Emily must taste sweet

Well for those of you who dont know Emily has a horrible reaction to even the smallest bug bite. She gets big welts that are huge and red and get hard...its no good! So far this season she has had a few bites here and there but one day while playing outside she was eaten alive!!! We were at my mom/sisters and all the kids were playing out back, then the girls decided to eat dinner on the porch. After about 30 min into dinner Alex comes in and tells me that Emilys legs hurt.........I think to myself thats a wierd thing for her to say??? So I go out to check it out and immediatly see the bites.....the many many bites.....I got her inside we threw her into a nice cool bath got her washed off, rubbed on meat tendorizer, then some benadryl cream. I kept her on liquid benadryl fro a few days and cream here and there as needed. She finally sat still at one point long enough for me to count her "itchies" there were apx. 22 on one leg and 20 on another.....all in all I figure she probably had over 45 bites :( all from the knee down.........poor baby!! Since then we have been using bug spray on her and so far so good :)

Moving up....

YES after 10 months we finally put up the crib. This is the first sleep for Sarah in her crib. I LOVE LOVE LOVE my crib set! Its super girly :) (thanks Diane!) So Sarah still wakes up multiple times a night to nurse...which is why we havent moved her into a crib sooner. It is so nice to have her right there in the co-sleeper when she wakes up. I get a lot more sleep that way too! But the day has come and she is just getting to be too mobile that she soon will be crawling right out the top of the cosleeper and onto the ground with a thud! So I was FORCED against my will to put her in the baby jail/crib :) MAYBE now that she is in her own bed seperate from ours she will sleep better and not wake up every 3 hours!!!!!! Only time will tell I will let you know in a few days how its going!

Photographer Stephanie

One night while I was putting Em to sleep Steph was keeping Sarah busy and happy. Today I was looking through my camera and came across some pics that Steph had taken of Sarah that night while I was "busy". She did a great job! She loves taking pictures and is pretty good at it if I do say so myself!

See I told you she could get into everything now :) hehehehe now she will see how annoying it is to get stuck and have to stay there so Mom can go and grab the camera!!!

She can scoot.....

Well it took long enough.....but Sarah can finally get around. She isnt crawling but she can scoot on her tummy, roll and now go from sitting to laying to sitting. She is now super happy! She can get into EVERYTHING now. Even the dog crate, eat all the specks of dirt off the floor, now she can get to any pair of shoes in the room and eat them....oh the fun list goes on! WHY CANT THEY STAY 6 months :) That would be great!!! But that is not how it goes. So up she grows and each day I am happy with her growth and progress and sad at the same time that my little baby is growing so fast :)



BTW these viedos are from the 11th, the first time she really got the "scoot". Now a week later she has mastered it and is up on all 4s, I am sure she will be into a full crawl soon!!!!

A Brownie in the house...and not the kind you eat....

Its official :) Stephanie is now a brownie! We went to her first "girl scout meeting" today and she really loved it. I think it will be so great for her to have another group of girls to hang out with. The troop leader is really awesome and has been a leader for 15 years! She really seemed like she was into the girls really haveing a good time and learning about how to be friends and get along and be respectful. I am pretty excited. I think Stephanie will really benifit from this! She also starts Tball soon!! So be ready for lots of pics and videos :)