Emma's Crawling!!!

Take a look at the below video to see Emma crawling. It's a pretty long video...
Emma crawling...

Emma's first toboggan ride!

Here'a video of Emma and Stacy riding down the toboggan down the hill at Becker Bay...
A fun surprise ending...

9 Month Checkup

Although it is a few days early Emma had her 9 month checkup today. She received 1 shot and everything else looked fine.

Weight 21lbs 4ozs 86% percentile
Height 28.5inches 79% percentile
Head 44cm 50% percentile

The doctor is not concerned with her weight or height. We have a healthy girl. We need to start giving her more finger food on the table. I am not looking forward to that mess, but Max is. Max already is right by Emma's side when she is in her high chair.

We don't go back until her 1st BD.

Flu Shot Round 2

Emma had her follow up to the first flu shot today. She weighed in at 20 lbs. 9 oz. so it looks like her growth is slowing down a bit.
She is also teething right now. There were some aspects of the teething that we were not prepared for (the diarrhea), but hope that the first tooth will pop out pretty soon.

Nana and Pappy Come down...

Nana and Pappy (Mike's parents) came down for the weekend. Take a look at these 2 videos:
Emma in her Activity Center (Narrated by Nana)
Emma in her Bouncer (Narrated by Pappy)
And it looks like someone got into Daddy's beer (just a joke, CPS)... A true Packer's fan...

Halloween Pictures

Here are a couple of pictures from Emma's first Halloween.

Flu Shot Round 1

Emma had her first flu shot today. She will need to come back in 30 days for the second part of the flu vaccine. She weighed in at 20 lbs. 7 oz.

Emma's 6 Month Photo Shoot

Videos of Emma

Emma's first football weekend

Emma at 6 Months

6 month checkup

Emma got to spend her 6 month birthday with the doctor today. The nurse gave her 4 shots and she only cried for a minute. She is weighing in at 19 lbs 9.75 ozs (96%) and 27 inches long (87%). Her head circumference is now 43 cm (65%).

The doctor is not concerned with her weight or height. We have a healthy girl. We get to start vegetables this weekend & fruit in a couple of weeks!

Around 7.5 months we can have finger food like cheerios, rice, pasta, bananas, peaches out of the fruit cocktail cups & get to go up to stage 2 baby food (that just means the jars are bigger). When we start a new food we will only have that food for 4 consecutive days to make sure Emma is not allergic to it and then we can try a new food plus the previous one.

Our meals will look like this:
In the morning we will have cereal mixed with a little apple juice in it & a formula bottle. Mid-morning a formula bottle if she wants it. For Lunch she will get a jar of baby food and a formula bottle. Mid-afternoon a formula bottle (if she wants it). Dinner she will get a jar of baby food and a formula bottle.

4 Month checkups

We had our 4 month check up today at the pediatrician's office. Emma received 4 more shots. We are clear at this point to go to the pool with sunscreen on, though, so that's good news! We think she will really like that since it has been so hot! We can also give her rice cereal, but we don't have to ... so I think we will wait a little longer. At 6 months she will be introduced to all baby food. She is weighing in at 17 lbs. 12 oz (98%) and 26.5 inches (97%). Dr. Tran was not concerned with her weight since her height & weight are in the same percentile range.

2 month checkup

We had our 2 month check up at the pediatrician's office. Emma got a couple of shots, but handled it very well. She is weighing in at 12 lbs. 11 3/4 oz. (84%). She is now 24 1/2 inches (96%) and a head circumference of 39 cm (49%).

4 week checkup

We had our 4 week check up at the pediatrician's office. We got a clean bill of health and Emma did pretty good with her shot. She is weighing in at 9 lbs. 9 1/2 oz. (66%). She is now 21 3/4 inches (74%) and a head circumference of 37 1/2 cm (63%).

Emma's First Easter

Today was Emma's first Easter. We had lunch over at Stan and Laurie's and here are some of the pictures. Here are Wendy's pictures.

2 Week checkup

We have our 2 week check up at the pediatrician's office. She is weighing in at 8 lbs. 8 oz. (54%). This is back above her birth weight which is great! She is now 21 1/4 inches (81%) and a head circumference of 36 1/2 cm (61%).

First Pediatrician visit

We have our first appointment with Dr. Trung D. Tran, Emma's pediatrician with the Clinical Pediatric Associates of North Texas, today. Everything is looking good and Dr. Tran reassures us regarding Emma's Jaundice and weight gain. She is weighing in at 7 lbs. 12 1/4 oz. (48%) and still at 20 1/2 inches (73%) with a head circumference of 36 cm (66%).

Finally Released

We are released from the hospital today!!! Emma's weight is climbing back up (7 lbs. 11 oz.) due to the diligent efforts of Stacy and the on staff lactation consultants at the hospital. We are so glad to be going home and were greeted by both sets of grandparents, Wendy and her boyfriend, John. Check out the immense photo album from the first week of Emma (we still have yet to organize it all).

Check out delayed...

We are supposed to check out of the hospital today, but due to Emma's Jaundice levels, and excessive weight loss (7 lbs. 8 oz.), the pediatrician wants us to stay a couple of extra days.

Emma is born!!!

We check into the hospital right after midnight. After enduring 18 hours of labor (including Mike almost passing out during the epidural) and 2 1/2 hours of pushing, Emma Marie Becker was born at 4:59 pm weighing in at 8 lbs. 4 oz. and a length of 20 1/2 inches. Mom and baby are doing good and Dad gets to call his parents to announce Emma's name and birth. Dad then gets to go outside and announce her birth and name to the the family at the hospital. There is quite a large group of supporters at the hospital including Grandma and Grandpa Wright, Aunt Wendy, Memaw, Nan, Sally Tobin and John Wright. Dad then gets to call his brothers (biological and collegiate). At about 7:30 that night we get to go up to our postpartum room.

Here she comes...

As we are laying in bed watching the news at about 10:30, Stacy starts mentioning that she is having some stomach cramps on the top of her stomach. Around 11 or so, Stacy's water breaks and we hop in the car to head down to the hospital. Of course today was the first day of Stacy's OB/GYN's vacation, so we call in to the service to talk to Dr. Payne (a little intimidating talking to a Doctor with that name...). We call our parents on the way to the hospital to let them know what's going on.

Ebby Baby Shower

We had a baby shower at Stacy's office today. They were so generous and gave us a gift certificate to Babies-R-Us so we could finish up the items on our registry.

Archon Baby Shower

We had a baby shower at Mike's office today. They were so generous in providing us with a lot of the stuff that we needed including big items like the Pack 'n' Play, Diaper Champ, Baby Einstein Activity Center and a bunch of baby care items.

It looks like she's going to be a big one...

We had another ultrasound today and it looks like she might be a big one. From the initial measurements, the baby is now 6 lbs. 13 oz. This will make her a 9+ lb. baby if those measurements are accurate. Since the baby was breathing in and out so much (a good sign that she is relaxed), the Doctor isn't sure how accurate the measurement is. We're starting to get the house setup and are trying to setup the babies stuff.

Baby Shower

Stacy had her baby shower which was hosted by Regan, Gini, Carol, Amanda, Lollie, Mary Beth and Lindsey. Here are some pictures from the party. Everyone at the shower was very generous and we received a number of useful items including outfits, blankets, the stroller, the baby swing, and numerous other things off the registry.