So, Emma has been walking for a month now. She hardly crawls anymore. She was getting quick at it too. But she is quite stable as she walks. She even tries to climb some. Plus, after a few days of looking at the stairs she climbs them like she has been doing it forever. Ugghh. Where did my little baby go?! Too fast...too fast!
She follows Emmitt everywhere. He can't get a minute of peace when she's awake. She'll pet him nicely sometimes. Other times she'll lay on him or by him. Poke at him. Steal his rawhide. He is such a good dog with her. So patient and gentle. She likes to play in and dump his water dish too. She tried drinking out of it by being like him - on her knees trying to slurp the water. Funny but gross! She is observant and a quick learner.
Emma loves to stand at the door window and watch Emmitt outside. She'll copy me talking sternly to the dog like if he is eating something he shouldn't eat outside. It's funny.
She loves being outside and feeling the wind. She doesn't mind the grass and watches the trees and wants to touch the flowers. The other day there were a couple birds in our yard and she was on the grass. The birds were chirping and she 'talked' back to them as she watched them.
Emma still says 'dada' quite a bit. She'll said 'hi dada' some. She's taken a hiatus from saying 'mama' or anything else. She doesn't sign for milk anymore. She just likes to bash her head into me.
She continues to dance to music. We realized that some of her movements were like when I would do movements for "Itsy Bitsy Spider". So cute especially the "washed the spider out" part. She waves her arm sideways.
She sometimes likes to be still. We find her 'reading' books quite often lately. She points to things in the books like we do.
She continues to wave goodbye and will wave first when she sees Blake at the door leaving for work.
Emma loves to shop and ride in the shopping cart. So many things and people to see and try to touch.
She's got 7 teeth. I think she looks like a chipmunk with her big front teeth with a gap and she scrunches her nose. We think she has grown taller too. We need to lift her higher to put her in her crib. She is almost as long as her changing table pad. Of course, her clothes fit differently too.
She is eating more finger foods. She has always been real good at picking things up. Cheerios, Gerber puffs (banana or sweet potato), chicken, cheese, melons, apple made her choke, banana, carrots, potatoes, fries. She even likes to pick up her yogurt that I thicken with oatmeal or rice cereal. What a mess!
She likes to share her Cheerios with Emmitt.
We are enjoying our little girl at this stage. We can tell she understands a lot of what we say too. Of course we think she is so smart, so cute, and so strong. And so curious, so independent, and such a busy little bee.
