Ella Stayed With Emily Roberts!!!

Ella stayed with a baby sitter for the very first time today. Emily Roberts (one of Mary Catherine's sitters) came in this morning around 8:30am. She is home from College at Erskine until New Years. Mary Catherine loves Emily and always called her EMMY. I stayed here with them until 11:15am to make sure they would be okay together. I helped her get adjusted to Ella's schedule (yes, I actually have her on schedule of sorts). I also helped her get used to the different crys Ella makes for different things. I am all into DUNSTON BABY LANGUAGE. I haven't bought the DVD yet, I am hoping Santa will leave it in my stocking. However, I can hear the baby language. Instead of the horse wisperer, I am now the MOMMY wisperer. The lack of sleep has given me a sence of humor about all this. LOL! Honestly thou I have found the baby language thing works wonders. I recorded the writer on OPRAH this past week and I play it over and over to get the different crying sounds in my head. I can tell you what is wrong with Ella before I ever touch her. I do it by listening to the sounds she makes. Emily was amazed when I was in the kitchen this morning and heard Ella crying and making an OWH sound...I said..."she is wet." Sure enough, I was right. Then she made the NEH sound and I immediately told Emily "she is hungry." Right again! I have been really working on the GAS sounds as those are, I think, the hardest to interpret. EH and EIAR! The ER sound is they need to burp and the EIAR is for lower gas problems. These two are hard for me to tell apart and Ella does these alot. I am really having to work on this but I love being able to understand Ella and what she needs.

Having help today was wonderful. I am thinking about asking for more help for Christmas- maybe Santa will leave me 2-3 elves. I need one that cleans, cooks and tends babies. Seriously thou, I was able to vacume and dust the girls rooms, clean the kitchen and bathrooms all without having to stop every five minutes to take care of a child. The best part about the entire morning was that I was able to take a shower without having to put a baby in a car seat and take her in the bathroom with me. I didn't even have to jump out of the shower, with soap in my hair, to put a passy back in a screaming babies mouth or hold the baby until she stopped crying. It was absolutely wonderful.

I picked Mary Catherine up from school at noon. She and I had some last minute Christmas shopping to pick up. She was a big help and it was nice not to have to take Ella in all those stores and places. I am thankful, Emily agreed to help me out a few mornings next week too. Maybe I can get some "real" work done and get some new real estate agents trained. What a blessing. . . WE LOVE OUR EMMY!