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!

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.

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

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 ;)