Our Little Mama: September 2010

So we're basically in the home stretch in preparing for the arrival of bebe #2. But aside from preparing, and nesting, I'm spending as much one on one time with Emma as possible. That's not difficult now that I think about it, I do stay at home with her everyday. Here are somethings to catch you up on as far as how Emma has been progressing...

1. She waves goodbye. Now you may think, ok, big deal, she's almost 17 months old. But she waves goodbye to EVERYONE. You pick up your keys, she will wave goodbye. The AT&T guy drives past our house, she waves goodbye. Was that a plane that flew overhead? Yup, she waved goodbye.

2. She loves to give kisses. And alot of them. Most of the time they are wet and sloppy, some are dry. I will take the kisses any way she gives them. She also does "kondi", it's what I grew up doing, sort of an Armenian tradition with kids... it's where you say "kondi, kondi" and she will touch her forehead to yours... Sometimes she is gentle, other times, not so much.

3. Playing in the backyard = Emma has to be a nudie. I did it a few times and now, if her clothes get wet, she will fuss and tug and stand in front of me til I take them off. And I better not forget the diaper. I'm just waiting for the day she figures out how to take off her own diaper. Fun.

(keeping cool on a hot summer day)

4. She talks on my phone. Now it's pretend talk, but she will talk like she is having a conversation, complete with inflections and pauses and hand gestures. (I will post a video of it next time). It's about the cutest dang thing I have ever seen. Well, aside from Emma that is :)

5. She points to her bellybutton. She points to my bellybutton. She points to her nose. She points to her hair. She points to the baby in my belly. When I keep talking about the baby in my belly, she cannot pull my shirt back down fast enough. I know she's thinking "well that's enough of that, no need to dwell on the baby...".

6. Emma LOVES music. Country. Hip hop. Musicals while daddy is giving her a bath. She shakes her little butt from side to side, and recently, she has started lifting her arms, like she is raising the roof, or praising Jesus. I have not a clue where she picked that up from. She dances everywhere... tub, car, patio, Whole Foods. The child is a dance machine.

(playing with Tia Vanessa)

7. Emma loves her purses. And her necklaces. I don't think she is the girliest of girls, because she also loves Thomas the Train, but give her a purse and she will carry it on her shoulder with her arm raised the entire time so it won't fall off.

8. As of last week, we have officially transitioned to 1 nap a day. Yup. 1 nap a day. It's usually about 2 hours long, smack in the middle of the day. It was actually a pretty easy transition, the child has no interest in a 2nd nap. This means one of 2 things for me... do I want to be productive and get stuff done while she naps? Or do I want to nap as well? This late in my pregnancy, you guess which option I have been choosing.

9. Although she is a child of few words, her comprehension astounds me. We need to change your diaper, she goes to her room and waits for me. Want milk? She will walk me to the fridge. Where's Grandma? She will stare at the door and wait for her to walk in. She puts everything back in it's place, whether I ask her to or not. She is very orderly, or OCD, depending on how you look at it. I guess as a parent, every little thing really just amazes me.

(Watching her favorite a.m. PBS cartoon, Dinosaur Train, while eating breakfast...)

10. I love her more than the world. That last one has nothing to do with how she is progressing, but I just had to say it. I honestly cannot imagine my life before this child.