Catching You Up

And here's your update! I have pictures galore and decided to just post the pics with a short blip explaining each one. These pics have been taken over the past few weeks and I think you'll enjoy them. So here you go!

Great Aunt AB gave Emmy the pretty bracelet that she's wearing. You can kind of see it in this pic. You can at least see something shiny on her arm! She seems like to it and we think it's cute :)

Emmy watches every Colts game with us. They are going to get better, she will believe me that they are a great team. I just know it!

Here she is enjoying her second game with her daddy:

Since I do most of the picture taking it's rare that I get in one. Here's me and Emmy/\ And here's a better pic of just Emmy:

Demitri has found another fav spot to hang out. They are friends, so it's all good :)

I took Emmy up north to visit her Great Granny. She had a good time hanging with out her:

Look how big she is getting in her swing!!:

So I took her to our neighborhood park for a swing on the "big people" swings!

I hope you have enjoyed the update. I'll try to not take so long in the future to update you all! I do know, there will be another blog posted at the end of the month b/c she has her 4 month appointment coming up then. So until then, have a great month!

UPDATE COMING

This is to everyone who keeps asking if I have any new pics of Emmy. The answer is - A few. And I will get those posted with some fun little stories sometime in the next couple of days.

I PROMISE!!!

Things just get busy and I don't take tons of pics b/c I forget that she's growing. When I see her everyday I don't see the changes that people who only see her once a week or do see. But I was just uploading pics and noticed these:

Sometime in her first month of life: Just a couple of weeks ago:

So I guess she is growing! More to come later, when I don't have to run off to teach at the Y :)

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8 Week Appointment

And we're back! I know it's been a while but there hasn't been much to report. Sure there are small things - she's trying hard to roll over, she's awake a LOT more during the day, she's consistently sleeping 6+ hours a night, usually more, etc.
But these are normal mile stones and while they are fun, they are not spectacular and exciting for everyone.

As for pictures, how many times can I show the same baby in the same pose with open eyes or closed eyes? I know she's completely adorable, and some days I love seeing that Ribbit pic on my screen saver at work!, but really, more pics of the same?! I will spare my readers.


Anyway, let the rambling end and the info begin:
* Emerson Rachel Cripe had her first full round of shots yesterday. I left the room b/c I'm a serious trypanophobe but Daddy stayed with her and was very good. I could actually hear her screaming from outside the room so I know she hated them. But she was very good and stopped crying as soon as they were done and she was picked up. What a trooper!

* She continues to grow! She is now 23 1/4 inches long (I think this was still around the 70th percentile or something) and 11 lbs 1 oz in weight (this is something like 55th percentile). Her head is proportionate to her and is at the 50-something percentile as well.

* The doc says she is "more than perfect" and we agree :)


So little Miss Perfect went home with her family and did a couple more exciting things that afternoon. First off, she smiled at me!!! I swear she did. To support this, she smiled at Grammy today: (this was the best pic she could get to send me at work). She's even more cute, is that possible?! BTW, this afternoon she smiled at her dad who's heart melted. Wait until she says Daddy for the first time - it will all be over, he'll be a blubbering mess!

But she then started feeling really crappy. This was not fun for anyone. She was crying and screaming and all we could do was walk around and talk quietly until she found a position to be in that was comforting. She ended up falling asleep on my chest. Poor thing...


And finally:

I did a little decorating in Emmy's room! The pic on the wall was done by Gram-in-law Hullinger. The crib was a gift from Grandma, the quilt came with the bedding set courtesy of (Great?) Aunt Kumiko and Uncle Mike and the ruler on the wall was also made by Gram-in-law Hullinger to help chart her ridiculous growth!

Emmy seems to like her new set up :)


And life rolls on! I will try to update this more often b/c I think she's going to be rolling over soon, maybe growing some hair again someday, petting the cats, and many other things babies do as they get older and more exciting. In the meantime, be comforted to know that when I am busy Demitri is happy to help out:

Happy Labor Day Weekend!

It's 1:38 am...she's sleeping...

Well, as the title informs you, it's 1:38 am and I'm awake but Emmy and Steve are sleeping. I should be asleep but I woke up on the couch about midnight having fallen asleep around 10:45. (For those of you who know me well, I just pulled a Steve! LOL!) I figured Emmy would be up soon for a midnight snack so I would just stay awake until she got up. See, at that point it had been 3.5 hours since she finished her dinner. It's now 5 hours since she finished dinner! What is going on?! Is this the miraculous, "OMG is she still alive?!?!?" night? Should I wake her up at some point? Will she wake up on her own soon? Will my ginormous and completely full 'dinner bowls' explode? (It kind of feels like they are going to!) I guess I'll have to wait and see...maybe I'll wake her up at 2:00...hmmmm...

Well let's catch you up while we're waiting. I apologize for not having any new pics. I've gotten out of the habit now since she basically looks the same, only slighter larger, by the day. But here's a list of things we've been doing, that I should have taken pics of:

* A second Colts game! Yes, we lost this one as well, but again we're OK with it as it's still pre-season. And Emmy stayed awake for some of this one :)
* The State Fair! Emmy slept through most of this and because she had been a little fussy the night before we didn't wake her up. I did think about getting her up to get a pic beside by the biggest boar but she was only sort of asleep at that point, and quiet. We let her be :)
* Her first day of babysitting! I went to work on Monday and Wednesday of this week and she enjoyed Daddy/Daughter time. But today Steve and I both had to work so she went out to Grammy's for the first full day. At one point I got a text from G-Pops saying, "i just fed emmy and she's snoozing here in my office. what a way to work" This was followed by a text from Grammy with a pic of her snoozing. <<>> Here's the pic Grammy sent:

Ooooh, I hear her stirring. Perfect timing as that was all the updates I had! I'm thinking maybe I'll make a video in my spare time so check back later to see if I got all motivated for that. Thanks for checking in!

Go Colts!!

This past Sunday was a very important day in terms of the football world. It was the first game of the 2008-09 NFL season (pre-season Hall of Fame game) and it featured the Indianapolis Colts!!! But that's not all...

We also introduced the newest Colts fan to her favorite team, visually!

Emmy heard many games from the 2007-08 season but had never seen a game until this Sunday. As you can see, it was an exciting experience; one that tuckered her out pretty quickly :)

She was able to show us her best "touchdown" pose, though:

I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot more of this pose as the season continues!

* On a side note, the Colts lost. But we are all OK with that b/c, as Emmy's parents know, the year we won the Super Bowl we didn't win a single pre-season game. For now, though, she will just have to trust us that they are the best team out there!!!

Little Wildflower

Yesterday Emmy had her 1 month doctor appointment. Can you believe she's already a month old?! Even more unbelievable - her size! Here she is getting ready for her appointment:

She just finished a huge stretch while I was getting a fresh, new outfit ready for her.

She looks tiny still, don't you think? I thought so! The truth of the matter is, Emmy now weighs a whopping 9 lbs 6 oz!!! She's also grown nearly 2 inches and is now 22 inches long!!! This puts her in the 60th percentile for weight and 80th for height. You all know me - I'm pretty small. And Steve is just a smidge above average. How do we have a wildflower for a child?! I must somehow make super milk :)

Now I wanted to have a picture to show you of Emmy's fabulous athletic ability but I can't seem to have the camera available at the right times. When we play with her on her tummy she can hold her head up for minutes at a time. And she looks around, alert. Her arms are crazy strong as well as she uses them to hold her upper body up so she can look around. According to some book that Steve has these are milestones a 3 month old should be showing. It seems like we've got an athlete on our hands!

But then she wears herself out and naps in the cutest positions, like this:

I'm just so happy with my tiny and growing little Wildflower of a child!

* Bath Time!!! *

Woo hoo! I have big news for everyone! But first, an apology:

I'm terribly sorry for not posting anything over the past week. It turns out babies are not that exciting. Emmy basically eats, sleeps, gets changed, and occasionally stares into space. She can't go out in crowds yet so she's confined to the house, neighborhood, and park. So there hasn't been a whole lot to write about or show you!

Now, on with the exciting news:

Emmy lost her umbilical cord this week! I decided to have some fun and take a Big People Bath with her. She seemed to really like it! She would tilt her head back to get her hair wet, move her arms and legs around, like she was swimming, and she generally enjoyed it.

This is fabulous news b/c I love to go swimming and was going to be sad if I didn't have a water baby. Now I know that as soon as we are both given the OK, we'll be hitting the pool.

And that's the excitement in the O-C household :)