Emma is 13 months old and we finally have pigtails...kinda sorta anyways! It was hard to get her to leave them alone so they are a little lopsided but pigtails all the same! I almost forgot to post about it...
Oh yeah...as you can see, we haven't gotten her off of the bottle yet. We are working on eliminating the first bottle of the morning but its not going all that well. We have plenty of time though!
Ashlea and I had plans to take Emma, Peyton & Noah to the local park's splash pad area this evening when I got off of work. She ended up having to cancel. So Jon decided to meet me over there and we'd take her ourselves even though I didn't have any type of swim wear for us -- I was planning on Emma going into splash around with Noah! Anyways, I thought I knew where it was but I turned left one light too early and I didn't realize that they shut the water off at 6:00 PM. We had Emma in her swimsuit , rubbed down with sunscreen and as we are approaching the splash pad the water shuts off. Emma toddled around splashing in the water on the ground and looking at us saying "dink, dink?" like why did it stop?! We have discovered that she doesn't think of just her sippy cup of water as a "dink" everything to do with water is a "dink." She always says "dink, dink" at bathtime but I thought it was because of the cup we use to pour water over her hair. Nope...apparently everything that is water is a "dink, dink" in Emma's world.
So Daddy picked her up after about ten minutes and headed back to the car...she started screaming and then came the crocodile tears. Talk about feeling like the worst mommy in the world. I had a great idea of fun but the timing backfired on me! She cried most of the way to Toot's where we had dinner. They serve a hotdog basket and icecream to kids and that seemed to put her in better spirits. She was a hit with the waitresses too! Daddy even asked her if Toot's made up for the water park and she was shaking her head no and smiling at me like she really knew what he was asking her! So tomorrow we will be filling her baby pool up and we might even make another trip to the park.
Oh yeah, Emma has a new word in her vocabulary...its Toot's!
We are back from a whirlwind trip back home to see my family in Indiana. Time goes too fast when we are up there. My Mom and I hosted a "meet the baby" shower for my nephew, Peytonn. He was born eight weeks early so we just left the shower date the same so he would have his immunity build up. He is finally starting to look like a chubby little baby instead of a newborn! I could just cuddle him all day. Emma doesn't seem to know what to think of him though. We did manage to snap a few good pictures of my Mom & Dad with a wiggly Emma and sleepy Peytonn!
My parents are awesome grandparents and I wish Emma could be around them more often. Mom had cleaned up this old horse toy that I had when I was a baby. Emma loved it and she is such a little ham!
After the shower was over, we headed in to the fair. We had a Lemon Shake-Up and an Elephant Ear...yummo! I hadn't been to the fair in years. I do miss being around the barns and animals...the good ole 4-H years! I heard that Kelsey, Evan and Nate did really good this year. Emma was actually a part of Nate's photography entry and we got to see it. We even wandered down the midway and took Emma on a few of the kiddie rides. The carosel, the Dumbo ride and the train. Emma even plucked a duck from a pond to win a blue bouncey ball.
The sad part of our fair story is that her Princess Picasso outfit got ruined. Some grease fell from the machinery of the carosel and landed on Gramma and Emma. It is in splatters on her shirt and several places on the pants. We tried OxyClean and it didn't come out at all. We tried Dawn and it is washing right now. I am keeping my fingers crossed that it comes clean. I love that outfit and she has only worn it a handful of times! So any advice of cleaning black grease out of red and orange material? Amie, in a pinch, would you happen to have any of that material left?
I'll leave you with a cute picture of Nate and my sleeping punkinhead and wishes that the outfit comes clean tonight!
Orange watermelon, anyone? Jon stopped by a roadside vegetable stand and brought home a big, green watermelon. He cut it open to find that it was orange...not pink! It was very juicy and sweet though. Emma enjoyed her first taste of watermelon regardless that it was strange to Mommy & Daddy!
Emma was being so sneaky and trying to hide Daddy's iPod last night so he had a ticklefest with her. She was giggling so hard that she almost lost her breath!
I have been playing around with paint.net and here is my latest favorite picture. Erin of The Vintage Pearl used this one and one of my nephew, Peytonn in a blue shirt, to make my mom a "Gramma" necklace. It is a belated Mother's Day/anniversary present. I love mine and I think Mom will love hers with it made of her two favorite babies. I just hope she doesn't read this before next weekend!
Daddy got up first thing this morning and started cutting the grass. Emma was enjoying watching him from our front door.
I forgot to mention that Dr. C wants us to start weaning Emma from the bottle. She only has about 3-4 six ounce bottles a day now...usually when she wakes up in the morning and before naptime/bedtime. How is the best way to wean from the bottle? She is good with her sippy cup during the day but when Jon tried to give her a sippy cup of milk before bedtime the other night...she had a complete meltdown so he ended up putting it in the bottle. We are also trying to wean her from the paci too. So I'll welcome any advice!
Emma had her one year check-up with Dr. C last Tuesday. She is a healthy 21 lbs 3 oz and is now 30" long. She is in the 60th percentile for weight and the 75th percentile for height. He was very impressed with how solid she was walking and her vocabulary of about six words. Her reflux has completely vanished since she started walking. Daddy was the one who had to take her to this appointment since Mommy had to work and he despises needles. Poor Emma had to get three shots and I think it hurt Daddy more than it hurt her!
She has also been battling allergies this past week. Her little eyes have been so red and watery and she is so sneezy...she actually loves to sneeze though. She thinks it is funny. We gave her the very first dose of Benedryl that she's ever had the other day. I had heard that it makes some kids hyperactive so I didn't really know what to expect. It was kind of funny to watch her about 30 minutes after I gave it to her. She was already fighting sleep and was kind of wound up and giggling. We were laying together on our bed and she would go to stand up and would fall backwards laughing...it was as if Emma was intoxicated! I was so close to grabbing our camcorder but I was thinking that is what a bad mommy would do...I should not be entertained by my poor medicated child. She finally gave in to sleep and slept for four hours (it was nap time) but the next dose before bedtime had the absolute opposite effect on her.
She was wired! She was chasing our dachshund Retto around the house. He really didn't know what he was in for! She was taking his toys and putting them in her shopping cart. She was catching him and hugging on him then he would get away and jump on the couch. She would chase him back and forth on the couch until he would give up and dive of the end of the couch. She thought that was hysterical so she would start chasing him on the floor to get him to jump back up on the couch. I seriously thought that she was never going to wind down. We laid down together on our bed again but it was pretty much a futile effort. She finally gave in to sleep around 11:00 PM.
I hope everyone enjoyed a great 4th of July holiday. We went up to Jon's grandparents' house and had a BBQ lunch with his grandparents and parents. Our neighborhood has about five families that try to outdo each other with fireworks. Emma & I sat out on our porch steps and watched them for a while. She was so cute throwing her hands up in the air like she could touch all the pretty lights. I should have grabbed my camera but I didn't think about it in time. She has also started teething again this weekend. I hope that third tooth cuts soon! I do not like seeing my happy girl so miserable.
Lastly, I just want to thank Chelsea again for the contest that we won from her blog. She is one of the boutique designers on eBay that Lovelyn has introduced me to. :o) She offered a drawing on her blog, if you purchased something from her in June and subscribed to her newsletter and our name was drawn. Emma won a cute girly skirt and embellished shirt! So if anyone if looking for some unique, adorable baby girl clothing...please look no further than the links on my blog. These girls are amazing!
