Every year the night Cole leaves the year behind, I take a picture of him sleeping! TOnight was his last night being 4! He was so excited all day about his birthday being tomorrow! He got to go shopping with Gigi and Papa for toys and spent the rest of the day playing with them! He cant wait to wake up 5 and go to Waffle House for his bday breakfast and then to his gymnastics party!
On the mom note, I cannot believe hes 5! What a big year ahead of him he has! He will start kindergarten, go to Disney World and make a whole new group of friends! I am so excited and scared for him at the same time! If I could have known 5 years ago that I would have such a sweet, sensitive little boy, I wouldn't have believed it! As excited as he was to go to sleep to turn 5, I was just as excited 5 years ago to try and go to sleep waiting for my call to come to the hospital to be induced to have him! God made something pretty special when he created Cole!
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Bye Bye Four!
A New Taste
Emmy got to have cereal for the first time tonight! She did really good! She sucked it off of the spoon, but really most of it was going back onto the bib since it will take a few days to figure out. She was happy to try!
Thursday, April 29, 2010
4 months
Where is the time going....really? I cannot believe she is 4 months! This week last year we found out unexpectedly that we were going to have her! You know that whole story....try for 2 years, quit trying and come to peace with just one child, book a trip and get pregnant with Emmy!
TOday I took her for her 4 month checkup! She is 12.6 pounds (30th percentile, we dropped from 50%), and 24 inches long...or was 22? I will have to double check...whatever it was it was under 50% too! He wasnt too concerned that she didnt steadily gain weight, she might have reflux. She has really been spitting up lately, about 4 bibs a day! IF her weight doesnt increase more at the next checkup she might needs meds, but since we got the green light for food today, it will probably help! With cole, the day he said I could start rice, I ran to the store and did it that night! With emmy, I am not rushing anything! I didnt know how fast it would go with cole! So this time, Im slowing things down! I will do it this weekend! I just cannot believe after all of this wait for her, she can now have food!
Dr. Meyers and the nurse got a huge kick out of her. She was a total ham! Smiling at them and cooing! She is really a happy baby, until you put her in her carseat!
Since she is rolling both ways all over the place, he told me I need to take her sleep positioner out of her bed. He said they see SIDS cases where the kids roll over, then suffocate with their face smashed in the side bump of the postioner. Its been hard tonight because she sleeps on her side in the positioner with her blanket tucked under so she cant get the blanket on her face. Since I took the positioner out, I had to take the blanket out too so she didnt pull it over her face. She has always put herself to sleep at night so that went well tonight. But you could tell she wasnt sure why she had so much freedom in there. I checked 5 minutes later and she was at the opposite end of the crib! Im a nervous wreck tonight about her being so free in the crib!
Emmy still nurses every 3 hours at night! He said she is rotten and doesnt need to eat that often at night! He said she is just using me as a pacifier and that at 4 months she should go about 6 hours before eating at night. So I am supposed to just pat her and let her go back to sleep with out nursing. IM not tackling that tonight..the sleep postioner is enough!
Here are her 4 month sticker pics!
Sunday, April 25, 2010
He's in Charge
Lately Cole has really been into "whos in charge." When I put her on the floor and go tot he kitchen he will tell me "its ok mom, Im in charge of her." He is so helpful with Emmy for Dan and I. He will get things you need if you ask him. He LOVES playing with her, (most of the time too rough) but I love that he wants to play. Today we put her in her bumbo with a few toys on her tray, and he did not think she had enough to play with. My mom and I kept telling him it was enough and then we finally gave up. This was the end result....
On My Tummy, Now What?
Emmy rolled over over from tummy to back on Easter, and then kind of quit. But she did discover a few weeks how to roll from back to tummy. She get there and then most of the time gets mad because she doesn't know what to do next. Occasionally she has enough momentum to roll back over, but most of the time she just hollers. Here are a few pics of her happy during tummy time!
A New Way To See The World
Emmy just hates when you try to make her lay down, or hold her in the semi cradle position. From like 4 weeks old she has only wanted to be held up under her arms so she can stand and look around. Ok, so she might be a little nosy! FInally at 13 weeks we decided she had enough head control to go in the saucer! She loves it. She just stands and looks around and reaches out to all of the toys! I cannot believe she is this big already. It is going way too fast!
