Julia and Emily's World

Emily is now 10 lbs 4 oz. She has more than doubled her birth weight of 4 lbs 13 oz. She got her VCUG done this week. The results were negative (no backflow of urine from her bladder to her ureters). She'll be going for another ultrasound on her kidney later this month. The good news is that her colic behaviour seems to be subsiding over the past week. She has more good nights than bad nights. Her sleep times are getting better too. She will fall asleep now at around 1am and sleep until around 6am, get up and feed and go back to sleep for a couple more hours. She still has most of her hair! It's thinning out a bit but getting longer. It attracts a lot of attention when she's out and about.

Today Julia went skating for the first time. We were at Grandma's and we went to the Scarborough Civic Centre with her cousins. She did good for her first time and wants to go again. I found it tough holding her up. My back and feet were killing me and we were only there for about 30 minutes. Last night Emily had a really good night. She didn't cry and slept most of the night. Julia slept at Grandma's house so we really got a good nights sleep. We slept in until 10:30am! Nice!

Julia likes to feed her baby too!

Happy New Year! On New Year's Day we went to Mama's like we usually do. I love the food. Julia and Sheryl...not so much. Emily got to meet all her extended cousins, Aunts and Uncles and of course Mama, her Great Grandmother. Emily is Mama's 8th Great Grandchild.

This afternoon we went to Gage Park for some New Year's Eve festivities. The real events started at around 6pm but we just went early for the rides (needless to say there were no line-ups). The wind was cold but it didn't seem to bother Julia. They had buses there to warm up in. That was the best part. Last post for 2008. Happy New Year! Thanks for reading.

Emily is not always crying. Here is some proof that she is happy sometimes. She especially loves Julia's silly faces.

Emily is now smiling and babeling a lot more now (milestone...check!). She is a happy baby for parts of the day. Other parts of the day she is not so happy. Emily is still colic and cries for hours during the night. Her worse times are around 2:00am to 4:30am but sometimes it starts a lot earlier. This is a very tired household right now. She did have a couple of good night this past week. She was still up during those hours but was not crying. Julia was also colic but it lasted for only 2 weeks. From what I have read, approximately 20% of babies are colic and they usually outgrow it by 3-4 months. Great...only 8 more weeks to go. *sigh*

Christmas day started with Julia opening presents under the tree from Santa. She was happy because she got the DS she wanted and in PINK! "See, Santa DOES have pink paint!" she said. Later in the day we went to Gary and Jackie's for Christmas dinner. Good food and good times. Emily was an angel. Now everyone thinks we are lying about her being colic.

We had home made pizza on Christmas eve. I guess this is our new tradition since we did the same last year. Julia got to also open her presents. The big hit...SLINKY! Still fun after all these years!

My co-worker Andrea invited the team over for dinner on Monday. Andrea and her husband Greg live in a beautiful home outside of Aurora. Their two boys did a great job entertaining the younger kids. Dinner was fantastic. On the way out Julia remarked that she wanted to live in that house. Maybe Andrea will adopt Julia.

Julia stay at Grandma's for two nights with Selena and Mya. Mya was home sick the first night but was well enough to join them for the second night. On the first night Julia was really hyper. She was driving Selena nuts. Selena asked Grandma to send Julia home. Julia really enjoys her cousins. She wants them to sleep over our house. Maybe when Emily is a bit less fussy.

Friday was Julia's school's little Christmas Pageant. Each class sings a couple of songs. Unfortunately the storm kept Mommy from attending but I caught it on video for her. There is a funny/gross part in the second song. Watch the video.

Julia built her own drum set. She tried to make it as accurate as possible. She even said "the crash cymbals have to be up high" and also tried to make her own kick drum. She got me to try it out too. She is suprisingly very interested in drums although she has make it clear that piano is her favourite instrument.

Santa made his annual visit to the school. Mommy, Grandma and Emily also stopped by for a visit. Emily even got to see Santa too. After school, Julia had a sleep over at Grandma's house. That was to give us a chance to sleep in. That didn't quite work out since Emily kept us up all night! This is the 4th Santa Julia has seen this year (Parade Santa, Christmas Party Santa, Mall Santa, School Santa). And they all look different! I wonder if she's figuring it out.