Saturday afternoon we were watching the movie, Stomp the Yard. We had started to watch it, but I had to leave for work. After I left, Emily decided that she was going to copy what they were doing on the movie! Luckily, Aunt Jen and Uncle Rob were home with her and took this video to show me what she did after I left. I thought that it was just too cute and had to post it.
While waiting in a waiting room this morning, uncle Rob took this picture of how cute Emily was being while patiently waiting with us. Kind of looks like she is about to do something I think!
And of course, I had to work tonight, so aunt Jen and uncle Rob were left in charge of Emily. Rob took this picture of Emily after she was done eating her dinner. They said that she only had a chicken pot pie....hmm...I dunno about that one!!!
This is what I get to see when I get home from work at night. Her fish lamp is on so I get a perfect view of my beautiful daughter. She is so peaceful. Lately it just seems like all I am doing is working and it sucks! I get my time with Emily in the morning, but I miss being able to put her to bed. I know, simple things, but I miss them so much. And when I am home, she is so attached to my hip. If I get up to go get something, she runs towards me and asks me what I am doing. It is so sad. If I am sitting in the chair in the living room, she is in the chair with me. It is nice to finally feel important, but killing me because I know she is afraid that I am going to leave her whenever I am home. Luckily, this week, Rob has been home because he is done with school, so I have been able to lay her down for a nap and leave while she is napping! YAY for Rob being home! She is LOVING her uncle "wob" time though...she has to sit by him on the couch, eat whatever it is he is eating, no matter what I have made her for dinner, and recently...she has become his bodyguard! I am not kidding you....we were at the store last week, and Rob was standing up against a open refrigerator, so Emily had to copy him. Well, she had come over to me to see what I was doing, when 2 women went up to the open refrigerator. You have thought they were trying to take him from her or something, because she literally ran over and stood in between Rob and the 2 women and stared at the women the whole time they were there! How dare they stand next to HER "Wob!"
Emily has this obsession with any phone in the house...even her play phones. Cell phones, cordless phones, toy phones...she is all over them! So, Monday night I told her that it was time to go to bed. I'd seen her walk over to the side table and put her toy phone down, but didn't pay a whole lot of attention. When I came back upstairs from putting her to bed, I found this! How freaking cute is this?! I had to take a picture of it so I could show her when she is older that she hung her phone up before she went to bed! 
Wednesday Rob got home from trucking school before I had to leave for work so I left Emily home with him rather than drop her off at Jen's work with Kenneth. She was so excited to see her uncle Rob and had no problem with telling me goodbye and go play with her uncle Rob! When Jen got home from work about an h our and a half later, this is how she found Emily...all passed out on the couch next to her uncle Rob! This is my child that NEVER takes naps!
And the last of the random pictures...she has recently become obsessed with wearing my sunglasses. I had purchased them last December when I was back in OR for Christmas and absolutely LOVE them. I have never found a more comfortable pair of sunglasses. I am always panicking when she puts them on because I am so afraid that she will break them. But, last night she was having so much fun wearing them, that I just let her use them. These are a few pictures that we were able to get...what a little ham!This video is from the other day, but couldn't upload it because the internet was super slow. I was trying to get Emily to say ABC on camera, but she was more interested in calling her nana!
OK, so I have decided that my daughter grows WAY to fast. Since may, she has gone from wearing a size 6 shoe to a 8.5 now! Not only has her feet grown quickly, but so has she! She was barely wearing a size 3T pant last winter...thank goodness for adjustable waist pants other wise her pants would be hanging off her. Now, she fits in the waist of a 3T, but needs the length of a 4T...UGH! I ended up having to put EIGHT pairs of jeans in the "to save" pile. I am keeping some of her good clothes just in case I ever get married and have another baby some day...yes, I would like to eventually get married...but it is looking REALLY sad! Since I got my first paycheck Friday, I used some of it to go get Emily new shoes and new pants. The weather is starting to get cold here, so she was needing them now. Cold...as in upper 60s now...compared to a week ago when it was in the 90s! I just want to put a brick on her head so she will quit growing!
And Today I also decided was going to be a day dedicated to potty training and learning ABCs. HA! She got up this morning and instead of putting on a clean diaper, I put her in underwear. She would pee in her underwear and then go to the bathroom, bring me the dirty underwear and get a clean pair. Luckily I had thought ahead and brought ALL of the underwear upstairs! We went through ALL of the underwear today. My patience is not so good...after we went through all of the underwear by 3 this afternoon, I admited to defeat and put her back in a diaper. I told her that she had to go back in a diaper because she wouldn't use the potty. She was VERY upset to go back into a diaper and I told her we would try it again tomorrow before I had to go to work. All of the 12 pairs on underwear are in the washer right now. This potty training thing is do difficult. I envy those parents who say they can do it in one day. HELP ME!!! 
Since I have started work, Emily gets to spend her evenings with aunt Jen and with uncle Rob when he is home. I feel so horrible leaving her, but it has been so nice to be back to work and making some money again. Any ways, I was worried about how Emmy would do after I went to work and how she would behave. When I got home from work last Friday night, Jen had left me a note saying how well Emmy was behaved and how much dinner she ate, etc. The next morning Jen said that when she went to put her to bed, Emily was very confused as to what was going on! Jen has only put Emmy to bed a few times for this and that was about 9 months ago. So this was out of the norm. Now that I have worked 3 nights since then, Emily is now in the new routine of things! Jen said that last night she actually let her give her a cheek to cheek hug...part of the OCD bedtime routine! I love being able to be home during the mornings and part of the afternoon with her. Working 2nd shift, I don't feel like I just get home to put her to bed...I get a lot of quality time with her still....especially since she doesn't really take naps anymore. Some parents have said that there children are just horrible once they quit taking naps, but it just came naturally for Emily. She isn't usually crabby at all, but by 8:00 pm...she is ready for bed and falls asleep rather quickly. During the summer, she would sleep in until 8:00-9:00 am...now that the kids are back in school, she hears Tina in the morning and gets up to see Tina.
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