Emmy is faster then a geriatric with a walker!

Emelia got wayyyy too much for Christmas from everyone, which we are thankful for. She has been ripping around with a bunch of walking devices she was gifted. One resembles a walker and another resembles a shopping cart haha. I have been putting her through extensive training on the shopping cart-like one for our future escapades.

We had such a nice first Christmas with her and she seemed to enjoy it too. Emmy was very interactive while opening presents and seemed to be extra chipper for the most part. Her play area now looks like a daycare for 300 kids haha. Most of the xmas pictures are on her Flickr Photo Page Here. I posted a video below of her tearing it up with her radio flyer walker. We have an appointment next week for some shots and stats, check back for that!

Emelia went to the doctor yesterday to rule out an ear infection from the end of her cold she has been dealing with. While we were there, she weighed in at 16lbs and measured 26 inches long! Can't believe how much she has grown from that little 4 pound peanut we brought home. She is a bruiser now and is constantly running on beast mode. Amongst other new things she likes doing like crawling, climbing and feeding herself, screaming and yelling at the top of her lungs for fun is one of them. She is currently sitting in her johnny jump up on her tippy toes, yelling so loud, that my ear drums are thumping. Every once in a while she strings together some ma and da sounds but hasn't officially acknowledged us as with anything verbally recognizable yet.

She has been pulling herself up on everything from her toys, to the couch, to my leg. Thankfully she is starting to learn how to let herself back down without bellyflopping backwards on the floor. She is racking up a nice number of bumps on her big melon head from all her acrobatics. We had to lower her crib and pack n plays about two weeks ago since she enjoys standing in them now and screaming for us. Nighttime is also starting to become even more complicated because she puts on a production like we are closing her into a jail cell and stands in her crib clutching the rails and calling for us like she has been sentenced to Life in Crib. There still hasn't been a night that she has slept through and gets up a couple times each night. If we are lucky we will get a 5 hr interval.

We decorated for Christmas and she really likes looking at the stuff and grabbing at the lights. I have a little tree to put in her room yet, but need to find some time to do that and finish packing up all the clothes that don't fit and replacing them with some 9month stuff.

Her hair is FINALLY starting to come in and I'm hoping i will be able to put a barrette in it by her first birthday haha. I am thinking she is going to have hair like me, lightish and wavy. If so that will be about the only thing she has from me it seems. She is Mark through and through.

Being able to work from home and having her Grandmas watch her so close is so awesome. I get to see her so much more and she is really the greatest thing. So much work, but so much fun and my favorite thing right now is that she wants hugs ALL the time ahha. I am probably creating a "hold me" monster but who could say no haha.

Emmy is not a Vegetarian any longer...

Oh man, so busy lately. I hardly have time to update this. Emmy's last checkup was about two weeks ago and she is doing well. She last tipped the scale at 15lbs, so I am assuming she is almost 16 by now. Her latest adventures include crawling which she started last week, pulling up a little bit on things, and she had her first meat tonight. Dinner was lightly pureed chicken soup with veggies. Its official she is no longer a veg head. Of course she didn't like it at first but after a little bit of coaxing with alternating spoonfuls of blueberry yogurt, I got her onboard with the protein. Her new best friend is Elmo and its obvious the love she has for him/her when he/she shows up on the TV for her morning Sesame Street viewing. Right now she is looking like a cirque du soleil acrobat, swinging and jumping around in the johnny jump up. We are looking forward to Thanksgiving and her first Turkey dinner with family. Who knows maybe she will even have a tooth at the rate she was teething.

6.5 months and still growing

Its been a very busy last month, job changes, baby advancements, new season ect. Emelia is turning into a little kid and is losing her tiny babyness which is depressing me. We just had a wellness checkup and everything is going great for her. She has grown so much, her head has grown an inch in diameter to 16.5", she has grown almost two inches in length to 24.75" and she's gained 5 lbs and tips the scale at 15 even which is triple her birth weight. She can now sit all by herself, which the occasional tip over, she can pull herself up, started rocking up on all fours and eats like a pig. Her favorite things to do are jump like a maniac in the johnny jump up, play with anything that crinkles or she can chew on and go outside. Speaking of chew, she still hasn't broken any teeth through but a new rough of teething seems to has its grips on her little gums. We have started a rigid routine for bedtime which is slowly helping to keep her from waking up several times a night. Other than that, the highlights have been her baptism, visit to the pumpkin patch and watching her gnaw down on those hard biscuit cookies.

DeLo Update

Emelia is 5.5 months already, though to us it seems like she is a two year old. She is growing and changing so much! She wiggles herself around now, lumbers over you while playing on the floor, loves to stand up and hold your hands and giggles all the time. She is starting to acquire a palette as well. Currently she is eating sweet potatoes, squash. bananas, pears, cereal and had a taste of peas. When she really gets into it you better have the next spoonful ready because her shark face comes out and she gets very impatient.

Her baptism is scheduled for 10/2, so I have been getting ready for that. Its been quite a process between canceled dress orders, changed dates, venue, ect which has convinced me to go from a big planned party to a very small scale gathering of close family. Looking forward to it nonetheless.

I have been cruising the google machine for reasons why she doesn't want to sleep through the night yet. She doesn't cry or normally have a problem going to sleep, she just wants to wake up every couple hours to eat, sometimes every 2 hours. Its getting to be physically draining. I'm not sure how much longer I can keep up with only an hour or two here and there of constant sleep. Our doctor had said she would probably start sleeping regularly when she reached a certain weight, which she has and no change. We feed her, play with her, keep her awake, have a routine, really we have tried everything short of giving her ambien haha. I hope that she starts loving sleeping as much as I did.

In other news, other BIG news. I have put my notice in at work and will be leaving The Morning Call at the end of September. Mark and I have decided that it is the right time for me to take on a full entrepreneurial role at our own companies, DeLorenzo Photography and Stickers That Stick. This is also going to allow me to spend more time with Emelia, who currently I do not get to see that often during the week. Its been very difficult to watch my family and house fall into an unorganized, stressed out, overworked mess and its obvious that I am not there enough. Our parents have been and will continue to be a HUGE help by watching Emmy while we work, and Mark has been doing great in the hours that I am absent. It is a huge change and it has its pros and cons, but the pros outweigh the bad.

Emmy Eating Champ

  

It's been about a week and a half now since Emmy has been eating rice cereal regularly and she is doing it like a pro now. I would say she channels her inner baby bird when doing it haha. I have been doing some reading and what not to decide when I will introduce the next food which will probably be some awesome organic zucchini from the garden! I cam excited to use the baby food maker I got at the shower! I'm hoping to be able to make as much of her baby food as I can, realizing I have no time as it is so I'm not opposed to popping a jar of gerber now and again haha. Its seriously so funny watching her eat, she sneezing and blows bubbles in the middle of it spraying us with baby slime, opens her little mouth and makes fake chewing motions. She is a champ!

In other news, Emelia has experienced more natural disasters in 4 1/2 months of life than I have in 27 years! This week she had her first earthquake while going for a walk with Mom Mom (they didn't feel it, but I sure did in our office building which was evacuated) and her first hurricane that didn't prove to be as damaging for our property as I though it would. Craziness in the world right now, kind of brings me back down to earth when I start stressing about the little things!

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Breakfast at Emmy's

Big advancements at the DeLo household. Well, if you consider awesome head holding, rolling over like a maniac and eating slop advancements! In our world, its huge!

Emmy has had two meals of organic brown rice cereal as of today. The first was as expected, unenjoyable and messy. The second, just as messy but she seemed to have some fun with it. She even managed to take two or three mouthfuls and swallow in succession. We sit her in the bumbo or her bouncy chair on the kitchen table, donning only a diaper and bib, and do all the silly faces and noises as we guide her rubber infant spoon to her tiny mouth and fill it with something that resembles “sandy milk”, as one of our friends so blatantly put it. We will be sharing this meal together once a day for a couple days, then go to two, maybe three times a day and shortly after introducing some veggies. I already have a stock pile of organic veggies from the inlaws garden ready to be processed in the baby food maker. I’m looking forward to peaches and bananas, mostly because I like pureed bananas and peaches haha.

Emelia has also mastered rolling over, at least to the right. She is like Zoolander, she can only roll well to one side haha. This morning, after a long restless night due to hunger and teething issues, I found her smashed up against the side of her crib fast asleep. She didn’t seem to notice the huge dent she put in her head. Luckily, it wasn’t serious and popped out a few minutes after being rescued from the outskirts of her crib mattress. Really, are those cribs even big enough for the tumbles of a four month old? I feel like there should be extensions specifically designed for a rolling infant haha.

She has also learned to enjoy splashing in the bath, playing with bath toys and sometimes likes being tickled. Oh and my favorite, the fake cough. Enjoy some videos below of Emelia doing what she does best, being cute. Don't judge us on our parenting skills, we are still acquiring them haha.

4 Months 3 days and still bald

Poor Emelia, will you ever get hair? When we go out in public I unhappily accessorize her with pink so people will stop referring to her as a little boy. Oh well, some day I will get a barrette on your head!

With an added month of age comes actual giggling, serious push-ups, teething and drooling, interest in everything and she likes it if you blow air in her face haha.

We are also starting to plan some festivities for her baptism which will be on Oct. 2nd, not sure what yet or of any details on what it will entail.

Big changes might be coming down the road soon so we are all excited about that and trying to enjoy whats left of the summer in the moments we have where we aren't running around like chickens with their heads cutt off. Though, we don't know anything about headless chickens on the DeLo compound, all our fowl have their heads.

Multi-Post: Trip, Dr, Misc.

I am just getting a moment to blog about the last few weeks with Emmy. Things are on warp speed, well everything except the cleaning of my house haha! We got back this past weekend from an awesome first trip the Outer Banks, N.C. and Emelia's first vacation. She was perfect on the car rides, we only had to stop for her regular feedings, a couple times during the 9 hr trips) We decided to leave at midnight the night before so that she would sleep through most of the drive, which worked out great. We also missed out on the bumper to bumper, stand still traffic that starts twelve miles away from the bridge to the island. The only downside was arriving 7 hours before our check-in to the house. We spent the better part of the first day of vacation meandering around aimlessly. Some of the highlights were napping in a park, eating at a crappy restaurant, realizing everyone who works in OBX is Russian, and getting a Coke in a real glass bottle.

Driving to our house in the 4x4 area was an adventure to say the least. Marks parents had their 4x4 truck and we had our brandy new AWD Forester. You drive as far north as the normal road goes in Corolla and then it literally cuts off and you hit the soft sand of the beach. You are not supposed to stop or park anywhere near this area because the vehicles need to be able to access the road from the beach pretty much without stopping. Of course, no one listens and people are adjusting their tire pressure, taking pictures, ect in the middle of the road and causing people to get stuff in the soft, loamy sand. If I lived in OBX I would run a tow truck company.

There is about a mile of beach where no one is aloud to park, which was my favorite part because I didn't feel like we were going to run someone's neglected child over or chop a sunbathers legs off. You could drive on the wet packed sand close to the water or the soft stuff close to the dunes at the top of the beach leaving the middle section for beach goers.

Apparently, the beach goers of OBX leave their brains on the pavement because no one watches their children, looks to see if a car is coming (there is actual traffic similar to the main street of a small town), moves their belongings out of the way of cars, and at least 75% of them are out of towners and do not know how to or should drive in sand. It was such a mess where there were a lot of tourists driving, especially if you have cars in front of you that couldn't maintain their speed. After the trip to the house, we parked our car and made Mark's dad do most of the driving in his truck.

We never got stuck, but there were a few sticky situations with other drivers and beach people screwing up our travel.

Most days we slept late, cooked breakfast as we did most meals and hung at the beach right in front of our house or our private pool. I preferred the pool during the heat of the day and the beach at dusk for walking or fishing.  We also had a jacuzzi which was nice to relax in. Almost everyday we would see the Jurassic Park SUV's drive right by our house full of ripped off tourists to see the wild horses of Corolla. We didn't have to do much more then look out the window,. I took pictures of the family of horses that frequented the property just about every day. One even got close enough to step right up to, however, due to a previous vacation horse disaster I kept my distance like the law says. I did break the law once and throw peanuts at them, they don't like peanuts.

Emelia adjusted perfectly to the house, she slept in the pack k play, which thankfully we brought because the listing said there was  crib provided and it was no where to be found. I took her down to the beach to get her toesies in the ocean and the sand a couple times but she spent most of her outside time in the pool or her little sun shade tent by the pool with me. Some days were too hot for her so she had quick dips in the pool and hung out inside with the baby monitor.

Like I said, we cooked 90% of our meals. The restaurant scene is limited and we were not impressed. We some good seafood at one place basically. The rest of the time we made awesome fresh seafood meals from a farmer's market. Seared cajun tuna, Old Bay crabs, steaks, chicken, shrimps, basically everything we made had Old Bay on it haha. We also made all of our drinks, Pina Coladas, margaritas and pitchers of Malibu Bay breezes.

The trip was utterly relaxing, minus the beach driving. I am not sure if I would drive back down to OBX only because of the lack of things to do, but it was nice to be forced to do nothing for a week and just enjoy the baby, Mark and the sun!

Now if you asked Pat and Tony how their trip went, they would say the same thing with a tiny variation on the last day. The alternator went on their truck and stranded them hours before they were supposed to pack to leave the next day and minutes after we left ahead of time with the baby. After calling 20 places we managed to find them a shady room for a night by the garage in Kitty Hawk. They somehow managed to see some humor in their mess of a last day and made their way home.

Our drive home was equally easy, Emmy slept and we drove. I did have some awkward moments including a McDonalds full of only obese black people feeding their kids happy meals at 1030 at night but that didnt top the highlight of my trip. Mark got pulled over on the way home going 6 MPH over. The cop came up MY window while I was pumping breast milk. We only got a warning ;) I still have photos and some videos to edit from the trip, hoping to get to that soon!

Onto the next subject, Emelia had a doctor appointment a few days ago. It was specifically scheduled that day so that the insurance would cover her second round of baby shots. After waiting an hour because and old woman was fainting in the waiting room, Emelia had a quick physical and was told that they were mistaken and her shots won't be covered until after the 14th. So that was a good use of my time. I was late for work, Emmy was starving and now I have to go back haha. On the bright side, she is still doing fantastic and weighs 11 pounds she is a pound heavier then half a month ago, she is two inches longer then two month ago at 23" and her head is now 15" which is 2 inches bigger then when she was born. She is also starting to teeth! We call her drooly julie haha.

We are so busy with Emmy and are lucky to have some good grandmas that watch her during the work hours of the week. We are having a blast with her and are looking forward to some big changes coming.

Three Months flew by....

THEN

NOW





Today Emelia is three months old. I can't believe it, it's like those three months equal three years. She has changed and grown so much, I don't even remember what it was like before she was here. I am also back to work today, which it sad each morning leaving her. I had a conversation with her that she was not permitted to do anything developmental while I am working i.e. laughing, rolling over, sitting up, ect. She spends late mornings and afternoons with her Grandmothers, then Daddy when he finished work until I get home after dinner :(

If I am lucky when i get her in the mornings, she might smile and coo at me if she isn't already crying to eat breakfast haha. Last night, I put her down and she is woke up twice laughing and smiling to herself in the crib, in the dark haha. She is getting easier and easier to get to smile and laugh, usually any funny farting noise will do it haha.

On any given day, her favorite things to do are swing, swat and grab at her toys on her playmat, "swim" in the big bathtub and anything outside.

She has rolled over from her back to her belly once, and I can tell she is trying to do it again. She'll also hold her weight for about a minute now on her teeny legs. I don't know exactly how much she weighs currently, but its over ten pounds, double her birth weight of 5lbs 4 oz. She eats like a monster and is getting lots of little rolls on her legs.

She went on a mini road trip to upstate NY last weekend to see how she would do for a long period in the car, she did pretty good so we are looking forward to a relaxing week in the Outer Banks, NC with her in two weeks!

P.S. She is still advanced haha

Child's Age

Mastered Skills (most kids can do)

Emerging Skills (half of kids can do)

Advanced Skills (a few kids can do)

3 months

Recognizes your face and scentHolds head steady Visually tracks moving objects

Squeals, gurgles, coos Blows bubbles Recognizes your voice Does mini-pushup

Rolls over, from tummy to back Turns toward loud sounds Can bring hands together, bats at toys

Play All Day, Party All night

Emelia spent the majority if the day playing and being uber alert. Now she is spending most of the night being grumpy and uber tired but not sleeping. On the bright side, she was very cute today! She seemed to notice and interact with her toys full on today, even got some smile action!

Shots Shots Shots

This morning Emelia got her round of 2 month vaccinations. She took it like a champ and only cried for a quick second. Hopefully she doesn't get too grumpy or feel crappy later today. I hope she just sleeps it off. While at the doctors, she was weighed at 9.09 lbs and grew another inch an a half. Everything is going really well and she is doing great!

She had been cheating and been sleeping propped up in her boppy pillow at night for a while now since she decided she hated being flat. I decided she is too big and mobile now to do that since I found her half rolled out of it. Last night she did awesome sleeping flat again on her back in the crib like a safe little baby should haha.

This weekend is Father's day and Emmy has been hard at work getting things ready for her awesome dad. I'm not sure I have mentioned it yet, but Mark is an amazing dad. So helpful and hands on. We are lucky to have him and its clear Emelia will be a daddy's girl.

Child's Age

Mastered Skills (most kids can do)

Emerging Skills (half of kids can do)

Advanced Skills (a few kids can do)

2 months

Vocalizes: gurgles and coos Follows objects across field of vision Notices his hands Holds head up for short periods

Smiles, laughs Holds head at 45-degree angle Makes smoother movements

Holds head steady Can bear weight on legs Lifts head and shoulders when lying on tummy (mini-pushup)

(We are still working on legit smiles and laughs but Emelia pretty much has all this covered )

Middle of the night

Figured I would post a quick update. Emelia spent a good amount of yesterday wide awake, looking around, doing her weird smile thing, playing with her "zucchini" (a toy from when mark was little, its like a soft rattle) and just being cute. She has found my hair and gets her fingers all twisted up in it. If you hold her under her arms she can support her weight for a while now and will sometimes even push up. I have been practicing sitting up with her now too. Basically, just holding her softly in position so she gets the idea. My work out DVD would say she is hardening her core hahaha. She is getting so cute, looking more and more like a little kid which is scary hhaha. I can't believe how much older she looks to us, even though she is only just over 2 months.

Just about 2 months old....

Emelia had her just about 2 month checkup last week and did great. She was 8lbs exactly, her head grew an inch and her body grew two inches. Dr. Laura said she is doing great and nurse Roberta went crazy over her cuteness as usual. We need to make an appointment closer to her actual 2 month date for some shots :(

I don't want to get too far ahead of myself but.... I think Emmy might be starting to settle into a schedule. She seems to go down easy between 10-11 and then gets up around 4 and then again between 6-7. I hope it continues and starts spreading out even more. The fuzziness when she eats was becoming an issue but I can already see that its starting to die down a tad, maybe the new Playtex Venti Air bottles are helping. She is still eating really well, which can be seen by the little rolls she is accumulating on her teeny legs.

My favorite things to do with her lately are hang outside and take her for car rides. She LOVES the car, she either looks out the window or falls right asleep. Now that its warm out to she passes right out in the stroller. The other day I had her laying on the picnic table looking up at the sky and you would think she saw heaven. Then we was playing with my hair, which is her new favorite thing, and getting all excited when she stuck her hand right in my mouth and smiled big! I haven't been able to get her to do it again, but I'm convinced she thought it was funny.

Its also awesome to watch how strong she is getting, not particularly when she is pulling my hair but when she is pushing off her legs and pushing up her weight. She will do it several times until she is tired and just falls down like a ball of jelly.

Its great to see how much she is changing and becoming aware of things around her and herself. Not so great that its going by so fast haha.

Big Girl Bath

Emelia is just about a month an half, i think she is almost 8 lbs now from my bathroom scale calculations. I would say 20 inches too by now. She has a doctor appointment next week so we will get the official results. I put her in her first 0-3 month outfit today, which is a little loose compared to the newborn clothes that fit her perfectly right now. She is starting to get a little meat roll o her little legs too which is adorable.

She is much more alert and spends more time awake, which is good when its not during the night haha. Her sleeping pattern is starting to take form now, usually she goes to bed for good around 11 or midnight, wakes up between 3-4 and then not again until around 6. I hope the pattern continues and starts to spread out so there is more sleep time for us!

Sometimes you can catch her concentrating on things now that she sees and her eye contact is much more intense. She also kind of grabs for things in this panicked motion now. 

Last night, she took a big girl bath in the jacuzzi tub. So cute to see her kicking and floating around in the water. She seemed to really enjoy it more then the silly plastic baby tub haha. It was almost like she was ready to put her hands behind her head, kick back and drink a pinacolada haha.

We also decided to buy a 2011 Subaru Forester, the loaded model, yesterday. So now Emmy is responsible for my soccer mom status, even though the car is still pretty sweet and much cooler then any wagon or minivan haha. Not that there is anything wrong with those vehicles ;)

First Mother's Day

I had a great first mothers day weekend. It kicked off with a bang when my brother-in-law handed me my first gift, the new mortal combat video game for xbox haha. Now to most of you this might sound like the furthest thing from a thoughful gift for a new mom. WRONG. #1 I loved playing mortal combat as a kid, #2 Michael LISTENED and realized how many fun memories I had playing it #3 What better way to relieve new mom stress and anxiety then by smashing the brains out of a super human, 4 armed giant wearing a thong.  Don't worry for all you traditionalists, I got many feminine gifts too. Some really pretty jewelry, dining out moneys, clothes, and my favorite a weeping blue atlas tree to plant. I think I came up with a pretty sweet idea to get something that grows each year so I can look back and remember it every time I look outside. I can't wait to get it planted, but like an idiot, I am over doing it. Instead of just planting it in the spot I planned, I first felt the need to build a second level in the flower bed and find all the rocks for it BY HAND in the stone row by our house. I am only half way done with this endeavor, and we all know how much free time I have now to be playing DIY guru extraordinaire.

Back to Mothers day, Mark went to get me some awesome coffee and a muffin for breakfast. Then i spent the first half hanging out with my family and kicking buttocks at croquet then the second with Mark's enjoying some good dinner. It was a really nice day, too bad my daughter slept through most of it haha.

Currently, Emelia is sleeping in her boppy pillow on our bed. We found out that she really likes to sleep inside the u-shape, so we have been carefully moving her around the house in it haha. She also had her first blow out today and soiled her crib sheet. I attribute this to her monster appetite, can't wait to see how much she has officially grown at her next check up.

One Month

I'm pretty sure Emmy is going for a record today on her one month birthday! She has been awake with the exception of about 20 mins since 9:30 this morning and its 1:15pm now. Obviously, her old age has bestowed some daytime energy on her. I hope this means that she plans on sleeping longer intervals tonight! It seems like she has turned into a hearty baby overnight from the skinny, little month early infant she was.

The other night, I noticed for the first time that she was intentially staring at me. Not just catching a glance, she was concentrating on my face. Eye contact feels so much better when you know its real haha.

She is moving around a lot more and much more vocal. She is very opinionated when it comes letting me know she still doesn't like being bathed, lotioned or having her diaper changed. There is also an extreme amount of grunting, growling and baby talking during the night even while shes dead asleep. Which brings me to my next announcement, SHE IS OFFICIALLY IN HER CRIB! She is such a noisy night-timer that it left me, her over-protective, hawk-eye mother, no choice but to move her loud butt into the nursery. It is working out better for all of us, we aren't waking each other up on our turns for changing and feeding in our room anymore. I think she prefers the crib mattress to all her other sleeping areas, and I don't wake up to every little noise she makes. I use the video monitor, which I recommend Summer Infant Sleek and Secure Handheld Color Video Monitor, its a little pricey but worth it. Its just like having her in the room with me except I can turn her down. There is night vision on the monitor too so I can still see if she spits up or loses a binky easily.

Currently, she is downstairs enjoying a visit from her cousin Livia, they have been working on tummy time together, getting their hands licked by my dogs, and cuddling in a swing. Emmy also congratulates her other cousins Shannon & Justin on their new addition, Damon who was born yesterday. If you want a baby, come drink the water at the DeLos, its contagious! 

I am celebrating my first mothers's day this weekend too! I already got my first gift, but I will leave all those details to the official first mothers day post which will come tomorrow night. 

Emelia Loved Kate's Dress

 

Emelia is now 3 weeks and 6 days old and at the rate she is going she will be graduating kindergarten next week. On Sunday, her due date of 5/8, she is supposed to officially enter the world and I can't believe all the things she is doing in the time that she hasn't even supposed to have been here. Not to mention she is lucky enough to be here for Prince William & Kate Middleton's wedding and the catching of Osama! Granted, I don't think she is intentionally doing these things; rolling over, grabbing her bottle, placing her pacifier in her mouth and scooting around, but its pretty impressive haha. She is turning into an eating machine as well, she drinks anywhere from 50-125 mls at a time which is almost double from what she has been drinking from a week or two ago.

She has been doing better with the baths, since her belly button thingy fell off and she is able to actually get in the water. We also took her for a visit to The Morning Call to see the crew which she told me she enjoyed haha. Other then that, most of her time is still occupied by sleeping. Speaking of sleeping, last night was her first official night sleeping in the crib, she did great!

3 Weeks Have Passed

Video of Emmy getting burped, Mark and I think she looks like she is impersonating Stevie Wonder the way she whips her head back and forth or a shark.

I honestly do not know where the time is going already. Part of me feels like we just came home yesterday with Emelia and the other feels like she has been here with us forever. I can't believe she is over 3 weeks old already. I also can't believe we have survived three weeks so far! hahaha

She gets up between 3-4 times a night, sometimes for as long as an hour to eat. No screaming fits so that is a plus. Still sleeps through most of the day, though she is having longer and long periods of time that she is awake which is nice. Her hair is growing and we still can't pinpoint a color. I think light brownish. Her eyes are still blue, though sometimes they look green. I'm hoping for green so I can say she has my eyes haha.

Right now, Emmy is swinging in her newest swing I just put together. I think she enjoys it because its smaller then the other one and she is more cradled in it. Later today I will be sucking some more boogers out of her tiny little nose and she will probably go to lunch with Mandy, Mark and I.

Emelia's First Easter

EmeliaDeLo's photostream on Flickr.

We had a great day today, so happy it didn't rain the whole time! We spent the morning and early afternoon at my parents. Emmy enjoyed some sun time outside, a couple visits from neighbors and sleeping in the swing. Then we were off to Aunt Marie's where she was passed around and slept the whole time. We took her for a real walk in the stroller after, where we got caught in a drizzle, she slept through that as well. Emmy says thanks for all the Easter presents!!!!