! Things have been a crazy mess here. We've been to La and back, DH has been out of town, Emery has learned to crawl around the house and pull the dog's ears. Em is working on sitting up, but not on her own and pulling up in her bed, so time to move the bed down. Then she got a cold, I got the cold, and now DH has the cold. The poor dog doesn't know what to do anymore, he just runs out the way when he sees us coming. Lord, he is going to be sad when the new baby comes.
Speaking of the new baby...everything looks good so far. Heartbeat is at 159bpm, growing on target (in fact a little bigger than where it should be, which is great since Em measured small), and we still don't know if its a boy or a girl...couldn't see anything at the last ultrasound. Hopefully we will know soon so we can start planning. Of course we are still a little freaked out but so happy to have such a miracle happen after everything we went through!
And we are off again to another family wedding this weekend!
Oh and Emery is starting to realize if she cries we come to her...so she cries all the time now. Where oh where is my happy little baby girl??? Time change has affected us all. None of us can get use to it.
Em also learned to crawl on the bricks of the fireplace and open the doors. Ugh I have no idea how to baby proof that so time for some research.

28-29 weeks and 9-10 weeks???

Princess Emery is moving and grooving in the last few weeks. She has accomplished the "army man" crawl (you know the one where they use their arms to pull themselves forward while slithering on their tummy with flat legs to get to something they want). She is sitting up, assisted still, but trying to do it on her own. She can sit on her own for a good 30-60 seconds before she topples over. She does this adorable little fake laugh (ha, ha, he, ha) in little short spurts so it sounds like she is about to giggle but she doesn't. She is forming together sounds like...ma, da, di, hi, ba, ga. And if she gets hurt (wether her feelings or pain) she calls mama (well at least thats what it sounds like to me anyway). She also still does the fake cough and to which I reply "awweee baby got a little cough" and that usually makes her stop.

On another front we found out a couple of weeks ago...SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE we are "naturally" expecting another baby. This brought emotions of joy and sadness all at the sametime. Sadness because I truly thought that I would have giving Emery my full attention for sometime before we introduced another sibling into the mix with her and I wanted to devote everything to her...but Joy because now she will have a brother or sister to play with and love and grow up with and become friends with during her life. And they will be awfully close in age (13 months). As with any pregnancy we are still making sure things are moving along and not stressing over anything so that the baby isn't under any stress. After reading back in the blog I truly never thought this would happen to us. I mean did you read how hard it was to concieve Emery???

I am feeling pretty awful. Morning (or call it ALL DAY) sickness is bringing me down. I feel bad that I can do as much with Emmie right now as I would want to since I am sick most of the day and tired all the time...except for the last couple of nights...INSOMINA! Thank goodness Em is sleeping 12 hours at night. Though her naps are changing from 3 down to 2 naps a day.

Tomorrow I have to take Emmie to the Opthomologist to have her blocked tear duct in her eye probed. I am scared to death for her. After reading what they do I am sad and happy that they won't let me in the room when they are doing it. Sad because I want to be there for her so she knows everything is going to be ok and that I love her more than myself but happy because if I have to hear or see her cry I freak out and cry myself and she really doesn't need to see Mommy as a crazy crying freaked out Momma! I do hope this works the first time and she never has to go back. And I am very glad she will not remember this as she gets older.

A late 6 months

I know I am a horrible blogger sometimes. What can I say, time escapes me.
This month our little Emery turned 6 months on 09/14. My little darling is learning to sit up, with lots of support and help but do it none the less. She loves the outside and adores Sammy the doggie! She loves to eat, mostly veggies, she is not overly happy to have fruits but will tolarate them if you have oatmeal mixed with them. She doesn't really like thin baby food. She has also tried eating on her own. Crackers work great and she loves em. Bananas and avacados are slippery little suckers and she eats them by mashing them around on her gums.
She is also no longer sleeping in her swaddle. Nights are fine, first nap goes well but second and third nap, not so much. So we are working around this. Emmie is also trying to get rid of her last nap of the day. UGH! She is still in 3-6 months size clothes and size 1 diapers.
At 6 months Emery is 25 1/4 inches long and 13.3 lbs. Still a little bit of nothing but beautiful! She has the most beautiful big eyes and the cutest smile. Her skin is so pretty, she barely ever gets anything like a blemish on her skin. And her nose, oh my goodness the little button nose and bow shapped lips!

On another front...we just found out a couple of days before Emery turned 6 months...magically we are expecting. Yep we are pregnant. So the Fertility Dr gave us a 2 for 1 deal without even knowing it. No we weren't trying, no we didn't go back to the dr, no we had no idea it could happen on our own. But here we are, Mommy is sick and tired, Daddy is working alot! And we are both still in shock but happy. I still can't believe Emery is going to be a big sister. The babies will be 13 months apart in age. So little Cajun Coonass Twins!

Now its time for us to all take a nap!

25 weeks

This past week or the week before I can't remember Emery learned how to jump in her jumper. Its hysterical. She grabs both straps and just jumps and laughs. She is so silly! She can also turn herself around while lying on her tummy or her back. And while she hasn't attempted to start crawling yet she does pull herself forward with her arms to get something she wants, but most of the time ends up pushing herself backwards and gets frustrated. And when she is frustrated she puts her head down and whines!
And whiney, lord have mercy, she's been such a whiney baby for the last week. I have no idea what's wrong with her. There are no teeth showing or coming in that we can find and she isn't sick or running fever. Oh well I am sure its just a stage with her.
Next week Emery will be 6 months! She is such a great sleeper and just so freaking cute. As tiny as she is it makes her even more cute! She's like a little doll! We've been spending alot of time outside on the back porch. She loves being outside. So much to look at and see.
Still loving her veggies, fruit not so much. Pretty soon we are going to start on meat and see how that goes. She has no desire to sit up, and I am praying that will change soon. I would love for her to sit up on her own so that I don't need the stroller all the time and we can use a rest. high chair and the grocery cart! Plus once she sits I can start giving her big people food to chew on! And teeth, we need some teeth!
I love watching Emery grow. She is truly amazing!