Zoo day!

After having an extremely long, hard week, we took advantage of the beautiful weather (76 degrees and no humidity) on Saturday and spent the afternoon at the zoo in Nashville. We had a great time and Emma did wonderful. She really enjoyed looking at the animals and kept telling them bye-bye. Emma had a fascination with 2 crazy looking birds, the bongo and of course her favorites, the giraffes. She even had a staring contest with one of the Meerkats. She just looked at them and tried crawling out of our arms to go to the animals. She is really starting to get into everything and is constantly jabbering. She crawled into Lilly’s cage again, she loves to go in her bathroom and sit on the scale and now unroll the toilet paper, she gets into the drawers where her spoons and bowls are and takes everything out. She put two words together and said byebye mama. She refuses to say dada and instead sticks her tongue out and blows. She is now eating macaroni and cheese and yogurt melts and so far so good with the milk type products. She is developing quite a little personality. We have an appt Sunday to go and have 9 month pictures done. We will post pictures when we get them.

In Memory of Uncle Jerry

This is in memory of my Uncle Jerry. This was my dad's oldest brother. We learned that he passed away during the night. He had been sick since February but the family just learned of this a couple of weeks ago when we almost lost him then. His condition had improved and he was supposed to be leaving Vaderbilt this week and going to rehab but during the night he took a turn for the worse and his heart stopped. Please keep the family in everyone's prayers. My dad and his brothers have been through so much in their lives. Their mother was killed when they were a very young age and had struggles with the father after that and he has passed as well. As a daughter it is very hard to see your father cry and not be that strong figure because of something so heartbreaking but my uncle wanted no tears. He would not let anyone cry or miss out on their life these last couple of weeks. My aunt and cousins would have to leave the room to break down and he made my cousin finish his finals for his master's program even though we didn't know if he would make it or not. That was just the type of man he was. He will be deeply missed.

9 month checkup

Emma went yesterday for her 9 month checkup. She is doing wonderful. Her height was 28 3/4inches (85th percentile) and weighed a whopping 20pds 13oz (80th percentile). Dr. Ray is very pleased at what she achieved and developmentally is right where she needs to be. Emma showed her that she could crawl and stand up and even showed her how to put the tounge depressor in her mouth which was so cute. We are going to start trying some milk based products such as the yogurt melts to see if Emma can tolerate that so we will know what to do at her 1 year appt. We survived the doctor without getting a shot because they were out of it. Yay! We learned that Emma doesn't like bandaids. They had to prick her toe to check her iron level and she through a fit and cried because there was a bandaid on her toe. Unfortunately she has been sick and that is what the picture from above is from. She is so pitiful and we are all so tired because she won't sleep but about 10 minutes after you put her down. However, she is napping right now since we tried Motrin for the first time and that seems to be helping. We hope everyone has a great weekend.

9 months today!

Yes, she is walking under the high chair and got mad b/c Lilly's cage was in the way! She is non stop
9 months today at the pool enjoying a cracker after swimming.
Couldn't resist.
Drinking juice for the first time
She was looking at herself in the mirror.
Emma turned 9 months old today. It is unreal to us at how fast the time has flown by. She is changing and growing more every day. We love that she is jabbering all the time and trying to walk but we miss our tiny little baby that we just brought home from the hospital. I did have a cuddle day with Emma on Thursday. She was the sweetest baby. All she wanted to do was sit in Mommy's lap and snuggle which was so nice and something I will treasure. She started trying apple juice this week for the first time and she will only receive it in a sippy so here we go at trying to ween her to that. She is crawling all over the house and chasing Lilly. Emma is also really starting to wave bye-bye and patty cake if you tell her to. Emma also cut another tooth this week which brings the total to 5. Thursday Emma did get in the floor and turn Bryan's game controllers on and the stereo off. I told him she was definitely his. We were fortunate today to have Bryan at home but in exchange he has to work all day and night at the fair tomorrow. :( We spent the afternoon at the pool and it was so nice. The heat and humidity are up here but the water was so nice. Tomorrow Emma and I will be going to Lawrenceburg to visit with family and friends. She will go for her 9 month checkup Wednesday so stay tune to find out how big she is now.