Emmeline at 10 Months

Emmeline is turning into the cutest little monster, but a monster nonetheless. She gets into everything. Though, I'm not sure why we're surprised--that's what babies do.

• Some things are still the same from last month. She still puts everything in her mouth, whether its harmful or not--I recently learned that this nasty habit is something babies do for a very long time, something about it's how they learn, or some such nonsense ;)

• Starting to be a bit more of a picky eater

• Took the scariest tumble down the stairs ever! Lately, Emmeline has been getting up around 5:30 or 6:00. She sleeps all night, so no complaints there, but I'm still exhausted, so after she eats, I am usually in and out of sleep on the couch while she plays. Well, I should have gotten a baby gate awhile ago, but we haven't. And then one morning, I woke up to the most horrifying should of a baby thud, thud, thudding down the stairs. I leaped up just in time to see Emmeline rolling down the last few stairs, and start screaming as soon as she caught her breath. Needless to say, we sat and held each other for a long time. She was fine, but that didn't prevent me from feeling like the worst mommy for not doing my best to prevent such a foreseeable mishap.

• Crawling up the stairs. She can only do a few at a time, but it is only a matter of time. 

• Fascinated with my eyelashes and insists on grabbing them every chance she gets -- which may be how I got pink eye--GROSS, ICK, GROSS! Apparently, we need to wash her hands more...

• LOVES other kids and babies, and crawls too them the moment she sees them. Thankfully, she doesn't try to touch them, but just wants to look. 

• Follows other babies and toddlers around. When we go to the mall playground she'll just follow older kids around. You can tell, she so badly wants to be big enough to play with them. 

• Has figured out how to wave bye-bye :) Such a pivotal milestone for babies and parents, but yet so simple. Ah the joys and triumphs of parenthood :)

• Still charming people right and left. I love to take her on errands with me, because she chats, waves, smiles, and coos at everyone. It's adorable!

• Starting to "dance" to music, which really means to twist her upper body back and forth :)

• Stands on her own for sometimes nearly a minute

• Got her first pet, Tonks. When we got married, Eric was going to get me a cat as a wedding present. But I decided that it would be better to wait until we had a house to get a pet. Well we have a house now, so we have a kitty now. 

Such a little chubbster :)

Emmeline with her new kitty Tonks

Emmeline at 9 Months

So, this time last year I was already behind on blogging, and I just sort of stopped blogging all together. Life got busy. Well I'm ready to start blogging again--no guarantees that there won't be another long hiatus in the future. This blog was a draft that was half-written. It's fun to see where Emmeline was at, and how far she's come--and makes me wish I hadn't stopped blogging. Sigh. 

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At 9 months old, Emmeline is: 

• Standing! She can stand on her own for up to 11 seconds. It is fun to watch her balance on her feet. She stands every chance she gets. She spends her day crawling from different pieces of furniture that she uses to stand up.

• Getting into EVERYTHING--it has happened. She spends the other half of her day getting into things she shouldn't. She is destroying my piano music and magazines--it needs a new place. She pulls out sheet music after sheet music and ensign after ensign out of our little basket. I've dragged her away from it and told her "NO" hundreds of times, but she doesn't seem to understand... yet. I guess I should be glad she has yet to figure out that the cupboards and drawers open.

• Had her first bloody encounter. She was using a chair to stand up, fell and cut her lip on the table. It was pretty sad :(

• Eating dirt, pebbles, bark. Everytime I turn my back outside, she crawls over to the mulch and starts to feast. Nom, nom, nom. 

• Loving the outdoors. I love how much she enjoys being outside, it makes it easy to work in the garden, if I can keep her from eating something dangerous that is. 

• Rubbing her messy, sticky hands in her hair. Arg! She only gets one bath a day, but needs more... "but ain't nobody got time for that."

• Missing Daddy. When Daddy has to leave for work she cries for him. It's really sweet.

• A plum eating machine. But mommy doesn't love the poppy diapers that plums create. Ick. I cut them open and take out the pit so she can eat them. But one time got into a bag of plums from Grandma Daun's plum tree and ate several while my back was turned. She had me worried and Googling to see if eating plum pits was dangerous. Apparently, not very, because she survived. I'm not even sure she realized she swallowed them in the first place.  

Getting our Pumpkins

Bath time!

Caught in the act!

Sure love my baby girl!

Things I've Sewn