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!

24 weeks

This week not much has changed. Emery has started trying to do more "crunches". Its like she wants to sit up but can't figure out how.
Today was weird. She was being held by a friend of ours and started crying and didn't stop until I took her back. She never does that. She usually loves people.
Emmie is chewing on her Ell-E-Phont alot, but there is nothing that shows teeth are coming through. So who knows?
But we are so still so truly blessed. She is a great sleeper and eater. She loves green beans and peas and doesn't really like pears or prunes much. As soon as she starts sitting up I will start to give her pieces of real food to gnaw on! We will try to introduce meats soon and banannans too. Though I heard bananas can stop her up. So I am not sure how soon I want to try those. Funny thing is...I hate bananas, the smell makes me gag. Ugh! How am I suppose to feed her something I can't stand the smell of?
Have I mentioned...we have the most beautiful baby ever??? People stop us when we are out and tell us how beautiful she is...everyone says she looks like a real live doll. And I don't know if its Mom's eyes or not, but she really is pretty. Gerber baby has nothing on my baby.
Her eyes are still light...please let them stay that way. And she still checks out everything...she is just amazed by anything new.
Ohhhh...she started sort of jumping in her jumper this week. Which is super cute. She loves that thing. I wish I had more door frames so I could move it around the house.
When she eats she goes ... mummm mummm mummm. Its so funny.
And my hubby is about the best Dad in the whole world. I think he loves Emery as much as I do. He is willing to do anything for her at anytime. Including waking up to give her the paci in the middle of the night or early morning. He is amazing and I am so glad he is ours. I can't imagine my life without him.
Lastly...today is 6 years since Hurricane Katrina hit my hometown of New Orleans. Oh how my life has changed. I thought I lost everything, including my "life"...but after many years and moving and growing I have realized that Hurricane Katrina wasn't bad for me, in fact it lead me to exactly where I wanted to be anyway!

23 weeks

My little darling bundle of entertainment has decided that she loves to use her voice. She will babble or scream without any notice. Including when you go in during her nap when she wakes up and you are going to give her a paci to put her back to sleep to finish the nap. She will smile and "talk" to you and try with all of her cuteness to get you to pick her up. Darnit she is so cute, its hard to walk out. But a baby needs her beauty sleep.

Speaking of sleeping, this little sleeping beauty is sleeping 3 x a day for naps about 2 hours at a time. Though her last nap of the day is becoming shorter and shorter. She is always up by 5:30pm and ready for her dinner, playtime and bath! She eats her oatmeal and veggies and loves them.

Emmie is using her legs alot but still has yet to try and sit on her own. I guess we all learn to sit one day. It will be nice when she learns to sit on her own so that she doesn't have to be in that carseat when we go out to eat.

Have you seen Big Easy Brides on We TV? Ok um being from New Orleans these "brides" make us normal neworleanians look like trash. Can't they just do a normal show from NOLA? Like show the real people! We aren't all crazy drunks with bad accents!

I hear my little Hoot Owl in her bed, not taking her nap, talking to her Ell-E-font I guess. Please lord don't let us ever lose Ell-E, if we do none of us may get any sleep.

Oh and bundle of joy is rolling rolling rolling across the floor and starting to bounce in the jumper. I think one day soon we will see some jumping!

5 months, 21 & 22 weeks...

Hey little Inchworm:
Boy are you growing! Your little legs are getting so long we are going to have to move your exersaucer up a level! You flipped from your stomach to your back last week and Mimi was here to see it. Though you've only done it a few times since then and aren't really intrested in doing it again! You love to stand. You don't even want to sit! Who knows if you will ever crawl...you may just take off walking one day...but you have to learn to sit little girl!
You love to just watch anything, you will scope out whatever is happening near you and just stare. Its like you are examining everything. Even Papa says "look at her she's just watching us".
Mimi came and stayed a whole week with us this past week. It was so great to have her here for so long. You really love being with her and she loves being with you. Then we went to VP to visit everyone. You got to hang out with a bunch of Aunts, Uncles and cousins! Even Lucy was there and y'all dressed in matching LSU outfits!
You are eating more and more oatmeal and veggies. You'd rather that than the bottle. But you need to keep eating your formula because its good for you! You love everything we have feed to you and so far no allergies!
Happy 5 months to our little girl, you are almost to your HALF Birthday!

20 Weeks

Hi Big Girl!

This week has come with the eating of squash and sweet peas! You are doing much better with eating and have come to really like your oatmeal, especially when its thick. You aren't big on thin food. And you make a mess while you are eating, but we just laugh at you since you are learning all about eating. Your tongue still doesn't know what to do, so you push the food out with it and you try to suck on the spoon! And you are eating oatmeal twice a day now, once at lunch and once at dinner! Next week I think we will start you on fruit!
Your Grampy came for a visit this week and he got to hear you giggle! He loves to make funny faces and noises to you and try to get you to smile. He loves you very much. And you get to see him again next month when we go to visit.
You started kicking the water in the bath tub. We think you realized that its play time. And you love when Daddy pours the cup of water on you. You reach for it and pull it so that it all splashes out and he has to refill it.
And you clothes are starting to get a little tight...I think you are finally outgrowing 0-3 months size and moving on up to 3 months.
Its so hot we can't go outside much. Its been in the 100s for over a month and no rain in site! I take you out for a min here and there everyday, just so you get a little sunshine and feel the weather and outside sounds.
Its getting close to you being 5 months old. I am so glad the time doesn't feel like its moving too fast. I enjoy watching you grow.

19 weeks

Dearest Monster!

Well you naps are still coming together and its getting better everyday, however your awake time can go from great to horrible in a couple of mins. Sometimes you will play with your toys, listen to a book, lay on the floor, be in your jumper and be fine. Other days you will not want any of that for more than a min or two and then you want something else. And at this point its all a guessing game cause you can't tell me what you want!

Your big accomplishment in the last week is that you are learning to grab at or grab toys. Mostly its the ones that don't move and only when you are in your exersaucer. But you will attempt to grab the ones that are hanging, but you overshoot or undershoot alot. Then you put your hands in your mouth and talk thru your hands. THis is so funny. Its like your hands have to be in your mouth for you to make noise right now.

You do alot of zerberts/raspberries and spit goes everywhere! And you do it while you go ahhhbahhh, ohhhh and spit.

You started Oatmeal last week. You still don't have the hang of it. You take about 3 baby spoons of it, but most of it gets spit out or pushed out anyway.

You've also been looking backwards with your head and arching your back so you can see someting on the other side, rather than just turning around. This is kinda freaky!

Love you Monkey Girl!

18 weeks and 4 months

Hello Toot Toot:

Guess what worm you are 4 months old! You are still so small but getting so smart and such a big girl. We are so proud of all your progress. You are 23 3/4 inches tall and 11.4 lbs. You are sleeping at night from 8pm until about 5am (you take a bottle and go right back to sleep) and then wake up for the day around 8am. You are taking at least 3 2hour naps a day and sometimes a 30-45 min nap before bed too.

My little inch worm you have mastered pretty much the art of flipping from your tummy to your back and are moving from your back to your side and trying oh so hard to get back on your tummy. I think you will get this very soon. While its not funny for you it is for us..you get so frustrated when you can't accomplish something and you start to fuss and get mad.
You've learned how to use the exersaucer seat and make it turn around in a circle so you can see all of your toys. My big girl! You are also trying to use your legs to propel yourself forward when on your tummy. Pretty soon you will be crawling.
I think you will be our little daredevil, you don't mind being upside down or facedown in our arms. You love when we do Superbaby and fly you through the air. And you don't mind water over your face. We took you in the pool and you loved it. It was again like a huge bathtub to you.
Your eyes are still light and haven't turned brown. We are hoping you will be a hazel eye'd baby just like your Mommy.
Your Dr said you have the most beautiful skin she has ever seen on a baby, and everyone says how pretty you are. You my child are such a beautiful baby!
Last night you started on Oatmeal cereal. I don't know that you even knew what it was and it was funny to see your face when we feed it to you. You scrunch up your face and make silly faces. But you swallowed it a bit and we were proud of you for trying. Next week we will start on Veggies! Daddy has feed you a bit of banana (you made a crazy face for that one) and also watermelon juice and you licked it up! I hope you are a good eater like your Daddy.
You are smiling alot more now and giggling. We love to hear you "talk" and babble.

Love you bebe. You are everything to us.

17 weeks and the Exersaucer

My darling wiggle worm. In the past week you have learned to use your legs to stand in your exersaucer. You will straighten yourself and rock in the chair that is too big for you. But you love it. You are finally eating 4oz at a time! Whoo hoo! And you are starting to get big enough that we might have to move you into 3 months size cloths and maybe size 2 diapers soon.
We are nap training/sleep training with you. And you HATE it. Boy you love to use your lungs. You've got the turning over thing down too, but only when you don't want to be on your tummy and no one is looking. LOL! For sleep time you are still swaddled, you won't sleep otherwise, a little baby straight jacket. Speaking of sleep training...there you go crying during your nap. 10 mins early from you 3xday 2 hour naps. You need them. If not you are cranky. As you can hear right now from your cries because you are waking up before time. Wahhh-ahhh-cough (thats how we know its a fake cry, when you cough up the cry).
Love you baby girl. You are almost 4 months old!

16 weeks Grow Worm Grow

Well my darling you are now closing in on 4 months and I can say you are growing tall and long and advancing in your baby skills. This past week we drove from Dallas to Ville Platte to New Orleans. You got to spend lots of time with your family and were so happy to be around them. We find that the more time you spend with people the more you learn and mimic. Everyone says how beautiful you are, and what a good baby you are and how happy they are that you are in their lives. And baby girl so are we.
You went swimming for the first time this past week. You loved it. You looked so cute in your little blue poka dot bathing suit with red ruffles. You hate having the sunblock put on and you won't wear a hat, but you will wear your cute little purple flower sunglasses. While we were getting you ready to go out to the pool you decided to tinkle all down Momma's cloths and on your Ella-font binky. I had to wash Ms. Ella-font by hand since the binky doesn't come out of it. And she is your favorite. You go cross eyed trying to see her.
Granny got to hold you and love on you alot this day. She is so happy to have you here. She's waited a long time to be a Great Granny. She is an incrediable person and I am so glad you are named after her. Your middle name Ruth is her name. Emery, Granny is an angel on Earth. We are truly blessed to have her as our Grandmother and in our life. She loves with all her heart and cares with all her soul.
Also this weekend you spent lots of time with Grampy. He loves you so much and is a great Grandfather. He is going to teach you so much as you grow up.
You got to spend time with your Aunts and Uncles and Cousins and were held by everyone. And pretty soon you will have a new cousin on my side of the family. I am so glad you will have a girl close to your age to play with from year to year. Just like I had her Mommy to play with too.
We ate a little restaurant in New Orleans for breakfast before we left and a couple of men saw you and said you looked just like a little real life baby doll and told us how beautiful you are, which we know but it is nice to hear from strangers. And as we left one of them told Daddy that Heaven was missing an Angel and it was you. You are such a beautiful baby. Your smile can light up a room. You look at everything like you are inspecting it to remember it for the future or learning from it right now.
You try to stand all the time. You stiffen your legs and push up. You don't want to sit, you don't want to lay down. You babble and coo alot now. You have converstaions with Daddy and chew on your hands like there is noo tommorow. You are trying to pull yourself up like you want to sit though.
Mimi and Poppa got to spend alot of time with you too. They love having you at their house.
You learned to stand in the Exersaucer this weekend and to reach for a toy. You spin this one toy over and over now. Its like you figured it out and can't stop doing it. You are sleeping in your own room and in your crib at night. We are so proud of you. If you don't nap though you are Monster.
Love you my little worm.