Li'l Punkin

BIG and STRONG

Miss Emilia (as her father calls her) is having another growth spurt. Waking up only twice to eat, she slept from 9:30 last night until 10:20 this morning. And then she ate almost every hour during the day today. If that doesn't shout "GROWTH SPURT," I don't know what does. :)

She is a strong little tyke, too. She is trying to sit up on her own and she likes to stand whenever we let her as well. She's not very good at it, yet, but I'm sure she'll perfect it way sooner than I'd like!

Everybody's favorite 3 month old

I have searched the entire house and I cannot find my glasses, so if I write something really funky it's because I couldn't see the computer screen very well.

We've discovered one way that Emilia is just like her mommy---She's like her daddy in almost every way. :D We realized in the last few days that she has bendy ears like her daddy, (They can roll over and suction to themselves. It really grosses mommy out.) and I think she has seasonal allergies, too, which mommy doesn't have.

She has been really happy to see her daddy the last few days. I caught these pics yesterday after he came home from school.

And here's a funny one of her chewing on her hand, just for good measure.

Have Dad read this one to you Mom. You won't want to see the pictures!

I went out to our shed earlier today to check whether we have an electrical outlet out there. I knew we had a light, so there was power, but I didn't know if there was an outlet. (I want to get a small deep-freezer so we can keep more frozen than what we can keep in our refrigerator freezer.) Anyway... I opened the door and lo and behold, right there at the bottom of the door is the biggest spider I've ever seen in my life. --I know-- anyone who's gone to South America will tell me they've seen way bigger. But this is a big one for Logan, UT. Ew.


I had to take a picture so everyone would believe it was big. I put my phone near it so you get an idea of it's size (You have to click on the picture and enlarge it to get the full effect). I got out the Raid and sprayed it down good, along with the rest of the doorway, and then made Steve go back out and stick his head in there to see if we have an outlet. And we do! Hooray! Guess we'll be looking for a used deep freezer. If anyone hears of one for sale, let me know! :D

It just got monster sized

I just got back from the Logan Instacare and I have strep. Well, I think I have strep anyway. It's funny how modern medicine doesn't know much more than the average person nowadays. I looked up strep symptoms online and I had all but one of them. Since I don't have insurance, I wouldn't have gone to the doctor and paid $126 if I wasn't sure I wasn't going to get over this on my own.

So when the doctor came in, I told him what my symptoms were and he looked at my throat, and he was like, "Well, it sure looks like you have strep, but we'll wait for the culture to come back." Well, the culture came back negative. UGH. So he said the other thing it could be was mono, but if the mono test came back negative, he would treat me for strep anyway because he was 85% sure I had strep before the test came back negative and the test is only 85% correct.

Thank goodness the mono test came back negative!!!

I think Heavenly Father heard my thoughts: I was packing it up and going home if I had mono. Can you imagine trying to take care of a household and a 3 month old baby with no health insurance in a strange town with MONO!??

So he gave me a prescription for penicillin. And I'm praying it works. Sorry to anyone down in Orem/Kearns/Eagle Mountain that I might have given strep to. I certainly hope it wasn't full-blown strep yet and I can spare myself from feeling guilty over that, too.

Love you all!
Brina

2 kitties, 2 skeins of yarn, and a whopper of a cold bug

The first kitty is of course Cosmo. Steve, Emi, and I drove down to Orem to watch the BYU vs. USU game. It's a little silly that we drove 117 miles to watch a game that was being played less than 5 miles from our house, but we can blame Steve for that. He didn't actually ask someone if students got discounted tickets to football games, so we were under the impression it would cost us at least $70 to go to the game. Which is WAY more expensive than driving to Orem. (We found out later from some friends that students get in free and spouses pay $5.) But...we were looking forward to spending the weekend with family anyway, so it was worth the drive. Surprisingly, the 110 (or so)-ranked Aggies managed to make the #7 ranked Cougars look bad during the second half of the game, so it was actually a fun game to watch.

Here is the second kitty:


This is Emi's halloween costume. We decided not to go all out on a costume for the non-existent halloween party that we're not going to that she won't know she's wearing anyway. I put her in it today because it was the only long-sleeved outfit I had that was clean. I got a ton of long-sleeved stuff from my sister this weekend (Thanks Megs!), but it needed to be washed.

Since I wasn't holding Emi all weekend, I actually finished the scarf that I've been trying to knit for 2 years. I took it all out and crocheted it and it took me all of 2 1/2 days to finish. I hate knitting. :P

And last, but certainly not least, the cold bug. I came down with a fierce sore throat Sunday and it still hasn't gone away. This is my first experience of HAVING to take care of someone else while feeling like crap...and it's really not all that fun. Although taking care of someone as cute as Emi makes it easier.

Little Personality

Hello everybody! I haven't blogged for a few days because I've been trying to work on my photography portfolio and another blog I'm trying to customize. It's not working--trying to customize the blog. I'll have to get Steve to tell me what I'm doing wrong. He's at school right now and Emi is laying here next to me and still in her pajamas at noon. Does that make me a bad mother that I haven't dressed her yet? She's blowing bubbles and smiling and talking to me while I blog. Oh! and I guess she's filling her pants, too. :)

I'm so excited to go down to Orem on Friday! Seriously, I've been looking forward to this weekend for 3 weeks. Everybody better not be disappointing. Haha. :D

Emi is getting so interesting! The grandparents are going to be so sad they haven't seen her in over a month. It's amazing how much she can do now. She's holding up her head (mostly) and she can keep one finger in her mouth when she wants to. I've discovered she only does it when she's hungry, though; she usually doesn't do it just for comfort.

We've also decided she is sensitive. Sometimes when I sneeze or we start the vacuum or something like that and she wasn't expecting a loud noise, she bursts into these sobs like we've seriously hurt her feelings. It's just so heart-wrenching. I haven't discussed this one with Steve, but I think she's a little shy, too. Whenever you talk to her and make her smile, she turns her head and brings her hands up to her face like she's trying to hide a little bit. It's really cute. That observation contradicts another one that we've made. She loves groups of people and whenever we get a camera out, she can't keep her eyes off of it. So I'm not sure how those two go together yet. I guess it will become more apparent as she gets older.

Her headbands finally fit her so I took some pics of her with one on. I think they look pretty cute on her, but then, she could probably make just about anything look cute. But then, I'm biased. :)