Big Girl!

Emma is beginning to put two and two together and is trying her best to become mobile. She is beginning to want to stand a lot, but is still very unsteady on her feet. (Thankfully). She loves pulling to standing while you hold her hands and has the most proud smile on her face when she does it. When hanging out on the floor, she is finding new, creative ways to move her legs and learning balance in various positions. I can tell she is trying more manuevers and becoming more daring, because she falls over more often on her brave days.

She has also switched herself to two naps a day from three, and is trying new foods all the time. She is getting better at eating puffs, and no longer acts as though I am poisoning her when I give them to her. Emma is the cutest chewer!







Sweet sisters!!

Potty Trained?

We officially started training on April 26, one month ago. Since then, we've had two pee accidents and three poop accidents, but no accidents in the last two weeks. Not too bad, right? We still have a little struggle getting her to poop in the potty, but she still does it. She just gripes about it beforehand. I was really thinking it was going to be more difficult, and I'm thinking it normally is, and I just lucked out. Let's hope it's this easy with Emma, too!

Time Out!

We have had a few days recently where Lilah has really been testing the boundaries and my patience. A frustrating morning ended with Lilah in her room for a big time out. She screamed it out and came out a more well-behaved little girl on the other side.
After nap, we took a walk to the mailbox and back (a half mile round trip). She really wanted to run around and play with her friends instead, but I had to get back inside, so I told her we were only going to the mailbox and then back inside. As we were walking back from the mailbox, she was running a little ways ahead. I nicely reminded her that we couldn't play when we got back home, that we had to go right back inside. I think the time out earlier worked because she shouted over her shoulder, "Yeah! Okay, Mom! Yes, ma'am! Thank you!" Funny girl!

Sunny Days

The sun has FINALLY started to make a regular appearance after too many months of rainy days. It was been SO nice to get outdoors! Lilah and the chickens have been bonding, and Lilah tries hard to keep them supplied with worms. Emma just enjoys sitting outside, taking it all in. Yay for sun!

Adorable Emma

I took a few pictures with my phone during mealtime the other day with Emma. She was so cute and making so many funny faces, so I have to share them. Adorable!

I love her pouty lips!

What a sad face!

More Lilah

Up until this week, Lilah has always said 'mease' instead of 'please.' I don't know why, and we've worked on saying it with a P, but she never changed. This week though, she says it nearly right. It's 'pWease' instead. Still cute.

Zoo!

Jonas took the day off work on Friday and we headed to the Greater Vancouver Zoo. It was just over the border and so easy to get to! It was also Emma's first time out of the country. It's a smaller zoo (compared to Seattle) but I was pretty impressed. The animals were SO close. Nearly every one of them was right up against the rails, sometimes at close at just a few feet. There was the cutest little spider monkey with a little baby on its back, a peacock that walked right up to us on the main path, and the coolest raptor show I have ever seen. Jonas was even grazed across the face with the wings of an owl! We had such a fun day!
My biggest complaint was the chain link fence everywhere. It made it tough to get good pictures, but this one isn't awful. You can still see the ultra-cute baby monkey hanging on to her momma. SO adorable!

Lilah's attention span was a little short by the end of the day. She'd run up to another area, take a quick look at the animal, and then say, MORE ANIMALS! and run off to the next place. It made for a pretty quick tour of the zoo, and a tired Lilah from running everywhere. Lilah was only disappointed that the zoo didn't have elephants, penguins, or dinosaurs.