Emerson Update: 11 Months Old

Next month my baby will be 1! NEXT MONTH! How insane is that?! Oh what a ride it has been! Each month that passes Emerson shows more personality and is really developing a ton of new skills!

At 11 months, Emerson:
-LOVES TO SING!
-is starting to dance
-can get off of the couch and Mommy and Daddy's bed all by himself, "feet first!"
-can sign "more" and "all done"
-can eat and eat and eat
-is starting to jump in his crib
-wants to explore everywhere, there is no where he won't go
-is SO friendly, he wants to love on everyone
-gives Mommy hugs and kisses (mouth open) all day long
-loves animals
-is starting to walk and take a few steps on his own!
-is starting to talk, words like "Mamma" and "Bye Bye" are frequent in our house
-has really started showing interest in developing different motor skills
-has switched to a big boy car seat!
-loves blueberries and bread

Emerson Update: 10 Months

Our little boy is loving all the lights and decorations of Christmas. He is getting so big and so much personality is coming out each day. He is into everything and loves causing trouble.

At 10 months Emerson:
-is starting to give kisses on his own accord
-is starting to give hugs
-can win any staring contest
-goes and goes and goes
-is a great napper
-loves frozen blueberries, bananas, and pears
-has started pointing at things he wants
-can drink from a sippy cup on his own
-has little curls on the back of his head
-has 6 teeth
-loves getting into everything and making a mess
-is on the verge of walking...just a couple more months!
-is the biggest social butterfly

Emerson Update: 9 Months

Emerson Emerson Emerson. He is turning into quite the little boy!

 

At 9 months, Emerson:
- can growl like a tiger
- loves climbing
- can open cupboards and drawers by himself
- loves crawling in tunnels
- still hates being in his carseat
- bear crawls on hard floors and normal crawls on carpet
- head bangs for no apparent reason
- is so vocal and friendly to everyone
- won't sit still for a picture (as evident above)
- favorite book is "Is Your Mamma a Llama?" but generally loves books
- loves playing with other littles
- is very good at putting himself to sleep (thanks goodness!)
- loves music and knows a few tunes by heart (just a couple are Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, All About That Bass, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Theme Song)
- is not very snuggly, but is working on "kisses" with mommy and daddy

This little boy brings us so much joy. He is our little sweetie and just loves life. We have moved into our new apartment, which he loves exploring! He seems to be doing well with the adjustment, thankfully. We are really excited for the holidays coming up and can't wait to start our own family traditions!

Also, I have to put in a quick note about the Gerber Baby competition. So last month I found out that Gerber was having a competition to find the new Gerber Baby. Well I just had to send in a picture of Emerson!! So they have 6 age groups. The people vote for each age group and the winner of each age group gets $5,000, but official judges vote for the overall cutest baby, from all 6 groups and that winner gets like $50,000 and a year supply of Gerber food. Anyway, I thought it would be fun just to participate in it, but it has really taken off and Em has been getting a ton of votes! We don't know any official numbers, but I'm crossing my fingers for lots and lots of votes!!

Happy Halloweeney!

Jordan and I have been together for almost 4 years and during a majority of that time we have not really been big into all the holiday stuff and the traditions. Now that we have Emerson we are tying to be better about making family traditions and really making the holidays magical for him. Well Halloween day was an epic failure on our part, but I suppose he is still little so we always have next year to do trick and treating and such. We did go and do a couple different little fun things, so I'll share those.

We went to the Fall Festival that our church put on. There was a bounce house and carnival games and such, but we mostly walked around watching all the other little kids and played in the grass. Then a few days later we went to Nana's Fall Festival put on by her office and 3 or 4 surrounding offices! Emerson had so much fun watching all the other kids in their costumes and he, or course, got a TON of compliments on how stinking cute he was!! We did go to Uncle Mike and Aunt Kylie's house on Halloween with the intent to go trick-or-treating, but after dinner and playing and such it was a little too late for him to stay out, so we opted for candy Daddy brought home from the office. ;)

Delicious Recipes

Okay ya'll, here are a few divine recipes that need to be tried at your earliest convenience. These are not in any way healthy, they are purely enjoyment calories...here goes!

We had this recipe for Jordan's birthday breakfast: Blender French Toast with Coconut Syrup

We had this recipe for my birthday cake: Chocolate Coconut Cake

And here are a few dinner delicious recipes that are forever on favorites:
Pasta with Tomato Cream Sauce
American-Italian all'Amatriciana (it sounds difficult, but it is seriously so awesome!)

And I gotta resurrect this fave: Olive Garden's Zuppa Toscana

GO AND EAT!

Pumpkin Patch

 Last week we went over to Celina and went to this super cute pumpkin patch/petting zoo! This was the first time in quite a few years that I had visited a pumpkin patch and it was so fun! We didn't ride the hay ride because Emerson was a little grumpy towards the end, but overall he had so much fun too.

These guys would line up and wait for you to come feed them! There were times where they were climbing over each other just to get the nibble of food in our hands, it was a riot!

Oh my gosh! This kid owns my heart!

He likes to crawl in the grass, but for some reason he doesn't like his knees to touch the grass so he bear crawls it. No big deal! ;)

I know I'm not really one for telling stories, mostly because I'm terrible at it. I'm either too long winded or I don't give enough details, so sorry for the lack of story telling...you just have to settle for a story told with pictures. Sorry I'm not sorry!

Emerson Update: 8 Months Old

My sweet Emerson just turned 8 months old! 8 months! I swear, I have literally stepped into a time machine! It seems like yesterday my little baby was actually little, hah!

At 8 months, Emerson:
-is a speed demon when crawling
-walks around furniture
-pulls himself up with ease
-is working on saying "hello" and waving
-loves dumping over trash cans
-loves wrestling with Mommy
-loves playing chase with Mommy and Daddy
-love loves when Nana and Papa play with him
-is eating more table foods, he loves any food that HE can pick up and put in his mouth
-can charm any person that sees him
-is nearly always happy
-loves listening to the LDS Children's Hymnbook in the car
-enjoys playing on the trampoline and swinging in swings
-is a wiggle worm and is always go go going!

This little boy brings us so much joy and happiness! He always makes us laugh and truly is the light in our life. He brings such a special spirit into our home and I cannot imagine my life without this precious person!