21 Months

So, definitely playing catch up again with the blog. Good thing is, though this pic was taken on the 12th, most of things I was going to type is now out-of-date and new things can be posted. Seems like every single day this little girl seems to do something new, say a new words or words and acts more and more like either a 2yr old or her big sissy.

So, some things that I want to remember forever are:

*Miss Emma is very, very petite. She is tall but just very tiny. She can very well wear 12 month clothes but the pants are toooooo short (capri length) and sleeves are 3/4 length on her. I have finally found a pair of 18mth jeans that don't fall down and are the correct length otherwise she's usually in pants that are rolled at the waist or stretchy leggings. The shirts that I have dug out of the shed that she has been wearing are anywhere from 2t-3t (the shirt in the pic above is 3t). She sometimes has an opinion about what she wants to wear and luckily her choices haven't been too awful...so far. So to sum it all up, I've been trying my best to utilize the Lily's past wardrobe but since at this age Lily was definitely in 2t-3t everything, it's been pretty difficult to not go shopping...darn.

*Words. Emma is much more talkative than Lily ever was at this age! Lily didn't really begin to talk until the summer after she turned 2 and Miss Emma has been blowing us away with new words daily. She calls all of us by name, Mama sometimes Mommy, Dada, Mia (what she calls Lily and not sure how she got to this) and MayMay for Maci and refers to herself as 'me'. I can't even list how many things she says but she talks constantly and can definitely communicate to us what she wants or what she doesn't want. If she doesn't want us around she'll say "Mama, Away" or if she needs us she'll call, "Mama, Help". If she wants to watch something specific, like Polar Express (completely in love with that movie to the point where we've had to hide it from her) she'll say, "I wanna wach all aboard".

*More than words, she has expression! She can say our names so many different ways and just by the way she says it we can tell what she want or how she's feeling and it's so great. She can say it in ways to say, I love you, you're so silly, to tell us to stop doing something, when she's excited to see us, if she wants to show us something, if she's trying to find us, if she's sad or if she needs our help.

*She gives us the biggest, wrap her arms around our necks and squeeze hugs with a uh-ughhh grunt to show she's hugging us extra tight.

*Emma loves to play kitchen, babies, trains, library, store, dress-up. dance party, forts, hide-n-seek, puzzles, and loves loves loves to be outside. We definitely have to keep the doors locked because she can open them and go out by herself. She can open the back door and screen door to let Maci in and out and sometimes wants to join her. It's getting better with the colder weather since she's not to keen on it.

*Books. Finally, books. This little girl has finally slowed down long enough to realize that books are awesome. And, why. Well, because big sister loves books that's why. Lily now plays school and reads us books and talks like a teacher to us. So, Emma follows right along. She'll sit like Lily, hold books like Lily so we can see pictures and pretend to read books for us to cheer for her. It's very cute and glad that the book thing has caught on. Right now she is in love with I Spy books, The Little People flap books and anything Minnie or Mickey. She also has been requesting Goodnight Moon and Pat the Bunny at bedtime and listening to stories instead of just wanting to look at the pictures. yay.

*Potty. I'm so not ready to do this. Really, not ready until Lily is out of school and it's warmer out but she's interested. And, not interested in the little potty we have but the big potty and the seat that Lily uses. It doesn't seem to bother her that she's so tiny she can fall right through and seems to "need to go" in very inconvenient times like naptime or bedtime and when we're trying to get out of the house. I'll humor her for the time being and need to figure out what diapers to put her in during this phase to make it a bit easier.

*Food. Emma has always been weird with food. More of a hate-love relationship with it. She'll love something and can't get enough of it and then she'll hate it. Almost like she's had her fill and now wants to move on. She loves soup, chili, anything salty, spaghetti and all sorts of vegetables. Right now she's loving dried cranberries, yogurt covered raisins, pretzels and honey nut cheerios.

I can't believe Emma will be 2 in a few months and even more I can't imagine being pregnant right now. Looking at Emma and realizing Lily was the same age when we brought Emma home is unbelievable to me. I can't imagine how Emma would handle having a baby in the house. I'm sure she'd be fine, just like Lily was, but I'm so glad that we're not doing that again.

Love you Miss Emma Grace.