December 2004 Archives
This year was much more exciting for us all, now that Emily is able to interact and understand more things. She must've been a very good girl because Santa had left lots of presents for her under the tree and in her stocking! It was so nice getting her to help open the presents and see her face when she discovered an exciting new toy and she even squealed with delight at the sheer excitement of it all. Although she did seem to prefer to climb in the cardboard boxes and was just as content sitting quietly in her cosy new chair!
We went to Granny and Granda's for Emily's first proper Christmas dinner, where she sat on her booster seat at the table and ate turkey and lovely ice-cream and trifle! Considering this is still only the start we will probably have to start saving to buy a storage facility to house all of her millions of toys, teddies and books!
We had a great time! And we had a white Christmas! Here are some photos of the fun and other pictures from December visits. We will have a lot more once we get the old-fashioned film developed!
Emily's little world and own little language is slowly starting to merge into ours and make sense. She's is just so cute when she tries to communicate with you. For a while now she has started answering when you ask things like 'Would you like a biscuit?' and she says 'Yish!' or sometimes 'Yeah' or 'Yesh' all in her cute little tiny voice.
She has also developed a new level of monkiness. It used to be that, when she had put something into her mouth, you could say 'Tongue!' and she would let you retrieve what shouldn't be in there. Now when she puts something in her mouth that she has found, you only have to start to edge towards her and she legs it! She then puts her head on the floor and laughs, just so that you can't get to her mouth. Cheeky monkey! You can't help but laugh..
Hoorah! Emily has her first shoes!! The start of a very long and wonderful life of shoe shopping, shoe collecting and shoe demanding from daddy...soon we will have to start looking for a bigger house just to accommodate the growing piles of footwear.
It was so exciting taking Emily for her first shoes and they even took a photo - so cute. At first we picked out these adorable little ankle boots, which we though would not only be easy to get on, due to the velcro strap (with little cute flower!) but also would keep her lovely and warm in this cold weather. But she was having none of it and could not even lift her feet up, let alone walk in them. It appeared that we had put blocks of lead at the end of our little ones feet! The shop assistant was very dubious at our claims that she could walk by herself and we had to assure her that she could.
So in the end we picked out a little pair of cute navy shoes with little applique flowers on the side. She still seemed a little wobbly in them but at least it proved that she could actually walk. She just looks so grown up in them and so cute!
