7 Months

We have had another month full of new things! Emersyn had her first vacation to the beach!

 During this vacation she teased us with crawling......it wasn't until the morning after we came home that she actually crawled!It took all of 2 days for her to learn that she could move to things and then pull up on them. 

Now we are at that stage where we have to follow her around in case she loses balance and falls. But I am usually on the floor playing with her anyways so that's not a big deal. She loves that she can crawl and even more that she can stand. She will squeal when she starts to crawl into the kitchen and then stop, turn around (to make sure we are seeing what she can do) and then squeal and she's off again! I love when she smiles and we can see her bottom teeth - so cute! We keep waiting for the top teeth to come in. We were sure they would be in by now because they have been bothering her for weeks, but no sign yet. She has also started to babble a little bit. However she is much more interested in the other noises she has learned to make....aka, raspberries.  

I finally got the courage to put her in a high chair at a restaurant and a shopping cart. She thought she was really cool in both!

  

Her and Buster become better friends everyday. 

6 Months

I feel like the stretch from 4 - 6 months has had new milestones every time I turn around!  Since school is out, I have been working hard on getting this little girl on a schedule. Some days I feel like it is impossible but others days go smoothly. E loves to eat food (off a spoon) much more than she likes to drink milk. So we are moving from 2 meals a day to 3 very quickly. We have finally reached a point where we have a consistent bedtime routine, bedtime, and wake up time. As a result, TJ and I feel like better parents (because we are well rested) and the evening times seem more manageable. Yay! 

Emersyn is a busy lady! She likes to be on the go and have fun. We have taken her to the pool a few times. She has fun watching the other children, splashing, and just hanging out in the water. 

I love to splash!

I am a big girl now!  I am so happy I can sit up and see everything when we walk. 

I still like to cuddle.....for a few minutes, then it's back to being busy!

It is almost time to retire this seat! She still isn't all that thrilled with the bumbo or superseat we have so we have continued to use this. As you can see she wants to sit up!

Well....I started writing this blog last week and now our big girl is sitting up on her own!

I don't leave her unattended still or put her anywhere but on carpet because she sometimes topples backwards! I gotta give her credit though, she is brave and rarely fusses or cries, but instead turns over onto her stomach and then rolls to what she wants. 

Something else we are moving into this month is teething.....ugh! I feel so bad for little girl. I can tell her gums are really hurting more and more each day.  She always has something in her mouth. It must feel good rubbing on her gums. We can feel something sharp coming through.....

But we won't be getting a picture because she does not like people looking in her mouth haha. 

She is starting to get big so fast! I am so thankful I can be home with her this summer to watch her grow and explore her world each day. 

Playing

Emersyn is playing under her jungle and I am taking pictures and playing with a new app on the iPad!

5 Months

Little girl is 5 months old! Hard to believe! She is BUSY BUSY BUSY! She is so aware of everything that is going on around her. We are continually amazed at the things she tries to do each day.

E continues to laugh out loud...especially when I start talking to TJ about something that happened at school, when we start laughing or when we pick her up in the morning or after a nap and walk out of her room. Sometimes she laughs when we try really hard, but usually she just laughs as she observes us doing normal every day things.

She smiles all. the. time. and I am so thankful that she is a smiley baby. I really wanted her to smile when we engaged with her and she does. She also smiles when someone talks to her that she recognizes and smiles at Buster when he walks by.

Squealing, or as I like to put it...exploring the sounds she makes. E experiments with all the new sounds she hears herself make and when we respond she gets excited. Actually this is how we know she is excited. She loves to lay under things that hang down...oh yea...we are really into grabbing as well....back to that in a minute. When she plays her squeals at the toys hanging down at her and also when she eats apples. One day I came home from work and she was playing. I went over to say hi and she smiled and squealed - love <3

Grabbing...everything. Earrings, necklace, phone, cup, dog, toy, shirt, napkin, brush etc.

Rolling - she rolls from her stomach to her back and from her back to her stomach. She has also discovered her feet, and loves to grab for them, hold on, and rock back and forth.

Tummy time - E is really good at pushing her upper body up with her arms and then looking all around.

Sitting, Standing, and Jumping - She loves to be held up in a standing position, but that's hard to do all the time, so we put her in a jumper. She loves this and has so much fun! E is also showing interest in sitting up on her own (because when she is sitting now she is grabbing for things. This usually results in her going from a sitting to her tummy, to rolling to her back, but she loves that she can move!) I know it won't be long until she is sitting on her own.

Sleeping - we are FINALLY doing better with sleeping which has only just occurred this week, but no complaints here!

Eating - we started stage 1 baby food. So far we REALLY like apples. We also like green beans, bananas, sweet potatoes, and peas. She is not so sure about pears, carrots and peaches yet, but we keep trying.

We are definitely seeing her little personality shining through more and more each day!

WOW!! Little Miss has been very busy this month. What a precious gift she is to us and what joy she brings to our lives every day!

 

4 Months

Already? Time seemed to go by so much faster now that I am back at work. The days come and go and I don't even realize what has happened!

What I do know is my baby girl is growing so fast!

This month she started eating more, talking more, staying awake more, and became more aware of everything. She laughs when I tell a story from school. She is wide-eyed when we take a walk around the neighborhood or go shopping. She is grabbing for things, and holding on to them. She just rolled over from her stomach to her back and goes from her back to her side. She has found a lovey. She met new friends. She loves to be outside. Buster loves her more and more everyday. She looks when she hears your voice and turns her head when you walk by. She can sit up in things...or propped up against a pillow. And she loves to put things in her mouth!

The good news this month - she seems to finally be adjusting to the world. I didn't want to write it here before, but it seems like it was so long ago now...she wasn't always a happy baby. Many a screaming night in this house. But that is seems like a distant memory. Is my baby girl always happy...no. Do we wish she was...of course - don't all parents?

Every day she changes. Every day we think about the personality she is forming. Sometimes we get a little scared:) Haha! It is amazing to watch her think. Explore. She loves the sounds she makes. She loves the things she sees. And we feel blessed to be able to watch as she explores this world.

 Little Miss Personality

 Emersyn and her friend Norah

 Her lovey

 Eating her toy

She Rolled Over!

This is her very first second time rolling over...didn't catch the first one on video:)

 

 

Things I Never Did BEFORE Baby

Wake up multiple times at night....I am one of those people whose head hits the pillow and I am out until the alarm goes off. I was even like this up until the day I gave birth. Now I am up multiple times a night whether Emersyn is crying or not.

Watch a lot of TV....nope, never much into TV at all, not even when I was younger. I would watch TGIF...remember that? Full House, Step by Step, etc. Before Baby all I looked forward to was Modern Family and Big Bang Theory. However while on maternity leave I went from the Today Show to Rachael Ray to The New Adventure of the Old Christine to The Chew to The Talk to Ellen, (took a break to walk the dog) and then Family Feud, and then watcher TJ put on. So sad.

Play on my phone....Just got an iphone in the past few months. I never spent much time trying to figure out how to use it...until I sat nursing a child. Nursing can be boring, and you have a free hand. I learned how to use the app store and downloaded some games to play...and lots of songs to itunes.

Laundry every day....I love doing laundry AND people had warned me how much laundry I would do with a new baby. Another thing I didn't totally believe, but yet another thing that was true. I could do laundry every day, and in some way shape or form I pretty much do do laundry every day.

Let stuff just sit around....everything in our house has a place, and we like things in that place. The bed gets got made everyday and bags from the store got unpacked and put away within minutes after arriving home. Folded laundry got put away immediately and the pillows were arranged on the couch. Ha! Not anymore. Bags from the store sit on the floor for hours or days. Folded laundry sits on the couch (until the baby is up), pillows from the couch are in random places, and the bed gets made sometimes, or partly made (we can blame this on Buster because he spends a lot of time lounging on our bed-keeping up with a baby is tiring). Every few days we do a mad sweep through the house and put it back together.

Forget Everything....of course I don't really forget everything, but it feels like it. I can be mid sentence and forget my thought. Someone could just finish telling me something and I forget, I even forget things I have said or not said. "Did I say this to you or just think it" is one of my frequent phrases. I forget to respond to text messages, emails, and phone calls even though I feel like I am on my phone all the time and if it wasn't for the calendar, I may forget the day. I had to count back from 1984 the other day to see how old I am. I am hoping my brain returns.

Plan an outing....I always make a list of things I need, but never before have I planned the day I would go to the store. More than that if I take E with me I plan to go to as many stores that are close to each other as possible. Running into Ulta for hair spray just doesn't happen. It is Ulta for something then TJ Maxx for something else and Trader Joes for a few groceries. This way I can get the stroller out and get a bulk of stuff done at once. Oh, and the walking from one end of the shopping center to the other - no big deal..she is happy in a stroller:)

Forget to check the mail...and I don't mean look through it, I mean like go out to the end of the driveway and look in the mailbox. Haha...oh how many times we have had the conversation in our house, "did you check the mail today?" "Wait, did we check the mail yesterday, " "When was the last time we checked the mail...."

Been so "slack" at work Now if you are my boss, or coworker, or if you have a child in my class please don't worry...I am doing a good job, I promise! I just mean that my baby has made me a better time manager. What I don't get done at school during the day I most likely won't get done until I get there the next day. The reading plans used to be typed up and printed before I left Friday evening, now they are written in pencil. I used to have everything out and ready in the afternoon for the next day and if I didn't I would worry about it all night and write a ton of sticky notes of things to remember to do the next morning. Now I don't think about school at all after I leave and just get things ready whenever I get there in the morning. Oh, and I used to think if I got to school after 8 (which is 35 minutes before we even have to be there) I was late. Now I am lucky to be there by 8. I do hope this gets better though. I feel that being well prepared only  helps me teach better and helps me have clear thought, but for now (me and my sleep deprived self) will keep taking it day by day. Oh and I have learned this all in one week:)

And MOST importantly...

Told someone they were so beautiful so many times....This child is completely amazing and beautiful and I don't forget to tell her every day. I will continue to learn from her and be amazed by all the things she can do each and every day. We are so blessed to have this little girl in our lives and I pray that we will be the kind of loving, supportive parents she needs to grow up smart and strong and beautiful and know that she is so loved by so many people!