Emma is 11 months old!!

Emma is such a happy baby. She wakes up happy. She is happy when we are out and about shopping. She is happy when we are home playing. She is just happy! We are so blessed.

 Emma has 4 teeth. Two on the top and two on the bottom. She has blonde hair and blue eyes.

Emma loves to walk with her walker, the rocking chair, the stroller. Anything she can hang on to and push she can walk with. She will walk when we hold onto one or both of her hands. She isn't close to walking by herself. But that's okay. I'm not quite ready for two walking babies to keep up with. 

She can pull herself up to standing position. She is getting much taller because she is now able to reach on top of the table! Carly was painting yesterday and Emma went to grab the tray Carly was using! aahhh!!! 

She can stand on her own for a few seconds. She usually does this when she holds onto us and we let go. She just sits on her bum and sometimes will let us do it again and she'll stand for a few more seconds. 

Emma is very social. She now waves and says hi to people. It's really cute. But if I were to hand her off to anyone, she becomes unsocial very quickly. There is a lady at church that loves to hold Emma. Emma does fine as long as she doesn't see her face. haha. Then she starts screaming when she figures out it isn't dad or mom. 

Emma loves to snuggle. The first thing Jeremy does when he gets home is lay down on the floor and Emma will come and rest her head on his chest. Cutest thing ever. 

Anytime there is a pillow or blanket or big stuffed animal she will crawl over and lay her head down on it. 

 New things she does that I love: When she wants to be picked up she will crawl towards me a bit, get up on one knee and reach up with her little hands.

When she is done nursing before going to bed, she will rest her head on my shoulder and go to sleep :) I love this. Sometimes I just sit there for as long as I can. She will raise her head to look at me with a half sleepy smile and lay her head back down. Precious moment.

She can shake her head. We found out this is her way of dancing too. Anytime she hears music she will shake her head. haha.

She can clap. The other day we listened to some Christmas music and we started clapping. She clapped right along with us. :)

She loves peek a boo. She will pull a blanket over her head and pull it down while smiling. Carly will say peek a boo! and then she'll do it again.

When Carly is sent to her room for time out. Emma will crawl to her door and bang on it. haha. We laugh but Carly yells 'No Emma!'

Emma loves to put things in her mouth. Every night I empty my pockets with things that I have taken out of her mouth throughout the day.

She loves to brush her hair. I brush her hair and she has a huge smile on her face then I give her the brush and she'll do it.

She loves to eat bananas, toast, peanut butter and jelly, rice cereal with apple cider, pasta, pears, mandarin oranges, peeled apples. 

I don't know if she really loves books or if she just likes taking them off the shelf. Either way, when we are in Carly's room that is her favorite thing to do. 

When she's in the kitchen she loves to pull the laminated pictures off the fridge, open the drawer where her spoons are and dump the container of them, and open the cupboard where the cereal containers are and pull them all out. Yesterday she crawled all the way in the cupboard. haha. 

She does this crazy trust exercise with Jeremy and I. When we sit behind her on the floor. She will fall straight back on us from sitting position. And we push her up to sit again. And she'll just fall straight back. haha. 

Her favorite toys: Anything Carly is playing with, cars, ball, stroller, play food. 

Carly wanted a picture too :) Cheese!

When Emma gets excited this is the face she does.

We are so blessed to have Emma in our family. She is so happy. She is so sweet. She is so perfect. We love you Emma Jean!