Well this is all I got uploaded - I now have the space again, but the laptop is still jacking up my pictures.
Things have been crazy this month, right? But busy has been pretty good for us. Em has been doing Gymboree for a couple months now, thanks to my mom paying for a month for her birthday first and now she and Mindy are helping pay for her to go. She loves the Play and Learn. We're moving up a level tomorrow because we started out in a class based on our schedule only. I'm excited for the new class so Em isn't the oldest/biggest on in the bunch.
She misses story time at the library this month - she sings the songs at home all the time. We've been going to the library some just to get out of the house. Fortunately, some of the other kiddos and parents did the same so that provided some good play time.
What else? Emersen is ridiculous as always. Just today she says "Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays and Fayette Mall." That's from a commercial on TV. And she LOVES the State Farm commercial where the guy says "Bonjour" which Emersen turns into "by George." She has lost some of her baby belly now and is now solidly a 3T so not as giant. She is talking and talking. She is asking questions "Mommy, can you build blocks with me?" She is identifying herself with activities and things : "Emmy likes bananas too!" She is slowly starting to say "I" and "me" instead of "Emmy likes" or "Mommy hold you (which means her)." I'm a terrible mother who does not like hearing that phrase ONE BIT anymore. It's been a huge adjustment to Emersen needing to be held, and specifically by me.
Regarding Santa, the answer is NO. No to any question you have about him. She doesn't like him. She doesn't want to talk about him. She doesn't want anything from Christmas if it has anything to do with Santa. We've tried talking about it and reading stories. But when it comes to her having to see him or thinking about him coming to her house, nope. She FLIPPED out yesterday at Wes' office when another employee was dressed up.
What else? She is counting to 10 and can count objects occasionally. She knows most of her letters. She is picking up new words like crazy - from us, from TV, from books, from Dora, from Christmas songs. She likes to sing: Twinkle, Twinkle and Jingle Bells and Row, Row, Row Your Boat. We have Netflix right now, so she is loving watching Dora and her friends Boots and Swiper. She loves people and will tell them. After making cookies with Wes' grandmother, she looks over and says "I love you GiGi." This was after, on the drive there, she had been saying "I'm excited to go GiGis.'s" and "GiGi loves Emmy" and "I need to go GiGi's house." The kid is unbelieveable to us. I just didn't ever realize toddlers picked up on as much as she does and could talk about it. She loves to talk about what she did in her day, which I make her do with Wes when he gets home.
Some of you may think she doesn't talk, as some have asked. She just takes awhile to get going, trust me. We're very excited about Christmas this year. It was fun last year, she was walking and "got it." But this year she knows that Jesus was born at Christmas in Bethlehem to Mary and Joseph. And she knows about Santa and red nosed reindeer. And she actually has preferences and plays with so many different things that it will be very fun to see her get her presents.
In the coming days we will be visiting family, friends, traveling and celebrating, so I have no idea if I'll be back before Christmas.
So, from our family to yours, MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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