Big Girl!

Emma is already 19 months old and getting to be such a "big girl"! Just last week she climbed out of her crib and went thump on the floor during her afternoon nap. Daddy came running upstairs and found her on the floor crying, probably more out of surprise that she did it rather than being hurt. Then this Saturday morning, she did it again, except this time she was really quiet about it and we didn't realize she was out of her bed until we heard her playing with the monitor that was on the floor. So we had to take drastic action, we didn't want her to get hurt trying to climb out of her crib. Her crib converts to a day bed, so we took the crib rail off and had to make a trek to Babies R Us in Mishawaka on Saturday night to get a bed rail. Then we had to make sure her room was super baby proof, we don't want our precious little girl to get hurt when she crawls out of her bed in the morning and starts playing with the fan! So everything is now up out of reach that can hurt her. And she loves her "new" bed! She loves the new found freedom of getting in and out of bed all by herself. She'll get in her bed and say "night, night" everytime we're in her room.

It's so cool to look back and think about what she can do now compared to even what she could do just a month ago. She runs really fast through the house now (without falling). I see her catching herself alot now, instead of falling. She's starting to have super good balance. One of her favorite things now is taking a bowl and putting her megablocks in it to put them away in her toybox. She's really good about cleaning up and loves to help us clean up all of the toys and books. She's starting to recognize colors. She can say how old she is (sortof--she actually says two, but holds up 1 finger) She has never said one, when she counts, she says "Two, Two, Three"! By the time we get her to say one, she'll be two! She can say a whole bunch of words, but hardly any are really complete, but we still know what she means! Daddy had to figure out today that "she" meant "fishie" (she wanted a fishie cracker--aka goldfish cracker)

There's still snow on the ground, in fact we're having another winter storm tonight. Look at that super duper snow drift! It was all the way up the side of the car door! And the jeep even had trouble getting out of the driveway. Needless to say, Jerrod had to shovel the driveway, but he left that snowdrift because it wasn't in the way of any cars getting out of the driveway. But my dad decided to shovel it when he came and visited, I guess he was bored :) A couple of weeks ago we went outside to play the one day that it actually was around 30, rather than -10. She had a lot of fun in her sled and making a snowman.