Chromosome 18 conference, we made it!

Emarie in her new car seat along the way. And no that's not a sucker in her mouth, it's an oral flavored sponge left over from her last cleft surgery! She loves the flavor!

We stopped at In-n-Out burger in St. George and one of the cashiers gave Emarie some stickers, which she proceeded to get everywhere! The funniest was the one that said "In-n-Out" that she put right over her g-tube button! Very funny!

I love this picture of Emarie, "My precious!"

We've really been enjoying the wonderful buffet (provided by the conference gratis!) 

Awaiting our turn for the professional pictures by the wonderful Rick Guidotti!

Emarie's First Pool Party!!

Last week Emarie and I started Mommy and Me swim class, which she absolutely loved! Which I was pleasantly surprised since she didn't like the pool at all last year!

This picture is from the PEEP pool party at Veterans Park. Grandma (my mom) got to come with us, and we all had so much fun!

I will post some pictures of her swimming lessons as soon as I get them!

Happy Easter

I hope you all had a great Easter! We sure did! Emarie was visited by the Easter Bunny, who brought her a baby doll, a Hungry Caterpillar rattle, licorice, taffy, and toy eggs. 

Her Grandpa Mitch and Grandma Jen gave her a plush rabbit head basket with a spider ball (which she loves!), butterfly wings, and assorted candy and socks for Steve and I.

Grandma Karen gave her a plush rabbit. We also got to have Easter brunch with my mom, which was a lot of fun!

Emarie's Easter picture from this year

The Peters' Plague!

So I cannot tell you how bad it sucks to have the entire family deathly ill! I always thought it was better to get it all over with at the same time, but it's NOT!

So it started off with me going to the E.R. on Thursday night (more like Friday morning, I guess) for the same old, same old. Only to be given morphine and to be told to schedule more testing. Not much help. So, Emarie and I slept in on Friday and when Steve came home for lunch around noon, I had the worst migraine I have had in a really long time. Nauseated and vomiting, blacking out, the whole shpeal! 

By Saturday, I was feeling better, but still not the best and so we did miss out on Steve's fun birthday weekend (so sad!), and by this time, Emarie was starting to throw-up, and we figured that it was the stomach flu. 

By Sunday, Emarie's still sick, and now I'm starting to get a really bad cold (poor Steve!!). So I stayed up with Emarie all night Sunday, because Monday for me was "Teacher Quality Day" (no kids, but still supposed to work), but I didn't make it in until 11:30 when Steve could come watch Em for a couple hours (cause she was still really bad). I only stayed for about a half hour, since I was dying and tired! And then after Steve came home from work on Monday, he and I both started throwing-up. And this was the really bad kind, like not even keeping down water! It was so bad! 

So we're all miserable with our buckets on the couch, since trying to get up was a joke! So we all were up all night, so we all stayed home on Tuesday. Steve went back on Wednesday, but I still took another day, because my cold was so bad at this point. I am here today, but really wish I was back home in bed.

None of us really have an appetite to this point. Today all I had was a few pretzels and some water. But just to sum up (cause I know it was long), it really sucks when both parents of a sick baby are on their death beds!

Emarie's Glasses

So Emarie had to get glasses, but I was so excited, cause she just looks so dang cute! And, she's doing pretty well at keeping them on, which we were very surprised about! It's like she loves being able to see clearly now! We'll see how long she actually likes them though!

Steve's 30!!

So today is Steve's 30th birthday!! Can you believe it?? I can't!! Anyway, he doesn't really like me making a big deal of it, so sorry dear!

So I haven't really gotten anything planned for tonight, other than making him his favorite meal (ravioli) and just relaxing. He'll probably want to go to bed early tonight since our little night owl kept us up all night last night! Sigh...

We're trying to plan a weekend alone for next weekend though. It will officially be the first time we leave Emarie with someone else all night, should be interesting, but well needed!

So yeah, I guess I still haven't really figured this thing completely out yet. But, I am trying! But I just found out yesterday, that I'll be able to access it at work, so that should help out.