Emry Updates

Emry has been changing so much lately, that she needed an early post!

*She has been crawling EVERYWHERE! She started crawling at about 7 1/2 months and then about a week later, she started really pulling herself on everything! She crawls over to the couch and then up she stands! It's adorable!
*She even cruises a little bit! If she is on one side of the couch and you put something she wants on the other side, somehow she always finds a way to walk her way over to it. It might take a while but it's adorable! She loves to hold onto the laundry basket and then I push it along and she just walks behind it! It's too cute!
*There have been times when she is holding onto my hands standing and then she just lets go and will just stand there for like half a second before she realizes what is going on and grabs me. Too cute!
*At about 7 1/2 months, she got her first tooth/teeth! Her left middle top one broke through first but the bottom two followed closely afterward! I better start taking tons of pictures of that gummy smile because it is  going to disappear so soon!

Almost every time I get her from her naps she is standing in her crib! Just waiting for me to come get her!

She is in to everything now. Pulls herself up on everything and is in to everything!! Good thing she's cute!

Just a picture of her trying to stand up. Also, since her teeth starting coming in, her tongue is almost always out like this! Funny girl!

Today, we went to play in the snow. She looks so darn cute and was so happy before we went out, but when we went into the snow, she was not happy about it! She must be her mother's daughter hating that snow!

We went bowling and she LOVED to stand and play with the balls. So cute!

Bowling fun!

Another one of her standing up on anything she can! And that smile is too cute!

California

We had so much fun when we were home for Christmas. Emry and I stayed for about a week after Christmas and it was perfect! I really needed that time in the warmth! It was wonderful!

We went to the wetlands at Bolsa Chica and it was the most perfect weather. Here is Emry with Cade!

Emry and me at the Beach

An adorable picture of Cade and her best friend Great Papa

Such cute cousins!

I am in love with how much Emry's cousins love her! They just gather around her and say "Emry, Emry" over and over again. It's the sweetest thing ever! I wish we all lived closer!

Look at that adorable face!!!

All the girlies at the beach!

Taking a walk by the water!

I'm Dreaming of a Warm Christmas

Our Family on Christmas Morning

 Happy on Christmas morning!

 That pile of presents!! Wow!!

Ready to come out to the presents!

Emry opening her presents

Christmas morning

All the Grandkids! This is adorable!!

7 Months

At 7 months:

*The girl can really get around. She just lays on her tummy and scoots ever so slowly. She can roll anywhere, and although she doesn't really make it very far, she is NEVER in the same position I put her in.
*She is all over the place: You are holding her and she wiggles trying to reach anything she sees. You put her down and she tries to get anything she sees and acts like she would rather have you holding her. It's a lose/lose but she is still adorable, so it's okay!
*Loves to say MAMA!! Yes!!! She babbles "Mmmmmmmmmaaa mmmmmaaaaa" all the time! In fact, toward then end of month 6, she has pretty much stopped saying dada, which Ryan is very upset about. I think she'll be back to saying it in no time, though!
*Pulled herself up!! Can you believe it! It was in California when we were home for Christmas and she just held on to this little toy piano and up she went to a standing position! So strong and so cute! She really is growing up!
*Pretty much never eats in the middle of the night anymore. (Unless she is sick and needs it.) She goes to bed around 7:30 PM and gets up around 7 AM. We are still working on consistent long naps, but she normally gets 2/day in. The morning one is shorter lasting only an hour, but the afternoon one is normally closer to 1.5-2 hours. Again, she is mostly all over on the times and such, but oh well, it works for us!
*Size 3 diapers, 6 month or 9 month clothes
*She is SOOO close to actually crawling! It's amazing. She really has the feet motions down, but her hands don't move. Normally its the legs kicking with her face on the ground (can't be comfortable). But the last 2 days she has actually started to move her hands a little more. I wouldn't be surprised if she was crawling within a week or so.
*She has started to chunk up again.
*She will eat anything. She tolerates baby food, but she really likes real people food. She loves eating Cheerios and can even pick some up and get them in her mouth half the time! I would say one of her favorites is soup. She really likes that. I would name the food she has had but it would take too long and I can't remember them all. Basically, if we're eating it, so is she! She still nurses 4-5 times a day.
*LOVES to stand up. She is going through a phase of not wanting to sit down. It's hilarious! You try to put her in her high chair and she does everything she can to keep standing up. She loves to stand up and hold on to things to steady herself.
*Likes to read until her attention goes elsewhere. She will start to fake laugh when you open a book to read it to her, like she is so giddy! It's adorable.
*Loves little kids. She will laugh and laugh when there are other little kids around. It's too cute! She has the time of her life when we are around her cousins. Adorable.