May 29, 2007

Emma has found movement now. She is always on the go and usually crawling as fast as she can to the nearest thing she shouldn’t be. Her little eyes search out everything she can possibly get into and that is where she heads. Today she had me totally worn out, but that is ok, I love spending time with her.

She has found that she can open the cupboard doors and drawers. Tomorrow I am buying child proof locks for the kitchen cupboards and the china hutch. She has found that she can follow the dog down the stairs, even if there is only two stairs and they are well carpeted, I worry she will go down them head first. She tried to pull herself up on the TV stand and almost went head first into the glass door on it! (Grandma moves fast still) Then when she was trying to crawl into her rocking chair, she hit her head on her wooden toy box. She didn’t cry, just glared at it like it was the toy boxes fault. Then when she saw how I opened the front door to let the dog out, she had to try it herself. She hasn’t figured it out yet though… she knows it has to do with that handle, but just doesn’t know that you have to push it down to open.

I finally put her in her activity center and gave her some Cheerios to snack on. She loved that… it meant she could entice the dog to come to her by throwing the Cheerios on the floor then laughing as the dog ate them. She will be a hand full for sure.

Emma also figured out how to drink from a straw. It is so funny the way she holds her tongue out, like she was sucking on a bottle nipple. She does very good with it though… especially if there is root beer in the glass!
There was a baby boy at the restaurant today that was born the 11th of September and Emma was very intrigued with him. They didn’t know what to think of each other and she would touch him carefully on his hand and face. He would hit her or I should say pat her a bit more rough. She just looked at him like he should be nicer, then she touched his cheek and it made him a bit shy. He looked down and smiled which had his mom laughing. I told her we should set up a play date sometime at the park when they get moved here.

One thing I found, even though I think I can’t possibly love her any more then I do at the moment, she will touch my heart with her smile and little antics and that love grows even more. She is my special little Grandma’s girl.