Emily at 22 Months Old

I am really late on posting this blog post because we have been so busy with family outings, vacations, and upcoming birthday parties.  Avery's birthday is this month and next month is Emily's 2nd birthday, goodness me my babies are growing so fast.  Soon we will have two toddlers on our hands and all the fun that comes with them.

This past month Emily has been a wonder with words.  She has increased her vocabulary by leaps and bounds and has started putting words together to create sentences.  Mostly she listens close to what other people are saying and then repeats their words.  As she does this she understands more and more how to do this task herself.  Now she is asking for things and saying what she observes and making commands.  The other day as daddy was cutting grass she said, "Dada, cut grass."  She says this very slow and enunciates every syllable but she says what she needs to in order to get the point across.  Emily has also discovered the {k} sound so now she can say things like milk, book, work and Katie (whom she used to call Lala).  Mommy is so very proud of her little princess and love that she is better at communicating and Emily loves that she can tell everyone how she feels.  Recently she has learned about the emotion "sad" and can recognize when someone is feeling sad.  She will usually say "mermaid sad" as she's watching The Little Mermaid or "sister sad" when she sees Avery crying.  Emily has also come into the phase, of which I know will take her years to grow out of, where she says mama, mama, mama or dada, dada, dada over and over again even when we answer after the first mama and dada.

Physical abilities Emily has learned include jumping and "swimming", basically lying on her belly in the bathtub and wriggling around.  When Emily jumps she comes about two inches off the ground and then slightly loses balance so I have to watch her carefully.  She isn't the most graceful when it comes to balance and has fallen quite a lot lately.  Her poor legs have bruises and cuts so mommy had to buy her some Dora bandaids which she of course loves.  But that doesn't stop her from climbing on objects and then trying to jump off them, it's obvious her ear incident has already been forgotten.

Sisterly love is growing stronger and stronger everday but sometimes Emily can be a little rough with Avery.  She tries to make her sit with her by pulling her down or making her stand up by pulling her up.  It's not always Emily's fault, Avery loves to crawl around her big sister and then gets her too excited.  Emily doesn't know her own strength and doesn't mean to cause harm to sister but instead loves her so much that she enjoys Avery being close.  At least that's my interpretation.



Kisses for Avery





Helping sister learn how to walk