Uncle D, Dance and Emery's ANGRY Face!

Uncle D came over last weekend to hang out. Emery definitely has him wrapped around her little finger and she had a blast blowing bubbles with Uncle D.


Here is Emery getting ready for dance class last week. If you can't tell, we were in the process of giving Carter a bone before leaving the house. Dance class went much better, although Emery still isn't out dancing with the class the entire time. She took it upon herself to walk out to the group and hold the teachers hand twice. We are making progress though. After seeing how the other kids interact in dance class and then how reserved Emery it, it just confirms my reasoning for wanting to get her into something to interact with other kids. She basically spends most of her time with me, Ivan and Grandma Lola. I feel confident that with a few more weeks of dance class under her belt, Emery will be out dancing with the class and teacher and feeling a lot more comfortable.

Here is Emery's angry face. She wanted the camera and I wouldn't give it to her. Boy was she mad at me!

36 Weeks

We are into the final countdown now. We have finally started making some good progress on preparing for this little one to come into the world. The crib is put back together, everything is washed and ready to go. I did have to buy some replacement parts for the swing ($2 for the parts - $8 for shipping and handling but whatever) so that won't be set up for another week or so. I've committed to washing all of the bottles and binky's next weekend, then it's pretty much just a waiting game.

My Dr appointments are still very uneventful. However, if I do have issues, they are usually really odd one's. For example, my left foot started hurting really bad about 4 weeks ago. It was all of a sudden too, I don't remember doing anything to injure it. I was to the point that I couldn't walk and I felt like everyone just thought I was doing the "pregnant waddle" and that wasn't the case at all. Ends up, I have Plantar Fascia - who gets that? Dr Quinn feels confident that it will go away as soon as I deliver but he recommended I get a pair of sole inserts. Well, the problem isn't so much with buying the sole insterts. The problem is that sole inserts won't stay in flip flops and that's really all I own. I'm not about to buy sole inserts and new shoes for 4 weeks! My mom gave a recommendation that she heard about not wearing flat shoes. Viola! I put on my wedged flip flops and I'm back to normal - no more waddling! Yay!

Other than that, I'm feeling good. The acid reflux is still kicking my butt. There are days (like today) that I get less than 5 hours of sleep due to acid reflux. I end up emailing my work at random hours of the night/morning - they love it ;)

We still haven't decided on a name. I guess we will wait and see if we think the baby looks like one of the names that we have come up with when she is born. Dr Quinn said that he can induce me 7 days early without a medical reason. I'm a little tempted to take him up on his offer but I also worry because my babies tend to be very small. I'm almost thinking of inducing maybe 3-4 days early just so we can plan around daycare for Emery, Ivan's work and school schedule and the good old Utah Football schedule. Is it funny that we aren't planning around anything for me?

Emery's Big Girl Room

We have successfully had Emery in her new room for 6 days now. Ivan and I were both worried about the transition, but honestly, we should have known better. Emery has been great with every transition into becoming a big girl.

We did however, take the crib apart based on advice from other parents. I pushed Ivan to do it so we were forced to make the plunge and didn't have the option of giving in and putting Emery back into her crib. I think it helped Emery since we could tell her that she had to sleep in her big girl bed since her crib was broken. There's nothing wrong with parents telling a little white lie right?

The first night, I rocked Emery and sang to her and put her down. She kept saying, "Mama sleep with me, Mama cuddle with me". It was really hard not to lay down with her but I knew that if I started that habit, I would be in for a lot of trouble. So I told her that I couldn't, tucked her in and left the room. About 2 minutes later, I heard the pitter patter of little feet on the kitchen floor. She was up asking for band aids for her knee (she had a nasty fall a few days before this). I gave her band aids and tucked her back in. She went to sleep and stayed in her room all night. Since then, she's gotten up here and there - at max, once per night. She usually just comes into our room saying "Mama, Mama" gets me up just to hold her hand and walk her back to her room to tuck her in. She's been doing really good with napping in her new room as well.



Below are Emery's bears that she just has to sleep with. I try to limit the number of stuffed animals that she gets because it seems like any new one she gets, she just has to sleep with. Pretty soon her bed with be covered with them. And if she doesn't have one when she goes to sleep, she knows it and won't go to sleep until she has every single one.Left to right -
Snake and "Nemo" - Auntie Silv and Uncle D bought her these when they took her to the Aquarium a few months ago
Maya's Bear - Makayla brought this to Utah with her on her last visit and left it for Emery.
Puppy - I got this from Cyprus CU when I opened Emery's savings account
Elmo - good old Elmo - he's been around for a long time
Pink Puppy - I know this isn't a puppy but I called it that one day and it just stuck. This is the cutest stuffed animal. My Aunt Wanda bought one of these for all of the babies born around the time Emery was born. You can push on it's paw and it tells little baby prayers.

Dance Class - Week One

I recently signed Emery up for dance classes. I wanted to find a way to get her interacting with other kids and I found a dance class that would work perfectly with my schedule. The first class was last night at 6p. I rushed out of work right at 230p (this never happens) so we could get home to get in a decent nap. We woke up from nap time, got into the cute little leotard, tights and skirt and headed off.

There were only 8 girls in the class and the teacher was great with them. However, Emery wouldn't let me leave the dance room during the entire 45 minute class. She also wouldn't leave my side and join the other little girls for the dance class. I expected her to struggle a little (she's also a tad young for the class/age group) but I figured she would warm up to it within the 45 minutes. She did start copying the teacher and other girls a couple of times during the class so we made a little progress.

Then, near the end, Emery said she had to go potty. As I was walking her out of the room - she peed her pants. She's had a few accidents lately and we are struggling with potty training regression. Then, as we get into the bathroom, Emery sees a fly which she is convinced is a bee. She starts screaming and crying because she is TERRIFIED of bees. There we were, in the bathroom, me trying to figure out the best way to get Emery home without me having a spare change of clothes and she's freaking out screaming and crying about the 'bee'. It was quite the bathroom experience to say the least! We finally got out of the bathroom and headed home.

So, week one of dance class wasn't the best experience, but we will keep at it. I'm hoping she will really warm up to dance classes in the next few weeks. My next plan of attack will be to have Ivan take her to see if she's more willing to participate. Needless to say, no pictures from this week - my plan was to take some once we got home. Stay tuned for pictures and an update on the dance class experience next week.

Daddy and Daughter

Just a couple of cute pictures of Ivan and Emery .. Emery loves rough housing with her Papa and he loves his little girl to pieces. They are so cute together!