3 months...wow

Last Wednesday Emery turned 3 months old. In baby time this is huge! She has outgrown all her newborn stuff and is creeping into the 3-6 months clothes. Thank you Tammy for all the hand me downs! She has some super cute dresses. She is talking up a storm these last few days. She is so happy in the mornings, it's so fun. She's chatting and giggling. I love it! Her nighttime routine is going really well. She gets a bath (sometimes it's just water no soap), then we put PJ's on, have our medicine, nurse and read harry potter. Dave reads to us as I feed her. It's nice. We are 1/2 way into the second book. I must say i'm more interested in the outcome then Emery is. But i'm sure we'll read them all again when she's old enough.

As for me, i'm not sleeping that well. She made it to 6AM two nights in a row but i got up at 4. That sucks. I have been feeling overwhelmed lately, which i'm sure with the not-rested aspect makes it seems much worst then it is. I find that there are days I panic and days i don't, yet it's the same stuff that happens on both those days. Funny how that is. I've been watching "dead like me" and i just finished the first season. Every now and then Em has a really rough day. She had one last Wednesday. It's the kind of day where she sleeps most of the day, (i know what you're thinking that sounds pretty sweet) but when she's not sleeping she's screaming (ahhh you get it now). So as soon as she wakes up it's a full on game of moving and swaying, bouncing and rocking. Until she falls asleep in your arms....yes you can't put her down or she'll scream again. On theses days I watch TV. As soon as she falls asleep I sit down with her in my arms and watch TV, last Wednesday I watched the rest of "dead like me" season 1. I usually watch it in 20 minute intervals when i'm feeding miss Em, but not that day. I think i made it through 6 full episodes. pausing every 30 minutes.

Natalie and Trace are in town right now. It's so great having them here. I feel like i'm on vacation too. Emery is loving all the attention. We spent the weekend at the beach.

bye bye daddy

Dave's in Chicago this weekend for Baseball bingo. It's only 2 nights but i think i'm gona miss him. He must have kissed me goodbye like 10 times this morning! i love it. Last thing he said was "send me lots of photos of her". Now THAT i am good at. I'm quick with the iphone.

I've been laying off dairy lately to see about her fussiness in the afternoons. I think it's working but who knows. So last night we went out for Mexican and i did really well until dersert. We hardly ever get dessert when we go out for dinner but it was this guy's birthday at the table next to us and this AMAZING apple crust with ice cream and something flaming went by. I had to have it. So there went my dairy. We have her a bottle last time, I always have a few in the fridge at my mom's house for when she's over there. So we stopped by and grabbed it. She went to bed at 10 and made it to 5:45AM!!! Go Emery! then went back to sleep at 7:30ish and we both slept till 10:30. It was glorious.

12 weeks! WHAT?

How on earth could it be 12 weeks already??? Little Miss Emery is doing great! We had a few bad moments after the 4th but she's amazing. She has discovered her hands now and it looks like she's doing "itsy bitsy spider" all the time. She's alert and wide awake most of the day. Last night she only got up once to eat so that's a good sign. She's out growing her bassinet so i think it's time for the crib. That cross over will most likely be in the next week or so.

Dave is headed to Chi-town this weekend for a Cubs Baseball Bingo game, so it's me vs. the house. Needless to say with Dave's back out and the holiday weekend followed by friends in town, a lot has not gotten done. I need to do some work on our lawn, we need mulch big time and there is laundry up to the ceiling. I'm hoping i can grab a friend to come chill with Em while i do the lawn. We have rocking chairs out front so someone can just park there with her. I really don't want to put her on the ground b/c of snakes. My neighbor saw one a few weeks back.

photos of Emery: http://picasaweb.google.com/melyjask
Videos of Emery: http://www.youtube.com/user/melyjask

11 weeks

Today Emery is 11 weeks old, right this minute she's fast asleep on my lap. We have been reading Harry Potter to her at night...Dave and I are pretty into it. Emery however, could most likely care less. She had a tough day today, which is understandable. The last few nights have been very busy. This past weekend was her first 4th of July. We went to the pool two days in a row and saw fireworks downtown at a friend of Kit's house. What a view! Mel, who's house it was, lives right across from the Riverdogs stadium and we stood in her back yard and watched the fireworks. Miss Merritt (Kit's 3 year old) got to hold Emery for the first time, and she did great.





Yesterday was Baseball Bingo at the Riverdogs and we were out until 11:00. We don't have any late nights on the board for the rest of the week or next week, so hopefully we'll get back on her schedule.

Emery is smiling a lot now and is holding her head up by herself. she LOVES her bebe seat, photos to come. I took them on my phone and have to move them over.

ok she's up. time to eat.

Boob Club

When we decided to do 12 hours by 12 weeks we went sticky to bottles (i was pumping) for a week or so to make sure Emery was getting enough milk. We discovered she was getting plenty of milk so we could start cutting out night time feedings. Well this caused all kinds of breastfeeding issues. She was getting so pissed that the boob wasn't coming as fast and as easy as the bottle. We went back to boob as much as possible, so now the only bottle she gets is with Nana in the afternoons.

So with that back around info...Emery and I went to the La Leche League meeting this morning. Monica calls it the boob club and is the one that told us about the meeting. These girls are amazing. They have a lot of experience and had me feed Emery there so they could help. What happens is she eats and pulls her head back and screams. They gave me some tips and helped me with positions and some possible reasons why she's doing this. I left very relieved it turns out i might be over producing and she's trying to keep up. i thought it might be the opposite.

other than that things are going great. KMK is doing well and i'm working from the house in the afternoons. Emery spends the afternoons with Nana. Dave has a herniated disc in his neck and is having a lot of pain. We spent all of Tuesday at the Spine Center and they gave him a shot for the pain and a neck collar to wear when he sleeps. The doctor thinks it will heal itself and we won't need surgery. I'm trying to keep him from doing to much.

oh I have a ton of videos of Emery on YouTube now! http://www.youtube.com/user/melyjask