Ray & Ashley

It’s Chinese New Year and we dressed Em B up in her last years chines Outfit. The pants were too big but the shirt fit perfectly. We found some red pants anyways and she was quite festive.

We didn’t do much else this year to celebrate the year of the dragon but Em b always livens up the holiday spirit. Here’s some pics of the little B at school when we dropped her off. She is never that happy so we dot expect big smiles in the morning…otherwise we might be worried!

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Emery knows So many words now. She is a regular bubbly girl at home. Here’s a list of her favorite words at 20 months. These are words she can pronounce as well as know the meaning of below.  Also check out this great audio of her and Ashley together.  Emery Shows Her New Vocabulary

Nai Nai (milk)
Wa-de (water)
Mama
daddy
popu (emery’s nickname for poke)
Papa (emery’s nickname for Cappy)
Cheese
Peas (please)
No (she says this too much)
Book
Cra-ka (crackers)
Block (for her Lego mega blocks)
Apple
Pi-apple (pineapple)
Manana (banana)
Hot (hot food or stuff she should not touch)
Poop (when she dirties her diaper)
Brush teeth
Da-Dag (dogs)
Walk (when she wants to walk herself)
Up (when she wants to be picked up)
Bye
Hi
Hello (when picking up the phone)
Baybay (berries)
Bath
Hug
Kiss
Agg (egg)
Na nice ( when not suppose to hit)
Uh oh (when something has fallen or dropped)
Nose
Ear
Eye
Hair
Cheek
Toes
Shoe
Sock
Ball Ball
Ball (football)

I counted 41 words! There’s probably more I am forgetting now, but Emery is picking up new words all the time. It’s wonderful to here her. She also calls out to our parents and siblings but I don’t think she can register them with the words so I don’t count them for now in her vocab. From just a pronunciation perspective Emery can say almost all
of the alphabet. She has some trouble with R, G,J,V and X but amazing to here her go through all of them. Up next numbers!

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A few snaps of Em B in Dec 2011

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Wow another long stint without touching this blog.  I don’t really have much of an excuse, I am on the computer a lot, my phone has a app that can post to the blog any time yet I still manage to be such a slacker.  My resolution for the blog this year is to post more.  At least once a month if even just a photo or anything.  I am going to try to keep my posts shorter, but more frequent.

Here’s a few great photos from recent events:

Four Generations of Women - taken in August 2011 in Hawaii

Here’s a few photos of us this Christmas:

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Our wonderful Emery turned one today. It’s been amazing to watch her learn and grow out of the newborn and infant phase into a little babbling little person. Although she is only one, Emery has learned many things at this point. Emery can:
- crawl
- sit up and roll
- pull herself to a stand up
- stand without support while drinking a bottle or carrying objects
- stand while holding nearby support and walk or side shuffle
- feed herself small cereal, cake, pieces of fruit or bottle
- perform gestures on request (when she feels like entertaining): clap, wave, open and close palm to show bye bye, shake head and nod for no or yes, pat her chest when you ask her where is Emery or Monkey, hold her hand to ear when you say hello? and telephone, put up one index finger when you ask her how old she is.
- Emery is also starting to babble more and make a combo of noises with gestures. She is getting good at doing the index finger point and making a single not sound

Emery’s motor development is fascinating but her personality development is equally interesting. Ashley and I as well as all people that meet her have these common observations:
- Emery is really easy going, she adapts to her surrounding and does not fuss as over new experiences or new environments. She is good on the plane, with crowds and moving from place to place and sleeping and playing in different homes.
- Emery is not shy and lets anyone carry her and does not shrug away from people. She tends to stare at them.
- Emery is serious. She does not smile at strangers often and will warm up if she knows you but her defacto facial expression is more serious and all business
- Emery is persistent. When she wants to get something, do something, Emery will not give up. When trying to stand up, Emery did it over and over again one night until she got it. When she wants to crawl somewhere she will not be stopped whatever obstacle is in her way. She will grab objects and even if I swat her hand 10 times she will continue to grab. She does eventually get frustrated but soon goes after the object again.

Here are some pics of Emery during her birthday bash weekend and days around it.

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