More pictures

Here are some pictures of both Emily and Shaun. We recently bought Emily a chair that's her size and here's a picture of her in it. Everybody is doing good at our house. Shaun is awake more these days but still sleeps a lot. right now he sleeps pretty well through the night and usually in his crib. Brad takes the late night shift and I take the early morning. That gives us at least 4 -5 hours of straight sleep for the both of us which works for us.

Here's a daddy's girl in the making.

The boys of the house taking a nap. Typical male behavior.

Finally a picture with Shaun awake.

Emily enjoying her car ride.

Shaun with his great aunt Diane.

POW! BANG! Batman!!!!

Brad prefers Batman but Shaun looks cute in his Superman outfit as well.

Marilyn, Tom and Emily strolling down the street in Newport.

Here's a fun video if Emily saying waffle.

Shaun Alexander Mack

Sorry for the late update. Shaun was born on 6/8/10 at 12:29pm. He weighed in at 10lbs 15.7 ounces (basically 11lbs) and was 22in in length. He came out with a full head of hair which surprised both of us. We knew he would be big but I was expecting him to be bald. I'm sure it will all fall out and come in another color. We are all doing well and adjusting. There is a picture of me the day before we went to the hospital so you can see how big I got towards the end.

I did not forget about Emily. Here she is coloring on the floor. she likes to lay down on her belly and color. Its really cute and funny.

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.