Thursday, September 29, 2005
More from the "Em" Files
1:02 PM
Today we took Emma to her 6 mo checkup. Yeah Yeah Yeah you caught me. This was actually her 4 mo appointment at 6 mo. I guess that probably makes us bad parents. I'm not quite sure but I think that may even mean that she has to get extra shots. Hopefully she will never read this and it will just become one of those things parents do to kids but never get caught. Like setting all the clocks in the house back a couple hours on Christmas Eve and telling the kids not to wake you until a certain time so you can get more sleep. Regardless, she took those shots like a champ. She screamed. Ohhhh how she screamed. But 20 minutes later when we took her to the mall to return some shoes she was happy as ever. Entertaining the store ladies as always. You would never know she had received 4 shots earlier. Much better than her mother would have handled 4 extra shots.
As far as development is going she is coming along splendidly. 28 inches long. Off the charts for her age(100th percentile). She is either 19lbs 5oz. Still up there for her weight but only 90th percentile I think. Shanna would know for sure. Her head is only 16.5 inches or so. Only the 25th percentile. Basically she is taller than she is heavy and she has a small head haha. I asked if that is ok and the nurse said they just check head size to make sure it is growing. There is no problem if it is small and that she is developing normally and tall for her age. As a short and round person I think it would be pretty cool to be taller than you are round.
Hmmm Garrett, nice segue to....Yourself you dirty attention hog. This is my blog after all so now it is time to take the spotlight from the cute baby for a while. I weighed in today and I have lost a gross total of 24 lbs of fat. I have put on 9 lbs of muscle so that makes a net total of 15 lbs lost. I still have about 35 lbs to go until I have hit my surgery goal of 50 lbs but when you look at the total of 24 lbs it is an accomplishment that I am very proud of. I have been doing those killer "stomach" exercises and I am up to two sets of eight. Not much but better than collapsing after just 5 :)
Shanna is enjoying Emma more and more each day. What mom doesn't. Last night she got Emma to go to sleep in her own crib all by herself. This has been an ongoing struggle and it means a lot of just letting herself cry. Hard to do but probably better now than later. Shanna was just telling me that during and shortly after labor she thought that she would never forget that pain and wondered how anything could ever be worth it. Today she has decided that the has finally forgotten the pain and is positive that she does want to have another child. Something that I have always been sure of. After all I have the easy part. I spent part of the pregnancy on bed rest and I was the one wheeled into the delivery room but there is no need to rehash all that. I guess it takes about 6 months of baby time to equal 41 weeks of pregnancy and a day of labor.
I have taken up enough of your time today. Now that I think about it I have a sleeping baby, 2 hours to kill before I have to be at work and a wife downstairs that wants another baby. Doesn't take a genius to figure out that I should get off my computer and head downstairs ;) ;0 ;P
As far as development is going she is coming along splendidly. 28 inches long. Off the charts for her age(100th percentile). She is either 19lbs 5oz. Still up there for her weight but only 90th percentile I think. Shanna would know for sure. Her head is only 16.5 inches or so. Only the 25th percentile. Basically she is taller than she is heavy and she has a small head haha. I asked if that is ok and the nurse said they just check head size to make sure it is growing. There is no problem if it is small and that she is developing normally and tall for her age. As a short and round person I think it would be pretty cool to be taller than you are round.
Hmmm Garrett, nice segue to....Yourself you dirty attention hog. This is my blog after all so now it is time to take the spotlight from the cute baby for a while. I weighed in today and I have lost a gross total of 24 lbs of fat. I have put on 9 lbs of muscle so that makes a net total of 15 lbs lost. I still have about 35 lbs to go until I have hit my surgery goal of 50 lbs but when you look at the total of 24 lbs it is an accomplishment that I am very proud of. I have been doing those killer "stomach" exercises and I am up to two sets of eight. Not much but better than collapsing after just 5 :)
Shanna is enjoying Emma more and more each day. What mom doesn't. Last night she got Emma to go to sleep in her own crib all by herself. This has been an ongoing struggle and it means a lot of just letting herself cry. Hard to do but probably better now than later. Shanna was just telling me that during and shortly after labor she thought that she would never forget that pain and wondered how anything could ever be worth it. Today she has decided that the has finally forgotten the pain and is positive that she does want to have another child. Something that I have always been sure of. After all I have the easy part. I spent part of the pregnancy on bed rest and I was the one wheeled into the delivery room but there is no need to rehash all that. I guess it takes about 6 months of baby time to equal 41 weeks of pregnancy and a day of labor.
I have taken up enough of your time today. Now that I think about it I have a sleeping baby, 2 hours to kill before I have to be at work and a wife downstairs that wants another baby. Doesn't take a genius to figure out that I should get off my computer and head downstairs ;) ;0 ;P
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2 comments:
now i know why you call this blog wildhog!
funny funny stuff. Nice work on the 24lbs. -gabe
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