Emmi is 6 months & Memere visit

The past week has been busy. Memere came in on Tuesday for a week visit since it was T-lowie's birthday on Saturday. Emmi turned 6 months on Sunday. What Emmi does at 6 months is she rolls everywhere, says dadadada or bubabuba. She can sit unsupported for short amounts of time before she will fall over. She is definitely interested in what is going on around her. Loves jewelry or necklaces. Just a busy busy girl. We think she is trying to master crawling in her sleep. When we check on her at night she will have her butt sticking up in the air.

Emmi has a new grocery cart cover. With Memere's guidance on how to go about cutting out fabric, mission was accomplished in very little time. Very excited on how it came out. I will take a picture next time she comes to the grocery store with me. We love having Memere around, especially to do projects. Memere would play with Emmi while I would work. Any time I went downstairs to get something Emmi would get mad and cry as if I were ruin her playtime. She isn't a normal crier.

Funny story, Emmi has started to give me "kisses" where she will come at me open mouthed and then randomly suck on my face. Jacob asked on Sunday morning what is that on your face. I thought he was just making fun of a pimple or something. Over the weekend she ended up giving me a hickey. It is on my chin so it isn't too noticeable.

Here is the birthday boy enjoying his cake.
We also bought a small freezer this weekend since I have been scoring some great deals with triple coupons last week and coupons in general. I am proud to say that in my 2nd triples trip I bought $107 worth of food for $17. Loving this stuff. Basically the two trips I made paid for our freezer.

Emmi's week in review

Emmi is a rolling machine now. She just rolls where she wants. One of her favorites is to mess with the dog. Kona is great as he will just get up and move away. Often not far enough since Emmi will just roll near him again. Then Kona will go in the other room to get away. He is safe for now.

Emmi got a package this week. As you can see she was very excited to see what was on the inside.
She rolled into the hallway. The hardwood floor was intriguing as she was banging her hands on it for a little bit. I think it may have been the first time on a hard surface.
Here is another location we can find her often, near the window. I had to raise the mini blinds a couple inches since I found her chewing on one end.

We are working at taking better pictures so I really like this last one. I am signed up to take a class in the end of June so hopefully you will start to see better quality on our website.

Couponing is my new obcession. Trying to save every little bit we can.... so for all you mom's out there for baby deals check here:
http://babycheapskate.blogspot.com/

or if you are just looking for some good tips on coupon shopping and good sales:
http://www.hotcouponworld.com/forums/index.php

On the move

Here is where Punkin rolled to from her mat. Looks like we have to be a bit more aware when we put her down.

Who knew that toes tasted good?

Could Emmi have stumbled upon something huge? Could this feed the worlds hungry? Does this mean we can stop sending 7 cents a day to Sally Struthers? It appears as though you will not be hungry if you eat your feet!!! We have proof (sorry about the quality. it was taken with my blackberry):

5 Months old

Emmi turned 5 months on Friday or 22 weeks today. Time is flying by.

I have a virus which started out as what I thought was allergies. Stuffy head but then I started to loose my voice. So Friday I went to the doc just to make sure it wasnt a sinus infection. Love my doc as she has the same ideals as me. I didnt want to take anything for it unless I absolutely had to due to still nursing Emmi. She said to just ride it out. Emmi has a little bit of a cough and stuffy nose. My doc said she may have what I have so treat it the same run a humidifier, can use nasal spray, and let it takes it course.

Just when we thought Emmi was done with rolling over since she hadnt rolled over all week. She became the machine this weekend. Anytime you get her out of her crib she is on her belly. Or when playing on the floor she will roll from back to belly. Need to work on getting her going from belly to back. :^) This morning after I put her down for her nap, when I checked on her she was like this:



We also tried to play photo shoot this weekend. Here are a few pics we were able to get:

Randomness

Here is a link to some photos Arleigh has taken of Emmi.
http://flickr.com/photos/arsbars/sets/72157603267626380/


Here is a link to a story on Fox News Charlotte on Vaccines & Autism. Lisa who is featured in the story is very involved in the Charlotte mommies forum I am on. I have definitely learned a ton from her.
http://www.myfoxcharlotte.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=6283598&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1

Here is a link to a Rally in DC in June on making Vaccines Green, we may have to attend this.
http://talkaboutcuringautism.org/jenny/dc-rally/green-our-vaccines-rally.htm

Here is a link to a video on how safe are plastics.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24023514#24023514

What does this all mean.... we have an appt with a new doc for Emmi's 6 month check up in May. Hopefully he can help us with a plan on vaccinating Emmi since if you do research there is just so much information out there that is like the butter margarine debate. Just need to figure out what will work best for us. In regards to the plastics, we made sure Emmi's bottles weren't any of the unsafe plastics. We are now on the hunt of sippy cups for her. It looks like either the SIGG, Klean Kanteen or the Safe Sippy are the way to go to make sure we are safe. They are a bit expensive so we will see how many we actually get.

Godmotherly weekend

Emmi's godmother, Alana, came for a visit with her boyfriend Pat. We laid low much of the weekend but we did take in the Celtics game and did the normal sight seeing type things.... Emmi was on nap strike with only taking power naps so she could get maximum play time with Alana.

Emmi also was moved into her new car seat. So she is now riding around in style thanks to a co-worker of Jacob's who hooked us up with a bro deal on a sweet car seat, the Britax Boulevard.

Here she is... she is rolling over about once a day. She teases you by thinking she is going to go all the way over and then nope she rolls right back.

We also tried to give her bananas this weekend. Jacob was eating one and said lets try. So he mushed it up, put it on a spoon and tried to feed it to her. She gave a face so I then took some on my finger and put it in her mouth. Same face. Each time over the weekend I was eating a banana I either just let her put her mouth on it or gave her a little. But still the funny face. I think we need to get a picture. We are not full force on feeding her solid foods yet, more just kinda random times as I am still gathering the supplies since we intend on making all her food.

She also has started to say Da-da-da. Of course she starts with that. **Sigh** She makes noises with her tongue too. Her feet have been found. She even has tried to put them in her mouth. Crazy baby. hehehehe.