Perfect 10

We are in the double digits, folks! Soon we will have a 1 year old! Yikes!

Likes:
Chewing on drawstrings and buttons
Eating real food
Peeking over furniture
Following me around the house
Dancing
The sound of the salad spinner (she gets into giggling fits over it)
Raspberries on her belly
Opening and closing things
Riding in shopping carts
Going to the store
 
Dislikes:
Mommy leaving the room
Taking something away that she thinks shouldn't be taken away
The word "No"
Being in her car seat too long
Not being picked up and held when she feels she should

Eats:
About 30 oz a day
For a little while all she just wanted to eat Cheerios. She had gotten over that and will eat just about anything we put in front of her: cheese, breakfast sausage, scrambled egg, pork roast, ground beef... If we eat it and she can eat it, she will eat it.
 
Doctor's Report:  
She had a cold for a while and I took her in to get her ears checked. She is now 20 lbs!

Emilia's Milestones:
Clapping (She now uses this to get our attention like when she wants more food)

Standing without support for longer periods of time
First Cold
First taste of a lemon
First Christmas
First New Year

Parents' Milestones:  

Not much to report...sleeplessness, exhaustion, the usual

Hair Watch:
It is growing, still unsure if it will be curly or not

Eye Watch:
Brown near the pupil, but blue on the outside

Teeth Watch:

She has eight teeth! Four on the bottom and four on the top. She is showing signs that she is working on more.

For her pictures I was going for a tea party feel, because she turned 10 months on Downton Abbey premiere night. 

Um...that zero is the wrong way.

Lalalala

What is this?

Cheese!!

God's Blessings,

Joshua, Stefani, and Emilia

It's been one week since you looked at me...

and three days....

Name: Emilia Esther Ketelsen

Nickname: Emi

Birthday: March 4, 2014 (Same as her Daddy's)

Time: 6:26 pm

Weight: 8lbs 2.8oz

Length: 19 inches

How did she vacate: C-section. She wasn't going to drop and I wasn't dilated. It also appears my pelvis isn't meant for giving birth. 

Where did you get her name: As everyone knows we struggled with her name. We turned to the website Baby Name Wizard and used the Voyager tool. That gave us over 300 names. We then narrowed it down to about 15 names. None of them were Emilia. Further research showed that Joshua's great grandfather's name was Emil. He was the first Ketelsen born in America. 

Her middle name is my grandma (my mom's mom), Grammy's, middle name. It is also one of my favorite women of the Bible. 

Her initials being EEK is not lost on us. We thought that was also appropriate due to her other nickname, Trexie. 

How are you feeling: C-sections are a not fun, but is any form of childbirth fun? The most difficult part is feeling less than helpful. The house is a wreck. Baby stuff has already taken over. There isn't much I can do about it. Except, pawn the tasks off to Joshua and my visiting parents and godmother. 

Fun things about recovering from child birth: 

Emotional wreck

Sleeping with one ear open
Cold Flashes (I get so cold that I shiver)

Incision Pain (While it has lessened it hurts when I cough, sneeze, and get up out of chairs and beds)

It is difficult to see, but Emilia has a little onesie with Team Ketelsen on it. Thanks to Becky S., who owns Onaway Custom Embroidery. I had the jerseys made for us a few years ago. To get the story on the jerseys click here.

God's Blessings,

Joshua, Stefani, and Emilia