Miss Thumb Sucker!!

Emerson has been sucking on her fingers and fist pretty much since she was born, but this weekend she worked really hard and finally isolated the thumb!! And boy does she put it to good use! She will not take a soother, so I suppose this is the alternate. We're a bit worried about her being a thumb sucker. At least you can take a soother away! I looked up thumb sucking in my What To Expect the First Year book and they say not to worry about it unless is continues past age 6, so hopefully she'll stop before then!! She is getting more and more interactive and talkative each day! It's so cool to watch her change and grow! She's our Miss Smiley :) She continues to sleep really, really well. She goes to bed between 8 and 9 pm and gets up around 6:30 am. Occasionally she will nurse once through out the night. And this week her naps have been getting much better. She's always taking a long morning nap (usually from around 8 - 10 am) and then many more naps throughout the day! Of course she naps best at home, but we are not often home! Although for the most part we don't go out until after 10, so she gets the morning nap in at home. Now Cal and I have to work on our sleep schedule!! We haven't been going to bed until midnight or 12:30 am and it's starting to catch up with us - 6:30 am comes awfully fast! But it's so hard to get to bed any earlier. Guess we'll work on it!

Cal had NAIT this weekend. His second last weekend - YEAH!! He had his first hockey playoff game on Friday night. Unfortunately they lost. Game 2 is Wednesday night. Saturday morning my parents came over. Blake was so excited to see them, he almost fell while running to the door! I'm not sure what he's going to do when they go to Alaska in June!! They were only gone 10 days, but boy did he miss them! Saturday night we had a BBQ and ate outside on our deck. It was a gorgeous day! Sunday morning the kids and I headed to Stony Plain. We washed the car at our favorite car wash (all the way in Stony Plain!!!) and then went to Gerry, Lesley and Colby's house for a visit. It was nice to see them and check out their newly developed basement! There was lots of room for the boys to play!! Then we went to my Mom and Dad's for the rest of the day. Blake pulled on his Carharrts and went to work/play with Grandpa outside! He sure is 100% boy!! Once again, the weather was wonderful.

This week our baby boy turns 2 :( It's so hard to believe! Cal has Monday and Tuesday off, so we have some fun family time planned for Blake's birthday!

Have a great week everyone :)

Luv Tracy