(little) grrrl meets world

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One month later…

Wow, this little blog of Emma’s is getting a bit neglected these days! I suppose it’s because she usually keeps me too busy to stop and blog the roses.

Let’s see if we can recap the last month or so.

• Emma’s adding more words to her vocabulary. My favorite is when she proclaims “thee end” at the end of a book.
• I never became so interested in bodily functions until I had a kid. Emma pooped in the potty the other day. I think it was a bit of a fluke, but it’s still a start.
• She’s discovered the joys of drumming and xylophones — so be forewarned, should you come visit.
• Emma is still absolutely obsessed with Blue’s Clues. Actually, a guy at my office looks a little like Steve, and you should see how much Emma flirts with him! (it’s too cute. When we left my office one afternoon, she looked at him and said, “bye, Blue.”)
• My little one is developing nudist tendencies, right in the midst of outside being -40. She loves to take off her pajamas and walk around in just her diaper. I suppose this is an improvement from her earlier tendency to pull down her pants and walk around with them around her ankles.
• Emma loves family hugs — it’s rare she’ll let Jerry and I hug by ourselves.
• She LOVES mandarin oranges. In fact, she can peel them herself these days!
• Homegirl HATES scarfs. That is all.
• She’s counting, in her own way. We’ve been working on her showing 2 fingers for her second birthday next month.
• Her favorite song these days is “the itsy-bitsy spider.” She does the finger movements and everything!
• We have had a second episode with a tub of Vaseline. Yuck.
• Emma has her own language, which Jerry and I can translate fairly well.
• She’s starting to have a new awareness of herself, and loves to look at and point out pictures of herself on our walls.
• We’re getting her to say “ho ho ho” in light of the holiday season — yet she’s still not much of a performer on command (that stubbornness is from her dad!)