Emma's 20 months old

Wow! I can't believe a whole month has gone by since I posted anything! Time just gets away from me! We are really enjoying the spring weather. The last week has been super nice and we have been able to go outside and play everyday. Emma loves to be outside. When she wakes up from her nap she usually grabs our shoes and her shoes and wants us all to put them on so we can go outside. Today it got colder and was rainy, so we didn't get to go out today. I think it's suppose to be cooler now for a couple of weeks. Bummer. The weather has been super crazy, a couple of weeks ago we went to the park and it was 74 degrees. Then the next day it is 30 degrees and we woke up with snow on the ground. What kind of psycho state is this??? OK, maybe it not so psycho after all, it's just typical Indiana spring weather. Emma really enjoyed the swing and the slides. She went down the really tall slide with bumps in it all by herself. She cracks me up, she's very much a girl, she HATES getting her hands dirty, so she would climb up the playground steps using her wrists with her hands up in the air so she wouldn't get them dirty. And if by chance she does get her hands dirty, she will wipe them off on her jeans immediately.
She's saying all kinds of words now, and we can almost understand all of her "babbling". I have finally found the secret on how to get her to eat broccoli and peas (frozen, not canned): add salt! She loves them now. One of her favorite things right now is washing her hands. Everytime I lift her up to wash them she says hi to herself in the mirror. It's so cute! Another favorite thing is playing with any kind of phone. As you can see in the picture, she likes them!

She is doing great in her new bed. I was worried at first. The first week or so she would get out of it at night and play but then end up in it to sleep. There was one night that she didn't want to go "night, night" and cried when I left. She ended up settling down and when I went to check on her she was in the rocking chair asleep. It broke my heart! But now she stays in her bed and goes to sleep with Tiger. I think Tiger has helped alot! The mornings are great because when she wakes up, she just gets up and plays in her room, mostly sitting in the rocking chair reading books. It seems to have been a very easy transition.

She has also decided that she's too big of a girl for her high chair and would rather sit in the booster seat that we had borrowed from friends. She's so excited to sit at the table now in her "big girl chair". It really is amazing how much they learn and change in the first two years. Our little girl is now officially no longer a baby. She has went though a growth spurt in the last month, her 18 month pants no longer fit and are way too short all of the sudden. So we had to go to the mall and get her new jeans--really cute and really inexpensive at Children's Place and they are an expandable waist, so as long as she doesn't get too tall they will fit for awhile.

She is starting to go through the terrible twos, but they are a little more managable when she's well instead of sick. She's also starting to get her two year molars. I think they hurt her alot because she is constantly chewing on her fingers.