6 months!

Time sure does fly. Emily is now 6 months old. It feels like she was only 3 months a few days ago. She had her doctor's visit this past Friday. She is now 15 lbs 7 oz and 26 inches tall. She is in the 40th percentile for weight and 55th percentile for height. This not really surprising. Based on the height of her mother she will not be very tall anyways. Everyone always laughs at her short little legs. Emily is now eating baby food. She is on her third day of sweet potatoes. We will try peas tomorrow. The doctor says we should see a tooth pretty soon. I hope this is the reason that Emily is a little fussy everyday and at night. She is not bad at all (compared to some stories I have heard about teething) but you can tell that her gums bother her sometimes by the way she shoves everything in her mouth. Emily now likes to cuddle and is starting to make some sounds like mama and bababa. It is so cute when she hugs up against you and gets a little grin on her face. There's nothing that compares to that feeling. Emily has also started to push herself backwards. She is able to get her butt up and get up on her hands but does not know how to move forward yet. we think within the next month or so she will be crawling.

We recently moved into our new house. Grandma Mack was nice enough to come watch Emily while we moved and also our but mostly hanging pictures. My friend Kate was in town for a couple days as well. This was the first time she has seen Emily. I think Kate is going to wait awhile before having kids after her visit. It was great having her here though.

Here's Emily eating her bunny.

Emily playing in her exersaucer.

That's a tired baby. This was last night.

Here are some videos. One of Emily eating sweet potatoes for the first time, being a chatter box, and one of her cuddling.

Raspberries and talking

Sorry for the delay in posting. we have been very busy with buying and moving into a new house. The newest thing that Emily is doing is making raspberries. She really gets her tongue out when she does it and sprays the entire area. She is getting really good at putting her pacifier in her mouth. I only wish she would do it in the middle of the night instead of crying so that Brad or I will do it for her. She is just checking to see if we are still there but after getting up 4- 5 times a night you start to get a little tired. We are not sure if she is teething yet because she does not really show any signs except drooling which she as been doing since she was 3 months. Here are some pictures and some videos. She is changing so much we are trying to capture all the different sounds she makes.

more pictures

We have started Emily on rice cereal. Her first attempt was not so good. There is a video of it below. But since then she has gotten a lot better. She watches us eat all the time so she is definitely close to wanting really food. They say once a baby starts to take interest in your food that its a sign they are ready to try eating. We tried her in the pool again this Sunday at Aunt Cathy and Uncle Brent's but we had the same result as at the grandparents. There is a video of that below as well. I have also included a video of Emily laughing. She is getting better at laughing all the time. Its so funny to hear her laugh. Here are some pictures as well.

This is the only way Ash lets Emily pet her.

Emily's life is so hard. She got up this morning before 7am. Around 8:30am I started to make her a bottle but she couldn't wait and fell asleep with her duck. What a hard life.

Here's a video of her trying rice cereal.

Here's Brad making Emily laugh before bedtime.

Our second attempt at swimming.

1st Reds game

Here is what has been going on since Emily turned 4 months.


A couple weeks ago we went over to Grandma and Grandpa's to go swimming in the baby pool. All I can say is that it did not go as well as we all had hoped. Kayla enjoyed the pool but it was too cold for Emily. I was only able to get the bottom of her feet in the water before she started to cry. There are some cute pictures of her in her bathing suit though.


The following weekend Grandma Mack and Uncle Tyler were in town. Everyone went to the Louisville Slugger Factory on Thursday but me because I was working. Brad said Emily did very well and it wasn't until they reached the museum that he realized they did not have her pacifier. Pretty scary to be away from home with out a net but she did fine. Then Friday night we went the Reds game with LBR. Mom invited Tyler and Marilyn to come as well. Unfortunately Emily did not enjoy her first Reds game. It was just too loud and too much going on for her. Brad and I spent most of the game inside trying to keep her happy. We are definitely going to wait a little longer before taking her to another game. Saturday we all headed up to Columbus to be with Brad's family. It was fun and Emily did very well with being passed around to multiple people. Sunday after I got off of work we went over to Grandma and Grandpa's to have dinner with Uncle Jeff and Aunt Kyoko. The Reds game was the first time they had met Emily. They actually got to hold her and see here on Sunday considering we were trapped inside during the game due to Emily's break down. We still love her though.


Emily is starting to talk louder and is able to hold herself up better. I have a video of her that demonstrates both new changes. The other night Emily turned over unto her stomach three times. She hasn't done it since but we thought that was pretty good. I think that's about it for now. Below are pictures and a video.

Typical Emily smile.


Its okay to wear a hat Kayla, look at me.
Plaid pants? Really Mom?
Does Uncle Jeff know how to hold a baby???








Does Kayla ever stopping moving? Hopefully she doesn't run Aunt Kyoko and me over.

Be very quiet. We're hunting kitty.

4 months old!!

Time has flown since Emily was born. She had her 4 month check up yesterday. She is 14lbs 6oz and 24.5 inches tall. She is in the 60-70% for her age and doing great. This was the first doctors visit that Emily did not cry the whole time. She actually talked to the doctor and was very calm. That is until she got her shots, but she quickly calmed down once I got her in the car seat and moving.

Here is a picture of her that I took this morning before heading over to Grandma and Grandpa's. They are babysitting her so that I can look at houses.
Memorial Day weekend we went to the zoo which was a lot of fun. We ran into Aunt Cathy, Uncle Brent, and Kayla. Kayla was having a lot of fun as well. It was hot and muggy that day but Emily was very good. She actually fell asleep at one point. We weren't there long so we missed must of the heat for that day and Emily preceded to take a 3 hour nap later that day. Here is a picture of her in the stroller at the zoo and one in the morning before we went to the zoo. She is the leaning tower of Piza.
Ash wanted to go to the zoo as well but we couldn't take her unfortunately.This is how Emily likes to sit sometimes at night when she is fussy. She just talks, farts and drools.
Emily has started playing in her exersaucer this week. Here is a video of her talking and playing in it.

Quick update

Emily has decided that she only needs 20 minute cat naps these days. I know most of you think this means she sleeps through the night but that is not the case. On the days that Brad and I are both at work she has decided that she will stay up late and get up several times in the night just to see if we are still there. She just wants to hang out. Emily has also decided that she needs to scream about everything whether its that she's hungry or tired. Everything is so dramatic with her. She's really noticing everything around her and likes to look at books while you read them to her. Well I just wanted to give everyone a quick update.

Here are some pictures of her reading a book.

Trying new things

Just a quick computer update. We have finally fixed our computer so I will be better at posting, I hope. Also I start working next week so that may hamper my postings as well since I won't be home as much to take pictures and videos.

Anyways, here is the stuff you want to hear about. Emily is doing great. She is grabbing a lot more stuff these days. She is very interested at looking around to see everything. She recently rolled over from her stomach to her back and then from her back to her stomach. since then she has never done it again and doesn't even try to roll over.

It is fun to look at the monitor at night because you never know which way she will be facing. Let me just say that it is never the way you placed her in the crib earlier that night. Emily usually will sleep really well through the night but does like to get up at 6:50am every morning regardless of when she got up last which is usually 5:00am. She goes back to sleep she just doesn't want to be in the crib. Sometimes she stays up but usually not. I guess we will have to fix that one day but for now its okay. She's still young.

Emily also had her three month pictures recently. She did really well for 3 being only 3 months old. She actually let us put her in three different outfits, a onesies, a dress, and her diaper. Pretty exciting.

So we have had a babysitter over for 3 days this week and it is working out very well. Emily seems to like her and has no problem with me being gone all day. So when I leave next week for work I won't feel as bad since I know Emily will have fun all day but it will still be hard to leave. Some days I want to go back to work and other days I don't. Oh well, I have to go back to work before my brain goes to mush.

Here is a picture Brad took last night of Emily with one of her new head bands.



Isn't Emily so cute in her little top and skirt outfit. We took her to the Aquarium that day. You really cant see her shirt because of her bib.

Here's Emily posing for the picture.

Emily is starting to fall asleep and was holding on to Brad.

Here she is 2 minutes later passed out.

Below are pictures of the present Grandma Mack gave Emily.

This is a video of Emily trying to roll over, talking, smiling, and looking around all during tummy time.

The video below is of her snoring. Its really low so you will have to turn your volume way up. It was louder in person but the camera did not pick up her snoring very well.