25 months old - Sept. 16

Another month and even more changes in our little 2 year old. Emily is getting nuttier by the second. She is constantly making us laugh even with the little things she does. We've had an exciting beginning and middle of this month and the month's not over. We celebrated 3 birthdays this month and by the time we brought out the cake for the last one Emily said Happy Birthday. She now associates any candles she sees with birthdays. That leads us into our next exciting event for the month, probably for the year, when Hurricane Ike decided to visit us Northern folk. Thankfully we had no big house or roof damage, which probably would not have been the case had Charlie and his Dad not cut down the tree in the middle of our back deck back in February. Thank you Lord!!! We did however lose our electricity for 2 1/2 days and used what my husband would call the plethora of candles in our house. It was funny because when Emily saw the candles in use the first night she said "birthday cake". One more exciting event for Emily was her first gymnastics class. The Columbus Gymnastics Academy offers a Free Trial Class Coupon on their website and we thought it might be neat to see how she would do in that setting compared to her tumbling and climbing around the house. She thoroughly enjoyed it and actually did not want to leave. I'll try to post the video of her experience soon.

Emily's favorite past time these days is watching Baby Einstein videos and reading her Big Picture Story Bible that Aunt Randa and Uncle Mark got her for her birthday. She absolutely loves looking at the pictures and she stays interested. Right now she loves trying to find the pictures of Eve in the water, Baby Jesus, Pharaoh talking to Joseph and John baptising. I highly recommend this Bible for your little ones.

Emily is enjoying the teeth brushing ritual more these days and is especially fond of watching Aunt Kristen spit out the toothpaste. Of course Emily has to try to mimic that task with her toothpaste. One tactic I use to brush her front teeth is by asking her to give me a big smile. I thought I might say the same thing while posing her for her monthly picture and see what happened. Well, she responded appropriately. Meet the ham of our family.

(the stamps on her legs are spaceship stamps she received after her gymnastics class)