Feeling HORRIBLE

I'm currently letting Emery cry it out for the first time and I'm feeling SO bad! I have gone back and forth on how I feel about letting a baby cry indefinitely and I'm still not sure I am ok with it but I decided to just see how she did. She just stopped crying and I want to run in there and hold her, but I'm too scared to even peek in there to see if she's sleeping because I don't want to wake her up. I can just hear her doing the sniffling babies do when they have cried so hard. She cried for like 35 minutes, I went in there every 10 to tell her it was ok and lay her back down. Ok, I just needed to vent because I'm seriously struggling at the fact that I let my baby scream for over a half an hour and did nothing about it.

9 months old

Emery is 9 months old today. She weighs a little over 17 pounds and is 26 inches long. She's crawling all over the place, which she started doing just after Christmas. She is also standing and aunt Danielle gave her one of those walker toys and she walks all over the living room with it. She has 3 teeth, all on the bottom. She loves oatmeal cereal and she'll eat butternut squash, pears, carrots, and peas, although she doesn't love them as much. She isn't very good at non-pureed food though. We tried some baby mum mums just a few days ago, she ate about half of it, choked, and puked it all over me. So we're going to hold off a little longer on those. She's starting to dance when music is on. She claps and waves and holds her arms in the air and we have just started to get her to make kissy sounds. Aaron also growls at her and she'll growl back. We are having so much fun with her, she's usually always happy and already a little goof ball. She still doesn't sleep through the night, we keep trying different things but she's just a stubborn little thing. She says mama, dada, baba, hi, and something that sounds like boy. It's crazy how much they learn and grow in such a short time. We are looking forward to all the new things she'll learn in the next little while.

Christmas

Christmas morning we got up, opened our presents, then went to Kara and Justin's to open presents with Aaron's family. We didn't get Emery anything too exciting. Clothes, high chair, and a few little toys. She did have fun opening them though and playing with the wrapping. Christmas was on a Sunday this year so after church we went to my mom's and then to Aaron's parents for dinner. The day after Christmas we went to do some grocery shopping and at the check stand there was a little camera that made sounds and a little light came on like a flash. Aaron was pretending to take Em's picture and she was loving it. He made the mistake of letting her hold it and when we tried to take it away she threw her first little fit. Only it wasn't so little, she started screaming uncontrollably. We thought it was hilarious and the camera was only $2 so we got it for her, cuz that's what you do when your kid screams for something right? :) As you can see in the top picture, she was very happy about it.

Meeting Santa

I seriously don't understand how to get text at the top of the pictures, so annoying. Emery got to see Santa twice this year, once at the big Okelberry party and then again on Christmas Eve. She wasn't sure what to think but she didn't cry, she just gave him funny looks, like the one above.





Santa gave Emery a "First Christmas" pair of jammies. It will only let me put up 5 pictures per blog so I guess picture of those jammies will be in another post :)

Night time fiasco

Last week I was feeling really overwhelmed, probably because I was sick and so was Emery, so I decided that Aaron should take 2 nights a week where the bedtime routine was all his. Oatmeal, bath, pj's, bottle...the whole shebang. That process is going on for the first time as I type and it's pretty hilarious. Emery is screaming while Aaron tries to make her oatmeal, (which he tried to microwave) then he decided to try again cuz it wasn't cooling down fast enough. I walked in to find it the consistency of playdough, so I showed him the proper consistency but he only made a tiny bit so he has had to make oatmeal 4 different times so far. :) He's a good man.
Anyway, that wasn't what this blog was going to be about but it was just too funny not to share. Since we decided that Tuesdays are his night, I'm going to try to be better about blogging and use this time each Tuesday to do it.
We looked at another nice house in Spanish Fork, only to be outbidded, so we are still looking. Emery pulled herself up for the first time on January 12th, (almost 8 months old) and now she is standing on everything and walking along the couch. She also had her first bath in the tub that night and she LOVES it. She wasn't too sure about laying on her back the first time but now she's fine with it and we can't keep her still. She wants to crawl and stand all over the tub.
I haven't uploaded pictures to the computer in forever so the next post will have pics. That's all I can think of really right now