Last post before the hospital

Here are some pictures of Emily and of the baby's room. Everything is good here but we are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the newest Mack. We will post pictures of him once we have some. Enjoy these for now.

Busy and lazy

Well, we have been busy lately but I also rather get to bed early some nights then post. That's why it has been so long since my last post. Emily is changing everyday. She finally has moved into her forward facing car seat, which she enjoys. She is walking much better now almost running but not quite there yet. She is starting to say more. Emily can say hello, bye, baba for her bottle, ba for ball, pretty close to saying flower and row(she likes the song row, row, row your boat), yes and no. She also started saying animal sounds. Her best ones are lion, sheep and cat. We are working on others. she is also starting to do the motions for the wheels on the bus and says t,t,t when the horn toots in the song. Its really cute.

We went to the Johnson's house for Easter. Emily took a ride on her first swing and loved it. I have a video of her below. we had our first ear infection. Emily went to the doctors because of a cough and came out with a double ear infection. She never had a fever and never really pulled on her ears like kids usually do so we had no idea there was an infection. But she is all cured and better now. I think Emily might be growing since she has been taking her naps earlier than usual and is crankier than usual. Hopefully that is the case or we are hitting the terrible twos really early.

Here are some pictures and videos.

pictures at last

Here are the pictures I promised a couple of weeks ago. They are not in order of events but I have put captions with them so that you will know when things happened. Emily had a great 1st birthday. The weekend of her birthday party the weather decided that we needed snow. It didn't effect anything and the party went on as planned. The visit with grandma and Uncle Tyler was great. I took her to her 1 year check up on the 8th. She was 18.46 lbs (9%) and 28.5 in (26%). She went from 29% in weight to 9% and 47% in height to 26%. We weighed her a week later since she had not been eating very well the week before her doctor visit due to her illness to see what she was. In one week she had put on 0.2 lbs. We keep weighing her every week because the doctor said once she is 20lbs we can put her in her forward facing car seat.

In other news she started walking the Friday!! She still prefers to crawl but she can walk just slowly. I have video of her walking below. Her top teeth are finally coming in as well. Soon we will be able to give her more solid food since she will be able to chew it.

With only 4 months until the next one we decided to go crib shopping today. We did not find one until the very last place we went. It should be here in 6-10 weeks. The theme of his room is dinosaurs.

Here's a picture of Emily playing with the TV remote.

Emily loves her doll that Grammy gave her. She hugs it and then spanks it. Not sure where she picked up the spanking.

Just a random picture of her smiling at home.

Here's Kayla, Zoe and Emily playing in the balls in Florida earlier in January.

Emily loves to talk on her phone. That's why she has two cordless phones, one old fashion phone, and one cell phone. Of course she prefers mommy's and daddy's cell phones.

Emily liked to pick up the sand but did not like it on her hands. She would immediately try to brush the sand off while sitting on the beach at Sanibel Island in Florida.

She loved being tossed gently on and off the bed in Florida with Kayla.

Just being a goofball at the zoo in Florida.

One year old and it's a boy!!!

Emily celebrated her 1 year birthday on Friday!! It was a good day until she vomited that night. She is still sick. She doesn't eat anything and barely drinks anything. The nurse told us to bring her in Monday if she is not any better. I guess there is an intestinal bug going around right now which starts with vomiting and ends with diarrhea. Other than that she is doing good. She is not running a fever or anything else. We just have to keep her hydrated.

We were in Florida the first week in January visiting Grandma, Grandpa, and Grammy while they were vacationing in Florida. The weather was not as warm as everyone hoped it would be and none of us had packed the right clothing. Emily had fun playing the Kayla and sprouted another tooth. Now she has 3 teeth on the bottom. Although I think she is trying to sprout 4 more currently but they are on the top. Emily had a lot of fun jumping off the bed and jumping up the bed. She did not actually jump. Grandma lifted her up and down but she loved it anyways. There was a place called the Monkey Playhouse which is for kids 6 and under. All the kids enjoyed that place. Emily really liked the pit of balls.


On Monday we found out that we are having a boy! It's very exciting but we are just happy that he is healthy as far as the doctors can tell. I am already showing and feel him a lot more than I did a few weeks ago so he must be getting big.

Emily's birthday party is this Saturday so I will post pictures after this weekend.

Christmas

Emily had her first Christmas. We all went over to my parents house on the 20th to celebrate. Emily got some fantastic toys. She loves the car Grandma and grandpa Rosenberger gave her. She loves for us to push her around the house. She also really loves the kitchen that Grandma Mack bought her. I clean it up after she goes down for a nap and then she loves to throw everything on the floor when she wakes up. Emily is getting closer to walking. She will walk with her car or if you are holding her hands. It won't be long now. I almost forgot, Emily is feeding herself now. She can hold her own bottle and her water bottle. Its kind of fun to watch her feed herself. Here are pictures of Christmas and some other random ones.

Here is a video of her walking with her car for a split second. I went to get the camera but she stopped walking right when I got the thing turned on. Oh yeah, in case you did not notice the top of the blog we are expecting number 2 on June 13th.

Vacation and Festival of Lights

We recently went on vacation with Grandma Mack and Tom. The first destination was Atlanta, GA so Brad could dive with the shark whales. Emily had a lot of fun looking at the jelly fish. Then we headed out to meet up with Brad's cousin Amy and her two kids. Emily ate a pickle and crackers for the first time at lunch that day. It was nice to see them again. Next stop was Savannah, SC. That was a neat town. We went to two plantations, a couple house, the slave mart, and Ft. Sumter. We made a quick stop at Hilton Head where Emily got to see her first ocean. The last stop was Amelia, FL. We stayed at Grandma Mack's friends' house. It was nice and Emily crawled up her first stairs there. On the way back Brad, Emily and I stopped by the Tennessee Aquarium. Here are pictures from the vacation.

This past weekend we went to the Festival of Lights at the Cincinnati Zoo with, Cathy, Brent, Zoe, Kayla, Brian, Nikki, Ellie, and Nathan. It was a lot of fun but very cold. Here are a couple of pictures.

Halloween and 9 month check up

Emily is now 9 months old and not getting so big. HA HA HA! Emily had her 9 month check this past Friday and cried as usually. She only got one shot and a finger prick but she still cried like a little baby. She is now 17.76 lbs and 27.5 inches tall. She gained 2 lbs and grew 1.5 inches since her 6 month visit. That puts her in the 29% for weight and 47% for height. This past Thursday we also had her 9 month photos which did not go as well as planned. Here are some of the pictures.

Halloween was a lot of fun. we went over to Aunt Cathy and Uncle Brent's house to play with Zoe and Kayla. We tried to get some fall pictures but it did not go to well. Kayla was distracted by the dogs down the street and Emily just wanted to pull Kayla's hair. Here are some pictures of the girls and Emily in her costume. Below is a video of Emily crawling in her costume. It was so cute!! I think you will agree.Emily (dronkey), Zoe (lobster) and Kayla (peacock)Emily figured out how to crawl under the table and stand up. All that without bumping her head and getting stuck.She likes to stick out her tongue now so I had to get a picture of it.