Just in the past few days, I'm realizing all the new things Emma is doing and saying. I thought I better get them recorded quickly before I forget!:)
-saying "up!" when she wants to be held
-waving and saying "nigh-nigh" when I take her to her room for naps and bedtime
-unfolding her sofa when she wants to lay on it
-hiding all kinds of things in very random cupboards; this can make life very interesting:-D
-putting daddy's belts, mommy's headbands, cords (eek! We really have to be careful!), etc. draped over her shoulders. She loves wearing "necklaces" and LOVES to hear you say she looks pretty:)
-she also holds her hands up with her shoulder's shrugged whenever you ask her where something went as if to say, "I don't know..." Also very cute!
I continue to be amazed with her, and this past phase with her (12ish-14 months) has definitely been my favorite. She's such a joy and so much fun!
Friday, June 24, 2011
14 months old
Her very first happy meal:) And she loved it!
Yet another sign that she is growing up! Facing forward in the van! She thinks it's a pretty cool deal:)
She's becoming such a little girl! She's looking so grown up :(****
Friday, June 17, 2011
A deck, a lawn chair, and a citronella candle....
So if you were to judge this post by the title it sounds pretty nice, unfortunately, while trying to enjoy this beautiful night my mind is full of negatives. I'm going to take a moment here and try and turn my thinking around.......
June 7th was the 2 year anniversary of losing my dad. (A lot of times it's hard to see the positives even though I know they are true. But I had 22 years with a wonderful, hardworking, Christian father who loved me and set an amazing example for me. And who now resides in heaven with Jesus where I will one day get to join them forever:)
Last week we had ankle-deep water in our basement. (Nothing of great value to us was lost, so that's a positive thing I guess.) Yesterday I hit a deer with the van we've owned for 3 weeks. (No one was hurt, a positive right?)
Tonight, while dining out which we rarely do anymore, someone backed into the van we've owned for 3 weeks and 1 day and took off without leaving a note or anything. (Again, no one was hurt and it is only a worldly possession, so a positive right?)
Then while RJ was busy on the phone with the insurance company, I ran into get groceries with Emma and she had 2 meltdowns resulting in me skipping a good amount of the groceries we needed just to get out of that store! (A positive? Emma is a beautiful, healthy toddler.)
So we now have 2 large deductibles to pay, a pretty substantial need for a generator, along with; windows in the house that need replacing pretty badly, a new front door, (ours is hanging on by a thread), and medical bills that still need paid off. (Ok, help me out, what are the positives here?)........
We have a roof over our heads and a healthy daughter of our very own sleeping inside. Ahhh.....now I'm starting to feel a little better:) We have our health and our safety along with many other things that a lot of people go without.
For this I am SO thankful!
I will just ask that you keep us in your prayers as we try to get through the financial struggles of this life and keep our focus on our everlasting treasure which is in heaven with Jesus Christ!
June 7th was the 2 year anniversary of losing my dad. (A lot of times it's hard to see the positives even though I know they are true. But I had 22 years with a wonderful, hardworking, Christian father who loved me and set an amazing example for me. And who now resides in heaven with Jesus where I will one day get to join them forever:)
Last week we had ankle-deep water in our basement. (Nothing of great value to us was lost, so that's a positive thing I guess.) Yesterday I hit a deer with the van we've owned for 3 weeks. (No one was hurt, a positive right?)
Tonight, while dining out which we rarely do anymore, someone backed into the van we've owned for 3 weeks and 1 day and took off without leaving a note or anything. (Again, no one was hurt and it is only a worldly possession, so a positive right?)
Then while RJ was busy on the phone with the insurance company, I ran into get groceries with Emma and she had 2 meltdowns resulting in me skipping a good amount of the groceries we needed just to get out of that store! (A positive? Emma is a beautiful, healthy toddler.)
So we now have 2 large deductibles to pay, a pretty substantial need for a generator, along with; windows in the house that need replacing pretty badly, a new front door, (ours is hanging on by a thread), and medical bills that still need paid off. (Ok, help me out, what are the positives here?)........
We have a roof over our heads and a healthy daughter of our very own sleeping inside. Ahhh.....now I'm starting to feel a little better:) We have our health and our safety along with many other things that a lot of people go without.
For this I am SO thankful!
I will just ask that you keep us in your prayers as we try to get through the financial struggles of this life and keep our focus on our everlasting treasure which is in heaven with Jesus Christ!
Friday, June 3, 2011
Our little girl:)
Someday I will have time again for more lengthy and better written blog posts, but that time is not now...:P
New things Emma is doing at 13 months of age?
saying "woof woof!"
taking off her diaper
wiping herself off with her baby wipes
sitting in booster seats/high chairs at restaurants, and shopping carts without making a scene
adjusting to her new bedtime routine very well (we no longer rock her to sleep.....it wasn't working very well anymore and she was waking up a lot.) So we developed a routine of reading 2 books, singing 2 songs, and then giving kisses and "love you`'s" before laying her down wide awake. The first night she cried for an hour and 15 minutes before falling asleep, night 2 was only 30 minutes, and from then on she averages around 5-8 minutes of some sing-songy waa's before going to sleep. And she's been getting up only once or not at all since! The first 2 nights were hard, really hard, but I'm so glad we did it. As of last week we now do the same for naps.
What else, what else?.... She loves taking care of her babies and carries on full conversations with herself that only she can understand. She loves to talk and socialize with people after a minute or two of shy smiling. She is still quite a mama's girl:)
Oh my goodness she is so much fun:) There is so much more that happens every day I just can't even remember it all and I'm terrible at writing things down. (I feel bad for our future children)
New things Emma is doing at 13 months of age?
saying "woof woof!"
taking off her diaper
wiping herself off with her baby wipes
sitting in booster seats/high chairs at restaurants, and shopping carts without making a scene
adjusting to her new bedtime routine very well (we no longer rock her to sleep.....it wasn't working very well anymore and she was waking up a lot.) So we developed a routine of reading 2 books, singing 2 songs, and then giving kisses and "love you`'s" before laying her down wide awake. The first night she cried for an hour and 15 minutes before falling asleep, night 2 was only 30 minutes, and from then on she averages around 5-8 minutes of some sing-songy waa's before going to sleep. And she's been getting up only once or not at all since! The first 2 nights were hard, really hard, but I'm so glad we did it. As of last week we now do the same for naps.
What else, what else?.... She loves taking care of her babies and carries on full conversations with herself that only she can understand. She loves to talk and socialize with people after a minute or two of shy smiling. She is still quite a mama's girl:)
Oh my goodness she is so much fun:) There is so much more that happens every day I just can't even remember it all and I'm terrible at writing things down. (I feel bad for our future children)
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