Truth: 24 pounds (25th percentile) / 35.5 inches (98th percentile) Truth: Experiences sudden and unpredictable urges to remove diaper. Truth: Counting fingers sounds like this, “eight, nine, eight, nine, EIGHT!” Truth: She named all of her babies ‘Amanda.’ Truth: Big into singing, especially ‘Single Ladies,’ ‘Ring Around the Rosie,’ and ‘ABC’s.’ Truth: Prolongs bedtime by asking for milk or water every night. Truth: She would live outside in her beem (swing). Tears ensue at the end of this activity. Truth: Any colorful animal/puppet monster on TV is automatically Elmo. Truth: Escaping through the sliding patio door is a daily activity. Truth: Cries for Papa when she knows she’s in trouble...
Birthday Weekend: Sunday
The final birthday event of the year (I haven’t even begun to cover birthday celebrations in Spirit Lake and Humboldt the previous weekend) began when Mimi Meg and Mimi Jor arrived Sunday morning. Papa and Mark also joined us for a BLT feast before opening more gifts. When my sisters weren’t busy having a photo shoot in the curtains, a new tea set and bowling pins entertained us for the rest of the day. Finally after several days of anticipation, we ate cake! We enjoyed all our guests throughout the weekend, but by Sunday night I was ready to order pizza and kick my feet up! ...
Birthday Weekend: Saturday
Still no sign of confetti or clowns but Emerson was thrilled to see her Papa and Gaga! My sisters decided to celebrate with us on Sunday and Nic’s family was unable to attend so aside from Katie and our special surprise guest, Uncle Bill, we were the extent of the party. In the beginning I was disappointed that I wasn’t able to arrange for everyone to get together at the same time and place but looking back I’m grateful, for Emerson’s sake, that she was able to spend the one-on-one time with everyone and not feel overwhelmed by a large crowd of people all at once. This is definitely the...
Birthday Weekend: Friday
For the entire year leading up to Emerson’s second birthday I’ve been dreaming it would be filled with confetti falling from the sky, balloons as far as the eye can reach, circus performers in the front yard…. something extraordinary! We awakened on that 7th day of September to the harsh reality that time was not going to halt so that we might run around with ribbon dancers and frolic happily in a meadow. Oh no. We were thrown into the regular whirlwind morning routine complete with a floor of yogurt and a disheveled mother which led into a full day of work for me and daycare for E. This particular...
Made You Blink!
Emerson had a staring contest with my phone while taking a bath last night. She’s fascinated by watching herself onscreen while we make movies…. I don’t think she even blinked once!...