Emma is getting so big! I'm fairly certain she has been growing a lot the past couple of weeks but we'll see when she gets measured next week. She is mostly out of 12M clothes and well into 18-24M/2T.
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| Cute baby. =) |
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| That bedhead... |
Recently she has been practicing new words including the following:
- up (usually said while signing "please" followed by arms stretched up and at an inconvenient time),
- strawberry ("stawbree"),
- watermelon ("na-mu-nen" or something close to that),
- banana ("na-na"),
- bubble/bubbles,
- puppy ("bu-boo" - sounds more like bubble)
- stop (just parroted),
- please (said "ease" while signing it),
- stairs (sounds closer to "stays"),
- outside (she shortens it to "side"),
- cheese (which almost sounds right)
- girl (I can't even spell how she says it but it starts with the "g" sound).
She signs "more" and "please" a lot (see a lazy "please" below), often signs "milk" but not always meaning it - I think just wanting me to get up and open the fridge. She sometimes will sign "thank you" when prompted. So nothing new in signing.
She has also been practicing animal sounds occasionally and can do (1) "ooooo!" for "moo", (2) "baa" and (3) some form of "woof." When I tell her something is hot she blows "ffff". She still loves her Pooh bear and will give him hugs that look more like squeezes (see below).
Her favorite foods are now probably strawberries, bananas, broccoli, hamburger patty, crackers and cheerios. She continues to be a generally good eater.
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| She also really likes scrambled eggs and English muffins. |
Emma's bottom canines should be poking out soon since her gums appear to show they're coming. Her upper canines may be coming not long after the lower ones but it's hard to tell for sure.
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| The fourth tooth on the bottom has been growing in. |
Emma is comfortable going upstairs - typically crawling - and downstairs - typically sliding on her belly while using her hands to keep her moving down. Sometimes she tries stepping up or down the stairs carefully with a hand on the wall but not often.
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| Crawling up. |
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| Sliding down. |
One of her new favorite activities is climbing on chairs. She is also pretty good at the puzzles we have (the put-piece-in-place type not connect-pieces-together type).
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| Climbing on. |
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| This is what I sometimes get when I say "smile." |
She sometimes bursts out crying if she is prevented or denied from doing/getting something she wants. Also, if we pick her up to pull her away from something she wants she cries loudly and arches her back while collapsing her legs to try to [unsuccessfully] escape. I don't have a picture of this so instead here's a picture of her response to my reaching out with my toes to tickle her belly. She likes it - sometimes after I try to tickle her she walks away and then comes back watching me and waiting for me to try again.
Emma loves to go down slides if we go to the park but might enjoy just running around more. She could go on and on forever.
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| Cute curls - they look different every day and disguise how long her hair is getting. |
Emma's favorite part of the day is most likely the part after her daddy gets home. This is her looking down the hallway to the garage where he always enters after getting home from work.
Here's a few more pictures just because.
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This is Emma in one of her happy places.
She loves sitting on the stairs and loves to have her Pooh bear. |
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| She loves her Minnie Mouse airplane. |
