Happy Mother's Day!

For Mother's Day, I decided to give my mommy the gift (?) of crawling!!! Look what I can do now!

Emily is crawling for Mother's Day

Since she hasn't mastered shopping, Emily decided to provide mommy the best Mother's Day present she could think of...she crawled and stood up in her crib. She has been working up to this moment by pushing her way around backwards, but the real crawling started on Saturday, and by Sunday she was a pro.

Pulling Up

Last week, as I was putting Emily in the bathtub, she spit up on me. I teased her by acting like she was going in the tub, which she gets so excited about. But when she spit up, rather than put her in the tub, I sat her on the floor outside of the tub so that I could clean myself up first. As I was doing this, Emily put her hands on the side of the tub and pulled herself up to a standing position. She wanted in the tub so badly! She had a repeat performance the next night as well.

Emily has also figured out how to sit up herself. It was weird to walk into her bedroom this morning and to see her sitting in her crib. Needless to say, we will be lowering the crib this weekend. She is also working very seriously on crawling. She can scoot backwards, get up on all fours in a crawling position and move her arms like she's going to crawl, but can't quite move yet. She can, however, scoot across the room. Our lives are about to change!

Rolling the other way!

Emily is adding to her bag of tricks. Yesterday she rolled from her back to her tummy. Too bad it seems as though she's almost forgotten how to roll the other direction. Just when she seemed like she had mastered rolling from her tummy to back, she quit doing it. I guess she needs some time to master her new skills.

Emily is on a roll!

Yesterday Emily rolled over for the first time. There were no witnesses, but we know it happened! Her Grandma put Emily in the crib to do some tummy time while she picked out some clothes for Emily to wear that day. When she went back to the crib, Emily was on her back. We tried to do a repeat performance when I got home last night, and while Emily was really close to getting it again, she couldn’t quite roll. Her arm was in the way. Hopefully tonight she’ll show us her new trick when we’re home from work.

Emily's Baptism

This past Saturday, we had Emily baptized at Transfiguration Catholic Church. It was so nice to have our closest family and friends at the special occasion. Emily’s Godparents, Doug and Leslie, were even able to make it all the way from West Virginia. We had a wonderful dinner at our house afterwards, and I owe much credit to both grandmas who did the bulk of the cooking. I couldn’t have done it without them.