I try...

So I know I said I would be better about posting...I do try...

Since the beginning of April, Emily has had two teeth come in and has had four ear infections!  So we have been alittle cranky around here :)  And when (or if) Emily takes a nap during a day I have to hurry to clean the house, think about dinner, or start laundry before we run out of diapers.  But right now I just don't feel like doing any of that so I though I would get on here and talk about my wonderful little girl cause I love talking about her and I am sure you all love to hear about her :) 

It amazes me how much she changes on a daily basis!  She is now crawling, it is still alittle shaky at times and once she is within a foot or two of her goal she will drop down and army crawl the last bit.  She is starting to crawl across a room for a toy and will try to follow after me (though she usually goes about 3 feet and then drops down and cries if she is trying to chase after me) when I go to get something.  She is starting to do the ma, da, ba and na sounds, and talks ALOT!  I love just listening to her talk, you know she is trying to tell you things, and she will laugh at the end of a "sentence" sometimes.  I can not wait until we can all understand what she is trying to say that is so funny!  She has also started to pull up to stand.  She mainly just pulls up to her knees, but when she really wants something she will pull all the way up to stand, she will not stand for long but she is making progress every day.  I am amazed how quickly she has developed her motor skills.  It seems like just a few weeks ago that she started to sit up well on her own and roll over (I guess because it has only been about a month).  I know I have said this before but she is like a new baby now that her diet has changed.  She will play on her own and get down and explore...she doesn't need to be held all day everyday...

She is now doing two "meals" a day with fruit in the morning and veggies with meat or grain in the evening.  She loves meal time and sometimes picking up each chunk of food is jsut too much work (she is still working on her pincer grasp) last night she figured out that she can just open her mouth and put it up to the table and jsut push her food in...when I told her we don't eat that way she just wrinkled her nose up and gave me her cheesy smile and laughed.  She then somehow managed to get her feet up on the table as well and was very very pleased with herself at that point.  It is so hard not to laugh at her sometimes, I had to look away. 

We are FINALLY getting into a sleep routine (but it keeps getting messed up by teeth and ear infections)!  When Emily is feeling well, she will wake up once overnight to eat and some nights she will wake up twice.  And on a good day she will take a 30 min morning nap and an hour afternoon nap.  She needs to sleep better during the day, she gets very fussy late morning and early evening, I think that if she slept longer, or would do a third short nap during the day we would have much more enjoyable days around here.  I can not really complain about anything though, because for one if we are out running errands the naps are in the car and that is my fault and second things are a million time better than they were two months ago!  I can take fussy days, its nothing compared to how things use to be :) 

Well I should get back to work, Emily will be up any second...We are having our first ever garage sale this weekend and now I know why I have never done one before!  It really takes some time to go through things and price them and get it all organized...it is so much easier to take things to Goodwill or a consignment shop.  But I am actually looking forward to the day, and I do secretly LOVE to reorganize my drawers and closets, so it really has not been that bad :)  We have alot of things to get rid of and it would be nice to make some money to buy new things!  I already have several things in mind that I would like :)