Her vocabulary is definitely expanding, but not in the usual, or expected way I'd say. I sum this up to being Matt's daughter ;) Matt and his quirky sense of humor and silly mannerisms is rubbing off on Emma. Recently she says "BOOM!". While I am trying persistently to get her to say "Please", "Thank you", and other more common phrases, Matt has effortlessly taught her "BOOM!". She has even recently started to learn "I Love You" but says it more like "Ya Ooh" (I'll take it though!). In no time she will be saying it more clearly.
In addition, her independence is growing! The other night, as I was cooking dinner, I gave Emma some crackers to snack on. There were about 4 in an unwrapped package so I set them on the table for her to snack as she played. A few minutes later, I see her walk to the trash, throw the wrapper away and then walk back to her toys. I enthusiastically say "Thank you baby girl! You threw your trash away like a big girl!". I got no response. She didn't even look my direction! She absolutely wasn't looking for, and needed no praise for this. She simply put her trash where it belonged. I've noticed, too that when she is playing with her toys, she has been putting them back in her toy bins when she is done with them - not EVERY time, but sometimes is better than nothing! It helps that Auntie Pokie Jo (Yvette) has her help to clean up her toys at the end of every day, and as I am cleaning up the living room I have Emma help me too. It seems she is becoming a self sufficient little girl!
A midst all of this fun and growing, Auntie Pokie Jo gave me some insight to yesterday's activities which included another little girl, 8 months old, that she was watching for the day. While her and Emma had their moments of nice play time together, there were bouts of jealousy on Emma's part. Yes, this is normal behavior, especially from single children, but I thought by now Emma would be over the jealousy issue having spent much of her time at Yvette's with TANK (another little boy that she watches who is about 1 year older than Emma). Hearing the stories of jealousy yesterday led me to concern over the new baby coming in to the house. I sure do hope that any jealousy is short lived and Emma just steps in to the role of Big Sister with enthusiasm! Any time I ask Emma where her little sister is, she points to my belly, sometimes even lifts my shirt and kisses her so I try to give Emma the "Big Sister" motivation speech. Time to kick it in to high gear to prepare Emma for her new role :)
Emma and Olivia playing nice ;)
Little sister has started to make her own presence known recently too. She's moving around a lot. Not kicking quite as much as Emma did when she was in my belly, but doing more of what feels like gymnastics! It literally feels like she is doing complete flips sometimes. The only time I feel like she is kicking is when I have a full bladder and every two seconds I feel a "kick" on said full bladder and it is not comfy to say the least!! She becomes active in the morning when I am sitting at my desk and again as I lay down to go to bed at night. So far, that movement stops in time for me to get a relatively good night's rest aside from the aches and pains associated with my growing belly.
I've already began to "nest" and am trying to tackle house projects one at a time. The nursery is definitely ready to start setting up and is on the top of my list now. I couldn't be more excited! I also want to add to/change Emma's room a bit so she doesn't feel left out and to change it to a more "toddler-like" room. I can't believe she is already going to be 18 months :( But she is a constant joy! :)
Here are a couple recent pictures...
Emma wearing Daddy's hat (very short lived!)
Emma and her silly love for the camera recently :)
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