February 24, 2007

What a wild week we have had this week.

Tuesday, Brianna, Emma and I went to Rapid City to shop. Emma, being so long, has grown out of most of her clothes now. We bought her a new wardrobe in 9 month size. We lucked out and found very cute things on sale at JC Penney’s and Kohl’s. Emma loves shopping and was really happy in Border’s Book store where we found buy 4 books, get one free sale going on, so she got 5 new books for Grandma to read to her. She loves being read to and has to change the pages herself already.

Brianna had a doctor’s appointment in Spearfish later in the day. They were running late so we had a hour wait for her to go in. A man there was sitting back in his chair, with his eyes closed. Emma thought that was as funny as can be… she would look at the man and laugh, then look at Brianna and give her a “look at that man sleeping mom!” Brianna would say “it isn’t nice to stare at people sleeping in the doctors office, that is rude” So Emma started giving her a blank stare, not even blinking her eyes… it drove Brianna crazy, she would say “stop” and Emma would do it even more. Now I know it doesn’t seem possible that she would do it on purpose, but later that evening we were telling Kevin and Jordan about it and Emma did it again to Brianna until Brianna would laughingly say “stop” Emma would just laugh. I did figure out why she does that though, Jordan does it to tease Brianna too and I think Emma thinks it is a game.

Wednesday Brianna and Emma came over for the day. Emma had a blast watching Tara and scooting over to Tara’s toys. Tara is so patient with Emma, anyone else she will take her toy back from, but with Emma, she just lets her have it and finds another one to play with.

Thursday, Emma Brianna and I went to Gillette to visit Aunt Cassie. Cassie is my daughter and she is totally taken with Emma. She gave Emma some clothes she bought for her and we went to lunch, Wal-Mart and to get my oil changed. All went well except for the oil changing part. Emma wasn’t so fond of that part of it. Wal-Mart was, of course, her favorite part, especially when Cassie carried her all around instead of her riding in the cart.

Thursday night Emma spent the night with me since Brianna had to work early Friday morning. She was so good, went to sleep at 9:30 Thursday night and didn’t wake up until 7:30 Friday morning. It didn’t take long for me to figure out that she wasn’t feeling well on Friday though, she wouldn’t let me put her down to sleep and she wouldn’t eat at all. By Friday night she was running a low grade temp and today they took her in since she still wasn’t eating. I thought she might have had strep throat but it came back negitive. They think she has a stomach flu though and she seems to be doing much better tonight. I guess with her being out and around so much, she is exposed to so much.

I went over to the kids today to help out with Emma before I had to go to work. She was not feeling well and would just let me rock her and hold her. Then the kids turned on the X box.. That brought life back into Emma pretty fast, just hearing the music. She got so excited watching them play their game, and would root them on with a “ack” and a few other cheers when something would happen. Her little feet would start kicking as they would make their little guys jump. Finally she started wanting their controllers so they gave her “hers” one they have just for her without a cord. Emma was in heaven “playing” X box with her parents!