Library Lovers

These girls love to explore the library!  We go at least once a week and can spend an hour there reading books.  The fun continues as we come home and we repeatedly read the books over the week.  Emily is so smart that by the end of the week she can retell the stories page by page using similar words on the page.  I love my bookworms.

Conference Weekend

General Conference weekend is something I always look forward to.  I love the uplifting and inspiring messages of our prophets and leaders.  Emily was cute to sing, "Follow the Prophet" throughout the weekend.  On the Saturday afternoon session, my nephew, Haydn sang in a primary children's choir.  It was fun to see Emily watch the children sing and look for Haydn on the TV.

Curious Lily

Lily has learned to walk, providing for new curious adventures to be had.  She has more than learned to walk, but run!  Sometimes I can barely keep up with her.  She loves to wander the house, but even more she loves to explore the outdoors.  Lily loves to investigate the texture of things.  She loves to squeeze her hand through dirt, pick grass, pull at flowers, and pick up rocks.  Unfortunately, she even likes to explore texture with her mouth - yuck.  I have to keep an extra careful eye on her when we are outside because she will be found eating dirt all too quickly.

I love hearing the pitter-patter of her feet against the floor with her jabbers and giggles in the background.  Lily loves to be silly & mischiveous by escaping to climb the stairs.  She can't quite seem to stifle her giggle as she heads of the stairs, which is a grateful help to me to catch her from falling.  Lily can climb the stairs well, but we still need to work on going down by herself.

  

Lily is my independent sleeper, so I get few moments of holding my baby in stillness.  When I do it is a treasure to capture her "smallness" for just a little longer.  Either in my arms or nestled in her crib, I love watching my babies sleep.  

Lily 14 Months

I love the pictures of Lily this month as they capture so many of her smiles and silly faces.  Lily is a cute little bug who is growing up so fast.  I am amazed at her growth, especially as I glance through pictures of since we have moved here a few short 4 months ago.  She is spunky, silly, fun loving, energetic, and sweet as can be.  We love having her around.  Here are a few of this months highlights:

• Loves to play outside - with balls, bikes, and investigating life.  We have to watch that she doesn't eat any dirt, rocks, or bugs.  Yuck!
• Walks & runs everywhere  
• Becoming a climber, especially the stairs
• Loves cheese, frozen gogurts, applesauce, fruit, and bread
• Enjoys splashing and playing with cups in the tub
• Loves to open/shut doors and take things in and out of bags
• Loves to play with Emily, but also by herself
• Lily loves to play peek-a-boo while folding the clothes
• Hates to get dressed or have her diaper changed
• Says mama, dada, uh-uh, cheese, uh-oh, shoes
• Gets excited whenever she sees the diaper bag and shoes because she loves to go places
• Loves morning and evening walks with mom

Emily Turns 3 Years Old

We celebrated Emily's birthday by visiting Gardner Village's witches.  Emily absolutely loves things about fall, especially pumpkins.  She loves to read books about pumpkins & seeing Halloween decorations.  I love that she loves fall like me!

Just like that my Princess Emily is 3 years old!  Each time I reminisce through pictures I am amazed at how fast she grows, learns, and changes.  She is sweet, smart, beautiful, kindhearted, silly, energetic, fun-loving, and so much more.  I love watching her personality blossom.  

Emily is a lover of so many things, including books, princesses, fairies, puzzles, cousins, family, grapes, raisins, strawberries, chocolate milk, nursery, bedtime stories, stickers, and snuggles.  

I love her creative and silly sayings:

• "clean nose" - Kleenex
• "Sleeping booty" - Sleeping Beauty
• "Come sit on my lap" - to sit by her
• "Beans" - Mac & Cheese
• "Jellies" - Yogurt & chocolate raisins
• "Cinderella pumpkin" - candy corn pumpkin (potty treat)
• "Sixty-five" - a common amount of money something costs when she is pretending to buy something
• "Nelson" - she often calls her daddy by his name, which I believe to be a term of friendship
• "Bando" - band-aid 
• "Princess Hair" - a term for any way to do her hair and get it out of her face

Emily can put on her shoes and socks by herself.  She is an amazing puzzle master, doing 24-36 piece jigsaw puzzles.  Emily is a quick runner & a high jumper.  She can be a great helper, even at clearing the table lately.  My sweet singer knows many of the words to lots of princess melodies.  She has a beautiful voice that I just can't get enough of.

Being close to family, Emily has loved seeing cousins, aunts, and uncles lots.  She gets super excited to see everyone!  When visitors come she can be seen jumping, running, or singing with excitement.  I love watching her build relationships and friendships with dear people in our lives.

I just love my princess Emily and hope she knows how much I love her.  She is gifted in so many ways, especially music.  I am so very lucky to have this princess in my life & for her to have made me a mommy.  I will never forget the first time I held her!

Emily Sun Up to Sun Down

I love watching Emily's personality sparkle each day.  She shines in her special way!  I love her delight in princesses, books, puzzles, and snuggles.  I can't get enough of her sweet songs in the car, during play, and just for fun.  I love the way she names her clothes and shoes after princesses, even though they are not printed with the characters.  For example, she has named her yellow shirt to be "Snow White."  I think it is because Snow White has a yellow dress - smart girl!  I love the way Emily says, "Cheese" for me!  Most of all I love it when she notices me alone on the couch or chair and quickly finds a place in my arms.  I cannot get enough of this almost 3 year old.

Mischievous Mobile Lily

Lily is becoming more and more mobile everyday.  She is quite brave in her curiosity.  Lily has learned to push chairs and objects around to help her walk.  She is quick to find a way to crawl and climb into things, especially those we say no too!  Whenever Lily is about to try something wrong, she gets this mischievous grin on her face that is so cute!  I know sooner than later this sweet girl will be walking everywhere by herself!

Lily loves to play outside!  She loves to push the toys around, swing, explore the yard, and get into the dirt.  Yuck!  

 Lily has found her voice echoes in the farm silo!