Wiggle Worm

Emme is a wiggle worm nowadays, especially when she sleeps. We often find her in the morning clear down at the bottom of the crib with her feet touching the bumper. She also manages to wiggle creatively out of her swaddle blankets all the time.

I'm not quite sure how she got her elbow out the arm hole and her hand up by her face in this one. She'll do anything to get that hand by her face! It was that way for 9 months in the womb, so no reason to stop now, I suppose.

This one reminds me of Chris! She's got her nightgown up to her waist and her hands behind her head, just lounging all relaxed. I love those little thighs with the beginnings of a roll of chunk starting to form. Yay!

Daddy-Daughter Time

I never get tired of watching Chris play with Emme. Here are a few of my recent favorites.

{Emme will belly-laugh now if you gobble up her neck.}

{We did such a good job training Emme to sleep in her crib that she doesn't fall asleep on us very often anymore. But we still love it.}

{Emme's wearing Daddy's favorite jammies. He says yellow is "her color."}

{Daddy protecting Emme from the "paparazzi."}

Mullet-Tails

We've invented a new hairstyle at our house. We like to call it mullet-tails. Business in front, party in the back, with a little twist of baby girl.

New Tricks

Emme's got all sorts of new tricks lately! In the last little while she's started grabbing onto things. I can hold a rattle out in front of her and she'll focus her eyes on it and bring her hands in to grab it. And then it usually goes straight for the mouth, lol. It's amazing how quickly babies change and learn! When we set her under her play gym, she'll actually play with the toys now, instead of just staring at them while we shake them.


The other day I had her in her bouncer while I was getting ready. I clipped her binky to the toy bar with the other toys, because she likes to grab at it since she recognizes it. A few minutes later I turned around and she had grabbed the binky, put it in her mouth, and was playing with the other toys! I'm convinced she's a genius. :)

{"What, mom? All the kids are doing it these days."}

Best. Toy. Ever.

This one's for the grandmas.

My favorite part of the video is when she takes a break from the kicking excitement and says "Oooh, my hands! Nom, nom nom," and then goes back to playing. If you listen closely you can hear me laugh.


P.S. The bed is finally gone from the living room! Finally.

Ruffles & Stuff

Rach and I have been feeling crafty lately. We've been eyeing these pettiskirts and finally decided to bite the bullet and make some! On Monday we busted out our sewing machines and ruffle feet and went to town. It was definitely a learning process, but by the end of today we should have two finished, and I think the next ones will be faster.

Halfway through the ruffling process, we tossed the ruffles on Emme and had an impromptu photo shoot! It was so fun, and she was so smiley. The B-man wanted in on the action, so we got a few snapshots of him, too!

B-man saw Emme on her blankie and he sat down on his and wanted us to take his picture too!

Then he took a phone camera and was holding it up to Emme and saying "cheese!" Ha ha! Mama's taught him well for photos.

Patty Cake

Emme loves to be sung to. We sing lots of songs during the day -- some primary songs, some songs my parents used to sing to me, and Emme loves it. (She also loves it when we make her arms dance to the Utah Fight Song while we watch Utah games on TV. I think it's because she bleeds red.)

Chris sometimes gets the words messed up to various play songs, and I think it's sort of funny. So I'll teach him the right words and then listen in the next time he's singing with Emme. I overheard him doing Patty Cake with Emme the other day:

"Patty cake, patty cake, baker's man,
Bake me a cake as fast as you can,
Roll it, and pat it, and mark it with an E,
And put it in the oven for Chris!"

I laughed a little and then asked Chris, "Aren't you going to share your patty cake?" He replied, "No, this one's all for me." Ha ha. Luckily Emme didn't seem to mind.

{Our little roly-poly girl}