C is for Cookie

We walked into daycare yesterday afternoon and were greeted by Miss Heather saying, "I have to tell you what your daughter did today". It seems that there was a big barrel of animal crackers that were sitting up on a little table next to the refrigerator. Emma spotted the barrel and headed over with her little friends Libby and Ella in tow. Fortunately for the girls, the lid was not screwed back on tightly the last time that they were used. Emma knocked the barrel over and out spilled animal crackers for all the girls to enjoy. Miss Ruth and Miss Heather, meanwhile, were unaware of what was going on as they were tending to the other little ones in the nursery. Finally Miss Ruth mentioned to Miss Heather that Emma, Libby, and Ella were being really quiet and that is when the caught the three munching away happily on the animal crackers. They called in Miss Colleen, the daycare director, to take and look and even had to catch it on film. Unfortunately it wasn't a digital picture but I would love to see that print when they get it back. The whole time that Miss Heather was telling this story, Emma was looking at us with this big old grin on her face. She keeps them on their toes.

I Go Out Walkin'

Last night, Emma gave us more than four or five steps. In fact, she was doing a lot of walking as long as she had something of interest to get to. We still need to help steady her out to get started unless she has been holding onto something but it won't be long until she has that part down to. Emma even had it in her head that she was going to walk down the hall to her bedroom last night. She cruised the couch over to the wall and then let go. After the first couple of steps, that didn't pan out but she had certainly thought about it. Here are a couple of short videos showing Emma stepping out. Please ignore the fashion faux pas in the background.

Saturday in the Park

We have taken advantage of the weather the past couple of weekends and headed to a local park so Emma could swing...


and climb...


and slide...



and swing some more...

Emma's First Halloween

Happy Halloween a day late! We took Emma down to the church down the street from us for Trunk-or-Treat! We didn't collect any treats but walked around and checked out all the activities. It was a very popular event. Emma was dressed up as a daisy this year. It seems as though the popular costume this year was the bumble bee maybe because of "Bee Movie". There was one little bee who couldn't have been more than a couple of months old. She was too cute! On a separate note, Emma took five steps this morning. She is getting closer and closer to being an independent walker. We hope that everybody had a safe, happy Halloween!

Daddy's Return

Emma has been missing her daddy this week and daddy has been missing Emma. For those of you who might not be aware, Brad is starting a new job down where I work. His previous position was terminated at the end of September due to lack of funding (at least he won't have to search for that elusive grant funding anymore). Thankfully he was able to find another position fairly easily. After enjoying a month off, Brad headed to Washington DC this past Sunday for a week of orientation. He will be back tonight too late to see Emma but she will have a good surprise when she wakes up tomorrow morning. Our normally happy go lucky little girl has gotten "fussy" checked on her daycare report every day this week. That is so not Emma and can only be attributed to the fact that daddy has been gone. Emma and I have had a good week together but we'll both be happy to have Brad home.

Wordless Wednesday - Bye Bye Baby Food

Louisville Part II

Friday night was Emma's coming out party. The family all came out to meet Emma and of course see Jimbo, Kristi, Brad and I. This family is always up for a party no matter what the occasion. It was great to see everybody and we really should have documented it better. We weren't quite sure how Emma would be with all the new people around but she did great as always and enjoyed herself until it was time for bed. Amazingly enough, she was able to fall asleep and stay asleep in spite of the joyous noise downstairs. We were very thankful for that! Here are a few more photos from our trip. We hope to see everybody again soon.

Gigi reading to Emma

Gigi and her great-granddaughters
Enjoying Carolyn's Tigger
Emma with Grandpa and Grandma

Emma and Auntie Marth

Emma with Auntie and Ally