Little bit of this and that

I've really wanted to come and write here more often, but I honestly don't know what people want to read. The answer "write about Emma" IS VARY VAGUE, so some ideas would be nice. Right now I'm trying to write, but Lil'E keeps trying to climb up my leg crying for my attention. Naturally, I just ignore her and hope she'll go away and play with her toys. I know that sounds cruel, but it's not like I'll take her onto my lap every time she wants me to.

Today Emma has been a bit sick. She's thrown up about 4 times; and thrown up A LOT. It's so sad to watch her be sick and cry because it hurts her stomach. I really hope I managed to comfort her enough. She's also had diarrhea a few times, even though she hasn't eaten anything. At least she's drinking a lot of water, so she stays hydrated. There's no fever and she seems just as alert, so it shouldn't be too serious. It's really worrying, but I have a feeling she got some bacteria due to the fact she sticks everything in her mouth. I hope it's over by tomorrow.

Emma has been growing so much lately! Ok, not length wise, but she's learning new things. I swear she's already trying to say "äiti" (mom in finnish). Although her version of it is more like "äidi", but she's getting there! It honestly melts my heart :') But even just as cute is when she stands on my lap and wraps her arms around me, like if she were giving me a hug <3 I also like watching her when she stands against our cuboards (especially the bathroom one) and her eyes glow and sparkle when she realizes she's managed to open the doors again :D It's just so fun for her to rummage through the drawers. Amazingly I don't mind putting all the stuff back into place, or at least not yet I don't.

I would like to show off some of the new additions to our household!

First of all I HAD to get this for Emma, it's such a classic toy. Unfortunatly Emma doesn't really use it yet, but maybe once she learns to walk it'll be more in use.

Brio pushy thing :P

Princess Emma's Thrown

I bought Emma a potty! I think parents usually start potty training children at around 18months but I didn't think there'd be any harm if I put Emma to sit there once in a while. The thing is, we have such a small sink that it gets very hard/annoying to wash Emma's golden bum, therefore I figured I can sit her on the potty after her meals if in any luck she'll poopy there instead of her diaper.( I'm sure that was nice for everyone to read :P ) She sits there very nicely, and we read her Moomin bath book together. It's a lot of fun, honestly. So far she's made little peepee in her potty. THE CUTEST PEEPEE IN THE WORLD. It's so hilarious how you can be so proud of someone's peeing.








Last but not least, I bought Emma a new stroller! I thought we could use a new one, a lighter one, that would be easy to use on trips or during the summer. At first I looked at one stroller that was on sale, 79e, real good price. But instead I decided to spend 50e more because...wait for it...these ones have a cup holder!! It's so sad how something so useless can be so appealing to spenders.
We've brought the stroller up to our appartment and we've been breaking them in. I tell Emma we need to practice using them so we're prepared when we use them in Rhodos (April 2012). :)

Fever

   Today Emma woke up crying at 8:00; unlike usually, she didn't stop crying. She didn't want to play, she didn't want to feed, go back to sleep or have a poopy diaper. I concluded that it was digestion pain or maybe teething. Eventually I got her to feed and she fell back asleep. When we later woke up, she cried again, and spent most of the morning whining. She ate breakfast but took only a spoonful of lunch. I thought that a bit wierd so I measured her temperature. Now, babies have a fever if their temperature is over 38°C. We have a pacifier thermometer, which is handy even though it takes a few minutes (thank you Laura!), and that shows -0.5°C of the actual body temperature. The thermometer showed 37.7°, so Emma had a fever of 38.2°C. 0.2°C fever for a mom who's never had a sick kid before = PANIC PANIC PANIC. I was so worried! Poor Emma, no wonder she was so upset and uncomfortable. I didn't really know what to dress her in, I didn't want her to be cold, but I didn't want her to overheat either. So she spent a while naked, which is anyways recommended for feverish babies to help their body temperature drop. We spent most of the day in bed reading books, singing and feeding. I gave her lots of milk so she would stay hydrated. I didn't want to give her aspirin (for babies) unless the fever got past 39°C - I don't really like the idea of taking medicine unless it's really necessary. Before bed her temperature was 38°C, so I'm guessing over night it'll go away completely. 

Other than the fever Emma has been doing great! I've noticed that she knows when something is hidden behind something else. Small infants think items disappear when they are covered, but now when I try to hide my phone under a blanket on the sofa/bed she knows to go looking for it underneath the blanket. Also she turns the pages when we're reading a book together, what a smartypants <3 She just keeps getting cuter every day, the way she interacts with me and recognizes all sorts of things: songs, words etc. She knows tisu means tits/milk, ei means no, and her name ofcourse. She also likes the song "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly", at the moment it's her favorite.


Day overview:
Amount of Pilttis (baby food): 3
Amount of diapers: 6 (3 poops, so not fair since she didn't even eat much!!)
Mood: uncomfortable 

she stands so tall :)

So vain :D

PS - I like to take Emma to places so she can look and wander around, thing is I've run out of ideas where to take her. If I take her to town or malls I end up shopping and spending money, so if anyone could come up with places for us to spend a day wound be nice. Nothing expensive. We sometimes go to these family cafes but they've gotten a bit boring. We've already planned to go to the zoo next week, so an activity like that would be fun. Any ideas welcome!

Sea life

Yesterday I took Emma to Sea life to explore the underwater worlds- from a distance. There were fish from many a seas. One of my favorites was a fish from Central/South America. The board on the wall said it has been known to jump out of the water and even catch monkeys from the trees. Intense. Emma seemed to be most fascinated by colourful fish. It was so cute seeing her all amazed, staring at the aquariums.

Emma avec some piranas

 

 That black and white fish that looks like an eel, was poppin' its body out a cave, so freaky. Emma liked watching the fish that's swimming above her head.

 We waited by the shark pool to see the sharks being fed. They knew exactly when their feeding was and starting anxiously swimming in small, fast circles. I expected them to drop a big chunk of meat in the water and see them rip it up with their powerful jaws. Sadly, that didn't happen. They gave the sharks individually a piece of fish with a giant fork (?!!?). Not exciting at all.

   Nonetheles, the jelly-fish area was nice to look at, since the pools changed colour. Emma was a bit scared though, so we left quickly.

We compared Emma's octupus to a real one - not much resemblance.

Capt. Calamary and cousin.

 Towards the end Emma got a bit restless. Maybe because the last section was for native Finnish fish, and they all were so similar looking. Nevertheless, it was a cute trip; it's very fun spending time out with Emma :)