11 months

11 Months Old

19 pounds 3.2 ounces

27" tall

Cruising all over the house with her walker

Drinks 4-5 6 ounce bottles of milk a day

Eats lots of fruits/veggies

Eats chicken

Definitely is a texture baby, if it is wet/slimy she won't put it in her mouth, but will eat it if I put it in her mouth

Loves loves loves Cheerios and yogurt drops

In November, I didn't take too many photos. We took Becky to breakfast for her birthday at Blue Lemon. It was fun to meet up with Becky on a midweek morning and enjoy a yummy breakfast. We don't get together too often because our schedules don't mesh well during the week and baby goes to bed at 7pm. Hopefully all that will change in January!

Steve and I celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary. It is crazy to think we have been married that long and have been together 13 years. I still feel young like I just got out of high school but then I look at what I have accomplished and I feel old. We have had lots of ups and some downs on the marriage road. 

Emma celebrated her first Turkey Day with us! We started Thanksgiving out by heading down to Orem to have Thanksgiving with Steve's Dad's side of the family. Steve was able to finally show off his pride and joy Emma to everyone down there. None of the extended family had met Emma yet. They have such a large family that it is usually hosted in a church or school. Steve's uncle Jon is a principal at an elementary school and is able to use his school as the location. It serves dual purposes with the cafeteria and a gymnasium. All the kids can run around, play ball, roll around on the scooters.  

After eating with Steve's side, we headed back to Salt Lake City to have dinner with my parents. We had a good Thanksgiving dinner. Emma enjoyed mashed potatos, green beens and turkey. She is just the light of our life. 

What a cute little face!

Going Private

Now that I am a mother and the instinct to protect my child is there, I am considering either deleting this blog or going private.

For now, I am going to go private. So if any of you want to continue to read this blog, leave a comment with your email address. 

10 months

Another month is gone. Where do the days go? Emma is getting so big and is so smart. She is cruising all over the house. We finally put baby gates up in front of the stairs and in front of our door. And that has given me a little freedom from constantly tracking her down. Now Steve and I are just trying to be vigilant about making sure there are no small things on the ground or within reaching distance for her. For the most part, Emma can go anywhere in the house. She loves our big black bathroom that has a wall of mirrors. She tends to hang out in there talking and standing up at the mirrors. She also loves to stand up at our stairwell wall and look through the glass. 

Statistics

~ 19.6 pounds (5-10%)

~ 26 1/2 inches (25-50%)

~Crawling everywhere

~Has her 2 bottom front teeth

~Loves food, the only baby food she didn't like was a pineapple banana (obviously didn't get her mother's tropical fruit love)

~Can walk with her Vtech Stand "N Walk 

~Claps her hands a lot

~Said Dada twice but I never heard it!

Emma is an incredibly happy baby. She loves to play and play and play. She gets super excited anytime we go outside. She flaps her arms and kicks her legs every time we go outside. She has tasted leaves and experienced the wind in her hair and face which makes her blink her eyes a lot! She loves her Cooper dog and will crawl to him and stand up holding on to him and squeal. She yells at Miss Toast the cat, I think because she won't let Emma touch her. We did go to Aunt Steph and Uncle Nich's house where she was able to touch a cat! Their cat, Stormy, is the most chill cat ever. However, she was a little nervous around Emma but I think it was only because Emma was yelling at her. If Emma had been quiet I think Storm would have been completely fine. She also got to experience a hyper dog, Gambit, jumping in her face. She still loved it and squealed with delight. 

Steve went out of town for a weekend in October for the annual Fall trip with the boys. Emma and I were on our own the whole weekend. We decided to take Steph and Nich out for their birthday. We met up at the Melty Way for some delicious grilled cheese sandwiches and then went to Rita's Ice for some custard. Both places were very yummy. Later that night, Emma and I dressed up as pirates and headed to my parents for a pirate party. Every one looked great but we were missing my grandma. I think she was going to look great as a pirate since I helped her go shopping for her costume. Unfortunately she didn't make it to the party as she was feeling under the weather. We had fun taking pictures, eating Pirate balls and carving pumpkins. I spent the next few hours watching Kitchen Nightmares on Netflix and creating a photo book for my grandma. I started to have a funny pain in my abdomen but it felt like I had worked my abs out all day and now they were tired. At 10:30pm I took some advil and went to bed. An hour and a half later, the pain meds had not worked and the pain was much much worse. I took some Tylenol and tried to lay down again. Another hour went by and the pain still was awful. So at 1AM in the morning and feeling like I was going to die, I decided to call Steph and Nich to see if they could come over to take me to the hospital and to watch Emma. I self diagnosed before I got to the ED that my gallbladder was misbehaving. And I was right. I have had these weird pains for a few years, always at night but always responsive to advil or tylenol. This was the first time I have ever had pain that bad. My choices are to follow a lower fat diet or have my gallbladder removed. I am going to try to follow a better diet since it would make me an all around healthier person so we will see if it works. 

For Halloween, Emma became a strawberry. A very neon strawberry. She was absolutely adorable in her costume. We took her to see both our grandma's, Steve's mother and my parents. Everyone was so excited to see her. We were my parents first trick-or-treater and our grandma's only trick-or-treater. When we got home, we only had about 4 groups of trick-or-treaters to our house. I was so happy that Emma didn't wake to the doorbell being rung. 

 

 

For the past month, I have noticed that Emma's binki supply was slowly diminishing. I just figured that they were being left behind or lost at the homes of family who watch her. I bought her 5 new packs which equals 10 new binki's. Yesterday I was putting Emma down for a nap and was trying to find the 2 binki's she had had in her crib the night before. I looked underneath the crib all the way to the wall to only find one binki. I finally found the other one when I spied it stuck between the wall and the crib. I pulled her crib out and the mother load of binki's dropped to the ground. In all, I counted 16 binki's were stuck between the crib and wall. So now she has around 30 binki's. Hopefully that will be enough to last her until we take them away. 

 Happy October!