Little Peanut

Check out Terrah's baby belly!  And she still has 8 more weeks to go!

Emma was licking Zack's nose.  Little creeper...

 

Things are much better for Miss Emma Kate and her ears.  After a couple days of antibiotics her fever went away, although her rotten sleeping habits have not.  As per her usual reaction to illness or stress, she's decided that waking up to scream at me in the middle of the night is perfectly acceptable. Sigh... She is so doggone sweet during the day.  Then at 2am-ish she changes her mind and decides to let all the evils out that she was storing during the day.  We'll get there.  She could very well be working on even more teeth.

Saturday night was so much fun!  We had a girls night in and watched (well- talked through is more like it!) Catching Fire.  Emma followed Walt around all night and wanted to play with him constantly.  She finds him fascinating! She's a good little playmate.

Emma is really crawling all around now.  She's still army crawling but is incredibly efficient at it.  She'll hop up on her hands and knees, but doesn't crawl like that.  The doctor said yesterday at her 9 month checkup that only 20% of babies crawl now.  Wow! She's at the 50th percentile for head and weight but only the 25th for her length.  Little peanut...

Her new trick is standing and walking.  She can't pull herself up, but will do an amazing pull up.  She just hasn't figured out how to move her legs up underneath to stand.  Once we help her up she can stand well with support (either holding our hands or holding on to her play table) and can walk with us holding her hands.  Big girl!  (Well... er... little peanuty big girl!)

My free time these last few days has been filled with cleaning and organizing. I redecorated our master bathroom, which was the last room in the house that we hadn't touched yet.  We dodged a bullet from the previous owner who apparently had wallpaper up (I found some behind an old light fixture) and thankfully had it all removed before we moved in.  We already knew she had the whole house repainted but I had no clue about the wallpaper.  THANK GOODNESS! That would've been a nasty mess to take care of.  I'm glad she did it for us.  But I was able to repaint, change a light fixture, replace a toilet handle, and hang new towel bars and a shelf.  It was fun but a lot of work on your own with a baby to take care of at the same time.  It looks so nice and feels good to have accomplished all of it on my own.  We went from drab to fab in the matter of a week!

So I'm happy to say the whole house is done now on the inside.  We have some landscaping to do outside, but the inside is complete.  New rooms, new paints, new fixtures.  It's been a busy few weeks! It feels good to be all done.  Yesterday I was even able to paint my toes- the first time since Emma's birth.  Ahhhhhh.... I'm me again!