8 Months Old

What an exciting month this has been! For Emily's 8 Month Birthday, she got not 1, but 2 Yergo visits! Such a treat! How Emily just loves, loves, loves her Auntie & Uncles!

Emily's dress was a gift from Uncle Marc. I wanted to include this picture below so you could get the full effect. There are yards & yards of this fabulous tulle & fluff. It's absolutely gorgeous! Just like a dress from a fairy tale!!! Oh - and sparkly glitter shoes to match. Too perfect :)

For Uncle Marc's visit, we went to Coronado, so Emily could share one of her favorite things with him...the ocean!

2 weeks later, we got to see Auntie Sara. Emily insisted on taking Sara to another favorite place of hers, Balboa Park, to show her all of the fantastic fountains!

This was one of my favorite pictures of Emily & Auntie Sara!

If only every month was this fun! Next on the list...spending some time in the Bay Area with family & friends. Should be another fantastic month!

One Exciting Weekend!

Emily was a busy little thing this weekend. On Friday, she started officially scootching across the floor! Not quite a crawl yet, but she's definitely on her way. She started using both her arms and legs to get things in front of her, instead of just rolling her way across the floor (which is what she's been doing for a few weeks now). I seriously thought she was going to skip crawling all together for her more preferred method of steamrolling.



Then, on Sunday we discovered her first tooth!!! She's been a little crabby lately, and waking up at 5:30am all week, so I guess we should've known. Tried to get a picture of Mr. Toothy, but she was understandably NOT in the mood to get pictures taken :)

Last but not least, she survived the first week with her DOC Band. We were terrified that she was going to have a hard time adjusting to it, given her current opinion of hats, but she barely even noticed she was wearing anything. What a trooper! 1 week down, 2 months and 3 weeks to go!

Quack, Quack!

I know it's a little late, but I wanted to post a few pictures from Emily's 1st Halloween...

We started the weekend off at a costume party with a few of her little friends

Then, some pumpkin carving. Not a great picture, but the only one with all 3 of the kids.

Saturday morning coffee run with Dad.

Then we spent the afternoon at a Harvest Festival with Nana & Grampy. The highlight of the evening for Emily was a little dog she met that was dressed as a bumblebee.

Emily in Action

I took this video last week when the weather started to get chilly, and we pulled out her bunny slippers to keep those little toes warm (it also happened to be right before her nap, so she's got the eye rub going on too).

She couldn't quite figure it all out. When in doubt...it goes right in the mouth. You can also see her balancing & catching herself from falling backwards. She's doing really well sitting all by herself these days. We hardly need the pillows behind her anymore!