She likes to be outside; it's a blessing to have a fenced-in back yard. She finds flowers and sticks and rocks, and puts things in the abandoned chipmunk hole under one of the trees.
One of her current games with Daddy is to put something in his pocket, which for some reason is "supposed" to be "big cats" (i.e., leopard, tiger, ocelot, etc., all from her play animal set of "Big Cats"). Of course, whatever she puts in his pocket, never is such things, so when Daddy pulls them out and "discovers" that they are not Big Cats, she says "you get..." (meaning she will get... tickles or pokes or something like that) and then Daddy goes to tickle her.
It seems she is getting more willing to interact with people who are not Mommy, Daddy, or grandparents, and even to play with other children. For which we are so thankful, since she would immediately shy away from others and want them to go away. We pray this new trend will continue and improve more.
Here are some pictures from March:
Dollies eating... bugs?
Setting up the bugs for the dollies to eat (she calls the dollies her "friends" - "look, all my friends!" when she sees the screen saver pictures of them)
Dollies eating... numbers, apparently
Wearing Emily's clothes
Magna-doodle funEmily: almost 8 months old.
She's growing fast. Her first tooth came in yesterday, and thankfully, she hasn't seemed much bothered by teething except for last night, when she couldn't seem to get back to sleep until we gave her some tylenol.
She started sitting up by herself a few days ago, and seems so proud of herself that she can do it.
She likes to watch the animals outside; we have glass doors out onto the deck, and we feed the birds, squirrels, and chipmunks on the deck. (See photos below). She likes to play with the piles of sunflower seed hulls when the door is left open.
She can crawls very fast, but still only crawls on her tummy. She has figured out how to go find Mommy down the hall if she's left alone in the living room. She's eating cereal, and has tried banana, sweet potato, applesauce, pears, and squash; she doesn't seem to dislike anything you give her.
She likes to be tickled and to play peek-a-boo. She likes to see cards with pictures on them (e.g. of fruits or birds) and likes the big word cards of different body parts (nose, knee, etc.), though I haven't been very consistent in showing them to her.
Here are some pictures from March:
I guess this grass stuff isn't so bad after all
Playing with favorite toys
Emily on the "big kids" side of the nursery (sucking her thumb there in the middle; she does that - lie down leaning on one arm and suck her other thumb). We had to put her on the toddler side of the nursery because she was too mobile for the non-mobile baby side; she would take the other children's toys and play with them herself.
Looking so proud of herself, sitting up
How does this glass stuff work??
Watching the squirrels (and chipmunk, who is climbing up on the table)
Watching the squirrels and birds again
Emily's favorite fridge toy
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