Fun at Home

Emily has lots of toys to play with at home. In the first picture, she is sitting on the floor with Grandma feeding her baby a bottle. Emily has become a very good little mommy to her little baby. It's so cute to watch. She knows when she takes the baby out of her toy box to look for the bottle, too.

Grandma and Grandy traded places over the weekend. Grandma headed back to Texas and Grandy flew in on Saturday. Emily has been in great hands for the last 2 weeks and did great with Grandy today. She is back on a good nap schedule at home and is sleeping great. The difference in her moods in the evenings is incredible and she is still in bed most nights by 7:30 or 8.

We just got Emily a water table for outside. We put it together when I got home from school today and she loved it. She was outside playing with it for at least 45 minutes. By the time we brought her inside, we had gradually taken off all of her clothes, she was soaking wet!

Aside from Emily's first steps (see video below), she is doing so great and growing so much! She understands nearly everything that we say to her and can pick out different things when shown a page in a book. She loves dogs and ducks and seems to have an interest in cats, too. Emily really likes her farm animals and moos when we say cow. Emily can point out her nose, as well as everyone else's nose. She also knows her belly, head, hair, and feet. She can clap when you say yay. Last week she wanted some cheese with her dinner so she started reaching towards the refrigerator and saying eessse, eeessse. She certainly is developing what she wants and doesn't want to eat and do.

We go for Emily's 15 month check up at the end of this week. The visit is a few weeks late since her pediatrician was on maternity leave. I'm eager to see how much Emily has grown, she is a bottomless pit when it comes to eating and really looks like a toddler now.