Questions for Emily

Today I was on Pinterest with Emily; we were looking at the kids section together, which she was not completely convinced was really for kids (she said at first it was still for people, by which she meant adults).  I found a link to 21 questions to ask your kids.  Here are Emily's answers (some of these are not her first answer):

1. What is something Mommy always says to you?
Be brave



2. What makes Mommy happy?
Thomas in a picture
(Probably this means looking at Pinterest; we were just looking at pictures on Pinterest, there was a picture of Thomas the Tank engine there.)
 
3. What makes Mommy sad?
Poo-poo [in Emily's pants]


4. How does Mommy make you laugh?
Putting on TV


5. What was Mommy like as a child?
William and Emily


6. How old is Mommy?
13
(Emily has a very fluid concept of numbers; she can count to about 12, but she often just pulls numbers out of the air).
 
7. How tall is Mommy?

68, 9

 
8. What is Mommy's favorite thing to do?
Sew
 
9. What does Mommy do when you're not around?
Sleep


10. If Mommy becomes famous, what will it be for?
Cow give you some milk
(Emily had a hard time coming up with something for this one; I tried to rephrase questions for her if she seemed to not get them, but I'm not sure she ever really got this one.)


11. What is Mommy really good at?
Playing a game
 
12. What is Mommy not very good at?
Her can pick up all by herself
(I asked, and yes Emily meant this as something that I am not good at.  Apparently she sees the mess, too.)

 
13. What does Mommy do for her job?
Bibbity bobbity bo
(I was asked to help with "the magic words" yesterday, and this is what I came up with, so either I do magic for my job, or I help Emily for my job.)

14. What is Mommy's favorite food?
Macaroni

15. What makes you proud of Mommy?
Love
 

16. If Mommy were a cartoon character, who would she be?
Flutter Shy, her has butter on her flute shoes
(Flutter Shy is a character on My Little Pony, who is quiet, very nice, and loves animals.  I'm not sure about the butter on flute shoes.)
 
17. What do you and Mommy do together?
We pray and put our arms on top of our head

18. How are you and Mommy the same?
We are both girls
 
19. How are you and Mommy different?
I have yellow hair, Mommy has brown hair


20. How do you know Mommy loves you?
With a fish
(She does not have a fish, but apparently if I get her a fish, she will know I love her.)
 
21. Where is Mommy's favorite place to go?
The flowers [when we go to the store]

(We usually do go look at the flowers if we pick up Dan at Lowes, and get there early.)

2 months

William is now 2 months old.  Has the time flown by for everyone else?  It feels like its only been a couple weeks since he came home from the hospital. Perhaps because I don't do well when sleep deprived. 

But, that's changing, since William now sleeps through the night.  Well, if he ever decides to go to sleep.  Last night, I fell asleep with him wide awake next to me, happy even though it was dark.  As long as he has his binky, he's usually pretty happy.  Once it's dark, and he falls asleep, he'll stay asleep until morning.  Or, if he does wake up, he goes back to sleep as soon as his tummy is full.  Which means I get lots of sleep, and I'm starting to function again.

Plus, I've started reading my scriptures (more) regularly, which helps me not get so irrationally angry.  I'm almost through the New Testament.  I'm pretty sure I started the New Testament about when I got married; at least, I know I'd started the Bible.  I started it before Dan and I started dating.  So, over 6 years ago.  And, I'm getting close to the end, so maybe by the end of the year, I'll be finished.

Emily is talking all the time.  It still surprises me when she comes up with things on her own; when did she stop being my little toddler?  She has a pretend bunny that shows up all the time.  Sometimes I am asked to carry it.  Last week at her tumbling class, I offered to hold it since Emily was going through the exercises with her hands looking like she was pretending to hold something.  Another thing we've heard from Emily is "The Wizard did it."  Apparently, the Wizard is a little girl.  She does bad things.  We've asked Emily to talk to the Wizard about her behavior.

Emily is posing.

This week

This has been an emotional week for me. Being pregnant and missing my baby makes life hard sometimes.

I am going to be teaching a class tomorrow, on etching glass. So on Saturday I did my first glass etching. It was fun, although apparently the etching cream can burn your skin, so I had to keep it away from Emily, which made me a little nervous, since she loves to help and do art with me. Also, I have been working on a quilt this past week, and I got the top finished today. I ordered a new foot for my sewing machine which should make it easier to machine quilt. That should come next week, so I will finish it then. Next week is also my ultrasound. And yes, we are planning on finding out what we are having.

Emily seems to be taking two steps forward and one step back with potty training. Just when I think she's about got it, she has several accidents in one afternoon. But she is definately interested. She wants to do so much herself, with potty training and other things. Her two new phrases are "I do it myself," and "I want to help, too.". And she wanted to help me with my blog, so here is her contribution:

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Kids Update

Tabitha is just over two months old, almost two and a half months.  She sleeps most of the time still, and when she is awake, and not eating, or crying about her diaper or the fact she isn't eating, she likes to smile at people.  Or the light.  She also smiles at the light.  And really, she doesn't cry that much.  We are very lucky to have such a great baby.  She is also busy growing, but I don't think she's growing as fast as Emily did.  Maybe.  She was 13 pounds, 4 ounces, and 23 inches long at her last doctor appointment, last Tuesday.  She is wearing 3-6 month clothing.  She seems less distressed when Emily showers her with attention now.  Perhaps because she is bigger, and Emily isn't.  Her hair is growing, except for around the sides, where it is wearing a little thin, and is shorter.  It is a little curly on top, but that is probably because I try to comb it backwards.  She is really good at sleeping already; a couple nights ago she slept through the night, only eating once, at about 6:30.  Emily slept too, so I was basically in heaven.

Emily has been working on her language.  She speaks in two word sentences, usually "I" followed by a word, like "I princess", which means "I'm a princess;" or "I chocolate" which means "I want chocolate."  And yes, those are some of her favorite words.  Although, chocolate has usually meant chocolate milk lately, because that is how we get her to take her meds.  Emily has tonsillitis.  And, a yeast infection.  AND, possibly, hand foot and mouth disease.  She was supposed to start swim lesson at the local high school this week, but we've rescheduled them for a couple weeks, since I don't think the other moms want us to infect their children.

Emily is pretty convinced she is a princess.  We recently rented princess movies from the library, because she has princess stuff (like dolls and diapers and her potty seat), which she loves, and she had never seen the movies with those characters.  She also likes to run around in her tutu I made her when she was about 7 months old (I made it REALLY big).  Sometimes, like this evening, she also puts a baby towel on her head--the kind with the hood in one corner, which is a princess hat.  Later she found a dress and had me help her put it on.  Maybe that is why she likes dresses so much.  Because she is a princess.

More of Emily's Words

We've been in Michigan for about a week now.  Emily quickly fell in love with Bubble, the cat, and is now learning to be nice to the cat.  She has scratches on both hands and feet.  But she is much nicer now.  For a while she was kicking him.  And pinching.  Now she tries hard to be soft.  She also likes to cover him up in a blanket and she likes to lie with her head on him.  He seems to put up with this.  Also, he spends lots of time out of her reach.

In addition to learning that Bubble is not just a really cool stuffed animal, Emily has been working on her words.  Here is a list of words she's learned since my last list of words for her:

Mommy (mommy, or ah mmy, which could also be for Emily, since she tends to use it when she wants something)
Daddy (da da)
cracker (ca' ker)
animal cracker (a ca' ker)
Bubble (buba, or go-go)
go (go, often go go, and she uses it while pushing me somewhere because she wants to get into something she shouldn't)
banana (llalla--she often trills her l's)
Nana (nana)
stuck (stu', which she uses mostly if she can't get somewhere)
ow (ow or owie, which is also uses if she doesn't like me doing something)
doggie (goggie)
kitty (ki'y)
stop (stop)
down (down)
drink (drin)
color (color, which she started saying when I would talk to her about colors, but now she uses it for coloring, so it is her first verb :) )
door (door)
tall socks (t' sa, tall socks are what I call tights so she wants to wear them, since she likes socks so much)

In related news, I showed her where her sock drawer is, and she gets into it.  She can't see into it, so she just sticks her hand into the drawer and grabs something. 

Emily also learned to open door nobs, probably within a day of getting to our new place.  In our last place, the door nob to her room was so old it was very hard to turn and the door nob to the bathroom was way out of her reach.  Now all the door nobs are within reach, and the only one she struggles with is the one to her bedroom, since the door sticks a little.  The only one that was really a problem to have her open was the door at the bottom of the basement stairs (we live in the basement), which she would open and then escape to the upstairs.  We got a door nob cover the Monday after we got here.

Emily's words

tickle ('ikkle)
woof (woo-woo, which applies to pretty much all animals that might maybe look like dogs)
shoe (shoe)
no (no, usually emphatically)

sock (so')
soft (sa', used for touching babies and petting animals - and not hitting her dad)
eat (ee-ee, she also uses it for food)
more (mo', but usually she does the sign--pointing her pointer fingers together)
cookie ('tee, which is also for cracker)
baby (baby, which applies to babies, baby dolls, and stuffed animals)
apple (app)
juice (ju')
rock (bock, she learned this one from her cousin Annibelle)
book (bo')
ball (ba')
sit (si', like no, she is usually very emphatic about this one)
Aunt Jeanie (a' gee-gee, but usually just gee-gee, which she also said for Grandma Boling, who is called Gigi by her great-grandkids)
cat (tac, or cat)
me (me, as in "give it to me")
apple juice (app'ju')
up (u')
please (plee')
phone ('hone)
applesauce (app'sauce)
bottle (ba', for her sippy cup; she does not get a bottle, and has not for months)
car (tar)
outside (si')
shh (shh, she also does the finger in front of her mouth sometimes)
walk (wa')

She also tries to sing along to familiar songs, like itsy-bitsy spider, twinkle twinkle, and the song her dad made up to sing to her when she goes to bed.

And this isn't a word, but she does pretend to pray sometimes.  Yesterday she folder her arms, made me fold mine, babbled for a minute, finished with an emphatic word (I've been saying the amens loud so she would pick up on them, which Vickie showed me), and then said ee-ee.

I got her some food.

Getting Bigger

Emily is getting bigger.

She has a new word: no.  She says it in her sweet little voice.  For everything.

Me: Are you climbing on the couch? (as she is climbing)
Emily: No.
Me: Do you want to go outside? (one of her favorite things to do)
Emily: No.

She is so stinkin' cute.

Dan, who spends all day with her, says she now says num num num for bread and other things she likes a lot.

And she has started trying to say more and putting her hands together to copy the sign I showed her for more.

She's been saying shoes like mad recently, after giving it a break for a couple months.  And I heard her try socks as well, but shoes are definitely one of her favorites.  To wear AND to say.

And she is now almost 34 inches tall, so she is growing as well as learning to talk.  Which might be why she has been sleeping so much lately.  Although, she is starting to eat less, so she is getting skinnier too.

Emily Words

Emily says a few words now.   She used to say dada (or adad) and mum (or ummm), and still does a little (although she says dada alot when Dan is around and she is happy).

She says hi every once in awhile, but when I say it back to her she usually just looks at me with her serious, what are you doing mom? face.

Her newest words are:

Tickle.  She doesn't get the "t" sound, and the rest of the word sounds garbled, but she waves her fingers at her tummy  (so it is sort of like iKle).  And when I say it back to her, she does it again.  SOOOO cute.

Boom.  (Dan is the one who hears this.)  As in, fall down go boom, which is something Dan says to her when she falls.  He says she even babbles something first to fill in the "fall down go" part before boom.  How cute is that?

And not a word, but a consistent form of communication--Emily sings when she wants something.  She has three short notes she uses to let me know she wants something.  At least, it was always the same three notes, until we were in the car the other day and she repeated the same note for forever (she had dropped her snack container).  But she did not cry, which is good.

Emily Likes and Dislikes

Emily likes walking around.  Walking around with a purse over your arm is even better.  Also, walking lets you reach things that Mommy and Daddy thought were out of reach, like things on the table or the third shelf in the pantry.

Emily likes climbing the stairs.  She likes to climb the stairs and then hurry down the hall to Mommy and Daddy's room, where Daddy keeps a stash of chocolate next to his bed just in case he goes low.

Emily likes chocolate.  She has discovered that you don't have to take off the foil to eat chocolate kisses--you just bite right through them, and then you have some foil to suck on once the chocolate is gone.  Mommy tends to take the kiss away after your first bite, and now she closes her bedroom door more often.

Emily dislikes it when anyone goes into the bathroom and closes the door.  If Mommy or Daddy closes the bathroom door, she starts to cry.  She likes it when Mommy just lets her come in so she won't cry, and then she can play with all her bath toys.

Emily likes reading books.  She likes to look at her picture books and tell Daddy all about them.

Emily likes to talk on the phone.  Either the portable phones Mommy and Daddy use, or one of the remotes.  Sometimes she likes to hand the phone to Mommy so she can talk, too.

Emily likes to play with the mouse and the keyboard, just like Mommy and Daddy do.  Any guesses why?

Nose

Early this morning, I was holding Emily on my lap and looking at her raccoon with her. She pointed at the raccoon's nose, and then she pointed at my nose. Like she knew they were the same thing.

Then she rubbed her nose, but that was probably because she has a stuffy nose.

Catching Up . . .

So I haven't been able to think of anything to post. Coincidentally, I also haven't been transferring my pictures onto my computer from my camera for a while. So, here are some things I (might have) posted:

Halloween Party
Emily went to her very first party! One of the sisters in the ward has a annual baby/toddler/little kid halloween party. Emily went as a fairy. Here she is trying out her costume before hand.Her second cousin, Owen, went as a caveman. He was very cute.Emily als0 got to hang out with her partner in crime, Eli. Eli is only a couple months older than Emily. They hang out a church together, and Eli's mom babysits for me sometimes.

Read Read
That afternoon of the Halloween Party, Emily and I went to pick up Daddy at his work. She played at a little end table they have in a corner of their waiting room. There was a pamphlet or newsletter on it, and she looked at it and said "re re." Probably just a coincidence, but oh so cute.

So big!I hung Emily's growth chart on her nursery wall. Here is a picture of her standing next to it:At that time (mid November) she was 28 inches tall by the growth chart. Now it says she is 30 inches tall! She is busy growing. In related news, she now has ankles (she used to have very chubby legs) and a neck (still a short neck, though).

Just Like Hallie!
Hallie and her parents came to Indianapolis in November so Hallie's dad, Devin, could run a marathon. (The rest of Dan's out-of-town family came too.) Emily loved having Hallie stay with us. She now loves her penguin and monkey, because Hallie did. Before Hallie showed her how fun they were, she would ignore them.

Here they are, hanging out at the mall, dancing to the music: I also snapped a picture of Dan's sister, Amy. She is due a couple days after Emily's birthday.


Sunbonnet Sue
So, I was going through stuff in my room, and I found my pioneer bonnet. I had to snap a picture of Emily in it. She did not like it.