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.