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Friday, March 13, 2009

Recent Skills

Emma is becoming a social butterfly. This is a picture of her playing peekaboo! Emma has recently begun to play this game, and really likes to pull the blanket back up over her face to hide again. She is such a silly little lady.


This past week, she also said "mamamama" and reached for mommy at the same time!! Also, as you can see from this picture- she has no teeth yet. There are little whitish bumps on her bottom gums, so surely some teeth will appear soon......so far Emma doesn't seem to mind being toothless. She is able to put Cheerios in her mouth and "crunch" them a little (but mostly hold them on her tongue until they dissolve). When she stops gagging on them, we'll post a video. Poor baby is still getting used to the feeling of crunchy food in her mouth-- she's not so polite while eating those Cheerios! She does much better with yogurt, which she has also started to eat this past week. Emma is a good eater-- she is definitely not a fan of peas, but otherwise has a pretty wide range of food that she likes (so far!).


Emma is going on her first airplane ride to Indiana next week to see Gram and Pop (and her great aunts and great grandmas). March has been an eventful month for Emma so far. Our little Emma turns 9 months old next week, and we are excited to see what new things she will learn with the passing of this milestone!

Monday, March 9, 2009

Learning the Cup

Here is a silly video of Emma playing with her sippy cup. She can drink better on the cups from Gram because they don't have handles. But she loves this one the best because she can hold onto it and make it dance around. Drinking= boring. Playing and getting wet= fun!

Fake Smile




Sometimes when Emma is not feeling like her cheery self, she does what we so lovingly call her "fake smile." She gets a pained look on her face- her way of telling us that she's trying so hard to be happy, but she's just not that into it. She does this around new people, and especially when she is tired. Here are some of our favorite fake smile pictures.

Talking to Bear



Though we have yet to get a video of this, Emma likes to "talk" to her toys and animals. Here she is having a conversation with her bear. After babbling for a few minutes, she looked up at me with the cutest face right when I took the picture. We think she looks just like a tiny David, only with longer eyelashes!