On the Go

Emily has been having so much fun with her new walker. We went up and down the hall a ton of times this morning. She would walk until she ran into a door frame or the end of the hall and would immediately turn around and look at me as if to say, "OK mom turn me around so I can go again!"

Here's a video:

She also learned some new "tricks" with her refrigerator ice cubes and the balls from her toy train. This morning while she was playing I was reading a Parents magazine article about how to handle 1 year olds : ) I looked up to see what she was doing and she had her plastic balls from her train in the refrigerator and the ice cubes from the fridge were stuck in her train. So I had to rearrange everything for her.

I also wish I could show you all the birds in our yard today. I heard a ton of chirping so I looked out the window and there were about 75 black birds in our yard . . . there were tons of them! I went to get my camera and when I pulled back the shades they all flew away : ( It would have been such a cool picture!!!

Learning New Skills

Emily has recently acquired some new skills. Just this week she learned how to put the "ice cubes" in the ice machine on her refrigerator and push the button to release them. She has also learned how to open up two of the pop ups on her Mickey Mouse pop up toy. Joe also assembled her walker today that her Uncle John gave her for Christmas and she walked a little bit with it tonight. Here's a video of her new accomplishments:

Toy Clutter

If you know me well you know that I don't like clutter. Well I'm having to learn to handle toy clutter in my life now! Emily's favorite thing to do now is to just pull all of the toys out of the two baskets that I have and make a big ol' mess. She doesn't necessarily play with one thing . . .she just likes to pull them all out and have them everywhere. Here she is having a grand time!!!!

She also enjoys opening the dish towel drawer and dumping all the dish towels out on the kitchen floor : ) I love her!!!

Emily's Birthday Party

We had Emily's 1st Birthday party on Saturday. My friend Tara made a cake for Emily and one for all of us to share. We had a great time!! Here are some pictures of the afternoon. She used the design from the plates for the cake.






Top Row: my brother Robert, Joe's brother John, me, Joe with Emily, Tara, my sister Michelle
Bottom Row: Joe's mom, my nephew Sam, my mom, my niece Sarah, Taylor (Tara's daughter), and my dad.



It also snowed all day Saturday so when we finished opening presents Taylor, Sarah, and Sam built a snowman:





I had to add this picture in here. Emily pulled the Kleenex box down and had a great time pulling all the tissues out of the box!!!
Here's a short video of her eating her cake:

Emily is 1 Year Old Today

Emily is 1 Year Old Today!!!!

One year ago today Miss Emily was born at 8:41 a.m. I can't believe how much she has grown!

Snow!

It started snowing late yesterday afternoon. I took these pictures last night of our front and back yard at 7:45 p.m. Looks like we're going to have some accumulation!! First snow of 2008!!!


By this morning most of the snow was gone because it rained most of the night last night. But it sure was pretty!

Emily now has a cold. It started yesterday and she felt pretty bad last night. She seems better this morning so I hope she is feeling better by her birthday tomorrow and the party we are having for her on Saturday!!

Emily's First Haircut

Emily got her first haircut today at Kids Kuts. The back and sides were uneven so she just trimmed them. I didn't get any pictures of the actual cut because Emily was crying the whole time and I was trying to keep her calm while the nice lady cut her hair.

They gave us a certificate with some of her hair on it. I took this picture when we got home.

The certificate says

My First Haircut
This is a real official piece of paper saying that I, Emily Wilson
was real brave and did not scream or fuss too much
when they took me to this place, covered me up with a
sheet thing, and cut my hair!
As of Today, Jan 16, 2008
I am a BIG KID and I am really cool!

I don't know if you can tell from this picture but here's what her hair looks like now after the cut:

One year ago today I worked my last day of work before my maternity leave, and that evening Joe and I went to the hospital so they could begin my induction to have Emily. Little did we know that a day and a half later Emily would still not be here : ) I can't believe it's been a year already.