All in one month Emma got her 4 top teeth, so now a total of 6 (2 bottom, 4 top). Her pearly whites show each time she smiles, she looks likes such a big girl now. Brushing her teeth or cleaning her tongue is a fun task, taking the risk of getting bitten each time, dad normally summons mom to come do the job.
We have taught her to smile, so she srunches her eyes and shows her teeth, it's too funny.
Emma went from crawling, she's getting faster and learning to crawl over obstacles now, to kneeling, then to pulling herself up to standing (which she just started doing on Sunday). It's amazing watching her go through these milestones and how she tackles them, for instance the crawling, she just woke up the one day and started crawling as though she'd been doing it forever, the day before she was moaning when she tried to get into crawling position and got stuck, or just moaned so I would come and get her. Once she mastered the crawling and found her way to objects (her activity table in particular), she'd reach up and press the buttons with her fingers, then discovered she could pull herself up to her knees which made it even easier for her to reach and play more comfortably. This past Sunday I took her to the pool. I let her stand on the step and she held onto the wall, a few minutes later I saw her push herself away from the wall and stood with no support for a few seconds, then held the wall again. After her nap that same day, I took her out of her crib to change her diaper, she assumed the crawling postion, but started lifting her legs, so almost in the downward dog position. Shortly after that I was on the phone, I placed Emma in her pack and play which is at the base of our bed, while talking I see this little head pop up, she had pulled herself to standing position. Now she's slowly discovering how to cruise along the furniture. We wait and wait for her to do these things and then in a flash it's done.
We haven't yet run into the problem of her standing up in her crib and then crying because she can't get down, so we're just waiting for that.
Other new things that Emma can do - she can wave hi and bye, blow kisses (she seems to use one hand for a kiss to anyone, and then two hands for her daddy - obviously cos he's extra special), she loves paging through her books, and I love watching her pry the pages apart with her two little thumbs. We've taught her to switch the lights on and off, put toys away at bath time, put dirty clothes in the washing basket and stretch!!! Just amazing how you can tell her what to do things and she understands, or responds with a notion that she understands. Whenever she gets into something she shouldn't she drops what she's doing, shakes her head and closes her eyes, then gives a little shout, like No!
Emma doesn't quite like prickly or rough objects, Rod will often tease her with his stubble, me with my hairbrush, trying to get her to touch it, she squeals and shakes her head, when she does touch it her expression is almost like one when you hear someone scraping their nails down a blackboard. Most of the time she's very quick to pull her hands away before even touching it.
For the first time yesterday (July 22) Emma completed putting all the shapes into her shape sorter - she did it over the course of the day, another activity amazing to watch. She's had this toy since 6 months, she started off hitting the shapes against the ball and now uses both hands to shift the shape around to finally fit it in the ball.
Tomorrow we're attending Ella's first birthday party! Emma's first birthday invite. Talking of Ella, Emma's reaction to her yesterday was hilarious. Amy and I got the girls together for some play time before their naps, well I think both of them we're actually over tired. Ella was talking alot and maybe too loud for Emma's liking, at any opportunity Ella was trying to hug and kiss Emma, and whatever Emma was playing with Ella came along to have a look too. Well after a while of this, Emma just had a enough of this and would start moaning and come to me for security. Ella eventually crawled away, now Ella's crawl is different to a typical crawl, almost like sit/crawl position and scoots on her hands and knees, Emma followed her, suddenty Ella decides to turn around, Emma caught a fright, quickly turned around too and crawled as fast as she could toward me, almost crying. Hopefully this isn't a permanent fear. We'll see how it goes tomorrow.
Well think thats enough talk of Emma (although I could talk a whole lot more, yes sadly I'm one of those moms!) One more month and we're celebrating 1 year of Emma in our lives. I look back at previous photo's and can't believe how quick our little one has grown - only then do you realize how she's changed.
These photos we're taken at a studio, we purchased a program called "watch me grow" and captures them for the first year - these were taken recently.
