6 Months Have Come and Gone

Emily Jane got lots of shots, both kinds. The shots that hurt and the shots that please. Here are a few for your pleasure.

First Sunday in the Nursery

Another first, the first Sunday Cindy and Ryan have been in church without Emily Jane. Anna, Wes, and Mercer took vigilant care over the toddlers and infants this Sunday, including EJ. Emily Jane only poops once or twice a week. Guess what day she pooped this week? Shabbat Shalom Anna Davis. As you might imagine, these poops are large events. Imagine you are at your local Lucky China Buddha Restaurant, the one with free soft serve ice cream. And when you've picked through your last plate of candy covered fried meat and rice noodle, you go over to the ice cream machine for a chocolate dairy delight. But when you flip the lever back to the off position the chocolate soft serve doesn't stop serving. You start grasping for more tiny bowls and they spill into the floor. You can't get the cones out fast enough. A kid in cutt-offs runs to the rescue and places his jowels under the gushing nozel. This is EJ's bowl movements. Minus the kid in cut-offs.

In your imagination, was the kid's hair uncombed? He was thinking about being a Kung Pow hero, but instead ended up looking like a chocolate crack addict. This will lead to his nickname "Fudgey" which will be the main reason why he gains so much weight in high school and ends up playing the sousaphone his junior and senior year of marching band. But don't worry, he'll meet a nice girl and on thier third date they'll go to Lucky China Buddha Restaraunt where he cleverly retells the story of how he got his nickname. His date will laugh so hard at the telling of his soft serve rescue that a rice noodle will leave its intended southerly course down her esophagus and, instead, take a turn north, ingoring the sign posted on her uvula and head straight through her middle meatus and exit her left nostril. This will gain her the nickname "Noodle-Nose."

Fudgey and Noodle-Nose will go to the same college, a small state school located just north of Pine Mountain and about two hours from home.

At their wedding rehersal, Fudgey's best man will tell the story of the night when Fudgey knew he found the women with whom he'd spend the rest of his life. It will be the story of when they went to Lucky China Buddha Resturant. The wedding party will laugh and laugh, but one lady, the bride's aunt, will only chuckle a little because everytime she see's a soft serve icecream, she'll think back to one sunday when she had to change this baby's diaper.

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I Don't Want to Go to Sleep

Emily Jane at 5.5 months can roll, push-up, grab her toes, grab just about anything, and has started talking like crazy.  Her newest thing is to eat dinner, get really sleepy, and then pop-up completely awake when we put her in her crib.  Now that she's grown more confident in her singing ability, she's using singing to keep herself awake.  

She's still a little shy around adults, even her parents when it comes to talking.  I ran and got the camera because she was being so loud in her crib.  As I turned the camera on and went into her room, I made a sound and she got quieter.  But this is Emily Jane having been in bed for about 40 minutes.  She doesn't say any words on purpose yet but she say, "la, la, ooooh," "hoo, hoo" and squeel.  

EJ is fitting well into her 6 month clothes and is about to be done with the 3 to 6 month sleepers with footies.  Her mom ordered cloth diapers - the new generation - http://www.bumgenius.com/ 

a friend of ours, Colbey, has used them on all three of her girls.  They work great.  Cindy washes them.  Emily Jane has already gone through 1000 disposable diapers.  We figure we'll need to use each one about 90 times for it to equal the cost of disposables.  But it's worth not filling the landfill.You know what you get when you don't fill a landfill don't you?  Land.  I'm sure the garbage man appreciates it  as well.   EJ goes to daycare part-time this summer.  She'll still use disposables when she's there.

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