melt my heart

for the last few nights emmy has been so sweet - she lays in bed with us and drinks her bottle and cuddles while daddy watches the office. she gives him kisses and pokes me in the nose and then when she's tired she tells us night night. so i pick her up and put her in her crib where she gives me a kiss and says night night again.. then she rolls over and closes her eyes. i come back to our room and brad and i turn on the monitor and listen to her sing herself to sleep - she usually just hums or sings night night over and over until she's out. so sweet. makes my heart melt. she's been soo good and has been sleeping really well. we have the best little girl...

she's learned a few new words at daycare - she now says pretty but says peety instead...and she likes to say no no jake. (jake is a little boy at daycare :)) and of course she points at everything and says what's that so then you tell her. she loves that. this morning we got up and she came into bed with me to watch the morning news and she said over and over dadda dadda and looked under the pillows on his side of the bed looking for him. he was flying but it was so sweet that emmy wanted to say good morning to her daddy. it's so much fun watching her grow up - she now loves to dance. still isnt walking - is very cautious but yesterday after our walk she pushed her bike around the yard for a good hour happy as can be. here are some pictures of her recently...

Italy

sorry i didnt post at all lately - it took me a week to get back into the swing of things - here are some of my favorite pictures from our trip - w had tons of fun but really really missed our little daughter. here is a picture of her and daddy when we picked her up from ron and paula's - she had so much fun over there and i dont think she missed us one bit! but that's good! :)

our favorite italian by far - andre' he was delightful!

the gelato was amazing!

i have a handsome husband

COUNTDOWN....AACK

brad and i leave for italy by way of new york in 5 days. 5 DAYS! it came up so fast! jane and i have been planning this trip since the last time i saw her a little over 2 years ago when she was in our wedding. i cant believe it's here and i cant believe we are actually going!
i have been losing a lot of sleep over this and leaving emmy but i think i'm starting to come around a little more - she will be in GREAT hands with grandma and grandpa, she wont even miss me, it will be harder on me i'm sure, we have skype now so if it doesnt confuse her too much i can hopefully talk to her and see her a few times when away and the biggest reason is my girl will now drink whole milk with no breast milk mixed in! i am so so proud of her! she isnt completely weaned but we are getting close - and the fact that she'll take regular milk helps a lot since now i dont have to worry she'll run out of breast milk while i'm away and starve! i think the whole weaning process is harder on me than her - i have been feeling really guilty for trying to stop - but i really think she is ready and it was me that wasnt so ready. i guess a part of me wasnt ready to lose that last bit of baby and closeness we had. but looking at her - she has become a toddler almost overnight.
but please dont start walking while i'm away! you are so so close...what kind of a mom would i be if my baby starts walking while i'm sipping on a tasty red wine? here are some pictures from today

i miss my emmy!

well i'm kind of embarrassed to say that tonight is the very first night i have been away from emmy - we are doing a practice run with gma and gpa savage as we are supposed to go to italy in less than a week and wanted to make sure everything goes okay with her spending the night over there. sounds like she went to sleep very easily with no issues but i'm soooo nervous for the rest of the night. i hope she is a good girl!!! and boy oh boy do i miss her! i never thought i would miss her crying and screaming and waking up at all hours of the night, but i do. the house seems so quiet without her. how am i going to make it being away from her next week??
changing gears - gg has left us once again but we were so happy to have her here watching emmy while daycare was closed for the last 2 weeks. emmy just adores her gg and i got to capture a few pictures of gg with 2 of her favorite people. it was so good to have you GG! hope to see you soon!!!