Weekly emails

When I found out I was pregnant I signed up for weekly emails to track how Brynnlee was growing. Each week I would anxiously await the arrival of the email, quickly read and then forward it on to Jeff to read. There were times where I didn’t have time to forward the email and Jeff would politely remind me to send them to him. Once Brynnlee was born the prenatal emails changed to update me on the growth of my precious baby. I was able to read about the skills she would quickly learn and what to expect. I always said she was slightly advanced because the emails always seemed to describe what she was already doing, so it made it difficult to read about what to anticipate. I just received the 35 week update and it is right on target!

Here are two parts of the mail that are very true at the moment:
“By week 35, they may understand the word "No" when you say it, but they may not always listen.”

“By week 35, your baby has also probably figured out how to get into anything and everything. Even though they are still a few months away from walking, they might already be crawling, butt scooting, and maybe even climbing their way into trouble.”

Reading these two statements makes me realize that we need to do some more baby proofing. I am working on moving a lot of the township files from the house to the office; which is a difficult task to do with an 8 months old who wants to crawl all over you and play with your papers. Once these things are removed we will be able to put her toys in the awesome toy box we had made. We asked Tyler to make a toy box and within a few days it was ready and we love it! Currently it sits in our living room and I am sure it will stay there for about 6 months or so. Once she is old enough to use the stairs with assistance I would like to leave the majority of her toys upstairs in the toy box and on a few things downstairs. Until then we have a basket of toys in the living room that we play with daily. Brynnlee loves playing on the floor and crawl all over us.

Last night after she napped she was a completely different child. She laughed and laughed when I tried taking pictures of her. It was so great to see her in such a great mood.