Yesterday afternoon Cal and I gave Emerson her first taste of rice cereal. She did very well!! She got a few spoonfuls down. She was very happy during the whole process and kept sticking her tongue out (as usual these days!!)!!! She looked so tiny in the big high chair :) We'll try rice cereal for a week or so and keep moving on from there! I'll make some baby food within the next few weeks. I posted a cute video of the experience on Facebook!!
Talk to you later,
Tracy
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Big Update!
The summer is flying by. Emerson will be 6 months old, 1 week from today!!? Very hard to believe!! Cal brought out the high chair tonight and I've bought some rice cereal, so we're all set up and are going to try the cereal with her tomorrow. I think she's ready. She's eyeing up our food all the time now and can sit up quite good. I'll have to get busy and make some baby food soon. Hopefully she'll be as good of an eater as Blake is! She is certainly becoming quite the character!!! I can often see a mischievous glimmer in her eyes! She has such a fun little personality and sense of humor!!! Blake totally cracks her up and he knows it! She'll laugh that big from the bottom of your belly laugh when he's being goofy around the house! It's so sweet! She's sitting up pretty good by herself now. We put the nursing pillow behind her, because after awhile she falls back! We've been using the bumbo chair with her a lot more than we did with Blake. Blake is really good about giving her a toy on her tray when I put her down near him to "play"! She's grabbing at everything and enjoys shaking her rattles!! Our pediatrician is on vacation, so we're not able to get in for her 6 month check up for a few weeks, but I'm curious to see how much she weighs, because she feels like she's grown a lot in the past month. I think his scale is more accurate the health unit's!
Tonight I was going upstairs to run Blake's bath, so I told him what I was doing and he said to me, "Mom - don't do it." What a little goofball!!! He was trying to stall for time! I looked back at him and he had this sneaky, sly look on his face!! On Friday we went to Walmart and then had lunch at McDonald's. We were sitting in McDonald's looking out into the parking lot and he says to me, "Mom, two trailers." So I look out the window and sure enough there were two trailers in the parking lot. A bit later he says, "I see blue bus. Oh! I see orange bus. Yake sees two buses. Orange and blue!!" What a smart little cookie! Another thing he does that crack's us up, is when he's waking up in the morning or from his nap, he starts talking and talking and talking and talking ... Sometimes we leave him for 1/2 hour while he talks away! He goes over the previous and upcoming days events! For example, this morning he said, "Dad golf with Eric. Eric pick Dad up. Eric blue truck. Dad home. Mom and Dad home. Em home. Heidi home. Jazz home. Yake home! I see Bamma and Bampa. Bamma red car." And on and on and on ... It's great to lay there and listen to him! I also love it when he wakes up singing!! And the first thing he does when he wakes up is turn on the light in his room!! We've had to rearrange his bedroom a bit. I moved a shelving stand closer to his bed, because he likes to have a glass of water in his room during the night and he kept calling us for water, so I told him we'd leave a glass of water on the stand next to his bed so he can sit up and have a drink when he needs one! And it's worked! A lot of times I come in his room in the morning and he's taking a sip!! We've registered for My 1st Preschool again at the YMCA. It begins on August 30th. We're taking it on Mondays, so that every second Monday Emerson can stay home with Cal or I. She slept through most of the classes last semester, but she's older now and will be more awake! I'm looking forward to starting classes again. Blake won't be the youngest this time and maybe he'll be the one belting out the ABC's!!!
We've had a great weekend. Friday evening we invited our friends Brad and Julie and their boys for a BBQ. We asked Brad and Julie to be Emerson's godparents. Unfortunately, Emerson was in bed and missed seeing them!! Although they did get to see her over the video monitor! LOL! We had a great visit, as always, and Blake had a blast playing with the boys. For some reason, he has no problem sharing with them. He doesn't even get angry when they ruin his "line-up's!" (He lines up his trucks, tractors, cars etc in little groups all over the living room - daily!! Often organized by color!! Usually he gets quite upset if someone moves one of them out of line!) We wonder if it may not be because they are older and bigger than him?! Regardless, it's nice to see them play well together. Saturday morning we hung out at home. Saturday afternoon Cal headed to a golf tournament, which was a fundraiser for the Edmonton Curling Super League. Two of his co-workers play in the league. The kids and I went to the mall after their naps. It was nice to cool off in the air conditioned mall! Today we went to Home Depot to buy a shed for the back yard, only to find out they are sold out across the province :( So we went to Tim Horton's for coffee and timbits and stopped by what we call the "good" park! It's an awesome park, not too far from our house. Blake had fun and Emerson took her first ride down a slide (in Dad's lap of course)! This afternoon my parents dropped by for a visit and my Dad and Cal fixed our gate. Cal and I finished painting the fence this evening, FINALLY!!! Next up is the deck. At least it won't take as long as the fence :) The fence does look great, so it was worth all the work! Cal's off tomorrow, so the boys will do what boys do, while Em and I go to Aquababies! Other than that, we're not up to much this week. My Mom and I may take the kids swimming one day. Oh and how could I forget - I have a massage on Friday. Looking forward to that!! Saturday we are taking the kids to Walmart for pictures. We've never been to Walmart for pictures, but I've heard they've changed and are very comparable to Sears, so hopefully they'll be good!! We were going to go to a u-pick farm this morning to pick strawberries, but apparently they won't be ready again until next week, so hopefully we'll make it there before the season is over. Blake loves strawberries, so we thought he'd enjoy picking them fresh!
Have a fantastic week everyone ;)
xoxo Cal, Tracy, Blake and Emerson
Tonight I was going upstairs to run Blake's bath, so I told him what I was doing and he said to me, "Mom - don't do it." What a little goofball!!! He was trying to stall for time! I looked back at him and he had this sneaky, sly look on his face!! On Friday we went to Walmart and then had lunch at McDonald's. We were sitting in McDonald's looking out into the parking lot and he says to me, "Mom, two trailers." So I look out the window and sure enough there were two trailers in the parking lot. A bit later he says, "I see blue bus. Oh! I see orange bus. Yake sees two buses. Orange and blue!!" What a smart little cookie! Another thing he does that crack's us up, is when he's waking up in the morning or from his nap, he starts talking and talking and talking and talking ... Sometimes we leave him for 1/2 hour while he talks away! He goes over the previous and upcoming days events! For example, this morning he said, "Dad golf with Eric. Eric pick Dad up. Eric blue truck. Dad home. Mom and Dad home. Em home. Heidi home. Jazz home. Yake home! I see Bamma and Bampa. Bamma red car." And on and on and on ... It's great to lay there and listen to him! I also love it when he wakes up singing!! And the first thing he does when he wakes up is turn on the light in his room!! We've had to rearrange his bedroom a bit. I moved a shelving stand closer to his bed, because he likes to have a glass of water in his room during the night and he kept calling us for water, so I told him we'd leave a glass of water on the stand next to his bed so he can sit up and have a drink when he needs one! And it's worked! A lot of times I come in his room in the morning and he's taking a sip!! We've registered for My 1st Preschool again at the YMCA. It begins on August 30th. We're taking it on Mondays, so that every second Monday Emerson can stay home with Cal or I. She slept through most of the classes last semester, but she's older now and will be more awake! I'm looking forward to starting classes again. Blake won't be the youngest this time and maybe he'll be the one belting out the ABC's!!!
We've had a great weekend. Friday evening we invited our friends Brad and Julie and their boys for a BBQ. We asked Brad and Julie to be Emerson's godparents. Unfortunately, Emerson was in bed and missed seeing them!! Although they did get to see her over the video monitor! LOL! We had a great visit, as always, and Blake had a blast playing with the boys. For some reason, he has no problem sharing with them. He doesn't even get angry when they ruin his "line-up's!" (He lines up his trucks, tractors, cars etc in little groups all over the living room - daily!! Often organized by color!! Usually he gets quite upset if someone moves one of them out of line!) We wonder if it may not be because they are older and bigger than him?! Regardless, it's nice to see them play well together. Saturday morning we hung out at home. Saturday afternoon Cal headed to a golf tournament, which was a fundraiser for the Edmonton Curling Super League. Two of his co-workers play in the league. The kids and I went to the mall after their naps. It was nice to cool off in the air conditioned mall! Today we went to Home Depot to buy a shed for the back yard, only to find out they are sold out across the province :( So we went to Tim Horton's for coffee and timbits and stopped by what we call the "good" park! It's an awesome park, not too far from our house. Blake had fun and Emerson took her first ride down a slide (in Dad's lap of course)! This afternoon my parents dropped by for a visit and my Dad and Cal fixed our gate. Cal and I finished painting the fence this evening, FINALLY!!! Next up is the deck. At least it won't take as long as the fence :) The fence does look great, so it was worth all the work! Cal's off tomorrow, so the boys will do what boys do, while Em and I go to Aquababies! Other than that, we're not up to much this week. My Mom and I may take the kids swimming one day. Oh and how could I forget - I have a massage on Friday. Looking forward to that!! Saturday we are taking the kids to Walmart for pictures. We've never been to Walmart for pictures, but I've heard they've changed and are very comparable to Sears, so hopefully they'll be good!! We were going to go to a u-pick farm this morning to pick strawberries, but apparently they won't be ready again until next week, so hopefully we'll make it there before the season is over. Blake loves strawberries, so we thought he'd enjoy picking them fresh!
Have a fantastic week everyone ;)
xoxo Cal, Tracy, Blake and Emerson
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