Growing up with Emily

This past week I have gotten TWO more teeth!  One on the top and one on the bottom.  That makes six!  Mommy was wondering why i was so grouchy.  I’ve been spending my time playing with the cats.  Boba has learned to be more gentle and not scratch me anymore, and he follows me around everywhere and we play all the time.  My favorite game I play with him is when I take a string and run and he chases me!  It is so funny!  He also loves to play peek-a-boo with me by hiding in the hole in the couch under the cushions, and then pop out and suprise me!

More and more everyday I try to learn to be independant.  I HATE it when my diaper is changed!  The other day, mommy tried to change my poopy diaper, and as she was taking it off i wiggled just right to distract her by getting poop on the floor.  She cleaned me up, then, without a diaper, i ran away while she cleaned up the carpet and put away the dirty diaper.  I decided I wasnt finished yet though, so i squatted down and did the dirty deed of doom!  I went number one AND number two on the FLOOR!  I thought it was so funny!  Mommy didn’t so much.  She grabbed me and put on a new diaper before i could wreak any more havoc, then went to cleaning up the mess.  She didn’t look too happy after that.  It was pretty stinky!

I am also learning to eat using a fork and spoon more.  I am getting better every day, but I sometimes get impatient and scoop it up with my hands.  It is alot quicker, but also messier.  I am more active everyday, I love to RUN around alot, and just to make sure I haven’t forgotten old tricks, I crawl every once in a while.  My dancing is improving too!  I flap my arms and shake my hips, it is so much fun!  I also play with refrigerator magnets (my little pony and the alphabet letters) and read lots of stories.  I love being outside, but we dont have a very good grassy yard yet so I can only go outside and Grandma and Grandpa’s house.  I love the fresh air and the grass and dirt and exploring all the new colorful things.

I understand English more and more, mommy and daddy can ask me to do things and I can do them, but I still have not talked yet.  I communicate well by pointing, or bringing what I need (like an empty sippy cup to mommy when I am thirsty).  I love the sound of my own voice though and quite often have a conversation with myself or the cats.  One of these days I’ll decide to talk, then the world better watch out!

My weekend was very busy!  We went to church and saw Rich and Keesha there!  They are friends of Daddy and Mommy!  They were at church because Keesha is our primary music teacher’s grandaughter.  As a spur of the moment we decided after church to go to the cabin out at cour’d'alene lake that they have!  It was very exciting and new to me because i have never been around any bodies of water, or boats!  The five of us took one canoe out into the water!  It was a very new experience for me.  The canoe was very low in the water because there was so many of us in the canoe.  I enjoyed the ride, and kept pointing out everything i saw.  I didn’t like wearing my life jacket though.  It was very big and bulky! After the canoe ride, I got to play in the dirt for a little bit.  That was a new experience for me too.  The dirt was loose so I could pick up handfuls of it and throw it.  It was the funnest thing to do!  There was also a very big golden retriever dog named Cooch.  I made good friends with Cooch.  I buried the dog in dirt and pet it alot, and it didnt run away like my kitties do. After the canoe ride, I also got to go on a boat ride!  It was a bigger boat that went really fast in the water.  The wind was blowing in my face alot!  We went around and looked at houses and things.  I enjoyed the ride alot! That night we had a fire, and I played in the dirt more, till I got very tired.  We all went to bed in the cabin.  I didn’t want to sleep because it wasn’t my own bed, and I was still so excited I still wanted to play and explore.  I finally gave in to my sleepiness, but woke in the middle of the night because it got too cold!  Mommy and Daddy snuggled me into their bed after that, and I burrowed down in between the covers and went back to sleep.  I was toasty warm between Mommy and Daddy!  The next morning, I went right back to playing!  I loved being outside and threw a fit everytime I had to be inside!  Later in the day, Grandma and Grandpa Mitchell and Uncle Brady came to visit.  I spent every minute I could with them, especially Grandpa, because he would take me outside to play!  I also got to watch Cooch play fetch in the water, and even threw the ball a couple times!  I also got to ride in the boat a couple more times, and one time I sat in Grandma’s lap, and was just so comfy on the boat, that I fell asleep!  After a while, everyone left, including all of Rich’s family, so it was just Rich, Keesha, Daddy, Mommy, and me.  We spent the night at the cabin again, after another fire.  That us girls made (because the boys, even though they are eagle scouts, cant make a fire as good as the girls can!)  The next morning, I played outside more, while everyone else cleaned up and watered the grass and packed up to go.  Then we went home.  I was so happy to be home!  Rich and Keesha came over for a little while and played some board games, then they went home too.  Now everything is back to normal!

Just for your entertainment, here is a funny video of Daddy riding his bike off the dock. It was really cold outside, and he is really stupid. He even screams like a girl, but there is no sound. If you want the video with sound Mommy can text it to your phone if your cellphone gets video. He did it after Rich did it first. Stupid boys.

My new favorite thing to do is to slide!  I love it!  Yesterday we visited Grandma and Grandpa and Uncle Brady so Daddy could wash our car.  Grandpa took me for a walk and we stopped at the park and he took me on the slide.  It was so much fun! I went all by myself!  Then we came back to get everyone else to show them how cute i am, and to get it on camera.

Also, here are some pictures of Daddy’s Millenium Falcon.  It is a very early Christmas present (it was on sale so we didnt wait to buy it)

It is almost bigger than me!  Everytime daddy plays with it and ignores me i make this face:

Anyways, the slide was great!  Grandma and Grandpa gave me a smaller slide to take home, and in a matter of minutes i learned how to climb up the back myself and slide down so I can do it as much as i want, so i have spent the entire day today sliding!  It is so much fun!  I giggle so much!

Today we went shopping.  We went to walmart and bought mommy some clothes and me some more food and juice, and we checked out the star wars stuff.  Then we went out to the valley and on the way we saw a brush fire and news crews.  It was next to the freeway and sullivan.  We saw it on the news when we got home.  We went to toys’r'us and looked at all the star wars stuff.  We bought a artoo-potatoo (r2-d2 potato head) and some books and stickers and we got a free star wars backpack to go with it.  If I ever have a little brother, he is already all set for school with a star wars backpack and pencils and folders and notebooks and stuff.  Daddy seemed like a little boy himself!  After toys’r'us we went to old navy and bought mommy a new pair of jeans, then we went to mcdonalds and i got a happy meal!  Actually I got TWO!  The service was really bad and the food was worse.  They messed up our order and had to redo it all and we still didnt get even an apology.  The people in the back couldnt even speak english!  There were flies all over the place and no air conditioning either.  Burger King is alot better!  I didn’t mind the apple dippers though.  There were star wars toys in the happy meals too.  Now we have a major storm warning, lots of wind and hail.  It’s already really windy but no hail yet.  I guess we will see!

Right now (as mommy is typing this for me) I am running around with a dishrag over my face so i can’t see very well where i am going, and it is so funny i can’t stop giggling!  Oops I just crashed!

I’m not quite talking. Not English anyways.  I love to jabber, and sometimes I manage to say some things.  I can say nanga which means “grandma” and i can say mama or mommy, usually only when I’m crying.  I also say “key” which ofcourse means “kitty”.  Today I had a great conversation with Mommy though, it went like this:

Me: “mommy”

Mommy: “What, Emily?”

Me: “I wub wa”  (I love you)

Mommy: “Awww, I love you too, Sweetie”

Daddy and Mommy were shocked and thought it was really cute.  I’ll have to try it on Grandma sometime!

This weekend was fun, and busy!  Friday was mommy’s and daddy’s anniversary but daddy had to work friday night so he slept all day so they celebrated it saturday instead.  We started by going shopping at the farmers market.  We got some yummy fruit and vegetables to eat.  There were alot of people that thought I was cute.  There was even another little girl with her mommy and her mommy was asking the girl why she didnt have curls like mine.  We also went to Manito Park.  We can’t feed the ducks and geese anymore, but it was sure fun to watch them.  I sat there in my stroller and pointed at everything that moved.  Lots of birds!  They were so cool!

Here is a picture of some of them eating weeds in the grass.  The other picture is the smile I constantly had on my face while watching the birds.  I was smiling because I loved watching the ducks, but I was so distracted that I forgot to smile so it wasnt very big.  This is the result. After the shopping and Manito Park, we went to visit the Mitchells.  It was great to see Grandpa!  (Grandma

didnt show up till right after Mommy and Daddy left.)  We played lots, then I fell asleep, and then when I woke up Mommy and Daddy was back.  They went to eat at Olive Garden.

On Sunday, we went to church with Grandma and Grandpa because one of Daddy’s friends is leaving to go on a mission and he was giving a talk in Sacrament Meeting.  Mommy and Daddy left after Sacrament to teach Primary in our home ward, but I stayed with Grandma and Grandpa.

I was such a goof at Grandma and Grandpa’s house.  I ran around and made messes and danced and spun in circles and was just having fun!  It was Daddy’s birthday, so we had cake and icecream again.  Daddy and I also showed everyone my cool cheerleading moves.  I stand on Daddy’s knees and cheer.  Mommy got it on video.  I’m also trying to learn a new trick that Brady was doing.  He was shaking his head REALLY fast.  Grandma says I do the Reader’s Digest version of it.

Anyways, I have a dentist appointment soon so I will leave you with these videos.  One is of me at Manito and the other is the cheering.

I learned a cool new trick!  I spin around in circles till I lose my balance, then, when I fall over, everything is still spinning.  It is so much fun.  Mommy thinks I’m very silly when I do it.  I do it while dancing to music sometimes too!  Mommy caught me on video spinning, then I see the kitty, Padme.  I don’t know if the sound will work but I actually say “Padme” when I see her.  I’m getting closer to talking and making sense everyday!  I try my hardest to communicate, even if it is just pointing.  Also on the video, you see me exploring something I just discovered.  I’m not sure what it is yet, but I’ll figure it out.

Not much has happened this last week, we stayed home ALL week.  It was Mommy’s birthday but she got food poisoning so Mommy and Daddy couldn’t go anywhere and do anything.  I was teething all week so I ate almost nothing for a few days which made Mommy very concerned, but yesterday I ate like I normally do, so Mommy isn’t worried anymore.  I now have four teeth!  Two on top, one is to my left and the other is (which just came in) is the left front one.  Then I have my bottom two front teeth.

I walk around really well now, i rarely fall.  I even run and dance more!  I have so much fun carrying things that are really big, bigger than me!  I also love being the center of attention.  Yesterday at church, i kept lifting my dress over my head so i showed everyone my belly and chest and legs and it made all the primary kids in Mommy and Daddy’s class scream!  I think now that it was too much of a distraction because Daddy was trying to teach a lesson.  Mommy and Daddy were talking about seeing if nursery would take me early.

After church I got to go see the Mitchell’s!  I missed them all alot, especially Grandma!  I played outside mostly.  They have a ping-pong table and everyone was playing that while I ran around in my wagon.  Daddy also showed me the little toddler slide, and I loved it so much that he took me on the big one.  I couldn’t stop giggling it was so much fun! Mommy took me in the swing also, and it wasn’t scary this time, it was fun too!  I was enjoying it all so much!  I didn’t take a nap all day so i was getting very tired by dinner time.  Grandma put me in the highchair to feed me yogurt and after just a few bites i fell asleep!  After a couple hours Daddy and Grandma woke me up, and we had cake and icecream for Mommy’s birthday.  It was good but i was so tired i was so grouchy!  Usually when Uncle Brady or Daddy picks on me I don’t mind, but I cried everytime someone picked on me.  I think I made Uncle Brady feel really bad when he hit a paper out of my hands because I started to really scream.  I forgive him though!

Another thing, on the way from church to Grandma’s house I started giving lots and lots of kisses!  I finally fell asleep though, and when I woke up, Daddy was telling everyone about me giving kisses in my sleep.  He thought it was cute.  I was embarrassed!  The first picture below is of me giving my kisses in the car.

My ravioli mess I made when Mommy made it for dinner! It’s also a good shot of my teeth!  You can’t see the one coming in (this was the last thing i actually ate before i decided to starve myself for a few days) very well but its on the top next to the other one in the front (kinda).

I love the wiggles!  Mommy and Daddy got a CD from the Library of them, and everytime the music comes on I just can’t hold back, I gotta dance!!!  Mommy caught some video of it for my blog readers to watch!  She also got a couple pictures of the faces i am famous for making.

This is my kissy face!  The one below is my smile thats so big i have to squint my eyes.

Here is me dancing!