The Emma Report

At the dinner table, “Pardon me for being rude. It wasn’t me, it was my food.”

We last saw Emma sitting happily on Santa’s lap in December (!).

So just what has Emma been doing for the last 3 months, you ask?

Rehearsing, of course!

Emma and Big Sister may be taking their act on the road - Watch for them coming soon to a city near you! 

Watch out, Britney! Move over, Miley! Emma is the new girl in town!

Big sister just completed her first session of CanSkate, and here it is, summarized in 1:23.

*edited to add:  the older gentleman seen on the video is none other than Olympic medalist and World Figure Skating Champion, Donald Jackson. 

Despite the above highly edited evidence to the contrary, she’s actually doing quite well and is looking forward to her first skate on the canal!

Christmas!

After 15 weeks in the NICU/Special Care Nursery, Emma finally came home to our family on November 17th 2005:

You’ve come a long way, baby! 

Emma loves, loves, loves her bed and very rarely fusses when it’s nap or bed time

She has never attempted to escape from her crib, but she was getting a bit cramped in the smallish space.

So, a few weeks ago we made the move to a new Big Girl Bed:
 

(she looks so tiny in there, doesn’t she?)

Can you tell she was just a wee bit excited:

 
The transition was much smoother than we had anticipated:

She happily went up to bed for her afternoon nap the first day and we’ve not had any problems since:

(well, she did once creep into our room during the middle of the night and scared a year off my life when I woke up to her little face right next to mine, but apart from that, all is good)

Funny, I didn’t mind at all when Big Sister graduated to her Big Girl bed (likely because I knew Emma was soon coming home from the Special Care Nursery to claim her place in the crib), but this time, oh it was hard to take that crib down, knowing we won’t ever be using it again…

Parenthood is just full of these bittersweet moments, isn’t it?

Beware of little sisters carrying leaves….

they’re sneaky

We’re all about faeries and ballerinas around here these days :)

Emma totally understood the whole ‘Trick-or-Treat thing’ this year and happily did little pirouettes for her appreciative audience this evening…

(and Mom totally had to drag her home, kicking and screaming: “More treat or treat!” more than a half hour past her bedtime!)

Emma is talking more than ever (which as any parent knows is code for “never s—- u-”) and calling her stubborn might qualify for the understatement of the year. 

Our daycare provider was on vacation last week, so late one morning we headed out to the park with a loaf of bread.  Emma’s full-fledged toddler status became very apparent as she pushed a duck that dared to get too close and held her ground against some very pushy geese.

We’re still working on it…more to come!