Experiments in Life

Sorry for my tardiness in getting this up, but as you will read below, things are kind of busy at our house these days

Holy Moly! Look at how much our little girl has grown! I guess she isn’t so much a little girl anymore

weight: 20 lbs (75th percentile)
head circumference: 44 cm (75th percentile)
length: 29.5 inches long (90th percentile)

So much is going on with Emily these days. She already has two teeth on the bottom. I believe she will be cutting another one or two soon.

She is also crawling now. She has been crawling for about 3 weeks. We were beginning to get worried since she was pulling up on various things around the house long before she really showed any signs of crawling. And now that she is mobile, the dogs spend a lot of time outside, a lot! Rosie generally tucks tail and runs while Dante likes to lick and run, then repeat. Emily seems to like that too. Of course, the pulling up has only increased with her mobility. Now she can crawl over to the coffee table and pull herself up. She is also getting brave and starting to let go of things and grabbing onto whatever is closest before she falls down. Things are going to get really interesting around our place soon. I believe she may be walking by the time she turns 1, which is right around the corner.

I can’t believe how quickly the time has passed. Since my birthday is exactly 2 weeks after Emily’s, my birthday is now rapidly approaching. Before Emily came, time between birthdays seemed long. Now with her here, I can’t believe that I will soon celebrate another year. I never really believed that once you had a kid that time flew by faster, now I do. I’m not sure how that is physically possible…

Anyway, we are greatly enjoying our little girl and having so much fun being parents. I absolutely love being a Mom and believe that I have finally satisfied one of my callings in life. I watch her grow and learn more each day. It is delightful to have the opportunity to do so. Everyday, I fall in love with her a little more. Now I know what being a parent is all about.

Stay tuned for the 12-month update in 3 months

Well, it has been a wild couple of weeks. Between all three of us having a stomach bug, Emily and I having the flu, me being in San Diego and Ashley and Emily going to Columbus, there has not been a whole lot of time for the whole website thing.

However, I have had some time to take some new pictures (Internet Explorer-friendly link) of Emily. Above, you can see her expressing her displeasure to being put in an N. C. State onesie (Hi Randy!). We all know she was crying cause she wanted to be put in maroon and white. In the past few weeks, Emily has starting chewing on everything with her two partial teeth, crawling around the floor, and pulling up on everything and everyone that she can. I tried to get shots of all of that, but I was not able to get pictures of her crawling towards me — only away.