Emily has finally started saying more words, but usually only after i have said them several times to her, "you want a bowl? mommy put your cereal in a bowl? take your bowl to the table." and she'll say, "bowl" finally.
Tom says that only i can understand her, that it doesn't sound like the word at all to him--wishful thinking on my part maybe? Last night she kept pointing to something on the table and i didn't know what she wanted until she said, "water".
she wouldn't touch her dinner last night, which was extremely odd. but at lest she slept last night, we haven't slept in MANY nights!!!!!! she loves to drink out of a big girl cup and can do very well! excellent at drinking without spilling any (also loves to drink milk out of bowl after eating cereal, or will pick cereal out just to be able to drink the milk), but also is still a baby and thinks it's a hoot to dump the water on the floor and play in it, so we certainly aren't ready to ditch the sippy-cups yet!
she can say, "banana", "yum", "up", "down", "(all) done", "bowl", "more", and "dog"...but most of the time her prefers sygn language and the poor neglected child has not even been taught it like i taught savannah some when she was little...she figured it out by herself! she will point, grunt, and tap her plate (in the exact spot that she wants the food put and heaven forbid that you put it anywhere else on the plate!), if you ask her if she wants more to eat or is hungry, she will repeatedly bring her fingers to her mouth (actual sygn language for "eat", but i didn't show it to her).
she grabs and points or pulls on your leg to get you to go where she wants.
she has recently discovered light switches and when i walked by one yesterday without letting her turn it off, she squirmed to get down, ran over to her little yellow chair, carried it back down the hallway to the switch, got up on it and turned the light off! she will carry that chair ALL over the house to get into things she sees on counters or dressers, but can't quite reach...she is very independent and usually doesn't ask for help, but will try for a long time to do it all by herself!
it got her in trouble this morning when the toast was left plugged in and she burned her finger by turning it on and reaching in it. she didn't cry, but ran up to me, held her finger up to my mouth and blew air out of her mouth to show me what to do. i put burn medicine on it and rapped it up with gauze and tape, and amazingly she quickly adapted to using only one hand, didn't take the bandage off, and let it be for a couple hours! Amazing child!
she almost can put her sandals on by herself and i'm sure another month of warm weather and she will have it down pat!
For all of her accomplishments and humor, she can pitch some pretty big fits and it seems some days that it happens every 10 minutes!!!! so don't go thinking she is completely a dream-come-true child!!! :) :) :) :)
my Patience with Savannah is daily tested as i get bigger and more acquired feeling and can't move around as well--and we still have 12 more weeks!!!!???!!!!!! Emily also has decided to enter the terrible 2's way before her time! Sometimes i despair of the end of the day ever coming.
by 10 months, said 2 more words, "up" and "vana" or "nana" (?) for Savannah
she also claps hands, danses to musik, scrunches up nose, hands me her spoon back after a bite so i can fill it again, and crawl down the hallway after me.
she tears around the house after savannah and will touch her diaper if you ask her if she's wet and needs a diaper change.
Savannah:
I got out some Mayo to put on my sandwich, and savannah said "i want some"
"it's to put on your bread" i told her, and gave her a little taste.
she immeadiatly liked it and said, "i want a bowl of it!" :)
she is starting to recognize some letters/numbers...especially "S for Savannah"
one day savannah said, "Emy (as she calls her) is being mean to me, i want a different baby sister."
"i'm all hot and sweaty and all of that kind of stuff." she declaired after playing hard outside. :)
one day i heard savannah saying to emily, "run! fast! there's a monster coming!" i reprimanded her and said, "savannah, no scearing your sister." to which she quickly thought up, "what? it's an alagator. a fun alagator!" :) :)
"shoes hurt."
"then we'll wear these others."
"they hurt too."
"what are you going to wear to school?"
"flip flops."
"no, you're not allowed to wear flip flops to school. we'll just have to buy you some bigger shoes."
"probably my feet are too old for these shoes."
Savannah is always asking for me to pick out what i want, however, if it is not what she had in mind, she will say, "why this one" [instead of saying "why NOT this one"] and it always throws me for a loop...as well as make me laugh. :)
"pick out which book you want me to read, mommy."
"why [not] this one?"
"OK, that one's good."
"do you want to see the flying act or the riding act?"
"the riding one"
"why [not] the flying one?"
"OK, you want to do the flying one? why did you ask me then?" (the choice was obviously NOT mine to make)
"Pick out the next one you want to read."
"flower garden"
"i thought you wanted this one." (and she pointed to the picnik one)
"OK. that a good one too."
when savannah reads, she throws in, "meanwhile" every chance she gets. :)
at bathtime one night she said, "i need more water in here. i let the drain down."
"why did you do that?"
"it did it all by itself!" was her reply. :) :) :)
Emily loves trying to get dressed when savannah does, she'll hold a pair of undies and lifts her leg up to try to put it in! she also will put shirts on top of her head.
i said to savannah, "it's a bummer your baton class was cancelled."
she asked, "which bummer?"
Emily loves to wash her hands and says, "baba" (bath?)
says "bye-bye" or just "bye" when someone is leaving or on the phone.
maybe has a 6th tooth cutting?
says "dada" and "mama"
loves bathtime. i stand her up on outside of tub while the water is warming up and she holds on while repeatedly lifting her leg up to try to climb in. once in the tub, she loves to stand and won't sit down!
Helps me dress and undress her (as well as helping to undress when i'm trying to dress her) :)
Loves playing with blocks--banging them together and tearing down towers as fast as they are built. she loves to play with baby dolls--but mostly just to bite their hands and noses and stick her fingers in their mouths.
Savannah can be told to go to her bedromm and get dressed and can go by herself, pick out clothes and return with undies, socks, shirt and shorts or dress on properly! i however, still have trouble getting her dressed apearently though. we went to look at houses and a realistate women was showing us around in one, when i saw that i had put savannah's shoes on the wrong feet! when daddy told her to sit down so he could swich, she also pull her socks off, declearing loudly that i had put THEM on her wrong feet too!!!!! how embaressing!
Savannah said one morning, "i don't like my vitamins, they make me pop!" "what?!?" "they make my back pop!"
she said one morning to me, "i don't need a booster seat, i'll be very carefull not to get down from the table." :)
we were sitting at the dinner table eating lunch, when savannah handed Emily she empty bowl and said, "Emily, i have a job for you to do. can you put my bowl and spoon in the sink for my please?" and then when Emily just staired at her and didn't obey, she said, "i said please! why don't you want to do it?" :) :) :)
this morning when i asked savannah to go get jackets for her and Emily out of their bedrooms, she went in my bedroom instead (something that she knows she'll get a spanking for b/c she isn't allowed to be in there, and put her daddy's colon on her and Emily! when they came out she said, "i put daddy's spray on that he wears to work, now i smell like handsome!"
Emily has gotten to wear she will (very indignantly) say "OUCH!" when i brush her hair...no madder how gently i'm doing it!
she also has started kissing every page of the book that you are reading to her! and gets very atached to the doll/animal of the day and will walk around all day holding it tucked under an arm and take her nap and go to bed at night with it! when i get her up in the morning, the doll is already attached to her and she will very reluctantly hand it to me (keeping an eye on it by cutting her eyes over her sippy cup) while she uses both hands to drink her 'morning coffee' (warm milk) with me.
I called Savannah, "honey" the other day. She didn't like that and said, "no". So i called her, "Sweetheart". She again said, "no. BIG heart!"
Emily will pull on your leg and pat a stool for you to sit down. the other day she and savannah were sitting at the table eating breakfast and she patted the chair beside her and finally said, "SIT!"
When i put savannah in timeout, Emily will walk up to her and shake her little finger at Savannah and say, "no! no!"
I heared uproarous laughter, so turned around, just in time to see Savannah, Emily, and big Bear go sliding down the steps--all sitting in our laundry basket. they laughed and laughed all the way down and when they hit the bottem, but i had to keep a straight face and tell them that wasn't such a good idea! :) :) :)
Last month Emily discovered her shadow for the first time! it was a hoot to watch her stairing at it, trying ot grab it, and keeping an eye on it while it followed her when she was walking around! When i measured Emily on the wall for her '15 month height' i discovered it was exactly at the line of Savannah's 15 month height mark! However, previously, Emily was the same height at 9 months that Savannah was at 12 months.
Savannah LOVES jokes (even though she doesn't get them most of the time, she loves to try to tell them and is always asking me if i know one). On Word World (the TV show that teaches letters and words that she watches every day), one of the characters told a joke, "why do the letters S and H never talk?" and every time Savannah will answer "b/c they are letters." no matter how many times i tell her that the answer is "b/c everone always says 'sh' to them." What she thinks is funny/a joke is that Duck was calling Shark by the name, "S Hark" (b/c he was sounding it out) until Frog reminded him the letters S and H say Sh when they are together.
Emily is starting to point to body parts when i say them, even if i'm reading a book that says, "the doggies ears are soft", she'll touch the doggies ears and then touch hers! she knows Knees (and loves pulling up her pant-legs to find them), Head, Ears, Toes (and loves 'This little piggy'), and Nose (she loves rubbing noses with me when i show her the picture of MiMi and the doggie rubbing noses. :)
The other day Emily and Savannah both dozed in the car, when i said, "Emily took a Cat Nap." Savannah said, "and i took a Dog Nap." :) :)
If you would have told me a year ago that they made some children with such an Easy easy-level, i would have never believed you! I would have never dreamed that a 16 month old would ask to be taught to put herself to sleep in her crib (she'll glance at a book with me, then slide off the guest bed and try to climb into her crib. even if i offer another book or to hold her for a minute, she'll just keep reaching for the crib until i put her in! she tends to play awhile and fuss for a 1/2 minute when i leave, but then will play herself to sleep at naptime). Or that a 16 month old would ask to be potty trained (always taking diaper off immeadiatly or grabing it and running back to bedroom to be changed if she has pants on--it's only a matter of time before she figures out how to take her pants off though i'm sure, and by then hopefully i'll get her to sit on her potty chair instead of just running off b/c she's "free"! ). Or that a 16 month old will voluntarily set the table (when i set the dishes out on the counter to ask Savannah to set the table, Emily will grab whatever she can and take it over--usually just her and savannah's plastic silverware and plastic plates, b/c i won't let her try to take the brakeables over!). And i know alot of it is having such a good big sister like Savannah, that she runs around with all day and sees doing helpful big-girl things, and some of it is just her personality. :) :) :)
I was looking for the potty-training underwear (that we were loaned from Lydia) and so had to pull down all the bags of clothes off the top shelve in Emily's room to find which age of clothes i had put them will (surtainly NOT the 12-15 month old size). I found them and she happily put them on by herself, strutted around the room to show off, and prompty peed on Savannah's rug! To which savannah was very gracious and didn't get mad, but simply said, "that's OK, mommy can wash it, next time use your potty chair." I have been equally amazed at how understanding and sweet to Emily and her baby-ways that Savannah has been since Emily came along!!!!!!!
i tried to get savannah to try some clothes on to see what i needed to buy for summer clothes, but once she put a 'new' monkey shirt and skirt on, she wouldn't take them off, no matter how much i explained to her that she would be able to put them back on (even though it was a little chilly out and we were headed to the park) and all i wanted her to do was TRY ON the other clothes (which ment put them on and take them right off again, b/c i just needed to see if they fit her!). We finally got those clothes off (for a second) and i held up a pritty pink summer dress...she IMMEADIATLY started fussing, saying it was ichy, scratchy, and she didn't like it....all this BEFORE it even touched her!
we made it to the park, dressed for summer, and another little 4 year old ran up to her and asked, "do you want to play?", so the 2 of them took off, leaving me and the other mommy trailing behind as they spent all of 2 minutes per playset before running on to the next! Emily looked around, saw a bench, grunted and gowned her way onto it, crossed her legs at the ankles like she does, and sat and laughed and clapped while watching all the bigger kids running around playing!
Savannah came up to me and said, "Mama, I love you." When i replied, "i love you too, honey." She continued with, "Especially when you are at school." Ah, words that warm a stay-at-home mom's heart! I can't really blame her though, b/c Monday night they watched a movie that i had told her all weekend she wasn't allowed to watch b/c it wasn't a Veggie Tails or Pooh Bear one. and last night they played their Wii, something else mommy doesn't allow b/c i tell her that Emily can't do those things and has no one to play with while she is just sitting in front of the TV. And before y'all say i'm too strict, I do allow Savannah and Emily to watch two 1/2-hour shows during school time in the morning b/c they are educational.
Apearently homeschooling Savannah is paying off for Emily already also...Savannah's favorite game is, "What letter does _____ start with?" at the dinner table the other night, we were eating peas and she asked, "what does 'Peas' start with?" I try to sound the word out for her so she can answer her own question instead of me just telling her, so i said, "P-P-P-Peas." But Savannah still asked, "what letter is that?" To which Emily answered, "P-P-P!"
Emily's favorite letter is "B-B-B" and favorite word is "ball" (which is anything round, including balloons), she also sais "Bubbles" and "Bath".
I finally discovered a dish that Emily doesn't like and will prompty throw on the floor and when i tried to fed it to her by saying, "take a bit of your eggs" to which she immeadiatly opened her mouth for--she LOVES scrambled eggs!...she just spat it back out! She doesn't like Quish!!!!!! which is a shocker, due to her ABSOLUTE love for eggs!!!
She does however LOVE TOMATOES and more resently even LETUCE!!!!!!!!! so last night she ate a salad instead of Quish! We are just now getting Savannah to start eating a salad (she still doesn't like the tomatoes though).
Savannah has been soooo excited lately about Easter for some reason and is always talking about it! she also keeps talking about going over to cousin Heather's house this summer to go swimming in her pool and tells me 10 times a day to not let her forget to take her swimsuit! (meanwhile, it is a cold --34 degree -- wet, rainy day out!)
This morning i was sitting at the table with Emily, drinking my coffee when i heard Savannah open her door and come down the hallway. I said to Savannah, "Look who got up, Emily, i hear your sissy coming down the hallway!" To which Emily responded with an, "Uh-Oh!" :) :) :) :)
Savannah was sooooo tired this morning though, Emily has woken her up early for several morning now, and also cried alot at night, so we are all tired. Emily sounded like she was choacking (she still has a cough) so i've been getting up with her and of course she doesn't go back to sleep when i do that. two nights i brought her to my bed, which made for an even longer, sleepless night!!! So Savannah asked for a nap at 7:30 this morning! I told her that she doesn't have to get up when Emily does, that she can roll over and go back to sleep. My ever-literal daughter replied, "i can't roll over in my bed, b/c i hit the sides of the bed and they are hard and hurt me." (her todder bed has wooden railings on the sides that she is CONSTANTLY hitting or banging her head on! but it's good they are there, b/c there is no railing at the foot of the bed and she is also always falling/sliding out of bed or i find her with her legs hanging off the bed!
Every body has been telling me that we are having a boy, but i think that has more to do with the fact that they see me with my 2 girls and so think a boy is needed to even things out...b/c one person will say "you are bigger this time and the baby is high--you are having a boy" and the next one will say "you are so small for 6 months, and the baby is so low--you are having a boy" HA! HA!
Occationally, when Savannah is driving me up the wall doing something that she knows she shouldn't be doing, I'll say to her: "if you do that one more time, you are Dead Meat." she will laugh and laugh and usually stop being anoying. the other day, however, i reminded her one too many times to do something and she was tired of being reminded, so she said, "mommy, if you say that one more time, you will be...(pause)...like a MEATBALL!"
I was so tired the other day, that i asked savannah to play quietly with emily in the dinning room with their toys and i was going to lay down on the couch. i quickly drifted off, only to wake up a 1/2 hour later b/c the house felt too quiet! i walked into the dinning room and saw savannah sitting on the floor reading a book to herself and asked where emily was. she said, "she's taking a nap." i didn't believe her and since i couldn't see emily anywhere, i started to get worried and asked savannah again, "WHERE is emily?" she pointed to the pile of blankets beside her and said, "she was tired, so i put her down for a nap." :) :) :) :)
Emily also fell asleep while riding her bike around the block today! both girls looked very tired, and i was going to put them down for an early nap--right after lunch--but savannah asked to ride around the block first. it was such a nice day out...the last few days it has been sooooo windy and cold that we have not played outside...so i figuered we could all use some warm sunshine and exercise! After about 20 minutes, i notessed emily's head was bobbing and when i looked, she was fast asleep!!!! thank goodness for the buckles and the bar that goes all the way around her, so she doesn't fall off her bike! i also LOVE that bike b/c i can steer it with the handle (it has a butten that you push and so the petals don't turn and the parent has complet steering and pushing power of the bike) and i can do so with one hand, which gives me a free hand to give savannah the occational push that she needs to get up the hills!
well, I’ve been at home with savannah and Emily for a month now and I have seen a 180 degree change in savannah’s attitude! She had started yelling ‘no’ all the time and being very unhappy all the time and by dinner time came, it was just melt down after melt down!!! I wondered if she was stressed, and I guess she was. She doesn’t do too well with lots of other people around, nor with not getting a heads up before activities change.So I think getting up early while she was still tired, being rushed to eat breakfast, going to school all morning, then having to switch gears and come home right at lunch and nap time, then having the whole family being at home right when she was getting hungry for dinner and getting tired was making for a night-mare of a day…day after day.
I also expect her to help out a lot more at home and she is lot more willing to do so then she was a month or so ago when everything received a dramatic: NO!
Now we get up slowly and a lot later so that everyone is well rested, have responsibilities of making her bed and getting dressed all by herself. A little playtime to work up an appetite for breakfast. Then she helps me either clean the house or do laundry (she has to pick up her toys and put her own laundry away). We do her school papers and crafts in-between playtime b/c Emily gets bored and starts throwing crayons and pulling papers away from savannah if we sit for too long. I have them run around the table or hop the number of times for the number we are studying, which both girls love doing. And Emily singing the Bible songs and Animal Alphabet song along with savannah. It is so cute to hear savannah say, ‘A says AAA, B says BBB’ and Emily echoing her.
I try to keep savannah’s day as regular and predicable as possible and give her 5 minute warnings and make sure she doesn’t get too wound-up. (I read a book on her energetic personality and am trying to follow it). When everyone is home in the evening, she only has an hour to try to juggle everyone, b/c I start her bedtime routine early with a long bath, lots of books read, and an hour earlier bedtime.
She is MUCH happier child now!!!!! I’ve been amazed at how happy she is now—I don’t remember her ever laughing and smiling and having so much fun all day, every day….EVER!
Emily is also on cloud 9 having savannah home all day. She follows her around all day and loves playing with her! She does everything savannah does…I think that is why she is learning to dress herself already and sits on her potty chair already--no she is not potty trained, she just likes to sit on it. :) she does already tell me immeadiatly if she needs a new diaper if i'm in the room when she does though!
EMily tries every morning to get dressed by herself, which has a good side and a bad side to it. she is starting to do very well and gets her legs in her pants all the way up to her thighs, and her feet sticking out the bottem, but can't pull them up over her diaper. she'll get fruserated, thinking she didn't do it correctly, pitch a fit and pull them back off and keep redoing and redoing it until i help her pull them all the way up...which causes another fit pitching episode, b/c once she starts something by herself, she absolutely does NOT want any help--she is doing it HERSELF thankyou very much! she has alot of determination and percaverence!!!!
she also doesn't like her food to be touched, and if i ever move her cup (automatically, b/c i see it is in her way or something) she will quickly...and very angrily...move it back to the exact place it was! she LOVES to eat and will do so every single time that someone else is eating (regardless of weather or not she has just eaten) and is going to the closet every hour to pull something out and bring it to me to open for her so she can snack! and all the snacking that she does doesn't in the lest bit affect the big apitite that she brings to the table for all 3 meals! she always has to have a utincile at mealtime, and does pretty good using them! she loves to blow on her food (and my coffee in the morning) and will lightly touch something (like my coffee cup) and say, "ho(t), ho(t)." while blowing air either up into her bangs (as sometimes she does) or on the item.
she does an awfell lot of running around to keep up with savannah all day, so i try not to worry too much about the fact that she seems to eat (or want to eat) constaintly. i haven't been much of a good example lately with all the snacking that i've been doing since getting pregnant this time!!!
emily loves to point (finally with just her finger instead of her whole arm/hand) and savannah loves to tell her what she is pointing at!!! Savannah is the best big sister to emily that i could ask for!!!! when i get tired of toting emily up and down the hallway when putting laundry away or something, emily, of course, will pitch a fit. savannah immeadiatly runs to her aid and either gives her a hug and says, "i know you're upset that mommy can't hold you, do you want me to hold your hand and walk with you to find mommy?" or will lay on the floor with her and soon the 2 of them will be laughing away and playing again!
Comments Now that is awesome, I am happy for you to be blessed with 2 wounderful girls and now a boy on the way what fun. Sounds like our house and a boy is so different. Praying for you :) - Katy Bruns
I can't believe this is the year 2010 already!!!! Mom took Savannah for the weekend, and as i was chasing just Emily around all day and getting just one child bathed, read to, and put down for the night...it felt so strange!!!! it seems like i've had 2 kids hanging around my neck all my life...i don't remember life with just Savannah and i certainly don't remember life with no kids! :)
Savannah told me that while she was over at Pell City, they went to the park with cousins: Hidie and Noelle and played and ate lunch there. they saw a lizered, which Hidie and Noelle didn't like, but that she did. so she went over to see it and the lizzard said to her, "what are y'all doing here?" and she told it that they were there to play. i laughed and asked her what color the lizzard was, to which she replied, "he didn't have colors on him!"
Comments A boy! whoo hoo! You must be so excited! Send me an email some time if you get a chance and let me know how you are doing. Love you! - Missy
Emily is CONSTANTLY climbing up on the kitchen table (one of the very few things she does that she knows is wrong...that and climbing in the bathroom sink). So i spanked her bottem. the next time she climbed up on the table (not too long after being spanked and taken off the table) and i said, "Emily, no-no." she looked at me, reached back to 'spank' her bottem with her own hand, and continued to crawl around on top of the table.
I told Savannah her Vegie Tail movie was rewinding, to which she replied, "i don't like 'winding' i want it playing!"
"Mommy do you want to see the flying show or the riding show?" "the riding show, please." "no. the flying show." "ok. the flying show then."
i bought us some cloth napkins, b/c we always use paper napkins--by the stack! the first night using them, i told savannah to put her napkin on her lap and use it for her fingers. she picked the cloth napkin up, looked it over and declaired, "that is NOT a napkin, that is a cloth!"
Emily is cutting her 2 bottom i-teeth-- #13 and 14! She only takes one nap a day already and Savannah has given up naps altogether. Both tend to sleep very well at night--11 to 12 hours a night and Savannah has finally gotten use to her new bedroom and doesn't cry b/c she wants to sleep with Emily when being put to bed.
It's a little bit hard to try to teach Savannah while Emily doesn't want to sit still, can't do cafts, and eats the crayons. i'll have to try to think of ways of breaking up the paper work with musik time (they both have sets of a variaty of instruments), snack time, puzzle time, and run around the room 10 times as fast as you can time. She has a set of 3 textbooks: letters, numbers, and art.
Well, i'm starting my first of 2 MBA classes tonight, and of course I did not get a a single wink of sleep last night and no chance of a nap today. All of the kids fussed and were sick all night. Emily has screamed in my ear all day today and has not even let me put her down when she falls asleep for a nap. Savannah has whined and cried and wanted in my lap all day today too (well, Emily hasn't wanted in my lap...she has wanted me to stand up and walk around with her, but not get any work done while walking around the house).
Tuesday, we have not decorated for Christmas (usually we do it the day after Thanksgiving) due to me not having the energy to haul all the boxes of Christmas stuff out of our shed and sort through it and we were going to cut down a real tree this year--something we have not had the time or energy to do yet either...i wonder how late in December you can wait to decorate before you decide the hassle and time/energy spent to do it and look at decorations for such a short time before having to pull it all back down b/c Christmas has come and gone is not worth it?
well, i'll at lest get a festive background up on the website--Enjoy! :)
Savannah had to learn John 3:16 for this month's Bible verse, so today i asked her: "Do you know your verse? You are going to have to say it in school this week."
"Jesus was born on Christmas day." she replied.
"Yes, that's right, but you verse says: 'For God so loved the world...'."
and she repeated each little section after me until i got to: "Should not die..."
to which she answered: "No, probably, 'Should not perish'."
I had to laugh and tell her that she knew her verse very well!!!! :)
Comments Don't you love it, I love to hear Florence repeat her verses. - Katy Bruns
November 30,
well, i had to go to the ER on Friday and things aren't looking to good for the baby. the ER doctor didn't know what was wrong, and put me on bed rest for the weekend and told me to go see my regular doctor on Monday. BED REST?!?!?!?! what a joke when it is the weekend and there are 3 kids at home that spent the WHOLE ENTIRE weekend bothering me to get up for one thing or another every 2 minutes!!!!! I took Savannah and Emily to church yesterday so i could "get some rest" sitting in a pew!
unfortunately i started running a fever yesterday afternoon and it has not gone down since...i'm waiting for my doctor to call me back as to when i can come in and see her...
well i had my doctor appointment and they did another ultrasound (4th one for this baby already and she's only 14 weeks!!!!!!) and said the baby was very much alive and kicking...but since i'm coming down with something, i'm to get plenty of rest (HA! HA! HA!) over the next 2 weeks and then i'll have my 4 month check up.
Comments You better take it easy, lots of stuff going around all over the world and rest is your best defense. Praying for you. - Katy Bruns
Oh no! I"m sorry to hear you're getting sick! And i know it's not easy to rest when you have little ones to take care of. I wish i was there to help out! - Missy
Ok, Esther, i'm worried about you! What's happening? Are you ok? - Melissa
October 20, 2009
I can't believe that my oldest daughter is about to be FOUR years old!!! And that our THIRD baby is on it's way!!
Savannah is absolutely ecstatic!
This time around i think she will actually be a big help (she has always been a HELPER, but she is starting to be effective in her helping now) :)
She gets dressed by herself (and probably by the time the baby comes she will be dressing Emily also)
Comments Oh my goodness! Yay! Congratulations! - Missy
July 17, well, mommy left Emily for the first time for a whole weekend!!! it was completely unplanned, but when i was Emily's age, mommy also left me for the first time for several days when daddy and mommy flew to California to watch motorcycle races (daddy won the trip by entering a photo of his motorcycle in a contest). mommy was a little worried, b/c most of the times she would call home, i was being fussy for my Aunt and i didn't want to take my bottle (i was completely non-bottle feed up until the day mommy left, b/c whenever she would try to feed me out of a bottle i would choke and sputter and scream and act like she was trying to kill me) and would sleep at night and their dog kept waking me up from my naps...well, y'all get the picture...but the again i did tend to be a bit fussier of a baby then Emily is and never have liked change. but mommy eventually convinced herself that Emily would fair better, since she took immediately to a bottle when she was less then a week old and mommy had to leave her in the expert care of Nana so she could finish going to school and she is such an easy going, 'what ever happens is fine with me' baby. of course we did great staying with Nana and Papa. Emily even shocked everybody by sleeping through the night 2 of the 3 nights!!!! and let me tell you--she has made up for it since!!!!!! she doesn't sleep for more then 30 to 45 minutes at a time, and often mommy has to pase around the room with her to get her to go back to sleep and she crawls all over the bed in the middle of the night!!!! thankfully she hasn't fallen out of bed, but one time mommy woke up and Emily was leaning over the slay footboard of her bed just a talking away to the night light in my bedroom. Emily stands up all the time holding onto things and is trying to figure out how to stand up without having to hold onto something...when she's crawling, she'll stop and stick her butt up in the air to try to stand up.
July 6th, Wow! has it been over 2 months since i've posted any stories?!?! Sorry guys! Hope y'all have been enjoying the photos...my hubby bought me a Rebal XS Canon camera and we are taking pictures by the 100s b/c it is sooooo nice!!!!!! i maxed out on how many photos i was allowed to have on the website, so am having to spend my internet/website time uploading photos to the walmart website so i can print them so i can delete the older photos off the website to have room for newer ones! :)
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