Happy 9 month bday!

Its incredibly hard to believe that Emma is already at the 9 month mark.

Since its NFL draft week, here are her measurables
Height – 27.25 - 45%
Weight – 20 lbs, 3 oz - 77 %
Head circumference – 17.25 in - 54%

Intangibles - likes to play til she crashes, can pound breastmilk at a level unparallelled by other Wasians, getting entirely too fast at this whole crawling concept, along with a great head of hair. Can brighten up a room with her smile and still has a lot upside as in still hasn't gotten her teethe, and is just learning to gum food. This is a can't lose pick people, I'd give her top pick money.

So she’s doing great. We had a meeting with our Parents as Teachers contact the other night and she also thought Emma was doing well. For those of you who haven’t done such meetings ever (or don’t live in KS which currently has the program but may be cut by the state budget) they come in and talk to you about where your child should be and some ideas on how to help them progress regardless. When asked if we sing songs to her, there was an awkward silence and I said “well I sing songs with Emma when Lela is away at the gym” which is translated as she may have walked out and reported me to the state of KS if I would have said, “yeah Emma and I sing songs about being a Wasian and a Gangsta, and about being a crazy mofo, you know the usual Johnson County songs,” as would have been more accurate. So technically I didn’t lie but rather just gave her the information she needed to know.

Emma has basically gone crazy, in a good sort of way (so the songs we sing are somewhat prophetic). She now stands next to everything, including her table. For some reason she still loves the violin piece the most, other than the fact that it fits nicely into her mouth, but to me its one of the less fun portions of the table. Weird that Emma’s thought process doesn’t follow my impeccable, Spock-like logic. Lela’s doesn’t seem to either. . . hmm, women must be crazy, I am clearly right here. Anyway, we have been baby proofing the house incrementally (which is husband code for I have put it off and trying to catch up on it) and anything that we do not baby proof is the very thing that Emma craves. She is also increasingly dramatic which when combined with her boycott of 2 solid naps in any one day makes for some lovely bipolarism some evenings. To boot, she has figured out that doing the standing cry rather than laying down in her bed at night generally gets her some extra love. We’ll have to put a stop to it soon, its pretty scary that she is already very quick to figure out ways to manipulate us!

Anyway, hopefully everybody's having a great week, we are definitely trying to savor every moment with our crazy little wasian gangsta princess.

Finally some easter pics!

Sorry I have been lazy and haven't gotten any pics up

Trouble by dad keeping the eyes open

Emma on easter

Unsure what grandma is giving her, but its pink so its cool

And introduce the sunglasses

There's the Wasian Gangsta look we were looking for

We had some trouble getting emma to smile, but she still looks great

Almost a smile, finally!

Getting three small children to take pictures is interesting. . .

Finally back home after a long day out on the town

And now some pics of the new casa

Part of the kitchen and the eat in kitchen before woodwork

Looking down on the entryway

The living room before woodwork

And after!

One side of the kitchen

Where the glorious range will sit.

This doesn't do the close justice, its pretty pimp

Happy Belated Easter

Sorry long time no write again. Well Emma is now crawling forward, which means we um, probably should get to babyproofing and all that fun. . . She loves it though and it has now created an urge to climb everything. Within a day or so of the forward crawl came being able to get herself standing up, which was cute for about 30 seconds the first time until she fell and hit her head on a wall. I know, I know, there will be plenty of bops to the head but that doesn’t make it any more fun! The sad part of this is Emma likes to cuddle less now as she wants to be going somewhere, the best we can get is that she will crawl over us if we are next to her.

Last weekend we also went back to the big IA for Easter and also for Julia and Jacoby’s bdays, as we aren’t going to be able to make their birthday bash due to Lela’s travel schedule. Traveling with an infant is always an adventure as you all know and can imagine, it seems that just getting out the door is the biggest hurdle with Emma. Once we had that aspect covered, Emma was phenomenal. She slept to Des Moines on the way out and from there on the way back, which is really all we could ask for. Cooper was his usual somewhat annoying but mostly good self also, so the actual drive was fine, sometimes the anticipation is almost worse than the actual drive. Once there, Emma enjoyed getting to see her cousins and everybody else. She obviously didn’t grasp the whole easter egg hunt concept but was great as she got passed around and got to watch all of the kids who passed through her line of vision during the miscellaneous activities.

This week we also had Emma’s first rise in temperature. We know we have been really lucky with her as we have only had to deal with colds, but I think both Lela had a “oh crap, what do we do” look on our faces when we first discovered it. Okay, so maybe that was just me and Lela knew what she was doing, but I like to pretend some days that I am not the only dumb one. Luckily it looks like it was either a brief bug or teething related (still haven’t seen a tooth, but its coming) so it was short lived. We know, we are lucky!

Emma continues to love to “dance” to various songs we sing her. We continue to embrace non conventional songs, such as Lela’s new top hit “Let’s go get the mail.” Emma and I may or may not have remixed that, and that remix may include the phrase “going to get the mail like a crazy Wasian gangsta,” but I will refrain from giving full details until our recording album comes out. I think it will be called “The Wasian Gangsta Hawkeye”, has a nice ring to it.

We’ll post some pics of our exploits later, in the mean time, keep it real.