Happenings

These past few months have been pretty lousy. Without boring you with details...just know I am very, VERY excited about Thanksgiving break and getting to finally spend time with David. Here is a little of what we (me and Em) have been doing these past few days.

 

Playing with her car

 

Walks in her red shoes

 

 

Discovering leaves

 

 

Endless peek-a-boo

 

 

Wonderful bean bag chair (thanks Daddy!)

 

Coffee for me :)

 

Trying to create an epic ponytail

 

 

And getting 5 more teeth at once

 

That last one has been awful. Poor kiddo. One more day...I can do this. Sending lots of love.

Emma Update

EmmaLee is now 13 months old. ahhh the toddler stage.

 

She. . .

• can say "Emma", "choo choo", "whats that?"
• can sign "thank you", "good night", "wait", "stop", "go","flower", "outside"
• knows most parts of the body. Eyes, nose, lips, tongue, hair, fingers, toes. All of these can be confused with 'ears'. Not sure why but once she knows she has ears...everything is an ear.

• Favorite foods: pb&j sandwiches, pb&banana sandwiches, carrots, hot cocoa
• Least favorite foods: hummus and cucumber
• Can now walk. woot. Especially barefooted. Walking with shoes is more of a zombie shuffle than actual walking but she is making progress.
• Is still in a love/hate relationship with Switzer.

• Can play peekaboo 24/7 and never get bored.

 

ever

 

• Still loves dinosaurs. Luckily we have a bouncy one at the park by our house. *rawr

• Loves her car

 

• And loves her wagon

 

• And loves Tangled

• She is down to one nap a day. (which is heaven for this Momma) She wakes up at 8:30 or 9, then naps 2:00-5:00, then goes to bed at 8 or 8:15. love.
• She now unzips her sleepers in the middle of the night. I go to get her in the morning and she is naked except for the one button at the top. Still hasn't figured that one out yet. 

• All 4 one year molars are popping out at once plus tooth #8. yay. So 7 completely out, 3 moving in and 2 holes with the start of teeth coming through. 12 teeth is all.
• Her hair is sooooo close to being long enough to put up in a ponytail. Hopefully only a few more weeks of the mullet look.
• This past month, and the couple months before, Daddy has been busy at work so we have not seen him very much BUT



 

 She loves her Momma.

 

 



 and her red shoes

 (I had to hide them so she would stop crying after I took them off for nap time)

 









 

and we get to play with baby Connor :)

Every day is something new.

Smarty Pants

Okay. So I have been extremely proud of my kiddo these past two weeks because of her use of sign language.

Before EmmaLee was born I only really knew two signs...

"more" and "all done"

So those are the first signs Emma learned back in June. Then we put a couple of toes on the 'baby signing time' train. We rented the first two from Amazon on our PS3 and watched them for about a week. WOW

...me and David learned a lot ;)

But we wondered what Emma got from those shows. She would make signs (milk, cracker, fish, dog) but they were never constant until after her birthday last week. It was like "oh I am a one year old now...."

light bulb

 

signing genius

 

Emma now signs all the time. I ask her if she wants lunch...she signs "eat". When I ask her if she wants a sandwich...she signs "please". When I ask her if she is all done....she can sign "more" or "all done". When I ask her if she wants to take a nap....she signs "eat"...then after I give her a snack and ask her again if she wants to take a nap....she signs "sleep". when she wants up she says "up" then signs "please". When playing with Switzer she signs "gentle" (not that she is gentle) and "dog". When we talk about babies...she signs "baby" and so on. She is communicating what she wants now and not having as many temper tantrums (and not biting me as much). I am not sure how long this will last but it is incredible seeing her sign without prompting. We have been trying to take her morning nap away but for two days now she has come up to me around 1030am and signed "sleep". Oh, sign language I love you.
 

 

'more'

 

 

'gentle'

 

 

'baby'

 

 

'milk'

 

 

'momma, stop taking pictures of me I am trying to finish breakfast'

 



Emma Update

Today my baby turns a whole year old. *sniff

This past month she...

• Can say "yum" (sounds like 'mmmmmm'...she makes this sound when we are watching tv and there is a food commercial), "good girl" (Switzer is a 'good girl' ((poor guy)) and when you tell Emma no she says she is a 'good girl'), "no", "ouch", "baby"
• Can sign "please", "eat"....which is confused with "bird", "milk", "baby", "cracker"
• Finished with daytime bottles and slowly getting rid of the bottle before bed.

• Favorite food: goldfish, bologna, french fries, scrambled eggs, ketchup
• Least favorite food: . . . . .
• Still not an expert with spoon usage BUT she can use a fork...when she chooses to not use her fingers/ eat like Switzer

• Favorite toys: her phone

 

and stage 3

 



 

and her wagon

 



• She still enjoys going on daily stroller rides. Especially now that the weather is so nice and cool.

• Still loves Sesame Street, the Wiggles, the Muppets movie, and Narnia (I think she is more into the music than the actual movie), and she loves shows with babies and little kids and singing (sound of music was a hit)
• She still has temper tantrums

 

they start like that

and end like this

 

• She still loves 'playing' with Switzer. Switzer still loves pretending Emma does not exist. Poor guy. Emma has started to combine making dinosaur noises and torturing Switzer...

 

She does this with a basket on her head and chasing after him. But he still gets all the food she drops to him from her highchair and she always goes havsies during snack time.

 

 

the best of friends. some days.

• She loves being outside and looking out the windows.

• She loves her baby rocker chair

 

a lot.

• Still trying to push out tooth #8
• Has only walked 7 consecutive steps...and lately has not been interested in walking at all (probably why my back is sprained)

• She weighs 27lbs
• Has learned to share...some of the time.
• She knows lips, eyes, toes and nose
• Mimics Davids sneeze/blowing his nose. *she thinks she is hilarious* And she loves Daddy.

• She knows shoes go on toes and she loves wearing jackets/sweaters/bathrobe

I'm sure I am forgetting things...and time has flown by. I miss my little baby but it is amazing seeing her learning everyday and growing into the toddler stage.

 

Pinterest.

Pinterest and I are in a love/hate relationship. It's full of things I'd love to do...but I don't have time to do them because I am usually waisting my free time looking at new stuff on Pinterest.

 

This morning I found myself downstairs in the kitchen...without EmmaLee and David (this is an odd occurrence because both Em and David tend to gravitate towards the kitchen when they sense someone is going to cook something...my family loves food)

But THIS morning it was just me...and my mission was to cook breakfast

 

Pinterest idea.

 

Hocus Pocus Buns.

 

Crescent rolls, coated in butter, sprinkled (I doused) with cinnamon, and rolled up with a marshmallow on the inside...
 

heaven.

 

They are called hocus pocus buns because the marshmallows on the inside vanish when you bake them...I used jumbo marshmallows...so mine didn't vanish all the way but here is a pic of one that did.

 

 

 Don't worry, I also made eggs with jalapenos and cheddar. So breakfast wasn't completely unhealthy. Although, with all the pictures of the new Taco Bueno being built on 116th street that my mom sends to me...I feel obesity is in my near future anyways.

So, as of this morning, I have completed one pinterest idea. Only a hundred or so more to go.

 

*sending love to everyone at home