Last week was another fun week of developments with Emily! Emily apparently has learned how to do high 5 now! She's kind of slow to do it - you have to say High 5 like 3 times and keep putting your hand up for her to finally lift her hand up. Hahaha. And it's not like she actually touches your hand to create the high 5 action - she just lifts her hand. I'm proud of at least the understanding that you're supposed to raise your hand when you do high 5. Haha.
Emily is slowly starting to want to crawl, I think. We have this fun routine where we put Emily on our bed and she likes to roll around. I think she likes that our bed is so big and has lots of room to roll, but we also have this nice, slippery blanket that I think she enjoys the feel of. But anyway, we would put her on her back and she would roll around. But now, as soon as we sit her on the bed, she immediately dives forward and faceplants into the blanket so she can be on her belly to start rolling around. It's so hilarious to see how much fun she has to just immediately faceplant. She finds so much joy in this act and always dives down with a big smile on her face. The problem now is that when we put her on her bed, she immediately does this, and then starts rolling around - which means we can't leave her unattended. We used to put Emily on the bed to sit and watch us as we come home from work to change into home clothes and wash up. But now, she can't be trusted! And the worst part of this problem is that she does this on any surface that's somewhat soft. We used to sit her on the couch so I could make bottles for her. But now, she'll faceplant on the couch, which is bad bc she'll fall off the couch! Oh how things have changed so quickly! She even sometimes faceplants on the play mat - and that is not as soft as a bed or couch! But the girl loves to faceplant! I think she really wants to start crawling. Once she's on the ground, she just rolls around and around going from one end of the mat to the other.
On a sad note, we had our first medical scare this week. On Thurs, when Sy and I got to my MIL's house to pick up Emily, as soon as I held her, she projectile vomited all over me. I was concerned bc this was very unlike her. She's never been one to spit up much, so projectile vomit seemed like something was wrong. At first we thought it was a one time thing, but soon, she started to keep on vomiting. She vomited all down my back, then all down my shirt, and then kept on vomiting. She vomited for about 45 min when I finally called our pediatrician. He was concerned Emily would get dehydrated, and suggested we go to the pediatric urgent care center in our town. So we rushed to get Emily packed up, and drove as fast as we could to the urgent care. Emily threw up again in the car, and was throwing up even in the waiting room. Sy and I were so worried about her. We knew something was definitely wrong bc she was throwing up so much. Surprisingly, Emily was fine through it all. She never cried, she never whined. She seemed fine whenever she threw up - as if it was not bothering her at all. The only sad part was listening to her gag before she threw up. It made me sad to think of that awful gagging sensation before you throw up and how she was feeling it this whole time. Basically, Emily threw up for about 1.5 hours straight. Once we finally got seen by a doctor, they gave Emily some anti-nausea medicine and she immediately stopped throwing up. After a while, we tested her with some water to see if she would throw that up, but she didn't. And finally around 915pm, we got to go home. Emily was so exhausted and sleepy, but we had to bathe her bc she had been covered in vomit. So we quickly bathed her and put her to sleep by 930pm. Poor girl was so tired. Even though the doctor says we can't know for sure what caused this, my motherly instinct says it was that we gave her spoiled tofu. I didn't know that tofu needed to have the water changed everyday, and I didn't know it spoiled so easily. Knowing that I basically poisoned my own child kills me with guilt - but I had no idea! Sigh. It's terrible to know that I caused this much suffering and pain in my own child. For the first time, I legit felt like a bad parent. Luckily, Emily got better quickly and the next day, she was relatively in good spirits. She had lost some weight and looked thinner. She didn't eat all her meals as well, but at least she was eating. But boy was she tired. She ended up sleeping like 5 hours' worth of naps that day! Poor girl - she was probably exhausted from the lack of sleep plus the physical exhaustion of having thrown up so much. It was quite the scare for us. I'm never going to make this mistake again.
On a less scary note, Emily has learned how to scream/shriek. She must have discovered that she has a vocal range and she is now shrieking at the top of her lungs. It's pretty annoying and there's nothing we can do about it. It seems to mostly happen in the car. But man, times like this, you really understand why some people don't like kids. This is pretty bad to listen to!
On Sat, we went to a pumpkin farm and Emily had a blast. She loved looking at everyone and all the sights. It was really nice to go out as a family and do something fun. Emily is finally getting old enough now where she can stay up a little longer so that we can enjoy things more. She'll still need to nap, but at least it's not like within 1 hour of waking up. We can stretch it to do more activities. I feel happy that we're making progress and soon, we will sort of have our old life back!
Anyway, man, I hope Emily never gets that sick again. I love her so much - I want her to be as healthy as possible! A healthy baby is a happy baby! On a side note, I have never felt more like a mom than when I was covered in vomit. Even when she vomited straight down my shirt and into my bra, I still loved her so much and didn't mind it at all. That's a true mother's heart.
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