Bacon Bits: September 2009

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Happy Emma

Patiently waiting for some cereal.

First real food. Prunes. She loved them!

Love that toothless grin.

So I'm late with this one...I know...I know... But it is now posted!

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Everyone always talks about the Great side of being a parent...no one ever mentions all the heartache. So I haven't wrote in a while because on September 15th I caught someones cold. Lucky for us I gave it to Emma :) Poor little thing ended up with a 105.1 fever on Friday and we landed ourselves in the emergency room. They took blood from her little arm, sucked snot from her nose, took X-Rays...you name it, they did it. Mid way through I reminded Andy that it was our 5th Wedding Anniversary. Not much fun, but I have to admit after all the horror stories of the ER here that I have heard, they took really good care of my little one. They tested for everything you could think of and it all came clean (thank the lord) so it was just a virus that she would have to work through... so three days of fever and we finally got some sleep and then the actual cold symptoms (stuffy nose, cough) set in. That Wednesday I had a quiet 30th Birthdya with dinner at the palace with my family. It was last minute planning cause I wasn't sure how Emma would be feeling. So we made it through the cold and then the poor little thing couldn't go poo! We are talking 5 days of no poo. Ya know a long time ago I heard a comedian telling a joke that stated once you become a parent, all conversations turn to poop. Totally get it now. We celebrated a poo finally this morning and you would have thought we called in the media. There was so much excitement!

I told you that to tell you this, Emma had her first real food for the past two days. Nothing I would want, but don't tell her that. PRUNES! PRUNES! And more PRUNES! Ha! I told Andy that I hope we are around when she finally goes cause if not and it is in the middle of the night we might have a bit of a mess to pick up. But all is good.

So now we are on to the next adventure in parenting. Andy will be leaving on Friday and be gone for a week and a half hunting in Wyoming. Us girls are on our own...

Stay tuned for pictures of her first real food! They are a blast.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Family Fun!

Mount Saint Helens in the Background off of Windy Ridge.

This last week was so much fun. My Aunt Pam was in from Texas for the week with her husband Billy. We took a trip to Mt. Saint Helens (reminded myself that we need to make that trip early summer late spring). There was only dirty snow left and the bugs were horrible. But We all got to go and enjoy spending time with family. My hard working husband even stepped away from the shop for the day to go with us! WOW! Emma did really well in the car for all those hours on end. I was totally impressed. Thursday night dad smoked his famous ribs and once again they were AWESOME!

Friday night Andy and I enjoyed a date to the rodeo and a night out with Jessica and Frank...Saturday we all took Emma to the Parade and got rained out so we didn't make it to the fair (sorry Hope and Hailey) Then on Sunday when the clouds parted we made a mad dash to the fair to go and look through all the exibits. I enjoyed a Mystery Muffin demonstration while Emma ate. ;) Then again on Monday Andy and I had another date (crazy!) to the final rodeo. We sure had a good time. We haven't been away from Emma that much and I have to admit that it was fun to know she was in good hands (thanks mom) and be able to just relaxe for a little while. Even if it was on a hard bench cramped in the middle of 200 people...it was fun.