Not that you can tell from these happy pictures, but baby girl is still fighting this awful ear infection! We are very lucky to have such a happy baby! This weekend Emma Clare was waking up a night, and seemed uncomfortable, but during the day was pretty happy. We decided to take her back in to have her ears checked again (we had just finished a 10 day supply of antibiotics). She now has an ear infection in both ears (oh and pus on her eardrum..gross). So we are back to another 10 days of antibiotics. Hopefully this will kick it! I guess this antibiotic can cause tummy troubles, so EC will also be eating yogurt-which was a hilarious adventure last night. I'll have to get a video to post!

 

This weekend we took advantage of the great weather and went to the park and beach. It was great to be outside! Chris is also playing in a soccer league so we went to watch him (don't worry, I'll take pictures of that next week!)

 

Nothing else new in the Mullen household! Just loving on our little (ok...not so little) girl!

 

 



 

Random!

 

 

Long time no post! Work has been CRAZY, so I've been too tired at night to do much other than take care of this cute little girl! Emma Clare had her first ear infection-so sad! We actually took her to the doctor because she had 5 blowout diapers at daycare, and it turned out she had an ear infection. She was not fussy or anything! So glad we took her to the doctor. Oh, and baby girl is weighing in at a solid 19.8 pounds.

In other news...

As you can see, EC is a Cleveland Browns fan (just like her dad!).

She is also enjoying carrots (as you can see from the second picture), sweet potatoes and bananas. I've been making my own baby food, so each weekend we make a new kind and freeze it for the next few weeks. She really seems to be enjoying solids and eats them once or twice a day. She is happy as ever, always smiling and laughing. She is just so much fun!

We plan on enjoying the cooler weather this weekend-only in the 80s!! YAY!!

 

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!