First day of Kids Day Out

Emma was great when we dropped her off. She was ready to play and
started drumming on a drum.

Mommy!

Today Emma called me "Mommy" for the first time! I have graduated from "Mama" to "Mommy". I'm not sure if this is a total change over, she may still call me "Mama", we'll just have to see.

Here are a few other random things I've wanted to mention lately:

Emma loves tomatoes and has been eating a lot of them lately.

She no longer calls the cats "kitties". She calls them "meows". And lately she has shortened "meows" to "mows" (rhymes with cows).

She has said her name several times this week, and can easily identify the letters "E", "M", and "A".

She has started waking up about an hour earlier than normal, and sleeping less during nap time.

That's all for now!

Swingin' in the rain!

It rained for 3 hours today and we got 2.5 inches! We went out to
swing in the last bit of sprinkles.

Still crosses her ankles!

Tired already!

Not surprising since she woke up at 5:30am!

Open House

Yesterday was Open House for Emma's Kid's Day Out program. I was so happy to confirm that her classroom is the same room that she stays in when we go to church. There are 10 kids in the class, and two teachers. Both teachers are very nice and have lots of experience with kids. The lead teacher taught first grade and kindergarten for many years. Emma was a little apprehensive at first but was soon playing and having fun. Her first day is Monday. This week I need to find a little lunch box for her, and get a few other things ready.

Emma has another tooth! Her lower right canine has finally pushed through the gum, I discovered it yesterday morning. The left side is getting close too.

This past weekend I was playing with Emma, and asking her "where's Emma?" She responded by pointing to herself and saying "me"! So she knows that she is Emma!

Not much to report now. Emma is just having fun everyday, dancing, playing with her babies, and reading books!

Cheese!

Emma is 20 months old!

On Friday Emma turned 20 months old. She’s still growing so fast, and learning new words every day. She can now say bowl, cup, apple, up, down, butterfly and Pooh. There are probably more but I can’t remember them all! She just learned up and down this weekend, and she will go around lifting up a book or her baby, saying “up”, then lower it and say “down”. Daddy taught her this and they had a fun time holding things up and then down. She also lifts up her foot and holds it up, waiting for us to say down, then she stomps her foot down.

She also learned to blow her nose! This is helpful when she has her allergies, like she does now. I can actually hold the tissue and tell her to blow, and she does. It’s much easier than me chasing her with the tissue.

Today I took Emma to get her flu shot, and they weighed her. She is 28.2 pounds! We didn't get a height but I believe she has grown another inch since her 18 month checkup.

20 months old!

Emma just woke up from her nap and was not amused with my attempts to
get a smile. But she's still beautiful!

Emma's hair

Getting long in back!