It's All About Miss E & Wee A

Sunday, June 7, 2009

dexterity and skillz

Just from the other night
hilarity in toe jamming, a brief study. She does have this thing of late where she will take off one sock. Not both, just one.

Friday, June 5, 2009

Skateboard intro! 5-28
Yeah, it's been a nasty, phlegm-y week here. Yummy words, eh?
Poor D has been working his tail off, got a good bout of the Swine Cold (as our ped calls it) and then lucky E and I decided to cash in on the fun.

ah yes, cats
Let's just say 102.7 underarm is NOT a good temp. Luckily, that was 8 days ago, and after days of whiny, warmth, and whimpering the air is clearing. I'm still coughing like death, but I feel better and E is running around. D is back on his bike, and well he never really got to fully wallow in it either. Me at school, him at work...I think he got the brunt of it.
Here are a few pics from the week.
E has figured out more functions on my phone than me! even called Cindy the other night. this was 6-3

What else is new? mmm I think she said "toe" tonight as she was chewing on it for Gramma, is walking even straighter, and got cuter. How??? who knows.
She also has a definite love of strawberries, eating about 1-3 a day! That, cottage cheese, goldfish (dwindling love there), and tofu seems to be it. Oh yeah, and just last week, E started to like peas, which seem safe enough since she swallows everything else.
She's using her teeth more, taking wee nibbles when she does eat. Prefers 2% it seems to whole milk (less fat omg!! sigh). For fun, there is cat-chasing, more book reading, and closing doors. D also discovered she follows entire sentences when the mood strikes--like "Emelia, bring me the milk" or tonight, at bedtime (I'm in edit mode right now) she brought me her toothbrush when I asked! woot! V. cool.

6-5 toe jam for dessert

Saturday, May 30, 2009

a match

wow. who knew this would happen? ...from Thursday night!
Out of nowhere and unprompted. E made full use of a lace liberated from one of my shoes. Took D and I awhile to catch on to what transpired. I think it's ingenuity borne of her added height/weight--went for a check-up Thursday to discover she's 16lbs 13oz (huzzah!) and grew another 1/4". No shots, which is funny as she is now suffering with a fever like her daddy. more on that after the cute.

and it continued thusly...

sick of cute yet? just wait, there's more

cat lovers get this, right?

ok less cat-focus on these last two...remember, we have to live with them both, so harmony makes life easier!

everybody jump n wiggle!
ps the new words are "go go!" and "uh oh". Rather than speech development of the finest quality, E seems focused on her physical skillz atm. With all the pre-language babbling going on, we really don't worry that comprehensible, nonstop English-type stuff will follow. She is my daughter, after all. Likely, she'll also swear too much.

and yup, E mrows (not sure I caught her 'talking' to Kudra)

This was way too fun. As she's currently experiencing her 1st fever, a high of 102.7F last night at 2.30 a.m., we are certainly looking forward to more silliness. So is Kudra, who keeps hovering and looking at us like "can Emelia come out to play??". Hopefully, D will also recover and I can duck it all. I'm turning into an orange; I've had so much citrus and vit C!

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

the joys of family

at G&G's
5-12 Trying on Daddy's sunglasses

from 5-11
she is a bookworm. argh. TOO many of her books have suffered thusly

her glasses on for a mo'

Been a busy week--D has been working non-stop (finally a day off tomorrow after, I dunno, 10 days?),

5-12 seeing Daddy off to work I went home to Michigan with E for a few days, and well, E herself has been a creature of perpetual motion and change!
Also? I got in fishing. Twice. Of course, like my dad says, it's "fishing" not "catching" for a reason. That's ok, I got to spend some quality time with him, pontificating on what makes trout happy. Did some water walking, looking at birds, and trying to not hate canoers. After all, I like to camp and canoe as well.

Grampa came to be the interstate taxi for us again, coming in Tuesday, driving back Wednesday morning (yes, Daddy, we should have left early haha), then doing it on repeat Sunday. We are very thankful as it gave us a bunch of time to hang out in ole Milford.

5-24

5-22 E promptly discovered she could go up stairs, but not as awesome at the downstairs without trying to kill herself of course.

Did some shopping, for me since nothing fits and soon I get to look all professional. eep. It's been since early 2000 that I wore anything resembling 'business casual', and my bod's had a few changes both up and waaaaaay down since then. Fashion? haha
Also strolled the streets of Milford, which I oddly find relaxing. I like all the stores, the recognition, the calmness. I even made a stop at a LYS, new 2 months ago. They had a great seating area that I wouldn't mind using someday when I next visit. Very nice peeps.
Miss E just spread her charms hither and yon, running all-a-giggly in the mall away from cousin Kathy after lunch, saying "hihihi!" to everyone else. ooh! and she even ate a bit. More than she was, but not too crazy yet.

5-22
I wish she would lay at least for part of the night in the cute crib at G&G's house, a loaner from a family friend. Alas, not yet. E got the full yard tour with Grampa, he says there was a constant yammering of "wasat??!!" and pointing to everything. Gram is trying to get her to dance, and well, she has more rhythym than I do already (not hard. ahem).

That's about it for now!
bathtime--once a year whether she needs it or not

random cute

omg nekkid!!!1

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

mayday

updates!

my b-day, 37 with a great family! no better gifts exist.
5-13 through 5-17

does this diaper make me look fat?

took this out to give away. E has other plans

Wow. Teeth coming in must SUCK BUTT. I say this, after a few nights of E fussing fussing and last night she was just downright angry at it all. To top it off, I had a fun little boob procedure yesterday morning that kept me on the wrong side of her, and wow did that just set her over the edge of hell.
So I think she finally passed out around 4.30am. Oof. After sleeping til 11ish, with a couple naps, she's human again.

poke poke
AND we are off! To Michigan, that is. Grampa is in town to do the ole swap-a-roo -- driving in, then driving back with E & I, whilst D works his butt off here in Chitown. Plan to do a little lower-sales-tax shopping, fly fishing in the Huron river, and woooot laundry (hey, once a kid coming home with dirty clothes, ALWAYS that kid).

new outfit from Grampa!
Today, Grampa had some lunch with sister-unit, and then we did a coupla hours' walk and even got in some swing time.

today at the park with Grampa!

Future knitter? This morning's fun. Between naps.

gifts came from Aunt Lory and Uncle Joe. This bird is HILARIOUS, from a 1-yr-old's point of view.

E has just been surprising us every day with her new almost-words, chuckles, mannerisms, and drunken toddlering. Soon enough, she'll be saying NO, I am sure. For now, other than the evil-ness of toofs, we simply hang around and watch the fun grow.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Shooz

Flashback to April 24, 2009...1st birthday...incoming Grandparents...and SHOES!

Figured this was deserving of its own post, being as it's about the most important accessory ever. Gram tried to get E to try on every shoe in her size -- I think she did. Note, as she is walking a tad early, and given her petite-self, she had fewer options. Size 3.5, yo, and the shoe dude said they only make walking shoes starting at size 3.
Whatever this means.
He also disparaged Robeez, (well, we have this store's) but there is quite a bit of stir about support vs. soft shoes. Eh. We are mixing them up, as we like being barefoot ourselves (D & I).

Basically, we want E to have happy feet, and this also means not stepping on broken bits of CDs...which I am about to reorganize and somehow make E-safe.

(she's now eating the black spokey things that keep the CDs in the case. Not food. Plastic. sigh with me pleez, thanks)
It was a fun hour (yup, took about an hour to try on every 3.5). The best part was E being fit in the first pair, then stepping like she had huuuuuuuuge platforms

on or something. Like a monstar.
We settled on some cute strappers-->

and these have been working great...until she ate one of the little leather bows off on Thursday this week. Eh. Maybe they were plastic, and therefore "food".

Stomp on!

whee! pair one! (not purchased)

another round, another not-gotten

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

super.quarks

the eyes have it

4/28 burbling, babbling if you will...

Just cuz I'm bored, and have the attention span of a gnat at the moment, I am suggesting you all read this: super.quarks. Heh. A purrpose for cats, if you will...