No Way!

This was the scene in our bathroom two weeks ago.

Emilyn is in the tub happily splashing and flailing her arms about. I am running a washcloth around in her mouth (I had heard it was good for baby's gums). Oh, what is that on her gums? It looks like a little spot of spit up or something. I'll try and wipe it off. Um, it's not coming off. Maybe I should lift her lip up and take a closer look.....

"No Way! KYLE!!! Come look at this!"

Kyle enters and I lift her lip again for him to inspect, hoping what I saw is not what I think it is. Yup, it is. A little tiny bit of a tooth starting to show itself. No wonder she has been drooling like a St. Bernard and chewing on her hand as if it was her last meal.

The tooth hasn't come out much farther since then. It is taking it jolly time, which is perfectly fine by me since she is still breastfeeding. Besides the drool and the need for chewing on things Emi doesn't seem bothered by it either. But it is definitely not what I expected and caught me completely off guard.



On a side note, I was not feeling well at all last Sunday (nasty cold). So Emilyn and I stayed home and got some extra snuggle time in, not to mention a nice nap.




Two weekends ago my brother Jeff was in town and so were Kevin and Jen. Wes, Sara, and the kids came up and we had lunch at Mom and Randy's with the fam. Grandma even came out to Mom's. Emi laughed for the first time at her Uncle Jeff, then later at Uncle Kevin and Daddy. She gets completely exhausted just watching her cousins run around. You can tell she can't wait to be able to get down and play with them. Here she is making Uncle Kevin and Aunt Jen make funny faces to try and get her to smile, which isn't too hard.

I Got In!

I just got a voice mail from my advisor and there is room for me in the online Ed. Research class I need! Yeah!!!! Although this requires me to be much more self-motivated than I normally am, at least I get to see my husband and daughter on Tuesdays. I have never been this excited about a class before.

Well, as promised here are some more pics of Emilyn. She is quite the character. At her 4 month appointment this week the doctor gently turned her head to look in her ears and she promptly made it known that she was not pleased with him for doing that. He so diplomatically said, "Oh my, well she sure knows what she likes and doesn't like. If you direct that she will be quite the leader but otherwise she will be a handful." I laughed out loud, mostly because that didn't surprise me one bit. Even for a 4 month old she is very opinionated.

Emi is now in the 50th percentile for height at 24" long and in the 97th percentile in weight at 16.6 pounds. You mathematicians out there you can figure out the exact ounces, anything beyond first grade math takes me too long.



"Hey baby, check out my double chin!"








Taking the Bumbo for a test drive. Thanks again Alisha!



Yum, tasty baby doll. Thanks Uncle Wes, Aunt Sara, Amelia, and Gus.

Keeping Me Awake

Contrary to what you may think, it is not Emilyn's crying keeping me up. It is thoughts like, "Don't forget to put clean clothes in the diaper bag in the morning. What should I make for dinner tomorrow? Whose birthday have I forgotten? Did I remember to lock the car? (my ipod was stolen out of the glovebox of our car and someone took our shovel off the front porch last month during the snowstorm so I am a little paranoid).

Last night my thought was "I hope I can get into the online class I need". As many of you know I am currently working on my master's degree. I am slated to be done this summer (yipee!). One of the classes I have to take is Educational Research (not so yipee!). At my advising appointment a while back I discovered it was offered as an online course in addition to it being offered on campus, but priority is given to those living farther away from Whitworth. I begged and pleaded to get into the class and was put on the waiting list. I will hopefully find out tomorrow if there is a spot for me. If not I will have to take it on campus which means that Tuesdays will be incredibly long days. Since the class starts at 5:30 that wouldn't leave me any time to get home after work to eat dinner, let alone see Emi and Kyle for a minute. The class gets out at 9:30 so I wouldn't get home until 10:00 at night. So I am praying like crazy that I can get into the online class. It would make my life so much easier. I will keep y'all posted.

Stay tuned for some Emilyn pictures and to hear how chubby she was yesterday for her 4 month check up!

The Unveiling

Okay so some of you (you know who you are) have been pressuring me to be sending new pictures of Emilyn. I am just not on top of things enough to be doing that on a consistent basis and I don't want to waste the time of those who don't have time to be looking at pictures of our fabulous daughter (although I find that hard to believe). So I am giving in to the ultimate compromise... a blog. This may work and I may stay of top of things on a consistent basis, but then again this just might be my first and last post. We'll see. At least I will appease the Emilyn fans, even if only temporarily.