Grandma L is here!

HEre is a picture of Em playing in her car seat! She loves it - so many things to chew on. The other is of her and Nick (notice the very safe Advil bottle she is chewing on:)

GRandma Loerch got here last night!!! Very exciting... She was layden with clothes for our little one of course! Even a jacket that she made for her. Today we went to Top Foods for lunch, enjoyed the Holiday decorations at Molnak's a gardening store similar to Bachman's for you Minnesotans. Then we went to TJ MAxx and I got myself a few B-day gifts. Emma cried the whole way home:(

Tomorrow we'll probably hit the outlet mall!

Love to all....

Baptism

Here are a few pictures of Emma's Christening/Baptism. I'll write more abou tit and the trip later.... The ceremony took place at Jan and Ivan Cendese's and it was just lovely.
Love to all....

Lovin' My Dad

How cute is the first picture with El and Em making the same face at each other? I went to the gym las tnight and Em stayed home with dad becasue of her cold (which has now moved down to her chest also and is giving her a nasty cough!). When I came home theyw ere practicing standing. She has been pulling herself up to standing onher knees the past few days and has really mastered the army crawl.

We had a long evening last night, she just couldn't get to sleep. We worked on it from 6:30-9pm!!!! Poor girl. Once she got downt hough she slept OK.

Well, off to look for a dress today for her christening, and a few other chores:)
love to all...

So Sick

Poor girl is just feeling terrible. When I came home from Seattle, about 1:45pm, this is how I found Em and El. However they were both sound asleep (she was leavinga little puddle of drool on his shirt:)). When the pre-flash went off Emma opened her eyes, so that is why you see them peeking out in the first picture. Then I think I really took her by surprise in the second. How cute though, huh?

Anyway, El said she didn't want to eat anything and everytime he went to put her to bed she started crying, so they finally just took a nap together. She hasn't done that in MONTHS! So, she didn't eat from 8am until I nursed her at 2pm. Even then I couldn't get her to eat anything else. Fianlly about 5:30 she ate some squash and cereal, but even then it was small amount.

She is scrappy looking with red eyes, a runny nose, a little cough, and even a little fever, and drool... But she is still cute to us:)

Love to all...

tEETHING AND oTHER meSSY sTUFF

Sweet little girl is a small disaster:) She really is teething terribly and working so hard to get those upper teeth in. The drool is constant and she is chewing like a puppy dog on EVERYTHING - belt buckles and chair legs included:)

Add onto that that she has a COLD. She barely ate yesterday (although we do think he growth spurt has slowed nad is eating lessin general), and was fussy and tired most of the day/ She just slept and slept and by 5:30 was so sad, not hungry and just went to bed! She did wake up at 7 and elliott was able to get her to eat, but then she went right back to bed! And woke up numerous times in the night, and had to had her nose plunged... Poor girl....

This morning I am going to meet Holly and some of her friends, to celebrate her birthday, and do a walking/food tour of SEattle. So that should be fun and tasty. El and Em will hang out.... At some point I hiope to find Ema a dress for her christening next Friday, and we leave for SLC Tuesday night.

Well, I will try and get more pictures up:) Love to all...

Emma's Phone

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Hinrichs!!!!! Emma now has a phone of her very own (she is OBSESSED with our silver home phones, to the point that if I am feeding her in our bedroom I have to HIDE the phone!!!). So, G and G Hinrichs sent Emma her very own Fisher Price phone - and she LOVES it. You can see in the pictures that it passed the taste test:)

Thanks to John and Allison too - who watched Em tonight while I taught class. Poor John though - as soon as Allison left (she had a prior engagement) Emma started crying and she cried for 45 minutes straight! When I knocked on the door I could hear her, eyes all red and puffy, but John was calm as good be just walking around with her.... I felt bad for the both of them! So thankful they could watch her though. Allison is pregnant with their second child though, so I told him it was good practice:)

Ok, I gotta go to bed.. I was asleep las tnihgt by this time. I have had a cold since Halloween and it just won't let up! Love to all...

Look at my belly!!

How funny! Can you see her belly poking over her pants in the first picture? Ha ha! She LOVES chewing on her "stand" for her stacking circles. Really, she loves chewing on just about anything. I say this all the time, but I REALLY think her teeth are coming in now. She has been MAJORLY chewing and was almost biting me last night as I was trying to get her to sleep (she likes my collar bone!!!!!). And she has had problems sleeping inthe afternoon,a nd getting to bed at night she is so wound up and just CHEWING on her hands, sometimes both hands at the same time!!!! Ok, gotta get to work. Love to all...

Babblin'

She is just babbling away and it is so dang cute!! She also figured out how to get herself to a sitiing position from her stomach, today. I had turned away, then looked back and all of a sudden she was sitting! She only did it that one time, but she'll have it figured out soon.

I painted the spare room today,a nd we ran to fred Meyer, that seems a daily routine. It is just nice to get out of the house sometimes. I got her a new sleeper - Carter's 12 month size!!!!!! It fits in the torso and arms, but a little long in the legs. Hmm... I think she is still awake, I better go get her... love to all...

Standin'

Is it Elvis? No, just Emma!! She is preparing for her imprssion of Elvis though, getting her hips a swingin' and her wide stance. She has been doing this quite a bit lately. When I was posting this I just noticed that in the second picture you can see her drool going ALL the way to the FLOOR!!! Hope those teeth comein soon.

I fell asleep last night at 8:15!!!!!!!!!!! AND Emma slept through the night - didn't wake until 6:30 am. Thank goodness, I felt the most awake today that I have felt in MONTHS!

Hmm... not a lot else today. Hopefully to paint the spare room tomorrow. Love to all...

Almost...

Every day she is closer and closer to the "real" crawl! Our little girl is growing up. Today she moved on to Step 2 in foods, that means larger servings (like she needs it!), more texture, and different flavors. Today she tried corn for the frist time (Sweet Potatoes and Corn). She also has Prunes and Apples, Pears and Pineapple, Apples and Blueberries... So hopefully that will all go well. She seems fairly easly going about food, so we will see. She has also started to make razz-berries with her mouth (basically big slobber noises).

More later.. Love to all...

The Reward

After crawling and scooting for the phone for a long time (beacuse Mom and DAd kept moving it away from her!) she FINALLY got her "reward"! She loves the phone... if I am nursing her upstairs on the bed I have to HIDE the phone or she will just reach for it the whole time!!!!!

Love to all...

She's on the move!!!

Yup!!! She's a movin' alright! The first picture is in her "Jump-a-roo" that was loaned to us from John and Allsion. Oh my gosh, she LOVES it! She is a litte "tigger" and will just jump and jump until she wears herself out. IT's pretty dang cute.

The other picture is..... CRAWLING!!! Well, scooting a bit, pulling herself with her arms a bit, and then a couple of times actually crawling. But she gets her back leg up SO high that she looses her balance. BUT, she is going to be taking off in the next few days I am sure. She LOVEs the phone, so that was her "prize":) She was just grunting and groaning to reach it, it was so funny.

How exciting, but our lives are over in a whole new way now:)

Love to all...

Pink Stinker Bear

How dang cute? Emma and I went for a little walk today and it was a bit brisk so I thought it was time to try out the bear hat (minus the mittens) from Grandma LaVonne. Emma has really begun to quiet down when we go on walks, I think she is really just taking everything in. Well, she also has pooed the past few times, and I know that always makes her quiet:)

So our little girl is growing up. She is figuring out cause and effect. The other afternoon we were sitting in the rocking chair in her nursery and she reached over and pulled on the cutain. When she did this the sun light made a pattern on the back of the chair. She let go and it went away. She went to reach again and looked towards the back of the chair (she missed the curtain however), but no light. The third time she pulled it away and the pattern came back as she looked at the back of the chair. It was SO FUN to sit watch her explore and learn about her world in a matter of an instant!

Well, that's all for now. She is letting me know it is getting itme for dinner. The grown-ups are having porkchops, mashed potatoes,a nd green beans... yummy!!!!!

love to all...