I can't believe that it has been over a year since the day we first saw Emma face to face for the very first time! We celebrated Emma's first birthday on August 3rd! We had a great week celebrating her birthday with family. We stopped in Burgaw to celebrate with Aaron's family the weekend before her birthday. We had a cookout and Emma got to have cake for the very first time! I won't elaborate about that right now because I have plenty of pictures to put up this week, so that will be another post. From Burgaw, we traveled to Myrtle Beach, SC to spend the week with my parents. Ahh, vacation - how I miss you! We had such a great time relaxing and hanging out with my parents and, of course, Miss Emma received plenty of spoiling as well. She loves the beach, so I will be sure to put up some pics of that too.
So...what is Emma up to at 12 months?
-she is very close to walking, and even took her first two steps while we were in Burgaw at her birthday party! She is still cruising and crawling as fast as ever and can stand up on her on for a while.
-we have almost completely moved from baby food to "real" food. She loves bananas, cereal bars, green beans, chicken, and yogurt especially. She drinks water from a straw sippy cup at her meals.
-we will be working on weaning in the next few weeks and starting whole milk. Since she was about a month early, I am waiting to get the green light for this at her 12 month appointment.
-she says mama, dada, daby(baby), and I think dog. She babbles a lot, but those are the words I can make out so far.
-she can point. If you ask her where daddy is, she will point to him. She can also find the baby on her yogurt, haha. She loves looking at books and pointing to pictures and saying something.
-she has 6 teeth!! She only had 2 about a month ago and in the last several weeks her top 4 teeth have come in (causing several early mornings of discomfort as well).
-she has several "tricks" that she can do if someone prompts her by asking. She can kiss, blow kisses, wave bye-bye, clap, dance, play the drums, go night-night (lay her head down on something for about 2 seconds, haha), and love something (ie: when we tell her to love her baby, she grabs it and squeezes it tight).
-she still takes 2 naps a day and sleeps well most nights.
-she will be moving into her big car seat soon!!
Overall Emma is such a happy and content baby and brings so much joy to our lives! We are so grateful to the Lord for blessing us with such a wonderful gift!
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