7 Months Old

Seven things about Baby Emilyn:

1. She is full of smiles. You are guaranteed a smile if you blow her kisses. She also thinks it is REALLY funny to put her hands in your mouth and pull, poke and grab at your face!
2. She is a pretty good baby now, but still loves attention (and demands it sometimes)! She is generally pretty content, but when she wants something, she wants it NOW!
3. Sleep could still be improved! Most of the time she wakes up once or twice a night, which isn't too bad, but once in a while she doesn't wake up, which is wonderful and not very often, and occasionally she wakes up 4 or 5 times a night, multiple nights in a row, which is hard to say the least. She does nap extremely well. She always takes two naps a day, and sometimes a third, almost always going down awake, without crying a bit.
4. She thinks her sister is hilarious, and handles being squeezed, pushed, grabbed, dragged and pulled by her very well now.
5. She loves to sit up and look around, and she still loves her toys, as well as everything she shouldn't have that isn't a toy like magazines, cords, phones, remotes, etc. She likes to stand in her exersaucer, and is much better in her carseat now. Yesterday she stayed in her car seat the whole 3 hours of church, without sleeping.
6. She loves textures and sounds, especially fuzzy, soft, and crinkly. That's a great combination!
7. She still isn't all that interested in moving around on her own. Apparently she rolled from back to front last week when I was in class. Since I wasn't here to see it, I can't accept that it happened without me! But even though she seems to be able to roll both ways, she doesn't roll much. She's content with just sitting and watching what is happening around her.











Playing in the second snow of the year.

This probably needs no explanation. I'm sure you can guess that Miss Matisyn was responsible. She went into our room, got into my drawer, and smeared this cream all over our bed. It was fun to clean up, thanks to Matt for doing most of it. I saw it, put Matisyn in time-out, and walked away!

A very BIG THANK YOU to my mom for watching the girls the last couple of weeks. She even ended up with the flu, and was a trouper about still being the babysitter. She is wonderful with both of them, and I'm grateful with the time they got to spend with her, and that we could have some time together too. I feel bad that we got her sick though, and I'm glad she can get some rest back at home. We miss her already!

Here is a series of pictures of Emilyn in the sink taking a bath. She was cracking me up with her desire to get the water. She loves that stream of water, and was even motivated enough to try to pull herself up to reach it. That little baby makes me smile!

















Matisyn Quotes:

"Off to see the Lizard, the wonderful Lizard of Oz." She saw the Wizard of Oz for the first time. I think it made an impression.

She came into my room, and I was out of sight. She said outloud to herself, "Oh no, my Mommy is gone. . . FOREVER." A fairy took my Mommy. . . FOREVER. Forever was said very dramatically. I know, I know we all know where she got the drama from, but she does have quite the imagination, exceeding my own I believe!

I was putting Grandma Karen's bedding away from her visit and Matisyn threw down the pillows and said, "Hey Mommy, you know what is better than cleaning?" She then started jumping around on the pillows and yelling whee, whoo, whee, whoo. I think she has a point! Dancing around and yelling does sound better than cleaning.
Here is a reenactment we did for Daddy in the living room. I took pictures.