Winter Update

Currently Emelia is enjoying a snack of puffs from her snack cup in the living room while I blog and Dad watches Supercross. We spent the morning taking a sunday drive through the Shawnee area because it snowed a decent amount and it was something to do. Emmy is weighing in at about 18 pounds now and measures 28.5" thats almost two inches in just over a month. The peanut has caught up and is on her way to bruiser. Some of her clothes are ruled out based solely on the fact that her big melon won't fit through the head opening any longer. Just about once a month now I go through the depressing process of packing up baby clothes that she grows out of. Emmy is quite the busy bee now a days, daily naps are about two per day max so most of the time is spent playing around. She reads through books now turning the page when prompted, her favorites are 5 Little Pumpkins and Hooray For Fish. There was a brief few days where she was sleeping through the night but that was quickly changed when a new round of teething plus a cold took over. Poor little miss has been battling a runny nose since New Years, this week she got some meds and I think she's kickin' it for good now. She is really starting to become super interactive, she waves, calls us Ma-Ma-Mom and Da-Da-Da almost every morning when we go into take her out of the crib. I taught her to high five which is hilarious and like I said she turns pages and recognizes the names of certain toys. She has now stopped snacking and is using her car seat as a jungle gym. She is quite a daredevil. Later today I plan to take her out to play in the snow and hopefully get some kind of family snow pic, we'll see how that goes since Emmy refuses to let me take a cool photo with my real camera of her.

Next on the agenda is figuring out her first birthday and what kind of baby friendly vacation we are going to try to do this year…...

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.