Eleven Months

Here we are just one short month from our girl being a year old. Wow. At this time last year, I was convinced the doctors were off and I had to have my due date wrong and she would be here before the end of January. And at this time last year, I would leave every OB appointment shocked and amazed that I was not making any progress towards having this baby! But eleven months ago today, our sweet girl finally arrived. And today she is sitting beside me on the couch, eating toilet paper. Pretty much anything she can find, goes directly into her mouth. Especially dog and cat food. John and I just had to flip her upside down to recover a piece of Bill's dog food from her little tiny clenched jaws.

Now that she is walking like a pro, we have to keep an eye on her even more than normal. This morning, I turned around for a second and totally lost her in the house! She was in the bedroom hanging out. Emmy loves to point at everything and is constantly babbling.

One of my favorite things that she has started doing is clapping more than normal. We will be sitting in the living room and she will put something inside something else and when we clap, she claps with us. Emmy has clapped for months but now she "gets it". She and John's friend, we refer to him as Uncle Vic now, like to play peekaboo around the dining room table and she never gets tired of it. She and Dadoo have so much fun together. He is tickled that they have a new game called "Daddy Cave" when he gets on all fours and calls out "Daddy Cave!!!!!!!" and she goes running under him. It's pretty funny to see them, looking so much like each other, laughing and playing.