Pedal!

Emma can pedal her tricycle now. We are sooo excited! She can't really go uphill and sometimes needs a push to get it going, but she's actually pedalling. We are sooo excited!Forever she would just push it with one foot and have the other foot on the pedal. The other night two neighbor boys were out riding their bikes on the road, so of course Emma wanted to go outside and ride her bike. She got her tricycle last Christmas and couldn't even hardly reach the pedals. Oh how she's grown! I was hoping that she would learn how to pedal by the end of the summer and was starting to get disapointed that she hadn't learned yet. The video is a bit fuzzy because something is set wrong on our camera and I can't figure out what is wrong with it. I think I might have to get the manual out. But it's still cute!

Is this Fall?

I think it's suppose to get a little cooler this week, but Emma has swam in her pool 3 days in a row because it has been so warm. She has really loved it! Today she wanted to go swimming again, but it was a little cooler today, so she didn't get to. It's so hard to tell her no because she asks so nicely and really has her heart set on it. We went to Target instead. Emma is getting better, despite the cold that she has now. She is taking another kind of medicine that seems to be helping a little more than the other kind. It's liquid, so it's easier to give to her...and she likes it, which makes all the difference. I have to put a plug in for CVS, they called us and told us if they made the medicine it would be really bitter, but if we had a pharmacy in Elkhart make it, it would taste better because they make it from a powder base instead of a tablet. Thank goodness that the pharmacist cared enough about Emma, because it makes it a whole lot easier when it tastes good! We have to wake her up in the middle of the night to give it to her, she doesn't mind near as much as I do! She's at the point now that she doesn't even open her eyes, she just opens her mouth and drinks it up!

I'm feeling the baby now. It's so cool to think that there is a human being moving around in my body. We get to find out what it is in about 4 or 5 more weeks, if the baby cooperates :) It seems like there are a ton of people pregnant around me. Maybe I'm just super aware of it because I'm pregnant. There are 3 other ladies at work, a friend, and the director at Emma's daycare, and tons around me whenever we go somewhere.

It's back...

I know I'm a bit late in posting this, but baby Ella is here! Congratulations Jamie and Betsy! Please be praying for them, baby Ella is back in the hospital for a urinary tract infection. I know this has to be tough on the whole family.

Emma's infection is still hanging around. It seems

like it's getting worse rather than better, even though she's on the second round of antibiotics. Please pray for our little girl. It's not fun for her, sometimes she's really happy and then sometimes she's really grumpy because she doesn't feel good. It's not as bad as when she started the first round, but I would have thought it would be close to normal by now and it's not. She still has about 4 days left of antibiotic and then I'm not sure what the next step is.

She's still going to school and loving it! Last week she didn't cry once when I left. Yay! She's starting to grow an attachment to both of her teachers, I think she really likes them. Last Thursday, Grandma got to go to school with her for Grandparent's day. She really liked that and she's still talking about it! We went to the early service at church yesterday and then we went to the mall and didn't realize that it didn't open until 11:00 on Sundays, so Emma got to play at the kid's play area. That's where all these pictures were taken. It was all about Emma at the mall, we got her 2 pair of jeans from The Children's Place and Grandma got her a really cool jumper outfit and top from Gymboree and nice brown shoes from Stride Rite. She really made out!

We had a baby Dr. appointment on Friday. The heartbeat was lower this time, around 140. The dr. said that as the baby gets older, the heartbeat lowers a bit. Everything looked great to her. Let me say, I really love our dr. She remembered that Emma was sick (she's not Emma's dr., but she saw her and diagnosed her because Emma's dr. wasn't in the office that day) and she asked how she was doing. Way awesome! Plus she's really caring and personable. She's just really awesome!

13 weeks! Hooray!

We Planted a Tree and Emma had lots of fun helping! She even had her own shovel.

Our Movie Star /Princess

Emma is doing much better now. Her mood is better. She's our sweet little girl again. She only gets whiny around nap time now, which is much better than all day long! She got through all of her antibiotics and I'm hoping that there won't be a relapse. She does occasionally still ask for "jelly time". For 10 days she had "jelly time" 4 times a day. We would ask what it was time for and she would shout "jelly time"! She started back at school this week. She's having a hard time leaving Mom and Dad. Today was better than all the other days. We actually got inside the classroom and I was almost out the door before she started crying. And she only cried for 30 seconds. So hopefully as time goes on she'll realize that she has a great time at school and it's ok when Mom or Dad leaves! She's been bringing home all kinds of really cool crafts. She loves finger painting and markers!

In baby news, I'm now 13 weeks! I'm through the 1st trimester and the chances for a miscarriage reduces dramatically now. Hooray! I think I'm huge! I'm about as big as I was when I was 5 or 6 months pregnant with Emma! My muscles are definitely not as toned now! We had an ultrasound a couple of weeks ago and everything looked great! It is just so awesome to see the baby moving around. It's little feet are so cute! The heartbeat, in my opinion, is super fast. 167 beats per minute. Emma was always study at around 140 beats per minute. So I'm hoping this is not a wild child!