Baby catchphrases

"Yeah" is a "word" Emma has sort of said a lot over the past few months. Over the past few days she has been practicing "Hi" often. It's adorable but it also sort of makes me wish she could say other words. She doesn't say "hi" to other people (other people being not Bry or I) yet, really, but hopefully will start to say it when we prompt her since it's pretty adorable.

Emma "talks" in the second half of the video below. You should be able to hear "yeah" followed a moment later by "hi" as she brings her hand to her shirt. Unless I'm actually crazy and just think what comes out of her mouth are words.

Big Emma

I forgot to mention in her 10-month post that she has been wearing 12-month size clothing for a few weeks. At her 10-month check-up she was measured to be 80th percentile in all three measures - height, weight and head. She's our big little girl. =)

I also forgot to mention that her four top front teeth seem to still be making their way out slowly and are most of the way out. I think. We haven't noticed any other new teeth, so she just has four on top and two on bottom for now.

Here's a video I took today. She continues to get better at standing and cruising the furniture in our house. I could see today at times when she was standing up this look on her face as she focused on something a little ways away and how I believe she just looked at it thinking "I wish I could just walk over there."

More photos

I took more pictures today, so here are the best ones of my sweet girl. =)

Making up her own poses.

My little puppy

Bry got a roll (bread) and sat down in the living room. Emma crawled over to him and stared at him with this face that said "haven't you told me I am your FAVORITE girl? Don't you want to share with me?" It was pretty funny. Lately she has become much more interested in what we put in our mouths and thinks whatever goes in ours should also go in hers. Oh, Emma.

10-month-old Emma

Emma definitely likes to be moving. She crawls quickly now and is always pulling herself up to stand. Over the past week or two she has become much more sturdy and doesn't bonk her head/face into things as much as she did before. She seems to prefer playing around more than eating now although she makes sure to let you know when she's hungry. Emma still loves to take baths and now likes to help push the shiny handles to get the water out if she gets the chance. She loves all shiny handles - sink handles, cabinet handles, dresser handles. If they're somewhat shiny she likes them.

Emma is taking two naps a day and still sleeping through the night except the last couple nights because she's been sick with a cold and waking up not feeling well.

Excuse the food on her face in these not great snapshots... I took these on Saturday quickly since we were busy. Hopefully I'll have better pictures to post later in the week.

October California Visit

Bry, Emma and I flew out to California early Saturday morning on the 10th. Sunday was Charlotte's baby blessing which we were happy to attend. We were able to see a lot of family that day and I enjoyed visits to family and friends during the week, as well. 

On Monday we went to the Oakland Zoo which was Emma and Charlotte's first zoo trip. I'm pretty sure Emma was more interested in people watching than looking at animals. On our way back from the zoo we stopped by the Oakland Temple, which I love dearly, to see the reflection pool now visible there.

Later in the week we visited the pumpkin patch at Ardenwood which was fun. 

Mostly, we just enjoyed time together with family. Emma loved being around lots of people, particularly her grandma who she got to see a lot of and her entertaining boy cousins who often do what she dreams of someday doing - running. 

Here are some pictures from the week:

Love the view from the temple grounds.

Emma loved the teeny pumpkin we got for her.

My attempts at getting good cousin pictures:

I loved the turned heads. 

Almost 8 months apart.

One last funny one:

My 9-month-old baby!

Emma is a fairly proficient crawler.
She loves to eat food still but I think she may love walking (by holding onto fingers) even more.
Being the social butterfly she is, Emma also loves seeing people - those who come visit us or those we see when we go out.
Baths are still a favorite activity, which is great.
She is a very determined girl who doesn't hesitate to speak her mind. I love her babble; I do not love her frustrated/angry noises/crying.
She absolutely loves books. and loves her family.
Emma has said "dada" for I-don't-remember-how-many-months but just yesterday (day after she hit 9 months) she started saying "mom"/"mama" and has said it more today. So awesome. Makes me happier than I had anticipated. I might actually like hearing it more than her giggles. Maybe.

Her outfit is blue - it has cute pink birds on it... I was going to put her in a more girly outfit but was in the process of doing laundry, so... here's my blue-eyed, blue-dressed baby girl.

Those eyebrows.

She doesn't always make this face - just always when a camera is noisily taking pictures.

She did a head dive into my lap shortly after this picture was taken. 

hahahaha

A true Bingham (and baby) - fascinated by teeth. 

"How'd you get all those teeth, dad?"