14 Months

On Monday, March 15, 2010 Emory turned 14 months old. (I am a little late in posting this due to being sick the past few days). What can I say other than she is growing by leaps and bounds.

- She is still wearing size 9 months and some 12 month clothes. (I am hoping she has made it to 20lbs at her 15 month appointment next month!)

- She is still wearing a size 3 diaper.

- She did move up to the next shoe size and is now wearing size 4's!

- She is a good eater and eats just about whatever Bradley and I eat. Her favorites are mac-n-cheese, gram crackers, and animal crackers! She also LOVES corn! She loves to mmm while she eats, but sometimes it comes out hmmm!

- She is currently working on her 14th tooth!

- She is constantly on the move and loves playing hide-n-go seek, but without the seek part!

- She loves to sing and talk and can say the following words: mamma, daddy, get, dog, jacket, ball, glasses, uh oh, baba, (although she is no longer taking those) and I think she said shoe this morning.

-She has mastered where her nose, toes, ears, and belly button are.

-She loves brushing her teeth and picking out her pj's after her bath.

-She has also mastered putting her dirty clothes in the dirty clothes basket before her bath. She is such a little helper!

-She loves to play outside.

Here she is playing in the sand Monday evening! She had a blast and was covered in dirt from head to toe! She also loves ELMO and Mickey!

She made this face when I told her it was time to come in!

I do not think Cole was having as much fun!

She was so tired but kept right on playing!

Digging a hole!

Eating her rake. Right after I took this picture she scooped up a hand full of dirt and went to town eating it. By the time I got to her she was smacking away, she did not like it thank goodness. I took this as a sign that she was hungry, so we cleaned up and went and ate dinner!

She is absolutely a mess! We love you dearly Emory Grace!

Sunday Sunday

Early Sunday morning Emory, Bradley, and I headed to Houston for the Livestock show. Bradley had a student showing a pig that morning and Emory and I tagged along to keep him company and see the sites. Emory had a great time and was a good girl despite the time changing and having to get up real early. She has however renamed pigs, dogs. Every single pig we looked at, she would point and say, "dog." After the pig show we had lunch and Emory ate a whole corn dog. This was not just any corn dog, it was one of those foot longers! We then browsed the vendor booths, but did not find anything we couldn't live without and headed home. We got home around 4:00 that afternoon changed into some cool and comfy clothes, and played! Emory decided to dump everything out of her toy basket in the living room and then sit in it.

So after sitting in her basket and playing for a while, she decided she needed to blow her nose. Probably because I was blowing mine like crazy and she LOVES to do whatever I am doing!

Here she is blowing away! She thinks it is fun to blow her nose!

Then I decided to play hair dresser again and put Emory's hair in a pony tail. I could only get the top of her hair up so it was all down in the back. And here she is.....

Emory, AKA Pebbles Flintstone.

She was telling me hi!

If You're Happy and You Know it

Emory's favorite song these days is "If You're Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands." She immediately starts clapping her hands when I start singing it and continues to clap until the song is over. She loves that song! She is also dancing more and more which consists of her bouncing up and down to the beat! She dances to me singing, her toys that make noise, the TV, and her cartoons. It's funny because certain commercial jingles really catch her attention and you can tell she prefers some more than others. Last night she decided it would be fun to walk in mommy shoes. I think we may be buying some dress up shoes in the future, because Emory loved walking around in them.

Please excuse her dirty clothes, she apparently spilled a bit of her lunch on herself!

Then there are those moments when we are not happy and EVERYONE knows it! Last night after dinner, Emory wanted to unload the dishwasher while Bradley was trying to load it. I went over and explained that it was not time to unload it (which she loves doing, I will have to remind her of this when she is older) and told her no. This immediately made her mad and she proceeded to fall down and throw a fit. So I picked her up and carried her into our bedroom (carpet is softer than tile) and let her cry, scream, and throw a good one.

And she did! After a few minutes she was done and on to something else! It is so hard not to laugh at her when she does this because she is SO pathetic and sad, but of course we don't because we do not want to encourage that behavior! I just hope she grows out of this soon, because we go through this EVERY time she does not get her way!

PIGTAILS

Emory' s hair is really long in the back now so I thought I would try pigtails. She was a bit squirmy so they did not come out real even, but were cute nonetheless. I think she liked them too because she kept them all afternoon!

All By Myself

Over the past few weeks, Emory has really started to want to do things by herself, but Saturday she wanted to do EVERYTHING by HERSELF. I got out the broom to sweep the kitchen floor and Emory about had a fit "waiting" for me to finish so she could sweep. And sweep she did. She pushed and pulled that broom around for nearly 30 minutes. I am planning on getting her a pint size broom set for Easter and putting this gal to work!

Then after sweeping it was time to get cleaned up and dressed. But of course she had to do this by herself as well.

She took her brush from me and brushed her hair. Then when I got her clothes out of the closet, she HAD to have those as well.

And once she got a hold of her pants, she immediately sat down and attempted to put them on.... except her pj's were still on!

After 5 minutes or so of trying she got frustrated and brought me her pants. I then explained to her that we had to take off her pj's before getting dressed and she immediately threw up her arms so I could take off her pj top. I am still amazed of how much she understands! So off went the pj's and on the clothes. Then I told her to go get her jacket so we could go bye bye.

This is how she came out of her bedroom. She had "put"on her jacket and came out saying bye bye. Then we were off to Lowes! Now my child loves to ride in things, including shopping carts! So as soon as she sees one she immediately starts her get get get! The only problem with her enthusiasm for riding in shopping carts is she does not want to get out of them. So, Emory threw quite the fit when I took her out of the shopping cart. Bradley and I just watched her as she carried on nearly the whole way home, and we live about 15 miles out of town. She was upset, angry, and sad all wrapped into one and the only way she knew how to express herself was to cry and scream get get get, which is what she did! So after 10 minutes or so of me telling her that we can not take the shopping cart home and she can ride in it the next time we go shopping she finally wore herself out and stopped. Then after a much needed nap, Emory and I went for a ride on the Gator, which she loves! And that was our Saturday!

Where's your .....

Last night Emory and I were playing the where's your.... game. I asked her where her belly button was and she lifted her shirt and put her finger in her belly button, which is her favorite part to find. For some reason she thinks this is funny! We then moved on to ears and Emory proceeded to put a finger in each ear. Next was nose. I said, "Emory where is your nose" and instead of pointing to it as usual, she decided to stick her finger up her nose! From the look on her face I think this was the first time she has had her finger in her nose. After we giggled about that for a while, Bradley asked her where her toes were? Emory then proceeded to sit down, take off her socks, and point to her toes! She is really starting to act like a little girl, especially when it comes to not getting her way. She started throwing MAJOR temper tantrums, which involve her flaying around on the floor and screaming get get get at the top of her lungs! I really hope we are having our terrible 2's at 1, because I can not imagine it getting much worse.

This was my sweet baby girl last year this time. It still amazes me how much she has changed and how light her hair has become.

Caught in the act

Wednesday evening I was working on dinner in the kitchen and Emory was playing with her toys in the living room. After a little while she got real quiet and when I went to check on her this is what I found.

She was telling me UH OH! She apparently thinks that by saying this she won't get in trouble.

She pulled out every single tissue and even blew her nose with a few. She learned how to blow her nose about a month ago, which is really quite cute and helpful!

I was telling her to put the tissues back in the box!