Silly Mommy, Crying is for Babies.

Okay, this is probably silly, but for the longest time I didn't want to put Emilee to bed for the night because whenever I did she'd make a big fuss and scream and cry and it'd tear at my heart and I'd just pick her back up and get all cry baby along with her. So I'd pretty much left the job to Ray. Well today Ray pretty much said it was my duty tonight. So I fed her, took her to her crib, laid her down, put my hand on her chest and just sang to her. She was out in a matter of a minute! I was amazed! I finally did it!

I know, I'm silly for being so excited, but I thought I was doing something wrong when I put her to bed, and now I know how to get her to sleep! *does a happy dance*

Anyways, here's a picture for you all to enjoy while I'm so happy.

Emilee Driving! [Age 3 months and 2 days]

Just a Little Fun

I've Been Tagged!

This one is all about my amazing husband:

1. Where did you and your husband meet? He was a friend of one of my friends when I was in middle school and he was a Freshman.

2. How long did you date before you were married? We started dating November 26th, 2004, we got married October 12th, 2005

3. How long have you been married? 3 yrs and 9 days

4. What is your favorite feature on him? His smile, it just makes me want to smile too.

5. What is your favorite quality about him? He is perfect and doesn't even realize it.

6. Does he have a nickname for you? Brat *laughs*

7. What is his favorite sport? Hockey

8. When and where was your first kiss? February in the Band Hall of our High School.

9. What is our favorite thing to do as a couple? Play games and watch movies.

10. What is his favorite food? Mexican food.

11. Do we have any children? Yes, our adorable daughter Emilee

12. Does he have any hidden talents? He plays the trombone...though that's not very hidden.

13. How old is he? 22

14. Who said I love you first? Umm...I actually don't remember...*fails*

15. What is his favorite music? Rock

16. What do I admire most about him? That he's always there for his friends and family, willing to help in any way he can.

17. What is his favorite color? White. =D

18. Will he read this? He might. =)

19. Who do I tag? Whoever reads this!

Pumpkin Patch Adventures!

Today we all went to the Pumpkin Patch! It was fun. We got four pumpkins for 11 dollars. Two nice big ones, one small one and a mini one. It's fun. Emi seemed to enjoy it. We put her in this Picture thing that makes her a tomato and it was cute. We also tried the grilled sweet corn which was very nummy.

So here are some of the pictures we got.

What A Crazy Notion!

So today was the first day that I've been away from Emilee for more than an hour or two. Typically when I go out, she's right there with me, which a lot of people have said is a good thing because it helps her to be more outgoing as she meets new people. Well today Ray planned this day for just us and had a friend of his babysit Emilee. I like the girl, and I trust her, but I didn't like the idea of leaving Emilee for more then a couple hours. Ray gave me a few days notice though, and I let the idea stew in my mind. When the day finally arrived, I took Emilee to Courtney and said a few things about caring for Emi, and then I left. It was like ripping a band-aid off as quick as you can.

Courtney gave us updates over the SEVEN hours that we were out. We went up to Haleiwa, a historical town near the North Shore, and hung around. I got a shell that has a turtle carved into it, and Ray got a set of Pick Up Sticks. We stopped at a Cantina and got nachos and myself a drink. It was called Mexican Punch and it was supposed to have Tequila, Orange Juice, Lemonade, Lime, Sprite and Grenadine. When I tried it, all I tasted was Tequila. So gross. I asked the waitress if the tequila was supposed to be THAT strong and she said she only put a shot in it. Even Ray thought there was more than a shot in it. In the end she took it back and didn't charge us for it, which was nice.

Then we went and saw Max Payne. It was interesting, but not a top pick of mine. I can't help but wonder how many people are going to complain about a scene where a building explodes and parts of the building fall on the people below. It looked like something that might have happened during 9/11 and so there might be a chance that someone will be offended. It was just a thought in my mind though as I watched it.

Anyways, when we got out of the movie, we went and picked up Emi. Apparently she doesn't approve of Formula at the moment and was stubbornly staying awake till I gave her milk. Silly goose. But otherwise she was peachy. She showcased her wonderful set of lungs for Courtney, which I am sure she appreciated, but she was happy to see Ray and I and we got home, I fed her and she's sleeping soundly now.

Over all, a good first time of being away from my Emi Monkey.

A cute picture of Emi to tide you over till the next post. (This is actually my desktop background):

Emi at the Beach. (Age 2 months, 2.5 weeks)

DEFINITELY a Wiggle Butt!

Alright, so today was pretty uneventful. I honestly didn't think I'd be writing anything for everyone. Yet here I am. So let me explain. Tonight, Emilee had fallen asleep in her bouncer. We let her sleep and when she woke up, I'd feed her and Ray would put her into her crib. Well all seemed fine, so I went off to take a shower. When I came back into the living room, Ray was on the computer playing away and Emilee was awake UNDER her bouncer. Now we hadn't strapped her in and it hadn't been a problem before. But this time, obviously she wiggled out.

But to get UNDER the bouncer she'd have to have wiggled out onto the floor (which mind you is about 5" from the floor) and then wiggle herself under. Which meant that she wiggle out without Ray noticing and then continued wiggling till I came out. I just about died. I said Ray's name, he looked down and saw Emi, picked her up and put her right back in the bouncer.

So tonight Ray gets the goofball award and Emi has declared herself the undefeated wiggle butt!

Here's a picture I took of her while she was sleeping in her bouncer tonight before she made her escape.

Ear Piercing, Oh My!

Alright, so I've read both sides of it all. Some think that ear piercing for babies is wrong and cruel, while others think it is cute and a rite of passage. Now here is my view of it. I remember when I got my first piercing, I was eight, and it was traumatic. I nearly squeezed the stuffing out of my bear. So I think that it is better to pierce her ears when she is younger so that she won't remember it. Also, I don't care what anyone says, the risk for infection is the same. Some people will say at the age of 4 or 8, the child has more shots, but at that point, they also are exposed to more germs and bacteria while at school or just playing around outside in the dirt. So Emilee has only had one set of shots, but she does not go to school or play outside. So it all balances out. Additionally, at her age, she's less likely to play with her ears, so there's less of a chance that she'll hurt herself, like she would were she a year or two. The backings to the earrings are locked, so it'd take a LOT of effort to get them off, so the choking aspect is lessened as well. Finally, this is just a personally reason, but I think all girls should go through this "rite of passage" at one point or another.

So because of all of this, we took Emilee to get her ears pierced today. She turned 3 months today and that is the soonest that she can get her ears pierced. We got titanium round studs to lessen allergic reactions and lessen the chance that she'll catch her earrings on something. She only fussed for a couple seconds, and then was fine. She's such a trooper. And she's cute as can be.

So here are the pictures. =)

Emilee is excited! She's about to get her ears pierced!
[Age: 3 months exactly]

Emilee's ear being marked. She was such a wiggle worm.

Just after she got her first ear done!

Other ear done! YAY!

Calm Emi. See? Not a big deal, right?

The MANIA of it All!

Today was YARD SALE MANIA on post and Ray, Emi and I went out to see the garage sales. We ended up with a lot of goodies. Some warm outfits for Emi while we're in Colorado, a few more dresses cause she doesn't have a lot of them, a shopping cart cover, two floor lamps, and a bumbo. I think we ended up with 10 outfits in all. And all for the final price of 22 dollars. I'm quite happy with our loot. It means we FINALLY have light in our living room! What a concept!

Emi seems to like her Bumbo though. She even fell asleep in it, though we weren't sure that was such a good idea, so we moved her into her bouncer. We will probably bring it with us to the party tomorrow so she has somewhere to sit. But I should get going, because I still have to wrap Brooke and Peyton's presents and doodle in their cards. It's fun.

Anyways, here are some pictures of Emi in her Bumbo, YAY!:

See? Emi seems to enjoy her Bumbo.
[Age 2 months 3 weeks 4 days]
"Yes, I can sit up, you wanna make something of it?"

The Adventures of Emi!

Today was all sorts of fun. Emi, Ray and I went to Build-A-Bear and made Emi's new friend Ella! It was a lot of fun to pick Ella out, along with a sound and a heart (that Emi licked instead of kissed, silly goose) and then getting the outfit. Now I just have to get the story written for Emi and Ella's meeting. I think it's a fun idea to write a story like that. Obviously it's not going to be non-ficiton, I'm going to have fun with it so that Emi will enjoy it for several years.

After Build-A-Bear, we went to Toys-R-Us because my mom sent Emi a giftcard to get her some things to play with. The first thing we got was an activity jumper. Then we got a foam ball (so if she's stumbles while crawling after it, she won't hurt herself if her face hits it), a doll that has different textures and a rattle necklace, a rolling dog that laughs when it's jiggled, a bag of mega blocks, a bag of foam blocks with letters and pictures, a giraffe toy, a set of simple keys, and a few other things I can't remember off the top of my head. We had a lot of fun shopping, and getting the silly activity jumper box into our car. (Blasted thing was so annoying).

When we got home, I put the jumper together with a few assists from Ray when I got frustrated. It wasn't that the silly thing was hard to put together, it was that the pad of the seat had tedious parts that I just didn't want to deal with anymore.

But once it was together, Emi was enjoying it, even if she could barely reach the floor in it. That's when we noticed that it was meant for 4 months+, but she still likes it.

Anyways, that was our adventure today, here are some pictures to showcase our day.

Here is Emi's Beary Best Friend, Ella!

Emi and Ella enjoying their first right on the Activity Jumper with Emily (the doll) and George (the giraffe) hanging around.

Emi just found Emily! *gasp*

*dies laughing* I don't know what Emi found, but this face is HILARIOUS!!!
Emi hugging Ella, SO CUTE!

All Sorts of Crazy!

Alright so I'm fairly certain that Emi is teething. She is always gnawing on her fingers or our fingers and she's a LOT more fussy than she's EVER been. She feels hot once in awhile, but never high enough to justify going to the Clinic, but definitely hotter than normal. And then of course the drool and bubbles. We do have a teething butterfly, but she's still getting used to her arms, and she occasionally misses her mouth with cool part of the teething thing. We are also going to go out and pick up some Hyland's Teething Tablets. They are these homeopathic treatment for teething that doesn't numb Emi's mouth, which is good because I nurse her, and if her mouth is partially numb, it would make nursing interesting. At least the tablets are only 6 dollars for 125 tablets. So not a bad deal.

Right now Emi is sleeping though. It's good and bad. Good that she's resting, bad that it is just before her bed time so basically she's going to wake up, get changed and fed, and we're gonna have to try and get her to go back to sleep if she decides she wants to fight it. Yay =P

Oh but guess what! This sunday (The 12th) is Ray's and my 3rd anniversary! So Exciting! We still don't know for sure what we are doing. I had wanted to do a picnic on the beach, but not sure the weather is going to behave for that. We might also go see a movie. We just don't know. Emi will be with us, so it'll be a cute family celebration, not that she will know that we are celebrating. I will be happy as long as I just get to spend the whole day with Ray, even with friends.

And we are going to be going to Build a Bear with Emilee! There is a party on Sunday for a friend of mine's twin girls. They are turning two and the theme is "Teddy bear Picnic" We had always intended to make a bear for Emilee, but we never got around to it. The invites say (because I was helping Alison a little and got to read them) to bring your best stuffed friend. So Emi is going to have one to bring, since we are not lugging Tiny to the party. =P Giant Gorilla Goofball that he is. I can't wait to make Emilee's friend because I'm going to write this story for the bear (whatever its name ends up being) and Emi so that Emilee will have a truly personalize bear. It will be fun. And it even works hand in hand with one of my college assignments. I have to use Photoshop to design a book cover, and now I can design it around Emi and her bear friend's story. =)

And here is how I love to end the blogs, with pictures!

Emilee and Mommy at a Friend's House. Don't we look cute? =)
[Age= 2 mths 2 weeks 3 days]

Daddy was goofing off and taking REALLY close pictures of Emilee's face. That's why it's so bright, but she's so cute still!

Another picture by Daddy. Making an interesting face. =)

BEACH DAY!

Okay first off, here are the pictures I promised. Alwin and Emilee were having fun looking at eachother and Alison got some good pictures of it.

Alwin looking up at Emilee. I swear it looks like she's ready to punch someone. Silly girl.
[Age: 2mths 1 week and 2 days]

Emilee seems to notice Alwin now! Yay!

Emilee must be doing something funny because Alwin is all smiles.

And now to talk about BEACH DAY! We took Emilee to the beach in her cute little Tankini and had some fun. We got there about 8am and left a little after 9am because it started to rain. While we were there, Emi got her feet wet and didn't seem to mind but then a bigger wave came up and attacked her and she was NOT pleased. She complained to Daddy about that one for awhile. I couldn't help but laugh a little bit. I know, I'm bad =P

So here are some cute pictures of Emilee at the Beach!

Emilee in her adorable swimsuit.

Emilee with Mommy. Daddy was being goofy, can you tell?

Emilee in the Ocean with Daddy!

I am but a humble servant...

...and I have been informed that I need to update, so as a humble servant I'll oblige the requests for another post. =)

Well earlier this week I took Emilee to Ray's office because one of the girls that works with him wanted to see Emilee in person. Well the moment Emilee and I were in the office, she was in Robinson's arms and she was going on and on about how cute she is. It was cute watching Robinson play with Emi, and funny that when her boyfriend tried calling her twice, she pressed the button to silence the ringer and said, "They can wait, there's a baby here." It's just funny. Well on Wednesday, I had to pick up Baumbarger who I was watching his car for while he was at NTC, and so I stopped by the office again because Ray asked me to. Well I got there and Ray wasn't there. He was at Motor Pool and forgot to let me know. But the second I went in, Robinson said, "BABY!" and Emi was in her arms again. Kirk (another girl that works there) also played with Emi. Well after a few moments, Robinson had to take something upstairs and asked if she could take Emi along with. I didn't see an issue with it, so up they went. When they came back, Robinson laughed as she told me that Emilee was flirting with SGT Major Martel. I thought that was funny, saying "Oh Daddy's gonna have to have a talk with Martel, he's not going to like Emi dating older men." And it was just an amusing moment. And Robinson is pretty funny in and of herself. She's I think about 2 or 3 months pregnant and she really wants a boy and so she keeps telling Emi that she's making a boyfriend for her. That just cracks me up.

So that's really all that's happened lately. Other than that, I got sick with a fever of 101.6 and it went away pretty quickly, but I was miserable that day. Ray has been good, though tonight he got a virus because he was being impatient. I feel bad for him that he has to reformat his computer and reinstall everything. That is not fun. And Emi has been going through a growth spurt, the little piglet. She's been soooo hungry lately. She acts like I starve her. She's silly. Oh and Alison seems to think Emi is teething. She has four kids, so I'd lean towards taking her word on it, but I'm just going, "How the heck do you know?" I felt Emi's gums and I don't feel anything special. Maybe I'm just clueless.

I'll put up some pictures tomorrow, since I forgot to upload the newest pictures off the camera. I know, bad Tanya.