Time with Emma

Our Babysitter had taken off last Thursday and Friday so I took a couple of days off as well. Also mom took a couple of days off work so Thursday and Friday mom and I were able to spend some quality time with Emma. We really did not do very much on Thursday, just chilled out and played with Emma. On Friday we went shopping for new cloths for Emma, she is now officially in 6-9 month cloths because her 3-6 month ones were just getting to small on her. Then on Saturday mom watched Emma for a little while so that Drew and I could go get some errands run. Drew's birthday is coming up and he had to renew his drivers licence and I needed to get the address on my licence changed. Needless to say after spending Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday with Emma I really did not want to come back into work on Monday. Anyway here are a couple of pictures of our time together.

Feeding Time

Helping Grandma do her leg exercises

Playing with the new toys from our shopping trip


Also here are a few more updates on Emma. Emma has now tried sweet potatoes, and prunes and did very well with both. She did not do so well with carrots, she liked them but ended up throwing them back up. Today she is starting on Peaches. Other things that she is doing now are that she will roll around every once in a while, she likes spending more and more time on her tummy and she is getting better and better at sitting up. Any more she would much rather sit up then lean back on us. The only problem is she still is not the best with her balance and she likes to fold in half so we still have to support her some.

Bath Time

Sitting up


This coming weekend we will be traveling to Jasper and on Sunday we are going to have both Emma and Aubrey baptised. I will try to post pictures from that next week. While we are in Jasper we hope to be able to go into the Strassenfest at least for a little bit but will just have to see what the weather does.

Work, Food and Play

Drew in now officially a working man. Last week was his first week at the Clarian Blood Bank. So far it seems like it will be a job that he will enjoy. From the way he is talking there will be different things to do every day. Until the end of August he will be on the day shift working only during the week while he is training. After that he will switch to night shift and start working some weekends. I wish that I could say the same about enjoying my job. The last month or so there really has not been anything to do which makes for some very long days and weeks. Oh well it is a job at least and right now I'm just thankful to be getting a paycheck.

On to Emma. Emma is now eating baby food twice a day which means 1 jar a day. So far we have given her green beans, sweet peas, and squash and she has liked all of them. The only downsides to the baby food is that her digestive system is having a little trouble adjusting but that is getting better. Other then that we just have colored spit ups now.



Emma is also becoming more and more playful. Last weekend Drew draped covers over her floor mat to make it into a tent which Emma thought was fun. Also she really likes to play in her bouncer seat now. She has figured out how to get the music to play and just goes to town when we put her in there. For the most part we try not to put her in it for awhile after she ate because she has a tendency to spit up when she is in there. She can roll onto her tummy with no problems now but she still cannot seam to get back onto her back very well. On of these days she will get it and then she will be going everywhere.

5 Months, Food and Safety

Emma is now 5 months old which is kind of hard to beleive. She is changing so much. Currently Emma knows how to roll over but she has not figured out that she can get places doing so. She is chewing on everything and she is starting to sit up for very short periods of time on her own. Here is a 5 months picture and one of her sleeping.


We started feeding Emma baby food this week and so far she is doing really well. Drew picked Green Beans to start her on so she spits up green now. Currently we are only giving her baby food once a day and we are still giving her cereal. We will let her get used to this a little more and then go up to 2 feedings of baby food and eventually work up to additional food with every meal. Along with baby food we have been giving her tastes of different food. Drew let Emma have some of his popsicle the other day. For better or worse she really seamed to like it. I do not have any pictures of her eating baby food yet but here are a couple of her eating the popsicle.



Two weeks ago Vince and Tony came up and with Drew's help they redid our back deck so that it would be safe for Emma to play on when the time came. Here are some pictures of it before and after.



Please check the ealier post today to see pictures of the camping group from the 4th of July

Camping Pictures

As promised here are some pictures of the camping group on the 4th of July. It was raining so we were not able to take as many pictures outside as we all would have liked but still ended up with some cute pictures.

Emma and Jenna on mom's lap
Aubrey and Emma
Ciara and Lexi
Ciara and Aubrey on Dad's lab
Ciara and Emma
2nd and 3rd generation campers. Right to left: Carla with Ciara, Barbara with Aubrey, (April and Kate are missing), Bonnie with Lexi, Christa with Jenna, and Me with Emma. We have all been camping together with our parents since we were little and now our kids will get to have the same experiance.

DREW FOUND A JOB

As I posted last week Drew had two interviews yesterday at the Clarian Pathology lab downtown. His first interview was at 10am yesterday and when I talked to him after it was over he said that it had went very well. Since he had time between the two interviews he came and picked me up from work and we went out to eat for lunch. Then he went to his second interview and when he was done with that went to see some of his teachers because they were all curious on how things went. The Clarian Pathology building is where Drew was taking classes. Before leaving Drew stoped by to talk to the HR lady for Clarian and she informed him that he had his choice between the blood bank job that he interviewed for in the morning and the hematology job that he had just finished interviewing for like 5 minutes before.

All along Drew was hoping to get the blood bank job so that is the one that he accepted. He can start whenever he wants to so he is going to take off the rest of this week and then start on Monday. For the first couple of weeks he will be working the day shift and then once training is done he will switch to night shift. From what I understand he will have to work every other weekend and some holidays but they will know in advance what weekend and holidays that have to work.

DREW'S DONE WITH SCHOOL =)

Drew's last official day of school will truly be tomorrow but I had time to get on and post so I figured I would do so just in case tomorrow is busy. It has taken 6 years of college but he is done. All that he has to do now is pass his certification test, which he will take some time this month, and find a job. As far as the job goes he at least has a start. On Monday he will have 2 interviews for different positions in the Clarian lab down town. Both positions will be night shift 11pm to 7am so it will take some adjustment if he gets one of them but I'm sure we will manage. Please keep your fingers crossed that he will be able to get one of them.

We went to Drew's graduation dinner on Friday and Emma was the hit of the party. All of Drew's classmates and teachers wanted to hold her. The dinner did not get over until about 10pm and Emma was up until around 11pm on Friday which was interesting considering she is normally in bed around 8:30pm. Also she did not want to nurse while we were at the dinner so she did not get to eat until we got back home which was around 2 1/2 hours after she normally eats. Thankfully she was not fussy at all though. She is so curious that when I tried to cover her up to nurse she though a fit.

Also last Saturday Drew's dad and brother came up and they redid the railings on our deck out back so that Emma can safely play out there. Drew did not have a shirt on while they were working and did not put on any sun screen so he ended up getting a sunburn. I think it kind of looks like a prison now because the rails are so close together and they added a gate were the stairs are. We still need to put a sealer on the deck at one point in time but I'm not sure when we will get it done.

This weekend we are going to be going to Jasper to visit. We are both off on Friday for the 4th of July so we will be heading down then and spending the day with Vince and Linda. Then on Saturday we are going to Lincoln to visit mom and dad and the camping group. On Sunday we will be heading back home.

I will do may best to post pictures from this weekend and of the Deck next week.