V-tech laptop etc.

We took an adventure to Babiesrus last night to use a gift card we had received to pick up baby proofing items for our tables since Emma walked about 4ft yesterday without stumbling.  If you repeat, "slow, slow" Emma will walk towards you and take her time with cute shuffling steps...of course at the very end, there is always the Grand Finale of her running the last 2 steps and flinging herself into us because she is so proud.
 
I picked up the V-tech laptop for 6+ months which plays music etc.  Emma LOVED it!  She was squeaking throughout the store holding onto the faux laptop...daddy tried to make her pick something else, but there was no denying, she wanted THIS ONE.  Since home with the toy, she would rather close the lid than listen to the music...99.9% sure she is going to slam her digits in this toy, but we have a boo-boo buddy ready in the freezer for when this happens.
 
So far all of Emma's medical testing has come back a-ok and we will be dropping off the "samples" for the parasite check in the morning.  Um, totally gag me.  The first "sample" I had to shove in the tube, I started gagging, which the little mouse decided to mimic, so I am gagging, Emma is gagging and Doug was trying to eat a salad while these shenanigans were going on.  By the 3rd "sample", it got easier, but geesh, totally disgusting!
 
We are getting Emma on a schedule...we think.  The bedtime wind down begins at 8:30pm and most nights she is sleeping until 6am (YAY).  We have a bottle at 6:30am, breakfast around 8:30am then a nap around 9am; today she took a 2 hour nap!  11:30am she gets another bottle, then lunch at 12:30 and sometimes a snack between lunch and the afternoon nap, which we are trying to aim for 2pm everyday.  Sometimes she sleeps 20 minutes during the afternoon nap and sometimes uo to 60 minutes.  We have a 3:30pm bottle, dinner around 6pm then have a snack and bottle around 8:30pm for bed.  In between the sleeping and eating we are playing with toys, reading books, going to the park and folding laundry.  The laundry and the dishes have tripled since we came home!
 
Tomorrow Doug returns to work, so this will be Mama and Emma's first time without Dada for 12 hours...god have mercy on me!  :O