Emmersyn @ 11 months

We offically have a walker and I don't mean taking 1 or 2 steps. This girl is walking across the room and is rarely crawling anymore (she started walking, not just taking steps about 2 weeks ago). I am sad about it, but she is loving this new found freedom. All of her exploring also means new bruises, owies and frustrations!

She has also learned to open all the cupboards in the kitchen and especially likes banging the pots and pans together.

Emmersyn now has 8 teeth. 6 on top (4 in front and 2 morals) and 2 on bottom.

She is still waking up once a night. She goes to bed at 6:30 wakes up at about 3 then goes back to bed until 6:30.

She was really sick again with pneumonia and a double ear infection earlier this month but seems to be feeling better. I'm still giving her 3 breathing treatments a day to help with her weezing (R and L also have some weezing, double ear infections and pink eye!!-it's be a VERY long couple of weeks!!)

E says "dada", "mama", "hi" and her new favorite thing to do is take her pacifier out of her mouth, throw it to the ground and say "uh oh". She thinks it is SO funny and plays this game often.

She has been eating only table food for a couple of months now and I'm not kidding you there is nothing this child will not eat. She loves everything I've given to her and I can't say she has a favorite thing because she just loves everything. Speaking of eating, at her doc appt (1 week before she turned 11 months) she was 21 lbs. 2.5 oz. (Riley weighed 21 lbs. at 22 months).

I think I can officially say her eyes are brown (YEAH!) and I also think her hair is going to be brown too.

I love her to pieces and she is so much fun to have around. She loves playing with the other kids and I cannot imagine life without this sweet girl. I cannot wait to see what personality she'll bring to our family and where she'll fit in, all I do know is, is that whatever that is she will always be loved!

Emmersyn @ 10 Months!

Emmersyn is the happiest little thing at 10 months old! I cannot believe in 2 whole months she's going to be a year old! Currently, she has a whopping 5 teeth, including one molar that is still trying to pop through (isn't that really early for a molar?!) She's standing unsupported, although not long enough, yet for me to get a picture!

She weighes 21 lbs and has been to the doctor more in her little life than probably Riley has in her 4.5 years. She's been sick far too often, whether it was pneumonia, colds, or this past month, Roseola. She was SO sick with a fever of 104.5 for 4 straight days. We couldn't do anything until I took her to the Urgent Care because she wasn't having any wet diapers on that fourth day. I was extremely worried especially because the docs couldn't tell me what was going on. "Just a virus" is what they kept saying. Well, Monday morning I took her back to our regular pediatrician and as we were waiting in the room for him to check her out she started breaking out in this horrible rash. I was glad it happened when it did because he could diagnose it as Roseola. Scary stuff, I hate when the kids get sick but especially do when they're so little because they are so much harder to read! I am praying that since she always seems sick now that will mean she's going to be a very healthy, sick-free toddler!

Currently Emmersyn's favorite things to do are EAT, stand alone, pull things out of the kitchen drawers, pull things off shelves, splash in the toliet, eat some more, wrestle with Lincoln, put small objects in her mouth, scream while I change her diaper, wake up every night...usually once, give kisses, and, most importantly cuddle with Mommy. She is definitely becoming more indepentent and is really starting to voice her opinion, like screaming when she wants more food (not scream, as in crying, but scream as in give me more!!!). Soon enough I will be watching her walk across the room and planning her first birthday party...I am sad that she already seems so big, she's not a baby anymore and as much as I love the new things she's doing I wish she'd stay little forever!

Pouty face!

Roseola! (both pictures you can kind of see the rash over her entire body!)