She laughs!

Given that we are a family that pretty much lives to laugh, we have eagerly been awaiting Emma’s first true chuckles so she can really join in on the fun.  She has let out a few half-hearted, single “huh” sort of laughs (yeah, that might not make any sense, but I don’t have videos of it), she hasn’t really chuckled until tonight.  Love it! 

Sweet Girls

I have a quarter-finished post on Disney World for you at some point; a non-written, but conceptualized piece about why you should NOT ask Lily about marriage or about what she wants to be when she grows up (seriously…it’s a funny story, sort of, but don’t bring up these subjects); and a few thoughts on how we’re doing (mostly great!), but those will all have to wait for another day.  

Anyway, I just wanted to check in and say, “hi,” and give you some updated pictures of the girls from last week.  I love this one of the two of them together.

Yes, it’s still hard to get pictures of Emma by myself and catch her sweet smiles.

Here are some random pictures of Lily’s lovey – Annabelle – that I forgot were in this folder.  I’m leaving them in, though, because Lily loves to see pictures of Annabelle on the computer.  I need to remember to take more pictures of Emma’s lovey once she settles on one, because Lily LOVES looking at Annabelle’s “baby pictures” from back when she was more pink than gray!

 

Tidbits

To finish out my last two pictures from today’s batch, I think I have forgotten to tell you that Emma is way more cross-eyed than I remember Lily being.  It’s totally normal and will correct itself by 3 or 4 months, but we have SO many pictures like this.  Bless her heart.

 

Also, she ADORES the same blinky star (at the top of the play gym) just as much as Lily did.

I ’m pretty sure that if Blinky Star (that’s now a proper noun in our house) could be rigged up to dispense milk, my job would be in jeopardy.

When you’re strange…

Tonight, Lily was helping me cook.

We still don’t have our act together when it comes to meal-planning, so we’re fortunate to have a stuffed freezer that we’re trying to work our way through.  So what delectable treat did Lily enjoy while I was prepping dinner?

I’ll tell you that it was something she took from the dish I was about to put in the microwave.

Because it’s something you’d usually want to defrost AND heat up.

What is it?  Well, it is one of Lily’s favorite foods – yellow rice.  We froze part of our leftovers last time we had it in individual portions that we can heat up whenever.  It’s especially convenient as a side dish since Lily doesn’t eat potatoes for some reason – no mashed, baked, fried, or anything.  Oh, I guess she’ll eat chips, but that’s it.  Speaking of strange, let’s get back to the fact that she was eating a frozen solid block of yellow rice.

Eventually her fingers got cold, so she tried eating it out of the dish.  Still frozen.

Strange child.

She then told us she was “going to freeze Annabelle’s snoozerboozle off with her frozen fingers.”

Yeah, that’s even stranger.

I guess one of these days I need to explain “snoozerboozle” to you folks…

I need a photo assistant…

Well, that and more natural light in my house, but I think I’ll just have to make do. Forgive the off-center photos (due to the lack of an assistant) and the soft focus (due to insufficient light), but the good news is that I finally captured some Emma smiles for you!

She has been so smiley the past two days!  As before, no other news is good news.  She is doing somewhat better with going back to sleep in the middle of the night, and has even gone up to almost 7 hours between feedings during the night once or twice.  Yay, Emma!

 

The Bear, 2nd Edition

You may recall that Lily had a pink bear rug that I photographed her on every month for her first year of life:

Well, my mom got Emma her own rug, so I’m planning on doing the same thing for her.  Note that Emma’s rug is just a tad bit smaller, so you can’t compare directly.

Here is Emma on December 3rd:

I didn’t time this picture very well, and she was ready for a nap and not a happy camper.  I then forgot to retake it when she was rested, so I just picked the picture with the most classic crying face instead of a mild fussy face – look at that wail!

And here is Emma at one month – much happier!