Hahaha

After hearing a funny story about my dad, I called him up to tease him. The conversation went a little something like this:

Me: Dad, I'm glad you got your shirt back.

Dad: Huh?

Me: Your shirt, I'm glad you ended up getting it back.

Dad: What shirt?

Me: You know, your shirt.

Dad, with a sigh: Oh, you mean Mom's story.

Me: No, I mean Laura's story.

Dad: Oh great... did she blog it already?

Me: Yep!

Dad: Well she was supposed to blog something about Mom too! Did she blog about Mom?!?

Me: Yea.

Dad: The stroller story?

Me: Yea.

Dad: Yea, that's funny, huh? That's a funny story.

He sure did a great job at switching the subject to Mom so as to hide his own embarrassment! If you don't want to be left in the dark, here it is. And here's Mom's funny story.

It Just Might Work

Wow! She used to be so BALD! As you see, this is Emmalynne going potty when she was about 5 months old. We've been taking her since she was a whopping 3 days old. Some call it "elimination communication" while others call it "infant potty training." The list goes on but I like to call it, "taking Emmalynne to the potty!" If you want more baby pottying info, I'd suggest this website.

Emmalynne has been through various stages, including going potty in her diaper only twice in one day to going on the potty only twice in two weeks. I've taken the laid back approach and thus, its been stress-free.

Her current stage is as follows: She's learned that she really likes potty time because I sit in the bathroom with her and sing songs or give her a special toy to play with. Sometimes she'll sit up there for a good five minutes. Sometimes I'll ask her if she wants down, put my arms out to her, and she'll push them away. So there she sits until she's ready to get down. When we ask Emmalynne if she needs to go potty she gets really excited, nearly hyperventilates, grabs my hand, and runs to the bathroom. Sometimes she goes, sometimes she doesn't. Well today, out of the blue, she got really excited, nearly hyperventilated, and ran into the bathroom. So, like a good mommy, I followed her in, and set her on the potty where she proceeded to do her business. Yay! She did the same thing yesterday! For all you non-math majors, that's twice in two days! Its been so cute how much fun she's having. We'll see how it goes...

Good Times with Great Friends

I love being busy. A week after my mom ended her month long vacation her in NC, my best friend Melanie and her kids came down for a visit. Her husband had a week long work thing in DC and she dropped him and then continued the 7 hours to my house! She has a son about 2 weeks younger than Emmalynne and a daughter that's almost 3. Emmalynne thinks friends are amazing so she had a ton of fun. She would even let Rachel (the 3 yr old) hold her hand sometimes. She's not usually too big on letting little kids hold her hand. She loved playing ring-around-the-rosie too. Rachel made sure Emmalynne did a good job with the "We all fall down" part.

Emmalynne has been the little one around here that's always had the opportunity to have someone older than her take toys, blankets, cups, etc. away from her. She's used to it and pretty much never complains. When she does though, she grabs my hand and walks me over to the problem. This week she's taken a new step. I'm not saying a good one, just a step. Melanie's son Lincoln is even more used to being bullied than Emmalynne is. Thus, he allowed Emmalynne to take things out of his hands. Sometimes he got mad about it and I made Em give it back. She did good with that but it was certainly weird to see her on the other side of the story. I guess its only a look into our future!

And in order to not make this post too long and make you stop reading, I'll post about Melanie and I's remodeling saga in the next post!

Strollin'

I'm not sure exactly how it started but I'm positive its Grandma's fault. While Grandma was visiting Emmalynne developed a love for being pushed in a stroller, but not just any stroller, the midget one for baby dolls. Em would take Grandma by the hand, walk her over to the baby doll stroller, and grunt. Grandma would put her in and stroll her around the house.

Then Grandma left! And Emmalynne thougth she could get me to do it. Seriously though, those things are built for toddlers to push and an adult can only do it for so long before their back breaks. Thus, no baby doll stroller pushing for me. That left Emmalynne pretty upset. Like any good mom would do, I made a compromise. Much to my pleasure, Em excepted my terms and now she loves to be pushed in the regular stroller. She thinks its so cool that she sits in it for fun, even when I'm done pushing. For instance, she's lounging in it right now, with her feet kicked up, watching me type. Sitting still never would have happened before our "stroller days."

IT'S A...

GIRL!!!


Yay! We're so excited to have another girl! I hope she and Emmalynne will be best buddies. The ultrasound was pretty fun. The nurse had a hard time getting the baby to move into the position she wanted her to be in. I guess the baby had found the little corner she liked and wasn't willing to move! My favorite part was getting to see the baby suck on her thumb. So cute! I'm not sure if that's what she's doing in this picture but Carman thinks she is. Cute, huh?