She's on the move!!!

Yup!!! She's a movin' alright! The first picture is in her "Jump-a-roo" that was loaned to us from John and Allsion. Oh my gosh, she LOVES it! She is a litte "tigger" and will just jump and jump until she wears herself out. IT's pretty dang cute.

The other picture is..... CRAWLING!!! Well, scooting a bit, pulling herself with her arms a bit, and then a couple of times actually crawling. But she gets her back leg up SO high that she looses her balance. BUT, she is going to be taking off in the next few days I am sure. She LOVEs the phone, so that was her "prize":) She was just grunting and groaning to reach it, it was so funny.

How exciting, but our lives are over in a whole new way now:)

Love to all...

Pink Stinker Bear

How dang cute? Emma and I went for a little walk today and it was a bit brisk so I thought it was time to try out the bear hat (minus the mittens) from Grandma LaVonne. Emma has really begun to quiet down when we go on walks, I think she is really just taking everything in. Well, she also has pooed the past few times, and I know that always makes her quiet:)

So our little girl is growing up. She is figuring out cause and effect. The other afternoon we were sitting in the rocking chair in her nursery and she reached over and pulled on the cutain. When she did this the sun light made a pattern on the back of the chair. She let go and it went away. She went to reach again and looked towards the back of the chair (she missed the curtain however), but no light. The third time she pulled it away and the pattern came back as she looked at the back of the chair. It was SO FUN to sit watch her explore and learn about her world in a matter of an instant!

Well, that's all for now. She is letting me know it is getting itme for dinner. The grown-ups are having porkchops, mashed potatoes,a nd green beans... yummy!!!!!

love to all...

Happy Halloween!!!!

Hope you all had a great day full of sweets and fun! WE did! Here is our sweet little Pea Pod. In the first two pictures we are with Jessica and her daughter Aliyah, who is two months older than Emma. Emma stays with them in the mornings when I am teaching at The Attic. Emma and Aliyah LOVE to play together and interact. Aliyah was a Lady Bug.

This evening Em helped Dad hand out a couple of treats. Jason and Holly came over and made us burgers for dinner. We ran out of 6 bags of candy by about 7pm! Then the grown-ups watched "VAcancy", a very scary movie. Elliott even said he was sweating:)

Guess that's about it. Got the house cleaned tonight since Jason and Holly were coming over, so we get to rest and play tomorrow - yippie! We will CERTAINLY go to the gym, and then work on Emma's scrap book which I haven't done for 10 weeks! yikes!

Oh - Many thanks to Great Grams Patterson, who helped buy Emma her SWeet-Pea-Pod outfit!

Love to all...

New Toy

Here is Emma with her new "budget" toy. It is hilarious becasue she often would rather just play with the tags attached to her various toys or books, or chew on the blanket, etc. She is a laugh a minute, seriously. She loves these new stackable Fisher Price circles. One of them rattles, so tries to rattle all of them, and she is very often hitting them against herself! This has me a little worried, like there is something wrong with her, but I am sure it is just a "new thing" and it soon too will pass. It is so fun to watch her just dive into her play, there is not much holding her back. She'll reach and screch for what she wants. Still no crawling, but she is pulling herself up to standing when holding onto our fingers. So who knows.

She is quite the bucking bronco too. Another thing that I wonder "Is she normal?" She just honestly goes crazy sometimes! She will bounce in her "Jeep" to the point where she starts to scoot it ocross the floor. Then, when she is either trying to get ehrself to sleep, or not sleepy, she will go wild in our arms, doing her bouncing or rocking, kind of mid air. Meaning, she has nothing to push her feet or knees off of except for our bellies:) Anyway, she really is a ham. She is also :biting" her tongue and going either "nananana" or "lalalala", and this is quite constant. It's hilarious.

Guess that's about it for now... love to all...

Dancin'

Emma loves to dance in front of the mirror, she just goes CRAZY! Ignore me though, that me with no shower, etc. etc. Anyway, she bounces like tigger, and then if you hold her just a little off the counter she does a tap dance. So cute!

Yesterday we went to lunch with Holly and had a lovely time. Emma actually fell asleep at the restaurant in my arms! She never does that, I loved it. Then we went to get a few groceries in Snohomish. It was a beautiful fall day so I enjoyued the drive.

Last night Jason and Holly came and made us a great dinner, and we watched a movie.

Today Emma woke up at 6:30 and I was just PRAYING she would go back to bed becasue I just am ALWAYS exhausted. She was still awake when I put her back in her crib and she DID fall back asleep - THANK GOD!!!!! So at 7:30 she said that was enough, but we had to get up becasue were meeting Allison for coffe at Barnes and Noble at 9am. So that was fun, and Emma ate her breakfast there, as good as pie. The two of us went to TJ MAXX and I exchanged some PJ's from Grandma LaVone that were too small. THEN off to Costco! Thank goodness Em fell asleep in the car, and slept the whole time we were in there.

ANYWAY, I don't know what her deal was, but she was a fuss-budget the rest of the day. At one point I took her out on the front porch to watch me mow the lawn and her eyes were watery and red, and she was just kind of staring off into space, FIGHTING sleep! This was after many napping attempts... Poor girl. I think her teeth maybe? Later on today she wouldn't even let me set her down without fussing or crying and she is NEVER clingy like that, so we had a different Emma today:) We'll see how tomorrow goes.

I am rambling... watching RENT at the same time:) El and I had PotRoast tonight and watcehd a movie. Love to all...

Me and Elvis

Here are some pictures El took of Elvis and Em together. All of the animals (Mattie not included) have been SO patient with Emma. And she LOVES them! She follows them all over with her eyes and looks around if she hears them coming, and talks to them CONSTANTLY!

I bought her one of those stackable plastic dougnut toys (where you stack the diffrernt size circles around a tube). She LOVES chewing on them:)

Well, that's about it for now. It is a beautiful fall morning here, foggy and about 35! WE are enjoying a little fire and having coffee together! We are meeting Aunt Holly for lunch and then who knows what else we will do today. Love to all...

Walkin' with Dad

Wow... what a long week and it is only thursday! Here are some pics of El "walking" Em across the floor. She was really tkaing steps, but her socks being slippery helped a lot we think:)

Poor El and Em had a very "emotional" night on Tuesday. I got a phone call at6:30, I could hear Em crying in the backgound and El said "it's been like this for three hours!!!" I was teaching, but he just happened to catch me on my break. I said I'll be right home (Elliott NEVER calls, so I knew he was desperate). He had given her some Tylenol because she was knawing on her hand incesently. So by the time I got there she had calmed and he could get her to eat. When they were done I nursed her, and she went to bed. WELL, I guess she woke up 15 minutes after I left to go back and teach. And she continued to cry until I got home at 9:30 and she had JUST fallen asleep on Elliott's chest, where they were lying on the bed in the bedroom. So I took her into bed becasue Elliott was at his wits end and sweating. I felt terrible for him, becasue I knew he felt helpless. Well, I held Em and she just kept wimpering and then crying and then she'd fall asleep and then wake back up. finally I decided "Ok, let's just start the evening over". So I changed her diaper, changed her clothes.... And in the process noticed that her toe was scrugeled in her sock! The sock was caught in between her pinkie toe and then wrapped around it a bit. The minute I took it off she clamed, stopped crying, started bouncing, smiling, talking............ POOR THING! And then poor El too. SO, who knows if that toe was a whole evening of crying, but it was pretty red and bent "out". She's fine now and has forgiven us. She did just grand with Eliott las tnight and even fell asleep in his arms for bedtime!

Today, she is tired though. I think she seems to be taking two naps on the days that she goes to Jessica's and by Thursday she is EXHAUSTED! It is 3:30 and she is already down for her third nap, I couldn't keep her up to eat lunch even. She wanted nothing to do with it!

Well, El left for Portland this morning, but will be back tomorrow night. Us ladies have been cleaning, and I made spaghetti sauce. We may make a run to Fred Meyer, then home for Grey''s Anatomy and a video conf. with Grandpa jim and Grandma Jackie.

Love to all...