Merry Christmas!

Good morning!

Emma and her cousin Austin

checking out her new toy.

Too cute!

Hello Santa.

Away in a Manger

Emma loves playing with her Little People Nativity Scene.

She really likes it when the manger plays music and the star lights up!

All I want for Christmas...

...is a cup!

ooo... glitter and snowflakes! Pretty!

Hey, this cup is empty!

Now we're talkin'!

"Drinking" from mommy's big "sippy cup"

Baby it's cold outside!

We had our first very cold winter day today

so Emma had to bundle up when we went out.

She was too cute in her hat bow!

Reindeer games

For Emma's 8 month birthday I bought her a

reindeer to match the outfit that her Mammaw Shirley bought 

for her at Boutique Noel.

These might be my favorite of Emma's Christmas PJs;

I just love the little reindeer on the feet!

teething?

Emma has started something new; sticking out her tongue!

She has also been drooling more and has had a little runny nose.

She'll be 8 months old in just a few days, so she should

be getting some teeth before long.

Christmas time is here

The best gift ever!

We are excited that December is here and 

Emma can start wearing all of her Christmas clothes.

We "decorated" her exersaucer with a Santa.

Too cute!!!

Emma was all smiles in her candy cane pajamas and matching hat. 

Mommy's Little Shopper

Since Emma is doing such a good job at

sitting up independently, I thought we'd test out the shopping cart cover

at the grocery store.

She seemed to enjoy being able to look around with a 

better view of all the colorful items on the shelves.

Quack quack

Emma got a new bathtub this week.

It came highly recommended by her friend Malloy 

and her cousin Austin.

She had so much fun testing it out, we couldn't wait till bath time!

Wow, this tub holds more water than my old one!

Bath toys are fun!

I love my ducky!

A week of firsts

Out of curiosity, I put a bow in Emma's baby mo-hawk as we call it.

She is getting some more hair, and the middle is getting longer, but

I think we're not quite ready for bows yet!

Maybe by Christmas she'll have a little more hair!

Emma sat in a restaurant high chair for the first time this weekend.

We used our shopping cart/high chair cover to make it cushy and clean.

I think she enjoyed being on our level and sitting more upright.

She's been sitting in a high chair at home for a while now, 

but in restaurants we'd just kept her in her car seat in a chair beside us.

So big! 

Emma tested out her new sippy cup today.

She did pretty good holding it, but we are still working

on the sipping part. 

Adult Supervision?!?

The following incident took place

while Pappaw and Daddy were left in charge!

Hmm... What is this Pappaw has here?

O-R-E- oh no!

Evidence... if you click on the picture and make it bigger

you can see the black cookie crumbs on Emma's face!

More cookies please.

Happy Halloween!

My Mommy thinks I'm Purrfect!

Emma and Daddy greeted trick-or-treaters

while Nana and Mommy passed out candy.

There were over 700 trick-or-treaters!

Emma loved her jack-o-lantern and Halloween teddy bear!

Squash anyone?

Although this year we didn't go out trick-or-treating

it was still a fun first Halloween!

Look who's sitting up!

What a big girl! 

Emma loves to play with her bird bath toy.

She likes to make the birds sing and the bee buzz.

Emma and Sadie

Wow! Emma was impressed that Sadie could sit up all 

by herself. Later that evening, Emma demonstrated

that she could too! 

Hello friend!

Emma enjoyed "playing" with her friend Sadie.

Sadie is two months older than Emma, in case the 

hair didn't give it away! 

Emma was very interested in watching Sadie crawl around. 

Now that Emma is sitting up by herself, it won't

be long before she's crawling around too!

Pumpkin Patch

Emma enjoyed checking out all of the pumpkins!

Our little Pumpkin with Raggedy Ann;

Too cute!

We took Emma to the pumpkin patch this week

so we could pick out a pumpkin for our pumpkin carving party.

We managed to get a few cute pictures, even though Emma was

getting sleepy and the sun was going down.