suprises me every day

just a quick note tonight - my child is not walking yet...but she did poop twice in the potty at daycare today. she crawled to the potty and said up. then grunted and wha la! then she was taken off but did more (with her hands the way we taught her) got back on and did it again! she clearly is advanced in some areas....while very cautious and taking her time in others.
she has also dropped her morning nap officially and has begun taking a 3 HOUR long afternoon nap. we are struggling a bit at bedtime. she stayed up until 8:15pm Monday night but was overtired and screamed when I tried to lay her down and was up at 4:45am. Tonight we got her to bed at 7 so hopefully it' s a better night and a later morning. she is growing up so so fast. these days her biggest complaint and frustration is trying to tell us what she wants without having the words. we are constantly pointing and asking her if "this" is what she wants which she replies to with a no and shake of her head. looking forward to her vocabulary growing. right now anything with fur is a puppy but at least she can tell me when shes hungry - "num num" and tired "night night". i'll try to post some pictures tomorrow. i have been very very bad at taking them lately

the trifecta

the savage household has been literally hanging on by a thread this week - emmy got hit by a major cold, runny nose, coughing the whole 9 yards, and then another tooth decided it was time to join the party, but not just any tooth, a molar. major pain. and to top it all off - let's throw in daylight savings. good stuff.
soooo.... it's been a struggle to lay in bed past 4am this week - actually today i did get to sleep until 4am which was really nice. it's almost like having an infant again - up every hour - but i think we are past the major teething pain so phew! yesterday she was inconsolable from about 3:15 until 7:45 when i finally gave up, put her in my bed with her breakfast and turned on baby einstein. it was the only way to get her to eat anything. this was after an attempt in the highchair proved dangerous to my health - but i have to say emmy does have a good throwing arm and spot on aim. my poor baby. i hate to see her under the weather. but the good news is brad is home from his hunting trip and tonight is his last night flying so maybe just maybe we can both get some sleep???

last photo shoot to Brad's relief!

happy halloween!

the eve of halloween

busy day - swimming lessons in the morning went very well - emmy put her head under water for the first time and was happy the whole lesson. so proud of her. then we headed to our 3rd and final photo session. i'm not sure who was more unhappy about that, her or her daddy. i have such photogenic family members who hate pictures. it's a shame.... so after she froze her tookish off for the sake of a great shot it was back home where ron and paula offered to take her for the whole night! hooray, i'm almost ready to crawl into bed now and get like 15 hours. that sounds like heaven. i've been so tired and i know her daddy will love to get a full night before heading off flying again 4 nights in a row. last week was especially hard with the bad weather and flight delays.
tomorrow is halloween and i'll try to post pictures of her with her costume on, from ron and paula. i've been bad about blogging but have been so so busy with work that it's all i can do just to keep up on the housework these days.

almost November already!

October is flying by - we had 2 baby shower's- emmy started swim lessons, brad is super busy winterizing boats and i'm finally digging myself out of my emails. this new job is keeping me very busy - here are a few pictures of emerson and her swim lessons.

busy busy

we have been very busy around here and sorry i havent blogged in awhile for the few of you that read this!
last weekend i had a baby shower for a good friend Melissa and this weekend we are throwing a baby shower for bob and lyndsey at our house. besides that i have been finishing the basement and brad has been finishing the garage. i cant wait! we will have so much more space when they are done!
work we had a reorg so i am getting used to a new job and still doing my old job. and last night and this morning my sisters and mom were up and we took a knitting class - fun times. it was a lot of fun but we'll see how far i can go with it. it took awhile for me to catch on!
emmy has gotten one more tooth and is working on another at the moment but these dont seem to be quiet as painful as the last ones! thank goodness. she is sleeping pretty well usually only getting up once a night. so we have a lot going on around here and i am anxious for the weekend to be over so i can maybe take a breath!
here are some recent pics of my baby!