For a person who used to spend all of their free time political blogging, I absolutely stink at keeping up with my posting now.
So Hector went to Mexico for 7 days, our first separation from each other in 2 1/2 years and it was awful. Not to say I didn't enjoy the time I spent hanging out with my family, but 7 days of limited communication (international calling rates are atrocious) with someone you spend every second with really sucks. He had to leave and visit his grandfather who had a stroke and was doing pretty bad. He hadn't been back to Mexico in 5 1/2 years so it was a good trip for him.
While he was gone, Emily and I did some damage at the stores. I am so glad my cousin Amber is as compulsive of a shopper as I am! Emily was fussing anyway so we took her out and loaded up her stroller with our bags. Seriously, we looked like a couple of girls who got our first credit card or something. When we got back to my grandparents' house, Mamaw just shook her head and said " you better hide all of that stuff before Hector gets back".
That was the plan and I thought it would work, but no. Ok, seriously, I have one of those husbands that every woman dreams of. He notices EVERYTHING! He noticed my new haircut and color, which was great, but then he noticed my new flip flops. What the heck? Every man I've ever known would never notice something like that. Hector knows when I change my polish color on my toes, a new lip gloss, EVERYTHING. I know most people are telling me to shut up and appreciate my adoring husband, but this is not a good thing when you are trying to slide a few new purchases by him.
Emily is on her way to crawling!! We were putting her to bed after Hector got back home and noticed that she was trying to get up on all fours. She managed to get up, rock forward, and then fall on her face. I am so excited that she is making this effort.
I have finally started to learn to let go of this comparison issue. Emily has fallen a couple of months behind other babies in certain areas, but I've learned to not look at what other kiddos are doing but rather at what she is doing. However, when compared to most other kids with DS, she is doing phenominal. I am so happy that the situation is not as bad as it could be.
She is very smart though (just like mama!). We won't know how she will do cognitively until she's about 2 years old, but her genetics doctor gave me some hope that she thinks Emily's IQ will actually be in the normal range. Of course it will be in the lower half, but she may escape being classified as having mental retardation. We will see how she's doing as she learns to talk and reason. Right now, she's just really good at manipulating her mom and dad! :)
