March 29, 2008

I was going to write this Easter night but after a house full (26 of us) I wasn’t up to it. Emma is now 18 months old. She is growing up so fast. I look at her and think she looks more like a 2 year old rather then a 1 year old. She is still sick. They took her to the doctor yesterday and was put on antibiotics. We are going to try to get her picture taken again after we get her well. Hopefully this next week.
Emma is so funny. She knows what she wants and will not ask for it with words but will take your hand and pull you up to lead you to what she wants. She will get her point across on her desires. If you try to get her to use her words she will just get mad at you and make her “ahh” sounds. She can talk. Tonight she was watching Tara and I said “who is that?” She said “Tara” just as plain as can be. Brianna told me that the other day she came up to her and said “Juice please” out of the blue. I think she likes having the control of choosing when she will talk.
Tonight she was picking on Tara so much that she got a little swat from mommy and even one from Grandma when she didn’t stop with momma’s swat. Breaks my heart to do that and it doesn’t seem to work at all. I am afraid she will harm Tara and Tara will bite her. When she didn’t stop, I sat her on the couch and told her to stay there for a time out. Now trying to keep that child still for any amount of time is pure torture on her. Time out seems to work. Of course we will only do the age time out thing. She had to sit there for a minute and half while we talked and didn’t pay attention to her. She did sit there and took her punishment, crying the whole time. After the minute and half I picked her up and hugged her and told her that if Tara gets mad at her she might bite her hand like that little boy did. Emma’s eyes got big and it seemed to get through to her. She left Tara alone the rest of the night. We will see if she has learned when she is here tomorrow while Brianna works.
Today they went over to Kaydence’s 4th birthday party. Emma loved being in her princess dress and Brianna said she really loved being in her swimming suit. They had a party at the Best Western and went swimming. Emma didn’t like the pool very well though. She was pretty worn out when they got home. It sounded like it was a wonderful party.
I went to the home show and brought back a little plastic hard hat for her. Also a Liberty crown like the statue of Liberty. She loved them both. She was so cute wearing them. She is the prettiest, sweetest, most lovable child, even when she can be a bit ornery!