100 posts....eating some pumpkin

Emma is 6 months old today, and we decided that we would let her have her first food today. I was going to have her eat avocado, but the avocado I bough was too hard. (I have never bought one before.) We had some pumpkin, so we tried that instead.

Look at my artwork!

Even got some in my hair.

Such a big girl

Emma will be 6 months old tomorrow. I am starting to go through her clothes again, some of her 3 months clothes are getting too small. I found some of her smaller clothes while I was reorganizing. This is a preemie outfit that Emma would have fit in to come home from the hospital. It is hard to tell, but in person that outfit is tiny. I can't believe she was ever so small. I still feel like she is small!

Look how tiny I was!

My favorite from Sunday.

Playing this morning.

My God is so Big!

Church....and Rosas

Emma was super cute today....more pictures to come later.

On our way to church. Yum, Lambchop's hand is tasty.

Mom and Emma after a delicious lunch at Rosas.

 Seriously, they should have put a Rosa's on the way home from church a LONG time ago. :)

Hi Daddy!

Hands up! (So Mom doesn't pinch my fingers.)

All tuckered out.

Emma's new saucer

We finally got Emma a saucer tonight. I think she likes it.

Cupcake butt and peach fuzz

Well, I was going to post this yesterday, but never got around to it. So Happy Belated Birthday, Grandma Connie. Emma had a cupcake butt in your honor.

Oops! This was a smile during tummy time, but she rolled over instead.

I don't know if you can see it, but Emma is getting more hair. But it is just growing in so she has peach fuzz....kind of like a new chick or duck. It is super cute. :)

Mom. that flash is SO bright.

Good Memory

Today was day one of Steven's shooting days, and he got done early. He came home around lunch time and got ready to go work out. But he took some time to spend with his favorite girls. :) (Emma smiled all on her own for this one. Pepper just wanted to be part of the fun, not the picture.)

The Lord's Army

Emma loves to sing and do actions!

Playing with Daddy

Steven has the day off today, and will be home with Emma all morning while I go to the Pregnancy Help Center. Sometimes I wonder what they do while I am gone...but this may give us an idea.

On a side note, Steven leave 4 weeks from today. We better get in lots of playing time!

Emma playing with her feet

Since she turned 5 months old, Emma has been very interested in her feet. She is doing so much more lately, and getting better at the things she has been doing for a while, like reaching and grabbing at stuff.

Emma bouncing

Happy Valentine's Day!

Emma, would you be my Valentine?

A not so fun adventure

Well, this afternoon it was nice out so I decided to take Emma and Pepper for a walk. I started like every walk, wrapped Pepper's leash around the stroller handle and we were off. Pepper is really pretty good on walks...doesn't react much to the other dogs who are barking at her and stays pretty close. Some times she get stickers or goat heads in her paws..she limps and we have to stop and remove them. Today, we got some goat heats in her paws, so we stopped, and I began taking them out of her paws. The next think I know, the stroller is falling off the curb and into the street. Naturally, I panicked.  I let go of Pepper and set the stroller up, as Emma hung up-side-down in her car seat, tightly strapped in. Our mail was all over the street, and Pepper was off sniffing a tree. Thankfully, the street was not busy and has a slow speed limit, and several people stopped to help me corral my dog and my stuff and to see if we needed any help. I also prayed and called Steven frantically because I was afraid I had scarred Emma for life and she would have some massive brain trauma. (She seems just fine...and was getting impatient with me that we were not going anywhere while we waited for Daddy. She also giggled quite a bit when I had the hiccups this afternoon.) I figured that was about all the walking I felt like doing, so we came home. Praise the Lord that Emma is OK. He was watching over us this afternoon, as always.

Here is Emma afterwards.....she seems like herself to me...and getting so big!

Emma giggling...take two

Steven had the afternoon off today after his test. Emma took several short naps, and in between naps we played and were silly...

Sorry it is dark. We were laying in bed with only a lamp on.

Valentine's dress

For those who missed Emma' super cute outfit yesterday.

A morning bath

We were too tired to give Emma her bath last night, so we gave it to her this morning. She was so cute I couldn't resist taking some pictures!

Nom, nom nom

Getting so big!

Had to get some tiny hiney!

All clean!

On a side note, we got the tail of that line of thunderstorms that is moving across the country...it was nice to hear some good thunder! Emma would have slept right through it if Pepper hadn't be so scared.

A bow for her hair

It is good to have Steven home...although our sleep situation has not improved. :( Last night Emma was up for a while again...I think she was cold and got woken up when Steven got up to go to the bathroom. She and I ended up sleeping in her room. Not so comfy. So I got up, got out the sleeping book that I decided I liked, and read all about her sleeping habits. Hopefully we can use some of his tips and get some more sleep! We will also be transitioning her into her room over the next week...we will see how it goes.

Here we are later in the day, when I had put a bow in her hair...isn't she the cutest thing you've ever seen?  She is such a happy girl!

Happy Thursday

Emma and I are having a very good Thursday. She slept great last night, took a two-hour nap after charming everyone at the doctor's office, and daddy comes home today! It is also super nice out today so we took Pepper for a walk. Here is Emma playing after her nap.

Sitting up

While Skyping with Aunt Grace, Emma sat up by herself for a couple minutes! She did, however, fall over after each one of these pictures was taken...hopefully no damage was done. :)

Last night went about like the night before...Emma woke up for two hours in the middle of the night. Although this time she had a major poop-splosion and went to sleep right afterwards...she pooped while I was reading her a book. :) Sounds like a big girl. :) Anyway, we were having a rough morning (Emma was fussy, and she about choked on her spit-up/drool), but then we stopped and prayed and asked God to help us out....which He definitely did. Emma took a little nap, the clinic called to make me an appointment so I didn't have to go to urgent care with Emma (for my ear, not her), we got Steven's proctor stuff finished, and then we finally took the stroller in to get fixed...and its is going to be a cheap, fast fix. Pepper will be so glad to go for walk! And Daddy comes home tomorrow! Our day keeps getting better. :)

Getting bigger!

We are both doing better after going to Bible study and a good afternoon nap. :) Here is Emma sitting in the bumbo watching Pepper, and having tummy time....which is just another way Emma can get stuff into her mouth. She is doing more new stuff everyday...chewing on her thumb, trying to eat her feet (but settling for her sock), etc.

This is mostly what she did during tummy time.

Long night

I can't wait for Steven to come home...yesterday started out good....Emma took a super long afternoon nap. I thought she was growing because she still acted tired when she got up, and actually went back to sleep an hour and a half after she woke up. But I should have known, nothing good comes from going to bed at 6:30. (I was going to go to bed early, too, but I had some vertigo again and decided to just lay on the couch for a while.) So at 9:30 I woke her up to change and feed her. She went right back to sleep...until about midnight when she decided it was time to be awake....for 3 hours. :( She did go back to sleep at 3AM and sleep until 7AM, but still, she is going to have one tired Momma today.
Here she is playing at Tracy's house during the superbowl.

This must be on Sunday before he left.

Sunglasses

Steven was working on the car today, and Emma and I went out to see him. However, it was very sunny, so we put our sunglasses on. :)

Chillin' with Dad

Steven took today off so we could run a bunch of errands before he leaves on Sunday. Emma decided she wanted to wake up early...which was 4AM, but I talked her into going back to sleep until 6:30. (Well, actually she did most of the talking, but she still went to sleep. What happened to 10-12 hours a night?!?!) Since we can't run errands this early, we are just hanging out.

Fist in mouth...about normal.

Daddy is silly