22 Months Old

Emory Grace, today you are 22 months old. You are growing up so quickly and acting more and more like a little girl rather than a toddler. You are absolutely hysterical, a little dramatic at times and very curious. You love helping others, shopping, and riding your car and tricycle outside. You recently learned to say and recognize Wal-Mart or Al-Mart as you call it, probably because we go at least weekly. You are wearing size 18 month clothes, size 4 & 5 shoes, and a size 4 pull-up. You tend to be a little opinionated and definitely know what you want and like.

Favorite Foods- cheese, Pace picante sauce (mild), tomatoes, & beans (all kinds)

Favorite New Phrase- “What’s that” (you want to know what everything is)

Favorite Activity- Coloring & Riding in Mimi’s Gator

Favorite Cartoon- Caillou

Newest Concern- The dark (All of sudden you do not care for the dark. You also think you need a flashlight when going into a dark room)

Newest Accomplishment- Putting on your shoes all by yourself!

Emory you are going to make a wonderful big sister to your new little baby brother.

You also love to play with your dolly's.

Wearing your dolly's crown.

You had your first major bobo this weekend which required a few band aids. You were running full speed ahead while trying to take off your jacket and fell down on the tile floor in the kitchen and busted your chin. Here you are eating animal cookies in your chair showing me your bobo.

The Box

Friday I received some items I had ordered for Christmas presents and decided to let Emory "have at it" with the box and shipping noodles. Let's just they were a hit!

At first she was a little hesitant but that lasted for just a minute...

and then she was full speed ahead!

She threw noodles,

kicked noodles, and

then threw them some more.

She had so much fun that she decided to jump back in after her bath and play some more.

So Grown Up

It seems like Emory is coming up with something new daily now. Last week she started saying "oh man" or as Emory says "oooh maaannn." She uses it in context too and is so cute when she says it. Her other new thing is to say "ok mama" or "ok daddy" when we tell, ask, or explain something to her. Needless to say we have been hearing alot of ok' s around our house. She also has started to really take an interest in letters. We are currently working on spelling her name, which she can do with help, but she really likes the letter R and likes to jump immediately to it after the E.

Emory loves to build towers with her Daddy. She has gotten quite good at stacking Lego's and blocks and stacked 8 blocks all by herself the other night. Here is one of her masterpieces! This was snapped just before she knocked it over, which is what she does after she builds them. Then she proceeds to say, "Uh oh tower broken," like it was an accident or something. Such a mess! She is also very into coloring in her coloring books. Last Sunday Emory and I colored most of the afternoon. She is such a little girl now which is both sad and exciting. It's exciting because this is a really fun age, but I still miss my baby girl. Thank goodness she still shows up from time to time needing a little babying from her Mommy!

I had to include this picture because this face has ATTITUDE written all over it. She had just "stolen" her Daddy's pen and paper and from the look on her face had no plans on giving it back.

Halloween Weekend

Friday Emory had her little Halloween party at daycare and came home with lots of goodies and these icky eyeball glasses that she thinks are hysterical. Here she is riding her cow Saturday morning in her pj's wearing the eyeball glasses. Ms. Betty said that she took pictures and would be printing some for the parents. I can't wait to see Emory and all her daycare friends dressed up in their costumes.

Later that afternoon we ran over to Lufkin to do some shopping and then headed back to Nacogdoches for Scare on the Square that evening, which is a fall fest our town has. We were half way to Lufkin when I remembered I forgot my camera. So needless to say no pictures of Scare on the Square this year.

I did manage to get one after we got home, but it was late and Emory was not in the best of moods, as it was well past her bed time. So here is my little ballerina after a fun filled day. Don't let this picture fool you, she went into melt down mode just as soon as I snapped it!

Dress Rehearsal

I am out of town this week with work and Emory has her little Halloween party at daycare this Friday, so I figured I needed to make sure her ballerina outfit still fit this weekend before I left. She loves being a ballerina and twirled and twirled around. She then decided to put on her high heels, play her drum, and put on a little show. She loves to wear her high heels too and walks really well in them.

Twirling around!

This is her ballerina pose.

Putting on a show for me! She loves to entertain.

The Pumpkin Patch

Sunday afternoon Bradley and I took Emory to the pumpkin patch. It was a bit harder this year getting half-way decent pictures, because Emory was more interested in rolling, sliding down, and sitting on the pumpkin's rather than getting her picture taken with them. Not to mention all the excitement with watching the other kids at the patch. Emory also had fun playing with the hay, or as she called it horsee eat. She had a great time though and picked out a little Emory size pumpkin to take home.

21 Months

Emory Grace, you turned 21 months old last Friday. Developmentally, y0u have grown by leaps and bounds over the last month. You are a little sponge when it comes to learning words and seem to pick up a new word daily. You have learned to count to 10, although you prefer to start with the number 3 for some reason. I think it is your favorite number! You also said your first official "big girl" sentence, which was "Daddy cereal bar all gone." You are learning to sing the ABC song, although you currently just know abcd and then la la la the rest of the song.

You really like choo choo trains right now and think it is funny to say "All Aboard."

You also are very independent and insist on dressing yourself most of the time. You have also learned how to put on your shoes. Here you are clapping for yourself after putting on your pj's!

You love to read books, dress up, and play with your toys.

You are so funny and are constantly making Daddy and Mommy laugh. You are also very polite and usually say please and thank you. This weekend you started saying your welcome, but you say "Thank You Your Welcome" all at once, which sounds more like tankyouurwelcum. Too cute! You have also grown some over the last month and you are now wearing 18 month clothes.

We love you Emory!