October 3, 2007

Emma is walking pretty good now. She still falls, but can make it across the room. She has more trouble when she has her shoes on, of course, but by the end of next week I bet she will do better even with the shoes.



Sunday I left for Casper to see Elton John in concert and didn’t get to see Emma before leaving. So with them being in Casper the week before and my leaving on Sunday, the only day I had time with Emma was Saturday and that was filled with Birthday fun. Monday when I returned home, Brianna and Emma were at my house doing laundry, so when I drove up to the house I could see Emma and Tara standing up at the door just as excited as can be. It was so cute, I wish I had my camera.



Yesterday we took Emma for her year checkup. She is 30 and half inches and 22 pounds. She has slowed down on her growing. She is just above the 50% at weight and 75% in height, which is down from where she was before on height and a little more in the weight. I think she is going to be sprouting up soon. I think she might end up growing like Jordan did where she would gain weight then shoot up an inch or so. He use to go to bed at night at one height and when he woke up in the morning he seemed to be a inch or two taller. Jarrod and Cassie grew much more slowly but constant. I would know they were growing by the pants being to short, never as noticeable as with Jordan. Emma is in good health and a happy little thing.



Emma spent the night with me Monday. She doesn’t like my putting her in her bed though. She breaks my heart when she cries and wants me to pick her up. I usually rock her to sleep then put her to bed, but she wakes up as soon as I lay her down. I won’t let her sleep in bed with us since I am afraid of her being rolled on. I also thought about laying with her on the extra bed, but afraid she would fall off the bed, so she has to sleep in her crib for a while longer at least. She already rolled off the ottoman when I laid her down to change her diaper. She was almost asleep and drinking her bottle when I realized I didn’t change her, so I laid her down on the ottoman and turned to get the diaper when she rolled over and off. She wasn’t hurt but it scared her pretty good. My, did she cry!



We were at WalMart and there was Halloween decoration that was a scary dead looking guy from the chest up and when you went by it, it would talk and say his head was hurting or something like that, then he would reach up and lift his head off his shoulders. Emma saw that and her mouth dropped open and she just stared at it. She wasn’t so sure about it all. I laughed and called him a funny man and she would just give me a forced laugh like she wasn’t so sure it was funny. The look on her face was priceless. I have a video of it on my phone but I can’t send it to my computer. My phone doesn’t send out the video.