Happy 1st Birthday

A very happy first birthday to our beautiful Emmy bear!  We love her so much, and cannot believe she have been making our lives perfect for a whole year.

Here are some of Emmy's highlights this past month...

• She walks!  It's hard to know when to officially declare when Emmy started walking as she's been taking 3-4 steps for about a month, and is now taking lots of lots of steps at once.  When she needs to get somewhere quickly, she still crawls.  And when she has a long distance to go, she crawls most of the way, then stands up to walk the last few feet. 
• She's says a lot of words!  Some new words include: Baby, Ball, Hi, Bye-bye, Grandpa, Grandma, Libba (for Libby), Ra Ra (for Reese), Who Who (says the owl), Ho Ho Ho (says Santa, sounds just slightly differently than Who Who), Santa, Elmo, and Books.  She really concentrates and looks at your mouth when you're talking, so I can tell she's trying to soak it all in and learn.
• She loves books!  She points to the bookshelf, says "book", and crawls up into your lap to read book after book.
• She understands nearly everything we say.  She will follow directions and answer questions we ask by shaking her head yes or no.
• She loves talking on the phone, including Facetime, but always grabs at the phone or iPad and hangs up on people.
• She takes things away from her sister, and gets very mad and has even hit Reese when Reese takes things away from her.  We tell her "no" and have even put Emmy in timeout, but it's kind of nice to see her stick up for herself.   

We celebrated her birthday with some presents tonight. 

Reese picked out and gave Emmy Dumbo.

Daddy and I gave her forks.  I'm not sure if any other 1-year-old has ever received forks for their birthday, but it was the perfect gift for the little girl who will only eat with a fork! Emmy's eyes (and teeth) look HUGE in this picture!

 

Happy birthday, sweet girl!  We LOVE you!