Video of Emma starting to walk

September 29, 2007 The Birthday party

What a day for Emma. We had her birthday party and it was a good time for all. She had two grandmas, two grandpas, 4 great grandmas and 2 great grandpas to dote on her. She also had Aunt Cassie, Uncle Jarrod, Aunt Pam, Al, Jenny, Skylee, Baily, Trey, Kaydence, Stormy, and Emilee to help celebrate. There was 24 of us in all.

We had spaghetti for dinner, then she opened her presents which we had to take a break in the middle of since she seemed to lose interest on the opening and would rather do the playing. I think her favorite toy was a Harley rocker from Aunt Cassie. She thought that was pretty cool. Her sit and spin Zebra from her mommy and daddy was another popular toy. So was her stroller, her shape and color bug and many other toys she received. We wonder now with this many new toys how we will ever figure out what to get her for her Christmas presents this year!

She loved the Elmo cakes and thought it was pretty fun digging into the cake with Aunt Cassie. All in all she had a great time and was a very, very good girl throughout it all.

Emma’s Halloween costume came in. She is going to be Elmo. We tried it on her and she was so cute. She wasn’t sure she liked it until I showed her how she looked in the mirror, then she smiled and laughed.

Now that she is a year old, her car seat can be facing forward. Emma thinks that is the greatest thing. Brianna said she kept laughing and saying “Look.. See?” I will have to turn her car seat in my car around also before we go to Spearfish on Tuesday for her year old checkup.

I was giving Emma a bath this morning. She had a little fish that I filled with water and then would squirt her with it. She thought that was so funny so I started filling it then letting her squeeze it to squirt it. She was laughing so much and then she squirted herself right in the face with it. That would upset most kids her age but she laughed even harder over it. She thought it was so fun. I think SHE is so fun!

Emma is also blowing Kisses now. She is so cute when she does it. She puts her hand over her mouth then smacks her lips. I can’t believe how fast this year went and how much she has matured through out the year. She is one smart cookie.

September 12, 2007

We took Emma in for her year old pictures today. I know it is a couple weeks early, but we had the time and the next two weeks are going to be pretty busy with her birthday party and work and going to see Elton John in concert.
Emma is such a sweetheart and she always smiles and enjoys herself. The photographer had her work cut out for her working with a lively little Emma. She took some wonderful shots though. Emma liked eating the apples (they were fake and has a few bites out of them now) and she wouldn’t sit still for anything. She was crawling towards the camera ever chance she got. She was full of smiles though.
Emma took 6 steps today. Of course this was when we wanted her to stand still for the picture, but she will be walking (well running) in no time.
We took Emma to the developmental screening yesterday. She is doing very well except she has some stigmatism in her eyes and she has one foot that turns in when she walks that we need to check out with her doctor. She loved all the people who was there paying attention to her. Everyone asked the same thing “Is she always this happy?” Yes she is… well not when you are not letting her do her own thing, but almost always. She did some things that are advanced for her age. That doesn’t surprise me at all!

September 5, 2007

Emma helped herself to some shortcake cups I had in the bread drawer. She was pretty proud of herself.

Emma will be a year old this month. It is hard to believe how fast this past year as flown by. She is trying to walk (looks like a drunken sailor when we hold her hand to help her) and can get a couple steps out before plopping herself down. She also can stand on her own as long as she is busy and doesn’t realize that she is standing on her own. My mom told me that I was that way until my first birthday on which I stood up and ran across the room.

Emma was up in the living room with me when I ran down to the kitchen for something. The phone rang just as I walked into the kitchen and when I grabbed the cordless I noticed it said “line in use” I was confused for a minute until I turned it on and said hello and heard the beeping of the buttons being pushed. Emma had answered the phone in the living room and was busy pushing buttons. It was Aunt Cassie, luckily and she thought it was so cute. Emma would say something then push the buttons some more. She also threw the biggest fit I ever saw her pitch when I wouldn’t let her keep playing with the phone. A nice nap on grandma’s lap took care of that though. She woke up all smiles again.

I found out that there is a Mountain lion that has been seen at different places around town including my front yard. I keep a close eye on Tara while she is outside and we have limited our time outside with Emma. I hope that they catch him soon.

Emma is fighting naps really bad now. She will go and go full speed and when I go to rock her she will let me until she figures out she is going to have to go to sleep and then she wants down to play. I still can’t bring myself to put her in her bed to fall asleep like they do at home. She cries and it breaks my heart to think I have upset her so. I don’t want her to feel I have abandoned her to her lonely little bed!

Brianna isn’t working anymore so I don’t have her in the mornings. She is missing Grandma’s house though and crawls to the door and tells Brianna “Grandma, bye” At the restaurant when they come in to see me, when it is time to go they tell her to tell grandma bye. She will hold her arms out to me and I would take her to give her loves and she turns to her parents and waves bye -bye to them. She lets them know what she wants and when she wants it.

She really likes Spaghetti-o’s. It doesn’t surprise me as much as she likes Spaghetti. She isn’t so crazy about baby food anymore. Doesn’t surprise me, I don’t think any of my kids were still eating baby food at a year. She likes M & M’s though. She doesn’t get candy often and doesn’t get much of it when she does. At least she loves to brush her teeth.

We will be taking her over to Sears for her one year pictures soon. We are going to use her flower girl dress for one of the outfits for them. I don’t know what else we will dress her in yet. I hope that she will do well taking them now that she is so busy and always wanting to go. She hasn’t had them taken since her 6 mo pictures and of course the pictures at the wedding.