One year old. A year. 52 weeks. Only 12 short months!!!
I cannot believe I am the mother to a one year old. I feel like I am still in college!!! I feel like I am waiting for reality to hit that I am not just 'playing house'! This perfect little girl is actually ours- and will be ours for the rest of our lives!
Emma has been an absolute dream child. She is such a happy girl- I was expecting this to be a lot harder than it was! Her first year was a breeze, I think we were very lucky parents. I can remember only 2 nights when she was an infant where she was just crying and there was nothing we could do but hold her and try to make her happier.
Now that she walks- she is getting to be so much more independent! She goes in her playroom and plays by herself. Just this morning she walked in there and it was a bit too quiet, we peeked on her, and she was just sitting there reading a book!
She LOVES the phone (as every child does I think). She has affectionately nicknamed it "boppppp". I don't know why. When she hears a phone ring, she puts her hand up to her ear as if she was talking on it. And if she sees our phones or hears us on one, the whining and grabbing is at full force.
I am such a proud mommy, I love these days with her. Every day she does something new, funny, sweet, smart- surprising me all the time. Tonight, she took the keys from Felix on the couch- walked across the house to the back door and tried to stick it in the doorknob. I couldn't believe it when I saw it! How did she know to do that??? It is such a little thing- but I was so proud of her.
She is a ham! I'll have to catch more pictures of her cuteness- but she does things because she KNOWS she is cute. She will open her mouth and give a big smile and just wait until we smile back. She plays peek-a-boo in the car... she will turn her head towards the window and then quickly turn it back towards me and say "boo" and laugh!
She seems to retain everything these days. And copies everything! And she is just such a sweetheart- if she is playing something with Daddy-like giving high five- she will come over to me so I have a turn as well- then back to Daddy and so forth.
She dances when she hears any music (even a cell phone ringing with a song tune). Sometimes we don't even hear the music ourselves until she starts dancing! And she has the best laugh- which is good because she is very ticklish, so we get to hear her giggle quite often! I can't even wash her arms in the tub without her giggling...forget about putting suntan lotion on her neck!
She will also surprise us with words she spits out now. She went to touch Felix's computer and actually said "noooooo" as she let her hand just hover above the keyboard. She points to birds and says "bird", and I am pretty sure she tried to say "giraffe" while watching Einstein animals video.
Emma is hilarious in this video- it is like she didn't even know I was holding her. We thought Felix was taking a picture but the camera was on video by mistake. Watch Emma's face- it is hard to see if it is small, but she is looking at the camera and then moves just her eyes to see me, realizes its me and then turns her whole head and smiles.
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