Another Adult

 It wasn't that long ago that I posted the boys turned 18, and now Emersyn has joined them. She's a little like I was and is still in High School but 18. 
I don't have many pictures when pregnant with her. I felt huge, which I get is dumb to say after having twins, but nothing felt like it fit me. Also a lot of estrogen in my system was not good. This was the farthest along picture I had. And the day she was born went pretty quick, so I don't have anything from that morning. 

I labored for 12+ hours with her. It started between 5-7. It never got stronger but was about 3 to 5 minutes apart for the contractions. The only thing is this was September 22nd; I had a scheduled c-section September 24. The boys held on so I thought that was going to be the day. I thought it so much that I was able to get the RN I had with the boys to take a shift that day so she could be my nurse again. The night of the 22nd was the longest of my life. We did go in, but after a couple hours they sent us home and said we'd make it to the surgery date. Contractions didn't stop and I went in again about 8 am. I was dilated I think 3-5 and the admitted me. The doctor asked if I wanted to do a v-bac, but I ultimately said no. I regrated that decision for a long time. I was told by a few people that I never had babies a 'normal or natural' way and it wasn't 'real'. I let that get to me too much for a long time. I grateful now all the knowledge with how had c-sections are and I'm just as much a women for how I delivered my babies. 
The cord was around her neck, so it was good I didn't try a v-bac. She also ended up in the NICU, my opinion was due to a mile allergy and staff weighing her wrong. But she came home and was the perfect little girl I was hoping for. 

She's always stood her ground with her three brothers and has always been the breath of fresh air, or girl air, needed in a house full of boys. 

She is very excited to leave the house and start college. So far she is wanting to go to U of I and study phycology or psychiatry (or last time she told me). I'm excited to see all she learns and grows and gets to experience with college. I know it won't be easy but it will be good for her. 

For her birthday she really wanted some new shoes. For the boys we did a bigger gift, so she wanted some money to go to her trip and then some in cash. 

She requested apple crisp or chocolate strawberries, both were easy so we did both. 

Her main focus right now is school, friends and work. She's doing the AA program at Renaissance, so when she graduates, she'll already have an associates. She just started a new job, she's no longer at Stella's but now at Bardenay, a restaurant in Eagle. It's only been a week, but she loves it so far. She is a hostess. Then being her Senior year, she's doing all the fun things and is with her friends as much as she possibly can.  She's busy but loving it. Recently we have gone crazy with so many different nail products and she makes some really cool designs when she does her nails. 

Emery was 7 when she got asked the birthday questions the first time. In that post it said she knows if she wants anything all she has to do it ask her dad, and that is fully still the case. His little girls gets whatever when she asks him. At that time her favorite food was Oreos, Her favorite subject was painting and her favorite thing to play with was her camera she got for Christmas the year before. Now her favorite subject is Biology. Her favorite food is pasta and her favorite toy/game/ thing doing to do is doing nails.

It's Been a Bit

 It has been a long time, a few things have happened but I just have not sat down to write them down. 
Mom came down one weekend and we got dinner, got a hotel, talked all night, went for breakfast then went to A Way With Clay to do pottery. It was such a relaxing, fun, much needed weekend. I did a book jewelry box and mom did a mug. Right when I finished mine I thought of other things I could have done over words. 

Mom's looks really cute!

We have had a painting in our front room for a few years. Brad and I did a pour paint on three canvas'. They were separate for a while then we added to them and made it one.

You can kind of see it here. It was a little bit of a story to the painting. I didn't mind it but didn't like how it was set in the end. I wanted it another way and Brad and someone else liked it another way. It was put the other way and I kind of had a bad taste for it for a while. Finally we wanted a project so we decided to paint over it. 

And I like it a lot more than the first one.