What a week!

The past week in the Lui household has been rather eventful. Last Saturday, we picked Mema up from the airport so she could visit with Emma for the week. Shortly after arriving at our house, Larry began prepping dinner for the following night. I was in the living room feeding Emma and began seeing orange reflecting off of our stainless steel refrigerator and the smoke detectors began going off. Long story short, when Larry went to put oil in the pot, the oil caught fire and began shooting off 2 foot flames. He took tongs to lift the pot off the stove and carry it outside. Finding it hot, he set the pot down on the kitchen rugs, melting those. He finally got the pot out front and the fire was out. Emma and I had to evacuate the house because it was really filled with smoke. She was pissed....she had to stop in the middle of eating and now she was out front in just her diaper screaming bloody murder. Larry came outside, which is when I noticed how bright flaming red his left arm was. I insisted that he go get it checked. He persisted at being stubborn for a bit. When his upper bicep looked purplish to me, I made my mom drive him to the emergency room. In the meantime, our elderly neighbor across the street came to check on us. Nice way for him to meet Emma while she was satanic in the front yard. =) Larry returned three hours later with a nice burn on his left arm, a sore right arm from a tetanus shot, and more pain pills than I received for giving birth! Thank goodness my mom was here. Otherwise I may have panicked on how to get Larry to the ER. Emma had been exceptionally fussy all day so I could not imagine sitting in the ER with her for hours!

Emma experienced her 6 week growth spurt for a few days. She returned to an "I MUST eat every 90 minutes!" schedule, which was a bit challenging for me to keep up with. We went to a breast feeding group on Monday and Emma weighed a whopping 9 pounds already! She is growing so dang fast!!!! We continued through the week, with me struggling with my dairy/soy free diet. The limited food selection succeeded in making me pretty grumpy. =p

Larry and I went on our second date since the baby on Tuesday night. We had planned on going to the French restaurant that we attempted to go to when Vovo was here, but decided there was probably a plethora of butter/cream in the food which would not make our daughter happy. We ended up going to a Japanese barbecue place instead. Some of the meat dishes had soy sauce on it. Reluctantly, but starving, I still ate a few pieces. We went and saw "Up" after dinner, which was SUCH a great movie! I can't wait to start taking Emma to the movies!

Mema reported that Emma was a perfect angel. She plowed through two bottles like a champ. I regretted my decision to eat the meat with soy sauce shortly after feeding Emma. She got really sick...constant puking, very congested with lots of mucous, gas, cramped belly. Oh, the poor thing cried and cried. It finally passed and she slept peacefully, but not without a few tears from mommy. =(

Wednesday night was the first REALLY hard night with Emma. She woke up from a nap at 2 in the afternoon and at 11 that night, she still hadn't slept yet. She was screaming. Nothing seemed to soothe her and she screamed and cried unlike I had ever heard her before. I took her temperature and she didn't have a fever. I put a call into her doctor and my mind went over and over anything I might have eaten that could be upsetting her. Nothing even seemed to work to soothe her poor belly. =( Finally, I woke Larry up around 1 and he was able to get her to sleep. The on call person who pages the doctor gave him my phone number wrong, so he didn't call back until 7 in the morning and was very apologetic. I have to very carefully diary everything I eat throughout the day. He thinks Emma was just having alot of gas pains and recommended that I get some Mylicon to give her after eating. Started using it yesterday and it seemed to help her a lot. She farts like an old man now, but I'd rather her do that then let the bubbles build in her tummy. My poor poor baby. I don't know how I am going to handle it when she is sick for the first time. =(

So to end this post, I would like to give special recognition to the inventors of Sleepy Wrap. Ever since I have started "wearing" Emma, both of our lives have improved. She is so peaceful and sleeps like an angel. I am able to get so much done, so I feel less like a sloth. I would highly recommend it to anyone!! www.sleepywrap.com

Best purchase ever!