May 1

It's hard to believe our Emmelyn turns 9 months in just a few days. This week she has been fascinated by her blow up duck bathtub. She used to be scard of it, but now she thinks it's great.

Easter Egg Hunt!

Spring at last!

It has been a gorgeous week in Salt Lake City. We spent a lot of time outdoors over the weekend. On Saturday, Emmelyn and I headed out to cheer on friends at the Salt Lake City Marathon. She loved watching the runners and got a kick out of the people dressed up in costumes who waved at her.

On Sunday, we went for a long walk in the sunshine and played outside while Joe worked on cleaning up the backyard. It is looking good and is almost ready to be played in for the rest of spring/summer.

Emmelyn continues to be a crawling machine and she is FAST. Of course, she goes for all things that she shouldn't touch --the cat's water bowl, unattended cell phones and the cat's tail/whiskers/paws, etc. :-) Luckily, Mopsy takes it all in stride and usually just ducks out of the way. She continues to find her voice, and we'll be ready when she phases out of the top-of-her-lungs screech she seems to find entertaining right now.

crawling

Emmelyn turns 8 months old!

Our Emmelyn turns 8 months old this weekend. Where did the time go? She is now crawling like a madwoman, scarfing down solids (sweet potatoes and pears are her favorite, but also loves oatmeal and apricots)and is a busy, busy girl.

Today we took her to have some Easter pictures done at Gardner Village with live bunnies and baby ducks. She didn't know quite what to think and got a little scared, but we still got some cute photos. We might have to try again next year when it is not so scary! Hopefully the photography place will post the Easter pics later and we can steal them and put them on our blog.

Emmelyn visits Chuck E Cheese's

Salt Lake has been hit with a couple late spring snowstorms, which thwarted any plans to go to the park this weekend. Instead, we decided to check out Chuck E Cheese's in Sandy, to see what Emmelyn thought of giant mascots before we bring her to see the Easter Bunny. She was indifferent to Chuck E and the musical players, but liked staring at the lights and motion in the game room. She was particularly enamored by skee ball, much to her dad's satisfaction.

She is starting to crawl and we'll try to catch it on video soon. We're working on doing some extra baby proofing around the house before she starts climbing.

Emmelyn's first playdate

Emmelyn spent Sunday at a playdate, making new friends with Willa Jayne (middle) and Leonora (left). Not pictured is Finley Joe, who is too little (2 months) to join in the fun yet.

It was a great chance for the moms to get together to exchange notes and ideas. Leo and Em are just eight days apart, and Em is about four weeks older than Willa Jayne.

Emmelyn goes swimming

Emmelyn went in the water for the first time today at swimming lessons and seemed to enjoy herself. She didn't cry at all and was amused by the other babies splashing in the water around her. We zipped her around, blew bubbles and put a toy turtle out in front of her to get her to "paddle" her arms at it as we held her. All in all, it was a good little class. We'll post more videos later. We brought the camcorder, and it takes mea awhile to edit those down to be postable videos on the blog. I'll post a shorter video in the meantime from our regular camcorder.