10 Months Old!

When Emerson was a newborn, I remember thinking that we had sooo much time before we even had to think about her turning one. Here were are....and she's already 10 months old, only one more post after this one before her first birthday. It's so bittersweet, I'm going to miss my wee baby as she continues to grow, but she is so fun at this stage as she seems to learn something new every single day. I was already a sentimental person before, but since having Em I am so sappy over anything to do with babies/kids. We watched a movie last week (About Time), and I balled my eyes out, and then went into Em's nursery and snuggled her.

I am so happy to say that her spitting up has been amazing these past four weeks. In fact, she didn't spit up at all for two weeks!!! She's done it a few times over the past couple of days, but it's still sooooooo much better! It's almost like we have a completely different girl on her hands, she's so much more content now too. We just feel like we have more freedom now, and that we can go places and do things without worrying that she's about to spit up all over everyone and everything. The spit-up is the one thing I will not miss as she continues to grow.

I signed a contract for the home daycare I talked about last month, I still feel so relieved that I have it all arranged and that I won't have to worry about it during the summer. Although the weather hasn't been great yet, it's been nice enough that we've been able to get out for walks most days and Em has been loving the fresh air.

Here's some tidbits from the past month:
- On March 24, Em weighed 20.17 pounds
- Her hair has grown quite a bit, her hair colour is the same as Andrew's
- She still just has 4 teeth, no new ones since February
- She has finally started pulling herself to standing, and now she stands holding onto everything
- We finally moved her into the regular bathtub because she was trying to crawl out of her whale tub on the sink
- Em loves clapping her hands
- We can say "arms up", and she lifts both arms above her head and smiles
- When we take her swimming, we sit her on the edge of the pool, and she will lean into our arms until she falls in
- We dunk her underwater now, and there have been no tears
- Every time we go into the nursery to get her, she is standing in her crib waiting for us
- She has started to feed herself some finger foods besides berries (potatoes, butternut squash, etc.)
- She loves berries, cheese, applesauce, bananas, sweet potato, butternut squash, cheerios, and whole wheat goldfish
- She has been sleeping amazing this month, still waking once a night for 5 mins, but otherwise she sleeps from 7-7
- She went to her first St.Patrick's Day party
- She spent her first whole day alone with Daddy, and she took a bottle for him twice! Daddy also put her to bed for the first time...it went great!
- She is constantly saying "dadadadadada" and "mamamama", but still not sure if she knows what she's saying or not. She's making new sounds every single day.
- She is obsessed with a drawer in the kitchen that has plates, cleaning wipes, and a box of plastic forks...she takes everything out multiple times a day.
- She has started sticking her tongue out
- This month we did the following: went swimming lots of times, went to Clarksburg to visit Grandma and Grandpa Cummings, had a visit from Grandma Levstik, went to Bethany and Zee's in Whitby, had Em's 9-month check-up, lots of playdates, went to the movies, and lots of other fun adventures!

She discovered the toilet paper...

Ready for her St.Patrick's Day party!

These are all the babies that we spend our time with (with one missing)

First Spring walk....haha

 In the big tub (but in a hamper to keep her from falling over and to keep her toys from floating away)

 Where's Waldo?

Our little froggie...

 You are going to dunk me today???

 Arms Up!

 Hi Mom!

 Big Girl

 Ha!

Bird Watching...

 I just love Em's face in this one

 Andrew thinks Em is just the cutest in this outfit (Thanks B&Z)

 Obsessed with this drawer...I've clearly had to move the forks...

9 Months Old!

Oh my....she is 9 months old already!!!! (And yes, this is three days late!) These monthly pictures keep getting trickier because this girl does not want to sit still, it's a good thing we've only got three more to do. This month has been much less eventful than last, in fact, nothing too exciting happened this month. Her spit up is about the same, some good days and some bad. She has really mastered crawling and she is sooo fast, I can hardly take my eyes off her for a second. We spent most of this month at home since we travelled so much in January. We had been planning of trying to arrange to share a nanny with another family, but after putting more thought into it we decided that the burden of having them in our home every other month would outweigh the benefits.

So, I started looking for a home daycare for Em about a week and a half ago, and I am so happy to say that we already found one! It almost seems too good to be true so I hope it all works out and that nothing falls through before September. The family lives just around the corner from us in a beautiful home, and they have two girls who are 8 and 10. The girls were amazing with Emmy when we met with them, and played were her the whole time. The husband is a police officer and the lady just seems very kind and down to earth. Their whole basement is set up like a daycare, and they have a nice yard with a great swing set/playhouse. There will be another little girl starting in September who is two months younger than Emmy, so it will be nice for her to have a little playmate!

Here's some tidbits from the past month:

- Em still just has four teeth, but I think we'll be seeing a couple more any day now
- We're going to the doctor for her 9 month check-up tomorrow so we'll see how much she weighs
- She has started screaming, and I mean SCREAMING!!!! She isn't upset or anything, she just screams sometimes...I'm hoping this phase passes soon
- Emmy just loves fruit, in particular berries. She has yet to meet a berry that she hasn't liked..
- After being sick last month and barely eating, her appetite is back and she's a pig!
- I can now take her up to her crib at naptime and bedtime, and just lay her down and walk out...it's awesome! She usually babbles to herself for awhile, but then goes to sleep on her own
- Em has been sleeping really well the past couple of weeks, usually going until about 4 or 5am before waking for a quick feed. In fact, she's had a few nights where she has slept right through from 7pm - 7am!!!!
- She has learned that her stuffed bunny's name is Peter, and she seriously loves him. I can ask her "Where's Peter?", and she will crawl to him, grab him, and start laughing
- She has become amazingly independent since learning how to crawl. Sometimes she can occupy herself for over an hour while I clean or cook in the kitchen.
- She's obsessed with the bathroom, if she even sees the bathroom door open, she squeals with excitement and crawls there as fast as she can
- She has no interest in feeding herself anything. If I don't feed it to her, she throws it to Casey....we're working on it...
- This month we did the following: went to Palmerston to visit Nana and Poppy, celebrated Em's first Valentines Day, had a visit from Grandma and Grandpa Cummings, went to her friend Avery's first birthday party, had lots of playdates including a trip to the pool with all of Em's friends, and lots of other fun adventures!

Valentines Day

 Music lesson with Poppy

 Such a sweet babe

 Naptime with the girls

 I can crawl mom!!!

 What's this???

 I'm stuck!

 I still love baths

 Em and her cousins