Emma is 18 months old!

How time flies by! I look at these babies around me and think hmm... I hardly remember when she was that small. Was she really that small? She's such a big girl now! She can do so many cool things. One of her favorite things is walking around the house with our shoes on. It's especially funny to watch her try to walk in Daddy's shoes! She absolutely loves books, I think that she would be happy if those were the only things she had to play with. As you can see in the picture above, she can even use the books for blocks! She knows all of the sesame street characters in her sesame street book. She adores Elmo and she absolutely loves to watch Barney. She dances nonstop during the entire show. It is absolutely hilarious to watch. I remember in high school, vowing never to let my child watch Barney. Actually he is quite fun and educational, the scary thing is that I don't see anything wrong with him now. Oh well, I'm sure there are several things I said I would never do and I do them now. Hmmm...like letting my child eat off the floor. When she was a baby, I wouldn't even lay her down on the floor without a blanket. Now she eats her cracker, sets it on the floor and comes back to it later. And I don't have a problem with this? No, not really!
She can say almost all of the animal sounds and she is starting to say several words. Even though she is not an expert in the English language, I can almost always decipher what she says and what she wants. And she understands very well what we tell her to do and does it most of the time!
She's starting to eat with a spoon and fork really well. She can scoop things up very well with a spoon and she's starting to get the hang of stabbing things with a fork. She loves to wipe her hands and her face off with a napkin after she's done eating. So, mealtime is beginning to be a little less messy.
She loves to get her picture taken and she's beginning to be such a hamm when I get out the camera! Emma is at such a fun age! As long as she stays well, everything is great! She is our sweet pea, we love her sooo much!

The monster is gone and our little girl is back!

What a hard and horrible month with Emma. She started out with a fever for a week, and then it moved into a cold for 3 weeks. Every little thing set her off and she would have tantrums within a blink of the eye. The last two days have been wonderful, our sweet little girl is back. She is feeling much better, she just has a cough left. We thought we were going through the horrible TERRIBLE two's. But it was just a horrible TERRIBLE cold. It's amazing how much feeling bad effects her mood. Today she giggled all day long, I love that she's back to her old sweet self. I'm praying for no more colds for awhile!

In other news, two things have happened that we thought would never happen.
Number one: Goshen is moving up in the world. We couldn't hardly believe it when we heard it! Goshen now has a Cold Stone Creamery!!!!! How exciting!!!!! I think we're going to get to go on Fri night! MMMMMM!
Number Two: The Zile's have a blog! I'm so excited to be able to see what's happening in their lives! We went down right before New Year's and visited them. It was so great to see them and catch up on life!