Five Months!

Today my baby is FIVE months old! Wow, time has gone by so quickly!!

I have no idea what she weighs, although I'd say she's around 16 lbs now! She's getting so big! She is wearing 6-9 month pajamas (her thighs are too big for the 3-6 month ones now) and sometimes wears other 6-9 month clothes too! She's a pro at eating rice cereal, and not a fan of oatmeal cereal. I need to take the time to make some veggie purees for her to see how she likes them, maybe that will be my next post.

Emma was so excited for some cereal! 

Emma loves to look at the colorful pictures in books, we spend time reading each day!

Emma has mastered rolling over... not just from her back to her tummy, but she just keeps going! A few days ago she rolled over and grabbed the remote control and started pushing buttons. She managed to turn on the playstation3, so I laughed and sent a picture to Chris. He suggested I pull out one of our "extra" remotes (we use a universal remote control, so remotes that come with a device end up in a box) and let her play with it. Emma's new favorite toy is her PS3 remote!

Yesterday I said "let's take a picture for daddy!" and she flashed me this smile!
She loves this giraffe that her Aunt Kristi made her!

This picture is from this morning. She loves this giraffe as well.
Basically... Emma LOVES giraffes.

Four Months

4 Month Stats:

Weight: 15 lbs
Height: 24.25 inches

Emma LOVES her Sophie giraffe!

Look at those thighs :)

 Emma figured out how to roll from her back to her tummy. At first she would freak out and scream every single time because she couldn't get back onto her back... but she's getting better at holding her head up and now she doesn't hate it as much! This past week she has suddenly figured out how to roll from her tummy to her back, but sometimes her arms get in the way and make it really hard for her. She still screams sometimes from her crib because she'll pin herself up against the railing and have nowhere to roll.

Emma has gotten better at holding her head up!

Emma flashes this smile all the time now!

Emma got to start eating solids after her 4 month appointment. So far she's only had rice cereal, we're still working on swallowing.

At 4 months Emma had to say "see ya later" to one of her bff's who was moving. Our good friends moved to Houston this past weekend. These two pictures are from the day I went to help them pack. Emma is 2 months younger than her friend, but definitely weighs more! Just like she was supposed to, Emma cried when her friend left, although the nasty poopy diaper she had may have contributed to her tears. We were so sad for our friends to leave, but are excited for them to have a new adventure. They'll be back sometime this month to get their stuff out of storage, and we hope to hit up Sea World with them while they're here! We're also starting to plan our first trip to Houston!

pictures

I finally got the chance to spend some time figuring out what was wrong with my phone... and though I didn't completely solve the problem I found a pretty easy work-around. So here is a post with pictures and few words! Emma doesn't really look at cameras anymore, so she's normally looking at me and I'm trying not to let her see that I have my phone out to take a picture.

I love sitting in my Bumbo chair... most of the time!

Headbands

Today we had Stake Conference. Miriam (my mother-in-law) had been asking for pictures of Emma in her dresses, with headbands on. Emma doesn't particularly like to have anything in her hair, or on her head, so I very rarely put them on her. I thought that I would at least put a headband on long enough to take a picture. For some reason this particular day she didn't take it off immediately.

Once Emma and I sat down on the pew at church it was a different story. I had her laying down on the pew while I fixed a bottle for her, and then all of a sudden she started screaming. I looked down and this was what I saw:

This is probably the funniest position she could possibly have gotten the headband in.

Chris was stuck working from home because of some major network issue that happened the night before, so I had to snap a picture really quick and send it to him. I am so glad that I captured this picture. After taking the picture I pulled the headband off and she was happy throughout Stake Conference.

Pictureless Post

I still need to figure out the setting that will make it so pictures taken on my phone will sync to my computer, so no pictures today, sorry.

Emma stopped sleeping through the night a few weeks ago, so we get to spend a good chunk of time between 3-4 together each morning. As much as I would LOVE to get a solid nights sleep, she is so cute and happy when you go in to get her out of her crib in the mornings. I just can't be upset with her for waking up when she flashes that smile at me!

Emma also stopped smiling when I pull my phone out. So she isn't quite as much fun for FaceTime because she won't smile at you, and she also won't really talk when the phone is out either. I can sometimes get her to ignore the phone during bathtime and she'll still smile and talk.

Yesterday she woke up from a nap and started screaming bloody murder. I ran into her room and found that she had rolled over onto her tummy, and she was NOT very happy about that. As soon as I helped her flip herself over she was fine. Apparently we need to work on tummy time a little better to see if she'll calm down. When I put her down in her crib, if she's tired at least, she automatically rolls onto her side. I knew it was only a matter of time before she'd flip over. Maybe next time she won't absolutely hate it.

We can't go to the grocery store without someone stopping to look in the cart at her. I realized it's best to avoid the grocery store when the retirement home busses are there... way too many people stop to look at the baby. It's cute, but it sure makes shopping take longer, and I am not a big fan of strangers touching her feet, which they all think is okay to do.

Emma loves to hold onto things and bring them up to her mouth. Yesterday a pacifier was next to her on the floor and she grabbed it and held on to it for about 10 minutes before she tried to get it in her mouth. After a few attempts she gave up and just decided to hold it. She fell asleep with it in her hand. I love when she falls asleep on a blanket on the floor or on her playmat. 

Yesterday she was super cranky. I put her in her swing, which is next to my piano. I sat and played some primary songs and sang along with them. She started smiling and cooing. I think the combination of the primary songs and the swing is a genius combination. If only the swing was small enough that I could take it to church and put her in it during primary. Last Sunday she screamed through half of primary, it was great. 

I've mentioned screaming a bit... Emma has realized that she can scream. So she does. Often. I should probably invest in a big case of Dr. Pepper to help the headaches go away as she screams at me. If only she would fall asleep when I know she's starting to get tired, then we may be able to avoid some of the screams. 

Emma

Because I don't really keep a journal separate from my blog I thought I should post these updates on Emma somewhere! She's almost 3 months now, but at her two month check up she was 11 lbs 10 oz (70th percentile) and I don't remember how tall, but she was 50% for height. She had to get a ton of shots, and boy oh boy did she scream like crazy. It was kind of funny though, as soon as the lady let go of Emma's leg she stopped screaming and started smiling. Emma hates having her feet/legs held down.

Emma is pretty much the happiest baby ever. Unless she's hungry or if you're holding her feet down-then she'll scream at you until she gets fed or you let go of her feet! She loves to talk. She absolutely loves her play mat still, and will lay on it and stare at her little duck toy for a few minutes. She recently realized that she can hold onto its feet, and occasionally even pulls his legs down (if you pull him down, he shakes). She smiles really big when he shakes back up, but tries to get his feet into her mouth. This is a picture of it, in case my horrible description hasn't helped you figure out what I'm talking about.

Lately when I put her in her carseat to go somewhere she gets really smiley, which is crazy because I think I would hate being strapped into a carseat. She often falls asleep in the car, although when I turned on a Backstreet Boys cd the other day she cried until I turned it off. Apparently I have an Nsync fan?

She LOVES her swing! When Chris's parents were in town for her blessing they got her a swing, and holy cow is it fantastic! It turns so it can swing side to side or front to back. It has some songs and some sounds that it makes, and it has an awesome monkey mobile.

While they were here we also got season passes to Sea World. In the last month (since we got the passes) we've gone at least 3 times, but I think we're at 4 now. We like to watch the Sea Lion show, watch the dolphins and go into the aquarium exhibit. I put her in her stroller without her carseat for the first time last time we went to sea world and she was in heaven. I pushed the stroller right up to a big fish tank and she looked around and was smiling. I don't know how good her vision is or how far away from herself she can see things for reals, but she seemed to really like looking around. We haven't seen a Shamu show yet, but hopefully we'll see one of those later this month when we go. We're also going to explore the water park there sometime before it closes for the season.

Emma's favorite time of day is probably bath time. She loves to kick her legs in the water and is just figuring out that she can splash with her hands as well! One of her least favorite parts of the day is getting into her pajamas after bath time. Not sure if she hates pjs or if she just hates that bathtime is over. When we take her into the bathroom for her bath she starts smiling. I put her towel down on the floor, put her on the towel and then get the tub ready. Once she hits the towel she starts grinning, and then will flash you even bigger smiles once you start taking off her onesie. I'm hoping she'll love playing in water/swimming as much as she likes bathtime, it's really too hot here during the summer to not spend a bunch of time doing water activities, I'm already excited for next summer!

Emma comes to Primary with me on Sundays now. I don't know how but she tends to sleep through at least parts of junior primary, and smiles when senior primary sings. I have a cd of the songs that will be in the primary program this year and I stuck it in my car. I like to turn it on when she's freaking out in the car.

She's almost outgrown her 0-3 month clothes which makes me kind of sad because she has some super cute clothes in those sizes. We do have a bunch of cute 3-6 month stuff too, but her 0-3 stuff has been just so fun! She's also pretty much grown out of size 1 diapers. I probably should've switched her to size 2 by now, but I'm working on finishing an open pack of size 1s, unless she has a blowout in the next few days.

She still has a ton of hair. I was thinking it would've started falling out by now, but it's still pretty crazy hair. One side of her head has thinned out a bit, and it's thinning a TINY bit in the back from her rubbing her head back and forth, but she's still got awesome hair. We like to play with it when it's wet after bathtime but no matter what we do with it there is just no good way to control it.

We recently changed the settings on our phones so for some reason right now the pictures I've taken on my phone aren't showing up on my laptop, so I don't have any super recent pictures to share right now... so these ones are at least a few weeks old, but you deserve photos if you've read all the stuff above.

Her Halloween pajamas! We love these pajamas and I will be so sad when she grows out of them :(

I love the way she has her hand, and the smile!

Don't you just want to squeeze those cheeks?!?!?

Love this face. She didn't find me very amusing!

Her staring at her duck!

What was I thinking?

I had every intention of blogging again soon after my last post. Life is kinda crazy though. I apologize in advance for typos, I'm writing this post on my phone and it's a little tricky.

The night before her 2 month appointment Emma decided to sleep 8.5 hours straight. Her pediatrician was  super impressed.  Shortly thereafter she started sleeping even longer. My sweet two month old would easily sleep 10 hours (8-6) and then one day it was 8-8. When Chris woke me up to say prayer before he left for work I  made him go in and make sure she was still breathing, she was at 11.5 hours, her record.  Life was fantastic! I was getting tons of sleep, she was taking great naps, and it seemed like I was able to do all sorts of stuff!

Chris and I talked for a while and I decided it was time for me to start my next byu class. Emma was sleeping til 7:30 or 8 consistently, would eat and stay awake for about an hour, then take a 2 hour nap. I felt like this was the perfect time. I could get plenty of sleep and then work during her nap.

Then  two nights ago Emma woke up at 3:30. She was cranky fr a good chunk of the day too because she wouldn't take a good nap. Finally from 2:30-5  she slept and was in a great mood for Chris when he got home from work at 6.  I didn't have the time or the brain capacity to touch my class.  I made sure before I put Emma to sleep that she was nice and full and was hopeful that tonight would be better.

She slept from 8:30-4:40 this time. I was a little disappointed, but then I had to remind myself that her doctor said that at her age they want her to be sleeping 4-6 hours. I had been spoiled by her sleeping 10-12 hours. I'd love it if she'd start spoiling me again so I could function a little better and be able to work on my class.

For  now though I'm wondering why I thought starting my next class was a good idea when Emma isn't even 3 months old...

new calling

I have a few posts that I'm working on right now, hopefully they'll be up this week.

In the meantime, know that I'm brushing up on

because I just got called as the Primary Pianist! I'm so excited, this is one of my dream callings!

I'm also busy practicing some other songs- I'm accompanying the ward choir as they perform this week, trying to figure out the song I need to help them rehearse on Sunday at practice, and struggling over a song for our non-exisistent Women's Choir to perform sometime in September. I've got to make good progress on that song this week though, because by the end of next week my next BYU class will arrive, and then I need to use nap time to do homework not practicing the piano.

Photo Dump

Emma's blessing was this past weekend, and today we dropped the last of our family off at the airport. That said, there is a lot to do to catch up on life... piles of dishes, baskets full of dirty laundry, bathrooms to clean, and some seriously searching to do (other people put things away in my kitchen and now I can't find things... they've got to be somewhere!) so instead of a post with lots of words you get a post of pictures until I have time to write a real post.

Sporting an outfit that her cousin only got to wear once... so far Emma's worn it TWICE! 

Being super cute!

When she sleeps her arms are almost always up like this!

She finally fits in pajamas! This was the first time she wore real pajamas besides the outfit she wore home from the hopsital. These pjs were from my good friend Jessica who went out of town for three weeks. We miss Jessica!

Rocking her "My First Fourth of July" onesie,  smiling at Daddy!

Smiling after a diaper change!

Emma's Blessing Day!

Emma was blessed yesterday, July 7th, by Chris. We were so excited to have my dad, and Chris's parents & little sister here for the occasion! In the circle was Chris, his dad, my dad, our bishop, and our friends Matt, Gary, Thomas, Ryan, and Josh.

Some of these pictures may be duplicates. And not all of them are great. But they are what I have on my computer right now. I have others that were taken by other people that I need to collect still.

Emma's friend Rylee was also blessed yesterday in our ward, and now I wish we had taken a picture of the two girls together!

This blanket is the blanket my grandma made for MY baby blessing, I was excited for my mom to send it down for us! And the dress was made just for Emma by my mom!