‘Helping’ Mom with laundry…
Reading one of my favorite books…
Sleepin’ on the job…
Hiding my face due to shame at falling asleep eating…
Making sure the toilet-paper roller works…
Making sure Mom’s on her toes to catch me when I decide I’m done going up…
Being cute…
Taking a nap with Daddy
Well – It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, so here’s the update and a few of my favorite recent pictures of Emma. On last Wed. night Emma started getting pretty sick with a fever and continued to have a pretty high temp. for about 4 days and 2 doctor visits later (nothing helpful from doctors, as they weren’t sure what was causing it). Then, it started going down so we thought we were past this, only to have a rash show up on her chest, back, neck, and face. I was looking through a book with child illnesses and found Roseola, and called the doctor to confirm that this is what she had. Brad thinks we should be able to get a refund since I diagnosed her before the doctor did – sounded good to me – but no luck 
. Yesterday, her rash started to disappear and we’re starting to see the happy little girl again. What a relief; she looked so miserable when she was sick! It’s been a long week with no sleep for any of us.
Emma loves to be standing up and cruising along the furniture and walls. She also loves the fact that she can feed herself crackers and other little finger-foods, which isn’t the greatest thing, because now she’s not that excited about mommy trying to put mush in her mouth. She’s growing up to fast for me! She’s even getting a little temper! I’ll try to block off an area by laying in front of it, and if she can’t figure a way around it she just sits back down and screams until she’s distracted or gets her way. Don’t let the cute, smiling face fool ya!
Well, sadly to say, I am now 23. This was first brought to my attention when my Grandpa called at 7 AM to sing ‘Happy Birthday.’ We did have a fun day together eating at Fudruckers, watching movies, and eating ice-cream snickers bars!! My mom was able to come up a few days before and took us out to the Olive Garden! Thanks Mom! Though I’m sure she was more excited to see Emma moving around and to give her finger puppets that she loves to carry around in her mouth, or viciously grab and throw off of your fingers. Also – thank you Judy for the card and gift!
