I love this poem

Have you watched the movie: In Her Shoes? If you haven't you need to. It's a great movie. At the end of the movie this poem is recited and I thought it was so pretty:

i carry your heart with me
i carry it in my heart

i am never without it
anywhere i go you go, my dear;
and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling

i fear no fate
for you are my fate, my sweet
i want no world
for beautiful you are my world, my true

and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
here is the root of the root
and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;
which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart
i carry it in my heart
—-E. E. Cummings

Emily a Seamstress???

Emily loves to have long ribbons hanging around her neck. I got out the measuring tape the other day and she has been walking around with it around her neck alot since then. Here she is this morning:

Emily's new skills

This has been a big week for Emily. I've started seeing more and more signs of her understanding what I'm saying to her and it's so fun to experience! I've been pointing to her mouth, ears, eyes, etc like all parents do but this week when I asked her where her ears were she pointed to them!!! . . . then her eyes, her mouth, her teeth and even her toes which I don't even remember saying to her. How cool! I know all you parents out there with older kids are like . . .yeah Jennifer . . . all children can point to the parts of their body . . . but to see your own child do it for the first time is really neat. I think it's funny that the one part that she still hasn't pointed to is her nose, because when Emily was about 6 months old Joe informed me that an article in Parents Magazine said she should know where her nose is. I said, "Joe I think she is a little too young to know where her nose is. Plus we actually have to teach it to her before she's going to know where it is." So we've been pointing to her nose for A LONG TIME now and that's the one part she doesn't point to . . . . that's pretty funny to me.

Here are some other things she's started doing this week:
1. She went to the trash can to throw something away when I said, "let's go throw that away."
2. When I tell her it's time to feed Bud she starts walking towards the garage door so we can get his food.
3. She walks to the refrigerator and wants to open it when she wants her milk.
4. When I told her it was time for her snack she walked over to the drawer where I keep her bibs and pulled one out for me to put it on her.

She has also learned how to feed Bud Cheerios. I know this is going to be a problem but I loved getting her on video:

She also enjoyed dancing yesterday to some new songs that I downloaded:

Emily with a Bunny

I had to share this picture. I got Emily's one year pictures back today and this is one of them. They had a bunny left from all the Easter pictures so I had to get one too. The bunny did so well sitting next to her. This picture is so cute to me!!!!

Emily loves to watch Bud eat

I always try to coordinate feeding Bud his supper when I feed Emily her supper. That way Bud can eat in peace and Emily can just watch him from her high chair. But there are days where Bud follows me around the house barking at me because he is ready to eat right then! So Emily is never far from his bowl and tries to grab food from it any chance she can get. She grabbed his bowl the second he was done:

Visitor eating his supper

We had a rabbit come eat his supper last night in our backyard. He lives in the bushes at the back of our property but I've never seen him this close before. We stood at the back door and watched him and he didn't run off. He ate the bird seed I had thrown on the ground the day before.Speaking of rabbits, Emily had her pictures taken the other day and they had their rabbit left over from all the Easter pictures so some of her 1 year portraits (I didn't get around to getting them until she was 14 months old) will be with a floppy eared rabbit. She did well with him.

What has Emily been doing?

Emily has discovered the fun of standing up on the bed or couch and falling backwards onto the pillows or cushions. She tried it for the first time one evening when she was sitting on the couch in between Joe and me. She kept falling back on Joe's lap and thinking it was funny. Now anytime she is on a bed or couch she tries to fall backwards:

She has also been wanting her pacifier a lot now when she is awake. She's been going all week to her bed and getting them out. She now has to put one in her mouth and hold one in each hand:

The last time she was like this she cut the bottom two 1 year molars so I wonder if the top ones are getting ready to come in.

On a side note . . . . I have to be a 1950s housewife for a minute and talk about my new washer and dryer. I love them!!!! Our towels and clothes are so much softer and fresher now and the dryer gets done around the same time the washer does instead of me spending alot of extra time waiting for the dryer to get finished. I also have a signal now to tell me when the load is done. The new washer uses such a small amount of water. It's so fun to watch it wash our clothes!!! It's pretty funny that I'm so excited about washing clothes now : ) I know that won't last for very long!!

I also have to give a shout out to Chick-Fil-A. I've never really had concern for what restaurants do for families with small children until now of course. But the other day Emily and I met Joe at the Chick-Fil-A on Hwy 92. They had a small display when you walked in with a basket of the table top covers that you could put down for toddlers to eat on. They also had small individual cups of cheerios for little ones to snack on. How nice is that! We will definitely be eating there again.