Emelia the Wagoneer

Last night, Emelia "helped" Mark build her new wagon. By help I mean, try to eat all the tools, rip the instructions, shake wagon vigorously and overall get in the way. She had fun doing it, so thats all that matters really. Afterward, I took her for a quick roll around the house which she loved. She is getting to be such a little kid, just the way she moves and looks at us now, she's no longer a little baby :( Sometimes she bats our hands away when we try to help her or hand her something as if she's saying " I can do it on my own, jeez" and she's turning into a little Diva too at dinner time. Emmy prefers to feed herself now, the problem is she doesn't actually get the right amount of food in her mouth as much as on top of her head, her clothes and the floor haha. She is becoming independent for an older infant haha. When its dressing time, she usually yanks all the drawers open and throws whatever she doesn't want to wear on the floor and tries to eat the one thing that she is wearing. I have been trying to show her how to calmly open and close the drawers since she has pinched her fingers more then once with her aggressive opening and closing style. She's learning new things everyday, she's a crazy cute little sponge. Can't wait until she starts talking, she's going to be a ripper.

Let's Get Some Shoes

Today we took Emmy to Stride Rite to get her some official walkin' shoes. We ended up leaving with two pair haha. Got her some sweet red velcro shoes for the next size up as well as some she can wear now. She's pretty stylin' and enjoyed getting measured and picking out the shoes she liked. Big girl :(

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Imagine an out of shape marathon runner breathing as fast as he can through a mouth full of water.....thats Emmy right now. One of her past times are gritting her two teeth against her gums and breathing through a mouthful of spit as fast as she can haha.

This morning I am proud to say she has mastered her straw sippy cup. She enjoyed some carrot juice with breakfast. Picking it up and drinking whenever she had the whim to do so. Emmy turns ten months in 4 days, its absolutely CRAZY. Seems like she was just a little tiny ball of jello who slept all day and was awake all night. She is still awake little amounts of time at night haha. She is officially older longer then it took me to make her inside.

Included with her old age she has acquired a bit of a diva persona. She has learned to have temper tantrums and if we are helping her do something and she doesn't approve she will push you away so she can do it herself. It should be interesting to see how she develops once she starts talking more. Her vocal still consists of 99% mumbles but knows who Dad Da and MomMomMomMom are which is super cute in the morning.

Her diet has been grown leaps and bounds. Her food resume now includes bits of fish, noodles, pesto, basically small pieces of almost anything we make for dinner and LOTS of baby rice and yogurt snacks. We have been steering clear of raspberries for a while because I think it causes a butt rash for her right now.

Emelia doesn't know it yet but I have been brainstorming ideas for her first birthday. If it were up to mark it would be motocross themed complimented by a petting zoo. I am thinking more coordinating cupcakes and disposable tableware. I am excited though to see her dive into a giant confection in honor of one year of amazing existence!