Sweet

I hear from Randa that there are times when Jack will not allow Emily to play with his toys and then there's moments like these where he just loves to love on her.

14 months old - Oct. 16

Emily is definitely expressing more of her own personality these days and it is neat to watch. She has discovered the stairs so we had to teach her the proper way to descend on the tummy. She's still a little skittish about walking, but she stood all by herself without even realizing it one day.

I believe we can say her first real word was door. Charlie was watching Emily one afternoon and taught her the word door while playing with her Noah's Ark toy. Later while he was in the office he heard Emily in the bathroom across the hall saying "dor" each time she opened and closed the cabinet doors. What Charlie realized later was that every time Emily opened the door and said "dor", she was pulling out a towel or wash cloth and pitching it on the floor. She can also now say "uh oh", "no, no", "cheerio" and on the verge of saying "thank you".

First Pigtails - Oct. 9, 2007

The other day Randa tested the waters to see if Emily would let her put her hair in pigtails and she was successful. By the end of the day it was not a good photo op so she put it up again later in the week and we had to capture it on film. Here's the kids with Aunt Neva ("Mefa" as Jack would call her)
We're starting them young on karaoke.

To PA for PumpkinFest

This past weekend was Emily's 2nd annual PumpkinFest in Confluence, PA. I didn't take any pictures during the festival, but I did get some shots with Emily with family. Here she is with Aunt Dawn and Uncle Wally who is now dubbed "Uncle Ice Cream" because when we went to PA in May he was giving Emily part of a beloved DQ Dilly Bar.


Emily had just woken up from a nap, that's why she looks like she's zoning while sitting on Gommy's lap.

They learn by seeing

It is so funny to watch Emily mimic the things she sees on a daily basis. Something she sees daily is Charlie or I on our cell phones so consequently when she found something that she thought would work as a phone she picked it right up and put it to her ear and it even sounded like she said "hewo". She even has the hand motion like she's explaining something.

A trip to Innis Woods

A couple of weeks ago we all went to Innis Woods to see the bug display at the suggestion of our friends Meredith and Brian Snyder. Fun was had by all despite the look on Emily's face in the last picture.