Early Emily blogs, pt 4

Poor baby

Well, it had to happen. Emily actually got really sick and scared me half to death! She is fine now and it really turned out to be just a super-charged cold, but the child does have a flair for the dramatic (as anyone who has ever met her already knows).

On Wednesday, Emily woke up not feeling well and was lethargic and listless. Even with Tylenol all day, her temperature went up to103.2. That is too high for my baby! We called the on-call doctor for the first time ever. Very stressful. The doctor said not to worry and we waited until morning to have her checked out. We went to the doctor Thursday morning (we arrived at 6:00 am and we were not the first ones there) where Emily had a fever, but was playing and laughing...until the doctor came in. Then Emily began screaming and crying so hard she eventually made herself sick. When the doctor asked how she was feeling, her response was "I not talk about it". Turns out it was a respiratory virus, nothing to do but rest, tylenol, and fluids. Eventually, it turned out to be a bad cold with a fever. She was pretty pitiful with her eyes and nose running "My eyes mommy, my nose" Eventually, it just became "Nosey" and a point to her face. She can wipe her own nose usually, just ask Grannie who runs out of tissues whenever Emily is over, but I indulged her since she was so pitiful. After a couple days of laying around the house, watching lots of Dora, she is pretty much recovered. I knew she was feeling better when she wanted to call Poppi and left him a message of "Poppi I feel better." I bet he still hasn't erased that message!

The funny thing now is that she has a raspy voice that is sooo cute. She could pretty much get anything she wanted right now (probably can anyway) with that cute voice. The sad part of all this that Nana, Pop pop, and I all caught her cold and suffered greatly this weekend. As Pop pop so eloquently put it "How can anyone so smll and cute spread so much misery around?"

Since everyone is getting healthy now, we will hopefully have lots of fun stuff to report about soon.

2007-05-07 01:39:49 GMTComments: 1 |Permanent Link

Planting marigolds

Emily talking to her seeds

2007-04-23 03:27:00 GMTComments: 1 |Permanent Link

Entry for April 22, 2007

Hello! This is my first time "blogging" so please bear with me. I guess this is what I get for complaining that Bruce didn't update Emily's site often enough. I am starting out simple, but trust me it will get more interesting.

Over Spring Break, Emily and I planted Marigold, lavender, and lima bean seeds (though Emily was expecting instruments to grow after watching Little Einsteins). Emily would not touch the dirt, but she did drop the seeds in (from a distance) and water them. Emily was very excited about her seeds and we kept checking throughout the day for progress. I guess her sense of time is a little off still. Our seeds started out well, with marigold sprouts by the end of the week. That was the end of the progress unfortuantely because then we had our huge windstorm with really cold temperatures for a week . Our seeds suffered, but we have started the revival process this weekend. Emily still likes to check them out everytime we return home from somewhere, which in our world is very often. She is very cute, bending down and talking to them. I am not sure what she says, but I bet it will work. To help Emily out while they grow, we did buy full-grown marigolds for the garden. She helped plant them by digging in the dirt with a (clean) shovel while kneeling on a kneepad. No dirt for this girl!

2007-04-23 03:25:38 GMTComments: 1 |Permanent Link

April 16, 2007

Welcome! This is Bruce speaking, and while I may have set this up, and you may hear occassionally from me on this blog, have no doubt that this is KT's Korner, whole domain where Emily's mommy can have her say about anything she wants. But those of us that know her have no doubt that it will mostly be about Emily :) So without further adieu, I'll let the lady of the house have her say....

2007-04-17 02:54:39 GMTComments: 1 |Permanent Link

Early Emily blogs, pt 3

One more school picture

Emily taking a rest in the moonbounce.

2007-06-20 18:44:51 GMTComments: 0 |Permanent Link

More school pictures

I do not know how to add more than 1 picture to an entry yet (I am still learning.)

2007-06-20 18:43:31 GMTComments: 0 |Permanent Link

Emily's school visit

We went to Preschool fun day at Emily's new school (Valley Drive Preschool). It was the graduation for 4 year olds and welcoming for new 2 year olds. It was a lot of fun and really well organized-a good sign. Emily fit right in with the 2 year olds and had a blast making spin art, playing ring toss, climbing on the cool play equipment and junping in the moon bounce. The best part was when the classes would line up to go to the next "area", Emily got right in line and waited her turn. (Gymboree is paying off!) Emily now plays school at home with her cheetah lunchbox, Dora books, and crayons. It is very cute because I am "teacher mommy" and we do storytime, snacktime, and other fun activities. She is really looking forward to school in September (she just doesn't realize teacher mommy is not going with her.)

2007-06-20 18:40:31 GMTComments: 0 |Permanent Link

Happy Father's Day (a little late)

I just wanted to wish all of the fathers out there a Happy Father's Day, especially Emily's daddy. Emily's current favorite things to do with daddy are to play baseball and sneak up on him and tickle his ear.

I am staying home all summer with Emily and it should be lots of fun (hopefully I won't spend too much money.) We have already gone to the zoo on the hottest day ever (if you ask her what her favorite animal was at the zoo, she will say the giraffe, cute except there was no giraffe to see.) We have big plans for Sesame Place, the watermine, and vists with her friends Ella, Jonah, Cooper, and Sully. Also, mommy and daddy went to Jimmy's wedding (it was very nice) and Emily had her first 2 night sleepover with Granny and Poppi. They all survived!

Also, on the growing list of cute sayings- I asked Emily to help me remember to get diapers and her response was "Everybody needs help mommy. It's okay." Awwwww!

2007-06-20 18:31:56 GMTComments: 0 |Permanent Link

An update on Emily

Things with Emily are crazy as ever. We will be going to the Preschool Fun Day at Emily's preschool this week. I can't believe she is old enough for preschool. It is going sooo fast! Emily is now in 3 Gymboree classes (I can't bring myself to cancel any of them.) On Saturdays, she goes to music with Ms. Christina and enjoys playing the triangle and xylophone. This is the class we will probably drop for the summer. The timing is really difficult and she is not as engaged in the activities. She also attends art with Ms. Karen on Mondays. She really enjoys this class and is making baby steps towards getting messy. The coolest part of this class was when Emily learned to do a relay race. Ms. Karen gave each child a crayon. Whne the music started they had to run up to their paper and color. When the music stopped, the kids ran back and got a new color, and this kept going for 5-6 colors. I was so excited that Emily figured this out on the first try! I sat back and just encouraged her, but she did it all by herself. She even began watching Ms. Karen to anticipate the music changes. On Thursdays, Emily goes to a combo play and music class. This is the class with most of our friends. We have been with these kids for at least 5-6 months (some for almost a year). We are going to try summer playdates with Leanna. Should be interesting! We have gone to several very cool birthday parties with these friends.

This summer should be busy. Mommy is staying home and not working (1st time since 9th grade). Emily and I have big plans to go to the pool, the playground, go to the zoo, go for long walks, and get potty trained!! We will also have a fun visit with Sarah, Ella, and Jonah when they come up in July, a trip to the beach, a rocking party for Sully's birthday in June, and a trip to Sesame Place on July 1. Should be exciting :)

Emily's favorite thing to do now is sing a long to her Cds and Tv shows. It is very cute because she really does know the words, especially her new Wonder Pet cd we listen to in the car everyday. This girl just continues to amaze and surprise us with the stuff that comes out of her mouth. I thought I would post some of the funny, crazy quotes we have gotten lately from Emily.

• Going into McDonald's "Nana, I have my moments." Isn't that the truth? (A direct quote from everyone's favorite Wonder Pet- Ming Ming.)
  
  
• At the DC Divas football game, Emily wanted to dance with daddy. Daddy was actually trying to watch the game so Emily tried to convince him "Daddy, don't be shy. It's okay."
  
  
• Emily and I were singing songs at bedtime and she wanted to sing a duck song. I was not sure what song she was talking about so I asked her to sing a little. Her response "Mommy, I'm just a little baby, I can't do it myself."
  
  
• In art class, when Ms. Karen asks for the magic word to open the treasure box, Emily always responds with "Abre." Please forgive my spelling, I do not know how to spell the spanish word for open.
  
  
• While playing "babies" Emily was pretending to be a baby and crying in her daddy's arms. Then she said the baby needs to go in her stroller. I told her we didn't have a stroller inside, it was out in the car. Her response "Mommy, we can just pretend, okay." Made me feel silly.

I am sure there will be much more soon. Thanks for reading

2007-06-04 01:51:13 GMTComments: 0 |Permanent Link

Emily, the early blogs pt 2

More Funny faces

Her favorite face for pictures.

2007-08-06 01:45:46 GMTComments: 0 |Permanent Link

Baseball celebrations

She is not one to hide how she feels.

2007-08-06 01:43:10 GMTComments: 0 |Permanent Link

Playing baseball with daddy

One of Emily's new games is to play baseball with daddy. Emily loves holding her bat and having daddy pitch the ball to her. Daddy has been proving what a good pitcher he is by throwing the ball directly at her bat so she gets a hit almost everytime. We will worry about the real world and she won't always get a hit, blah, blah later. Trust me, her celebration dance is worth it. "I scored! I scored!"

2007-08-06 01:39:33 GMTComments: 1 |Permanent Link

Visiting with friends Cooper and Sully

In July, we were very lucky and it worked out that Abbie and her cute boys (except for Jim) were able to come stay with us for a few days. It was a crazy couple days with 3 kids under age 3, but it was fun. I even borrowed the minivan from my dad- that was really cool. Emily really enjoyed seeing her friends Cooper (2 1/2 ) and Sully (14 months). She was really good at sharing (mostly) and even let Cooper sleep in her room in her crib! Sharing toys was a little harder. At one point Emily was running around the house carrying a toy saying "Help me, help me he's gonna get it." Fortuantely, Emily's overreaction was too much for Cooper and he realized it wasn't worth it and moved on. At that point I adopted Sarah's strategy of if you don't want to share it, it has to be put away before friends come over.

We were able to get our acts together enough to go to Burke Lake Park and played on the playground and walked down to the water (once the kids finally woke up. They all 3 fell asleep right before we pulled into the park. ) Emily was very cute leading us on "the dangerous path" through the woods and being quiet so we didn't wake the animals up. We all had fun throwing sticks in the lake (probably scaring away all the fish from the fisherman). The kids were really cute playing together. I just thought the picture of Emily and Cooper walking in the woods was so sweet.

The most interesting thing about their visit actually started a week after Abbie and the boys had left. Emily's new favorite game is to pretend to be Sully. This is quite an in-depth game too. I have to go by "Ms. Abbie" and nana is "Cooper" and I am supposed to address her by "Sully" or she will correct me. She tells me "Ask Sully what he wants" or "Sully needs his baby toys." It actually lasted over a day and a half once! She has quite the imagination.

2007-08-06 01:31:43 GMTComments: 1 |Permanent Link

Splashdown Waterpark

In June, Bruce and I made an impromptu decision to take Emily to her first waterpark. We went to Splashdown Waterpark in Manassas. Very fun! We only stayed a couple hours, but I definitely feel we got our money's worth. Emily enjoyed riding the lazy river with daddy, splashing in the pools, playing with the water fountains, and she even went down the slide a couple times. She was hesitant about the large pools and crowds of people, but she did a great job and had a lot of fun. Those of you who know of Emily's eating issues (and who doesn't?) will be happy to hear that she ate most of my pizza slice that day. She hadn't had pizza in months. It's a start at least.

2007-08-06 01:12:31 GMTComments: 0 |Permanent Link

In the beginning...

Okay, so now for a little something out of the ordinary.

A few years ago, in a state of temporary insanity did a website --part of which was to catalog my independent film efforts and the other part to chronicle the growing life of Emily. I never did develop at all the indie film side (I've got Keith and his website for that! :) But I did get into Emily's side and was doing some things.

However, the last thing I did for it, much like this blog, was long ago, so I've decided to shelve it...for now. Someday I'll get all my internet skills in a row, but these days there's far too much going on for me to develop it into what I want it to become. But I didn't want to lose the good stuff on there, soooooo...I'm tranferring it to here. So what you'll see is 19 pages of early Emily in its glory with a blog started by Katie that I gave her space for on the website. She has since blossomed on her own and has her own blogspot universe, but here's the early days. Enjoy!
-Bruce

Preschool!!!!!

Ok, we survived preschool. Emily is now sleeping and recovering.

She woke up at 4:30 and was wide awake all morning. She was worried when I reminded her we had to get ready for school. Her response "All by myself today?" Later, she assured me she would be fine.

We got to school and she freaked out a little at the idea of kids going in first and playing with her toys, but I assured they were older kids. We found a friend outside and they walked over together :) We went in well (until someone pushed by her on the stairs and I had to carry her.) In the room she started playing but got upset when she couldn't take her shoes off (I had double-knotted them!) I calmed her down and then got ready to leave. She ran to me "Mommy I am scared!" I did not think this would end well. I calmed her down again and then a good parent who was co-oping asked if Emily would play with her and they were off. I waited for the "runners" to do 2 checks, no crying, so we were good :)

After, she was exhausted and hungry. She cried to just go home. She didn't even want lunch with Nana and Poppop. We came straight home and she begged for a nap. (Her usual naptime is 3:00).

We seem to have survived.

2007-09-11 20:35:26 GMTComments: 0 |Permanent Link

Kids say the cutest things...

Everyone who knows Emily, knows that you never know what will come out of her mouth. Well, here are a few of the recent quotes to make you smile. I hope they translate into writing and it isn't one of those "you had to be there things."

• Opening a new Happy Meal toy (an everyday occurrence)

"That is the cutest thing I have ever seen."

• When I carried her across the grass

"Mommy you are so courageous."

• Walking into Granny and Poppi's house with new pictures on the wall

"This is amazing!"

2007-08-17 21:31:10 GMTComments: 1 |Permanent Link

Visit with Ella and Jonah

In July, we were lucky enough to have an extended visit with Sarah, Ella, and Jonah (we missed you Andrew). Mommy and Sarah got to have grown-up meals without kids. Wow!!! We actually went to grown up places- Los Tios (our favorite) and the Chart House in Old Town with grown up food, drinks,..... It was really lovely. On Wednesday, Ella, Emily, and Jonah had a great time playing at our house, eating at ... McDonald's of course, and playing at Burke Lake Park. We rode the train and the carousel and then wandered the nature path until we found an amphitheater. The kids had tons of fun until the huge downpour!





Ella and her tiny friend Emily



So sweet



These girls were born to be onstage!



Ella teaching Emily a dance routine.

Emily was actually doing some of the steps at the pool a month later!





I think Jonah was wondering what these crazy girls were doing.



Overall, a great visit.

2007-08-09 02:51:22 GMTComments: 0 |Permanent Link

Emmy and Poppi

So sweet!

2007-08-06 02:07:41 GMTComments: 0 |Permanent Link

Funny face

She loves it when you say "pose for the camera."

2007-08-06 02:04:35 GMTComments: 0 |Permanent Link

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