Emily's Update

Long overdue update on Miss Emily who is now 13 months old!!:
Emily has been really developing her little personality lately. The last couple of days she's been all about hanging out with mommy. She follows me everywhere in each room anywhere I go. Even if I have to go to the bathroom there she is standing there waiting for me. I had the door propped open to carry groceries in the house the other day and she turned around and crawled out the door and was half way in the yard before I got to her, little stinker. I took her outside on one of the nice days we had recently, I was trying to rake some of our leaves and get a head start on it. Emily walked right to my leave pile and started throwing them up in the air and then started ripping them into shreds. I didn't even show her what to do, must be a built in kid thing. She's been using the word bye bye a lot lately. When Jimmy leaves in the morning she tells him bye bye as soon as he opens the door to go. She got her shoes the other day and brought them to me telling me "bye bye". I guess that was a hint that she was sick of being in the house! She still loves her books and her new favorite is a peek-a-boo book that she likes to lift the different flaps on the various pages and find the baby under them. She still loves climbing as well, she loves to climb up on the bricks in front of the fire place, she likes to move the kitchen stool around the room and climb up on that. Emily barks when she sees dogs and growls for any other animal, she loves finding pens or pencils and then will put them tip down on whatever surface and scribble back and forth. I'm not sure where she learned that, maybe from watching me write. She likes to dance with daddy, if he starts to dance she'll start to dance. If the bathroom door is left open Emily will unroll the toilet paper and then grab a shampoo bottle and walk around with it. She talks nonstop, no clue what most the things she says are but she only stops talking when she's eating or sleeping. I can guess words every once in awhile but she only says a few clearly. She does say Daddy most of the time now, dada every so often. She still says Mama for me. She really likes me to lay on my back with my feet on her tummy and "fly" her back and forth. She'd let me do that all day if I would. I think she's a herding dog, if she wants me some place she'll push my legs until I go where she wants. She lifts her hands up and says up when she wants me to pick her up. She will also tell people hi but bye bye comes out more often. Hmm.. well I think that catches up on what Emily has been up to lately. She's usually running around the back room while I edit pictures during the day, right now she's laying on the floor holding her shoes, kicking her feet and cussing me out. She must want out of the house again.
Here's a video of Emily playing in the leaves:
Well I was trying to post a video but it's giving me issues so I'll try again later!