PROPER PARENTING 101

Friday, May 10, 2013

This is what we were up to a year ago!  Amazing how a year changes everything.

Emma is growing by leaps and bounds.  She's learning new things every day.  All as it should be.  One of the newest things she's learned from Mommy and Daddy, however, is a life skill that will last forever.

She can blow raspberries. 

To get her to laugh (and sometimes to get her to stop crying), David and I will blow on her belly when changing her diaper.  Or when picking her up in the air.  David took it a step further and actually SHOWED her how he blows.  Apparently, she started doing it at school.  And then, one day as I was feeding her, she did it.  She leaned down, puckered up on my belly and blew several raspberries.  We thought it was awesome.  We laughed and clapped and said "Good girl, Emma!"  Is that the right response?  She didn't walk, or feed herself chicken or solve an algebra equation.  If her raspberry skills are any indication, she'll soon be applying to Harvard.

Not only does she have two bottom teeth fully installed (those suckers are sharp as hell), but one incisor has busted through and the other is working on it.  That's four teeth.  I don't know who told her it was ok to have teeth, but she bit me the other day and tears came to my eyes.  Very close to tearing into a New York Strip.

We are still working on her trying to crawl.  She has the roll over and the spin around down pat.

She claps and laughs and likes to kiss by biting your face and hitting it with her lil baby hands.  She screams and talks in her own secret language.  She enjoys her baths before bed and plays with Sophie the bath toy by putting it in her mouth.  She puts everything in her mouth, including the remote and parts of her car seat.

David's brother got married last weekend at Lake Lure.  What we packed just for Emma was astonishing.  I couldn't find all the parts to her pack and play, which would have made it easier to pack, not so much to play.  Thankfully we were able to rent one from the hotel and she actually slept in it.  She was the hit of the weekend and aside from a couple of meltdowns on the way up and down, she was pretty happy the whole time.

Meanwhile, I have moved offices at work.  I now have an office with a tv and windows.  Life is changing too much for me.  I like stability.  There is none in my life.  But maybe there is.

David and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary on May 7.  Celebrate meaning we had frozen shrimp for dinner, watched the NBA playoffs and I went to bed early.  We're going to do it right on Friday night when Grandmommy is watching Emma for her first overnight visit.  Good luck Grandmommy!!!!!

While we were in the mountains, Emma turned 9 months old.  Such a big kid now.  We visited the doctor today to make sure we hadn't messed her up too badly.  She's 15 pounds, 10 ounces, is in the 25th percentile for height (what???) and 50th percentile for head circumference.  She gets her big head from her father.  HA!  Heaven help us all.

Did I do good Dad?

Go Emma!!!!