When A Child Is Born: First Bruise and New Car

Monday, September 28, 2009

First Bruise and New Car

Emily is pretty good at one-hand walking. She likes holding our hand with her left hand and use her right hand to pick up things from the floor or touch the things along her way. Sometimes she can stand on her own for a few seconds. She can also bend down to pick up things on her own. Her favorite stop in the whole house is the air purifier where she can step on top of it and then step down. We fastened some of the cabinets with the rubber bands so she didn't play with them as much as before. Her new development this week is to hold bottles on her own. She put the bottle in her mouth a couple of times to feed herself. David said she also said Hi for the first time although she's been waving for a while. One thing that I wanted to jot down is when I came home from work, Emily always ran to my arms from where she was with big exciting screams - nothing is better than that!

Everything I read told me that babies are natural picky eaters. But Emily is an exception. She loves everything: from brocolli to tofu, from noodles to bread, from carrots to celery, from fish to chicken, from kiwi to catelope, from eggs to yogurt ... no matter what we put into her mouth, she took them all with gladness and she wouldn't stop until she was full! We are so glad at that. Hope she will keep up in the future!

Emily had her first bruise this week - she fell on the triangle block. It left a dark deep bruise on her left face. After that, she kept falling on the floor when she was walking or cruising around. But she only cried three times among those dozens of falls. She is a little explorer!

David went to the LST Harvest Call in NRHCOC Saturday. He had a great time. Prestoncrest announced to be a centurion church during the dinner. Friday night we stopped by Amy W's house to drop off Lori's baby gifts. We ended up staying there and had a piece of yummy pie. Rachel loved Emily. She took such good care of Emily the whole time while we were there.

We've been looking for a car to replace David's car for a while. Finally we bought a white 2008 Honda Civic Hybrid today. We loved it!

The bruise on Emily's left face and the guilty blue block