Nana and Papa

My parents came down to visit this past weekend. My mom came down to help look after Emmy a few days because I was swamped at work and Emmy caught Roseola from daycare. Fortunately, she got a very mild case, light rash and no fever. Anyway, we had lots of fun. To say Emmy is infatuated with my mom is an understatement. She would not let my mom leave her side, they did everything together. The minute she woke up in the morning or from a nap she was asking for "nana". When my dad arrived a few days later she was very happy to see her "papa" but still would not leave my mom's side. You cannot put into words what it was like to watch her stare at my mom in complete amazement. You could see in her eyes just how much she loves and adores my mom. I know my mom is tearing up reading this right now.... They both had a tough time saying goodbye. Emmy looked for my mom and dad everywhere this morning, it was so sad to have to tell her they went home. Good thing we are going to see them again in less than a month :) AND my parents rescued a lab this weekend, Lucy. Isn't she sweet?! I can't wait to meet her and introduce her to Emmy!



Drinking tea with nana



She really loves the slide these days.

18 months old

I can't believe Emmy is already 18 months old! Everyone tells you they grow up fast but I had no idea exactly how fast the time would go. Emmy is seriously doing/saying something new every day. Some of her favorite things to do are:

- Play with her baby doll. She loves to put shoes and socks on her, feed her a bottle and put her to sleep. She whacks her back and says "night night", over and over and over again!

- Play with her bog lego blocks. This is the one thing she will actually do by herself these days. She will sit and put them all together and then pull them apart. She also likes putting them in the bag and then dumping them all out.

- Playing with any sort of water. As you can see from the last post, she will play with any time of water, in any place.

- Go to the beach! She LOVES the beach. She rolls around in the sand, throwing it around. We decided to hold off on a sand box because we figure we'd never get her out!

- Go to the park. She is really into the slide these dates.

- Sing! She has started singing A LOT. In her crib, in the car, all the time. She sings "ABC" while patting her thighs, "twinkle, twinkle, little star" and makes her fingers go in the air, "Row, row, row your boat", etc, etc. Obviously she can't pronounce the words but she is clearly singing the melody and the moves that she has learned at daycare are so cute!

- Eat! The kid is eating us out of house and home! She wants to eat all the time and whatever we are eating. The other night after she already ate chicken, potatoes and corn, she wanted some of our dinner. So, she ate cooked spinach, rice and tilapia! The other morning she ate 2 waffles and a piece of toast with peanut butter. All before 8:30am....

- She is trying to learn how to jump. It is the cutest thing, she does all the motions but doesn't leave the ground. I am going to try and get a video to post :)

- Talk. Listening to her learn new words is amazing. She has added the following words to her vocabulary:

- Elbow
- Knee
- Dirty
- please
- noodles
- She now says "abc" (she added the "c", I am working on "d")
- Two. When she counts before she goes down the slide she says "two, two, two!"
- "There it is". Again she doesn't pronounce it yet but you know exactly what she is saying!
- Nope
- Beach
- pee-ew. When she poops she pinches her nose and says pee-ew!
- Mine. She thinks everything is hers, we are working on sharing.....


What a cutie!




Surprise, surprise, she is eating.... :)






Our little singing angel

Who needs a pool?!

Bath Towel

All of a sudden Emmy is obsessed with our hand towels. She calls them "pretty" and will only let me dry her off with them. Forget the duck towel! She thinks she is such a big girl wearing it around her like mommy does. Too cute!

Saturday Afternoon

The weather in San Diego still sucks. It was so cold and foggy yesterday morning it felt like winter. So instead of heading to the beach like we planned, I cooked up a storm! I made Emmy food for the week and even baked banana bread. It started to clear around 2pm so we decided to head east, out to Santee. It was nice to hang out and enjoy the sunshine. Emmy got to play in the water park again so she was happy :)

Feeding the ducks with Daddy. One for the ducks...


One for Emmy.



Running from Daddy. This is pretty much all we do now - chase her. No wonder why I am so exhausted!




BEAUTIFUL!

Our little girl is growing up so fast...

Saying "cheese" for the camera




I bought her a potty yesterday and I swear I am not lying, she peed on it today! She is so intrigued by the toilet and loves her new potty but I didn't expect her to go in it!! This kid is some kind of genius!




Her favorite thing to do continues to be putting on mommy's shoes and now clothes!




The most recent, biggest change is that I have almost weaned her completely. She has only been nursing for a few minutes before bed and this weekend she went to bed without it and didn't make a peep. The time has come as I knew it would. Our baby girl is no longer a baby....

Another Weekend, another concert in the park!

It just doesn't get more beautiful than that...





Who would have known these two would love lime chips so much!

You know you are having one of "those WEEKS" when...

you have another long day at the office and Emmy poops in the tub the second night in a row! Neither of us saw that one coming. The look on Emmy's face when she saw one of those turds float to the surface was priceless. I have never seen her looked to startled, she jumped out of that tub as if she just saw a shark! Josh suggested we start bathing her before dinner :)

Weekend

We spent the weekend up at my parent's house with my aunt and uncle who were visiting from Toronto. We had lots of laughs, ate a lot and drank even more :) Emmy had a blast hanging with her Nannie, Papa, auntie Theresa and Uncle Sam. She played in the pool, watered the flowers and ate all of us under the table. I am not kidding. Let's just say she dove into the "guac" with a spoon again and ate more for breakfast than I did.

Brushing Daddy's hair



Snuggling with Nannie





Sharing all her flowers with her Auntie Theresa



Thirsty Girl!

You know you've had one of "those" days....

when after a very long work day you give your daughter a bath and she poops in the tub. While you attempt to scoop the logs out into the toilet, she pees on the floor. That makes it the third time in a week that I have had to hose her down and clean poop out of the tub. The joys of motherhood!