Park Time!

We had a great weekend with Emma Clare! She is getting to be so much fun! We went to the park this weekend and enjoyed the cool (only 80 degrees!) weather. As you can see, EC was rocking her shades (and so was mom...didn't realize those things looked so big when my hair is pulled up!!). 

Chris and I also had a great date night! We dropped Emma Clare off with our friends Lisa and  Buzzy and came backed to the house and made dinner and watched a movie. It was heavenly, but I did miss our little girl! 

In other news, Chris is back at school. Guess what, I already have a cold! Not sure if he brought it home or I got it from EC (she's had runny nose all week). If you look back to last August at this time I also had a cold...(and I was just finding out I was pregnant, CRAZY!). 

Mom/Pat comes this weekend to celebrate her birthday! Sure we'll get lots of great pics! Stay tuned!

Emma Clare Makes Me Smile!

 

Happy Friday!

Zipadee-zip

My girl is so cute!! Just want to eat her up!

So, the saga of the swaddle continues. Emma Clare has officially become the hulk and cannot be contained by any swaddle. This would not be a problem if she didn't get angry and hit herself in the face, which would wake her up, which would wake me up, which would wake Dad up, which would wake LouLou up. We had about 4 nights in a row of AWFUL sleep, she was up at midnight, 1:30, 3, 5 and then up for the day at 7. This made NO ONE HAPPY! So, I was told about the Zipadee-zip. You can check it out here: http://zipadeezip.com/ . I thought, man this is probably a gimmick, but so is the miracle blanket and that worked, so for $24.99 why not give it a try. Well... IT IS AMAZING! EC fell asleep within 30 seconds of this thing getting put on, slept from 9pm-3:30am. At 3:30 she woke up, I just put her paci in and she fell right back to sleep until 7:30 when I had to wake her up for daycare. I am so happy, jumping up and down. I hope this was not a fluke, but I'll keep you updated. As of right now, I'm a believer!

I know I've been posting a lot of eating pics, but she is just so darn happy when she eats! This is her latest favorite-sweet potatoes. Yum!

Can I Have Some More?

So it is safe to say that Emma Clare has figured out how to eat (not that we had any doubts). She is loving rice cereal, and I'm thinking about starting some other foods. She downs the rice cereal in no time flat, and as you can see has a habit of stealing the spoon from me. We feed her in just her diaper (look at her cute cloth pink diaper, have I mentioned that I LOVE bumgunius?) because she gets a little messy. Daddy can't really handle messes, so it is fun to watch him squirm through the process!

In other news, Emma Clare did NOT do well crying it out. We tried not swaddling her the last few nights and letting her cry it out. -just flat out did not work. She cried for the full half hour (I did go in and check on her every 10mins, and try to give her paci to no avail), and finally I looked at Chris and said, I just can't do this. After 35mins of rocking her I finally got her to calm down. This just is not going to work for us. EC very rarely cries, so why make her suffer like this? I know, I know my kid is going to be totally spoiled, but I don't care. She can feed herself already, isn't that independent enough! She also got up at 11, 1, midnight and 3-5am (keep in mind she has been sleeping through the night for months now). We went back to swaddling. Last night, Emma Clare slept from 9pm until 7:30am when I had to wake her up to take her to daycare. So for now we are not going to fix what isn't broken. She may be going to college still swaddled...

Just look at that girl. Doesn't she make you smile!

YUMMY!!

Emma Clare was a little unsure about rice cereal, but once she got the hang of it she seemed to like it! Dad tried it, said it tasted like cardboard and wanted to spice it up with some parmesan cheese or salt and pepper. I told him we'd have to wait on that.

A few stats: So our "little one's" four month stats- 17.8 pounds and 26 inches long. Over 97% in both! So maybe not so little! She is still in 3-6 month clothes. She rolled over from front to back for the first time (but only once and has not done it again). She is blowing raspberries like crazy and loves to SCREAM (not a mad scream, just I'm here and I'm loud).

The doctor also told us it is time to break EC of the swaddle. This is not good news. She loves to be swaddled, and mom and dad love it because she sleeps 10 hours most nights. We were told it is time to start letting her cry it out and self sooth...I'm not so sure about this either. The doctor said it will take 2 weeks to change her sleeping habits, so I guess that will mean two weeks of no sleep for mom and dad. We have not tried yet...I'll keep you updated!

Oh, and in non Emma Clare related news, Chris and I had the worst weekend! During the weekend our one car got stolen, the other broken into and I got food poisoning (so did Chris' mom who was visiting). We had some bad Karma...hopefully that means good things on the horizon. We still have a road ahead dealing with all of this, but we know we are very blessed that we are all safe.

We'll end on a happy note. We have the cutest baby ever! Just love that chubby girl!

4 Months Old!

Wow, I can't believe that tomorrow our baby will be 4 months old! She is so fun and full of lots of smiles. She loves to play! We think that Emma Clare is starting to get some teeth, she has been drooling like CRAZY and chewing on everything (thank you for Sophie Uncle Ray and Aunt Jill!). We have her 4 month appointment on Friday, so we'll post an update soon. Just had to share this pic, because I think she is the cutest baby ever!