At 15 months you definitely see more of her personality shining through.
Emma is confident - walking into the play area at the mall, she shrieks as if to say, I'm here, now lets get the party started! Almost everything she does, she'll give this grin as if to say look at what I did, then clap for herself.
With confidence comes a side of a dare devil, now attempting to climb on things in the playzone area at the mall, or climbing up the stairs at home, then taking a seat on the first step, two days later on the second step and another two days later on the third step and standing up to show mommy what she can now do, almost giving me a heartattack, with her still not so stable balance.
Emma is particular - she'll select 2 books from her bookshelf for you to read to her before bed or nap time, she'll hand them to you, and the order that she hands them to you, you must read them. Also when putting her crayons back into the box, she'll ensure they all go in tip up.
Emma is assertive - very good with her "yes" and "no's", nods and shakes her head appropriately, and when she says No, she really means No! and she'll say yes, until her head falls off, we have to say, "Ok, we'll get it for you".
Emma knows her actions - she loves music and reading. When her favorite songs come on she'll start dancing and making the appropriate sounds, she now knows how to turn on the DVD player to get her music to start and just tonight she discovered the volume, so we had fun with that. When it comes to reading, Emma will preempt the page, or nursery rhyme or story before it's read to her, quite sweet watching her do all this.
Her latest song right now is the Ostrich song off the Beautiful Creatures CD (South African music CD), this song is about an ostrich and the chorus says, "we're turning, we're turning, we're turning", whenever this comes on I'll jump around in circles or hold Emma and turn her around, the other day when the song came on and I told her to turn, she managed to make a neat little circle on her own, she was so proud. Now whenever this song comes on, she'll stop what she's doing and turn in circles. She gets dizzy quickly, so funny to watch.
Emma just understands so much more than we realise, I always wonder what is going on in her mind and how she puts everything together!
This age also brings a horrible teething period. Her teeth are really bothering her, for the last month she's been working on the molars, her gums are so swollen, just wish they'd pop out now. Her appetite has decreased, and lately all she wants is her nai nai (milk). Not sure if it's the teeth, but the past three mornings her wake time has been at 4am! brutal...thankfully she's content to lay in her crib until 7am, I do this in hopes she'll fall right back to sleep (unfortunately her stubborness kicks in and will not go back to sleep) and I am no ways ready to entertain her at that time in the morning. So she has to wait for us. When we do eventually go in to get her, she gets so excited, she doesn't know what to do, she'll run a lap in her crib, point out the flowers on her bumper and say flower, shove her wet, stinky lamb in our face, or give us 'Ba" to say morning too. Trying to teach her that the first thing she should do, is say Josaan (good morning) and give us kisses - that obviously doesn't go down too well, because by then she's calling for Nai Nai, Nai Nai - can't even change her diaper before.
Her little lamb blanket has become her constant companion, before Emma would only have this lamb at sleep time, however this past week it's made it's way out of her crib and accompanies Emma wherever she goes around the house. She now asks for it, Nam, Nam.
Actually since I started this post, her one molar has touched the surface, so now hoping the rest will follow soon.
We celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday. We had Annie and Emile over for lunch, and it really turned out well. Turkey, Ham, stuffing, mash potatoes, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, Pecan pie for dessert along with Pound cake and custard, we had a real feast. Emma was super excited to have visitors, when it came to bed time, it took her a long time to wind down, chatting away in her crib. I never used to worry about the amount of sleep she got, but lately, with her early wake ups and transitioning between one and two naps (yip we're still battling this battle), I do. Just hope as with everything else that happens with Emma it's a phase and will eventually work itself out.
Our baby is becoming a real little girl, seeing her transition from exclusive breastfeeding to cows milk without a hassle, not needing a milk feed before bedtime, watching her walk around the house with a bag over her shoulder, holding a phone to her ear, pouring tea with her new tea set, trying to say more words, her latest word is crocodile, pronounced as 'croc'. Such a sweetheart that makes us such proud parents. Oh Emma, our world would be so dull without you in it!
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