I am going to just hop right in and admit it. I have stunk at keeping this blog up for the past... um... year and a half? Starting today, I am going to be better about it. There is just no other way to actually remember everything this little girl does without putting it in writing.
Emily is going to be TWO in 2 1/2 weeks! Where does the time go? NO IDEA!
Let me catch you up on what I have missed... in a nutshell of course!
Emily started walking at a little less than 14 months.. on Daddy's birthday, August 4th. We had spent the weekend in Las Vegas with cousins Trina and baby Kirra and she must have paid attention to Miss Kirra and copied her!
She got her teeth in in fast forward and had a full mouth early on, including her first molars.
Emily was saying words here and there, but started stringing words together at about 20 months.
We took a leap of faith and started potty training on March 13th. By March 15th she was a pro! For the past week here in June, she has been completely dry over night. We are now just working on her actually going through the motions all by herself. I know she is capable as she will take initiative if I am occupied (read: showering) but if Mommy or Daddy are available she wants us to help her.
Emily has decided as of late, that she needs to take all of her dolls, remote controlled puppies, blankets, and anything else, out for walks in her baby stroller. Last week, she was pushing her doll around the house. Her frog pillow was in the way, so she very politely said, "Scuse me, Fog, 'scuse me!" and really wanted that frog to move for her. She strings together Please, Thank You, and Welcome! all in one. Thursday afternoon when I sneezed in the car, she said, "Bless you, Mommy!" She is really starting to figure things out!
As I sit typing this, she is playing with her little kitchen. She has been playing with her bristle blocks "building a house" all day.
She is a nudist at heart.
She loves hugs and kisses and has figured out that when she is about to get in trouble she can wrap her arms around you and say, "Hug. Kisses." and make it all better.
She has entered the "terrible two's" and is fairly impatient. She refuses to leave clips in her hair.
She is overly stubborn and sternly tells you "NO!" if you try to help her up the stairs.
She is a picture perfect Miss Independence.
Emily is in love with the Disney program "Little Einsteins" and carries Leo, June, Quincy, Annie and Rocket all over the place. She can recite the songs and yells out lines from the movie before they say them.
She will count every other number with you.
She sings Happy Birthday. If you ask her how old she is, she says "TWO!" (we thought it would take longer for her to grasp this one, nope!)
She sings and hums while riding in her car seat.
She thoroughly enjoys and looks forward to her days with Grandma, Auntie Claire, and Auntie Shannon.
She loves babies.
She LOVES the Going to Bed book by Boynton and her favorite page is the "exercise" page!
She plays with your hair when she is sleepy.
She loves having her "footies, beyyey and yegs wubbed."
She loves to help clean. This love does not discriminate against toilets. We spent an entire trip to Target with her saying, "I keen toyet" over and over again. (I was buying new scrub brushes.)
Emily is going to be TWO in 2 1/2 weeks! Where does the time go? NO IDEA!
Let me catch you up on what I have missed... in a nutshell of course!
Emily started walking at a little less than 14 months.. on Daddy's birthday, August 4th. We had spent the weekend in Las Vegas with cousins Trina and baby Kirra and she must have paid attention to Miss Kirra and copied her!
She got her teeth in in fast forward and had a full mouth early on, including her first molars.
Emily was saying words here and there, but started stringing words together at about 20 months.
We took a leap of faith and started potty training on March 13th. By March 15th she was a pro! For the past week here in June, she has been completely dry over night. We are now just working on her actually going through the motions all by herself. I know she is capable as she will take initiative if I am occupied (read: showering) but if Mommy or Daddy are available she wants us to help her.
Emily has decided as of late, that she needs to take all of her dolls, remote controlled puppies, blankets, and anything else, out for walks in her baby stroller. Last week, she was pushing her doll around the house. Her frog pillow was in the way, so she very politely said, "Scuse me, Fog, 'scuse me!" and really wanted that frog to move for her. She strings together Please, Thank You, and Welcome! all in one. Thursday afternoon when I sneezed in the car, she said, "Bless you, Mommy!" She is really starting to figure things out!
As I sit typing this, she is playing with her little kitchen. She has been playing with her bristle blocks "building a house" all day.
She is a nudist at heart.
She loves hugs and kisses and has figured out that when she is about to get in trouble she can wrap her arms around you and say, "Hug. Kisses." and make it all better.
She has entered the "terrible two's" and is fairly impatient. She refuses to leave clips in her hair.
She is overly stubborn and sternly tells you "NO!" if you try to help her up the stairs.
She is a picture perfect Miss Independence.
Emily is in love with the Disney program "Little Einsteins" and carries Leo, June, Quincy, Annie and Rocket all over the place. She can recite the songs and yells out lines from the movie before they say them.
She will count every other number with you.
She sings Happy Birthday. If you ask her how old she is, she says "TWO!" (we thought it would take longer for her to grasp this one, nope!)
She sings and hums while riding in her car seat.
She thoroughly enjoys and looks forward to her days with Grandma, Auntie Claire, and Auntie Shannon.
She loves babies.
She LOVES the Going to Bed book by Boynton and her favorite page is the "exercise" page!
She plays with your hair when she is sleepy.
She loves having her "footies, beyyey and yegs wubbed."
She loves to help clean. This love does not discriminate against toilets. We spent an entire trip to Target with her saying, "I keen toyet" over and over again. (I was buying new scrub brushes.)
Her latest FAVORITE thing to do is roll herself all up in the bed sheet (right after I MAKE the bed, of course!) and once she is wrapped up, she will say "taco!" No idea where she came up with that, and I wonder if she is trying to say something else I don't understand?! The picture at the start of this post is her finished product... and she knocked out, of course!
She is simply amazing.
Until next time, with love.
She is simply amazing.
Until next time, with love.
2 comments:
Cutest taco I've ever seen!
yay! thanks for blogging again :-)
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