Emily the chowhound

Emily has finally started to figure out how eating works. Her palette is currently limited to bananas, yogurt, cheerios, sweet potato baby food, applesauce (sometimes), bread (she's a fan of the whole-wheat stuff! good deal!), and one bite of whatever else we happen to sneak in there while she’s not expecting it. I was trying to give her some green bean / carrot mixture that I had pureed up, and honestly there was virtually no taste to it. But she still made the face and stuck her tongue out. Maybe we have to work on liking new textures now?

And as a result of this newfound ability to eat, she’s also nursing less and less. The other day, she nursed only four times the whole day! Most days it’s 5 times, which is pretty doable for the time being. It’s nice to see it winding down, because I am a bit weary of fueling my own self. Okay, who am I kidding, it was fun to be able to eat like a teenager again. The other downside is that Emily STINKS now, though I guess that’s a little bit nice because it’s not usually a surprise when I open up her diaper now.

Sure wish I could take some pictures of her – she’s just so beautiful. There are a couple things I wish I could get a video of, like how she turns around in circles while sitting by poking her legs out and around, or when she uses her little fingers on her lips to make a blub-blub sound. She can pull herself up to standing pretty easily now, which is something she couldn’t do at all two weeks ago, and she’s now working on being able to get back down without falling.

As far as recovering from our break-in goes, we’re now moving at the pace of the insurance company. They have already cut us a check for replacing the kitchen floor, and it’s looking promising that we’ll get new drawers & cabinets. But they haven’t figured out getting us money for our camera or laptop, which seems like it would be simpler. I hadn’t planned on a kitchen remodeling project right now!! It was on the list of stuff to do to the house, but pretty far down the list, after things like finishing the porch, getting the carpet out of the dining room, and putting carpet in the master bedroom. And, I’m sure Travis will want to do all the work himself instead of paying someone to do it, just so we can make the most of the insurance payouts, which mean it’ll take forever just like the porch has. I guess it’s still a silver lining, though. I just want to move forward instead of trying to catch up…