Perrin Family Happenings

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

ONE YEAR!

Happy 1st Birthday to Emma Grace!!

Emma is one today! This morning we threw balloons in her crib and woke her up. She was pretty amused, and still very sleepy. We are going to pick her up from school early and take her to Toys R Us and let her pick out a toy. THEN we are going to Chick Fil A and getting her her first kids meal. We LOVE Chick Fil A... so its only fitting that we introduce her to it on this monumental day. Emma's birthday party will be Saturday. We will try to take lots of pictures!

Another month... another double ear infection. :( We went and saw Emma's real Dr. for the first time since all of these infections started and she is referring us to an ENT for possible tubes. Although, the more she looked at the charts and her ears she thinks its possible the original infection just never went away. We see her again on June16th for Emma's booster shots and she will evaluate the infection and see if it goes away or not. So we will see. I just want her better and not in pain! During the day she acts as though nothing is wrong, but at night when they are hurting, she tells us! Poor thing wants to sleep, but the pain keeps her from it.

She is still not walking, but she is able to get into everything! She has discovered the dogs water bowl. She LOVES to just splash in it and thinks its hilarious because she knows she shouldn't be doing it. We will start her out in the living room and once we lose sight of her she goes straight for the water. If we ask what shes doing she will turn around and look at us with a big smile on her face and crawl faster towards it. We usually swoop her up right before she gets to it. If its bath night, she might get lucky and we will let her play in it for a little bit.

She is also our little meat eating food monster. She is eating whatever we eat, and if that involves veggies or fruit she tends to throw that to the dogs and eat the meat. She seems to do better at eating the veggies and fruits at school.

We think Emma has said her first official word. Aside from momma and dada it sounds like she is saying HARLEY. The one pug that doesn't really care to be around her, and that's the first word she can speak. Go figure! We will try to get video of it.

My wonderful little family!

"What? Am I not supposed to be under here?"

Getting into Dads video games

Spaghetti eating mess

Had to lick the plate!

We took a trip to Ranger, TX for Memorial Day to see lots of family at the ranch. It was a lot of fun and we are so glad Emma got to see a small fraction of her crazy family and had lots of babysitters!

Aunt Ashley and Emma

Talking to Uncle Robert while eating on G-maw

Playing ball with Lilybet

Playing with Lilybet

She got G-paw to walk her around

Videos

https://youtu.be/nflVqfy-Eto
https://youtu.be/bEJLBWamQME
Emma's Balloon Surprise

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Eleven Months

One more month and this child will be ONE!! Hard to believe this year has flown by so fast. First thing is first... I left out a few adorable photos from Easter so I have to post them, even though they are from last month!

"What's all of this?"

"Books!"

Okay, back to this month. She has had more cases of pink eye and ear infections! Mothers day we took Emma to the walk in clinic and sure enough, she had a double ear infection. The doctor, who almost knows us better than her regular pediatrician, put her on a different antibiotic to see if this one will work, and last. He said he saw us exactly a month from the day we were in there for the same problem! ugh!

Emma has started moving more, sometimes even crawling but then going right back to her belly! She has discovered her toy box, and has figured out she can get over there by herself. Her happy place, though, is outside. She loves to sit out there and watch the pugs be pugs. She actually gets really mad if I walk over to the door to let the dogs out and I don't stay there or go out there so she can watch them.

She is saying mama on her own terms and when she is really mad. But still, mama, none the less!
We finally relinquished all control and told daycare to feed her whatever they were feeding the older children as long as they thought it was safe. We have been stressing over food for so long, and letting daycare use their judgement has lifted that weight and she is doing so good! She gets to eat a better, and more exciting, lunch than we do everyday! This has helped SO much with the blowouts (TMI, but its true and most of you know the issues we've been having with that). Our washing machine has even gotten a couple of days off a time or two! It has been fun to see her report everyday to see what all she has eaten. Some of the things like Tuna, fish sticks, meatloaf, are things we probably would never feed her at home because, eww, but she doesn't have to know that! :) Maybe she wont be as picky as us!

This month will be spent planning Emma's first birthday party! So much pressure for something she wont even remember! Ha! We are very excited about it and can't wait to see how much she will develop in the next couple of months, and hopefully no more ear infections!