A Little Update

Things have been busy the last few weeks! I've finally started feeling better and am officially a week out of the first trimester. Starting to get my energy back which is wonderful because I've felt so useless the last few months! Emma Cate went with me to the doctor today for my 2nd appointment. She said everything seemed great - heart rate was 158. It seems like Emma Cate's was still in the 170s at this point...maybe this is a boy? I really have no idea and it looks like it will be the first week of November until we have another ultrasound so we've got awhile to wait.

I wanted to post an update on Emma Cate too mostly so I will have some record of all the new things she's doing since I've been terrible about writing in her baby book since she turned one! She is 18 months now and so much has changed recently. She is talking ALL the time saying new words every day. Just in the last few days she's started repeating a lot of what we say. Tonight Phil picked her up out of the tub and said something about "shake shake shake" to shake the water off and then I said "shake shake shake, shake your booty" and she repeated "shake your booty" as clear as I said it. It was hilarious, but we quickly realized we've got to start really being careful what we say! At her 18 month check she weighed just under 23 pounds so she's on the tiny side, but her doctor said she's very healthy and just petite. She loves to eat any meat with ketchup...especially chicken fingers and breaded baked fish. She LOVES Chick-fil-a and calls it "chick chick." We have fun stopping there when we are in Tuscaloosa. We are working on drinking more milk as she really only drinks one 4 ounce cup a day and her doctor says she needs 16-20 ounces. She just doesn't love it. The main foods she eats well are grilled ham and cheese, chicken, fish, mandarin oranges, strawberries, grapes, apples, peanut butter on anything, bread, broccoli, goldfish and cheerios. She also loves sweets and chips and coke and will tell you her favorite things are cookies, cake, chips and coke (I only let her have a sip of my coke every now and then but somehow she's learned exactly what it is!) I won't list all her words, because they are too many to keep up with now, but she still calls me "Ba Ba" instead of mama. Funny, but I'll answer to whatever she wants to call me as long as she is calling for me :)

Ok, here are some recent snapshots of Emma Cate. Sorry, no real order to these and they aren't great pictures, but this is what was on my camera. One is of some of the hats I've been making for gifts and/or photography props. More to come.

















Hope everyone had a great Labor Day! We are thankful for the rain and for my parent's coming to visit and helping us work in the yard and put in a drain in the backyard before the rain started. It worked great!