It has been a week!

Isn't she a doll? Since this picture was taken last Sunday Ember has:

Bit her lip hard twice both times resulting in blood dripping down her chin

Hit her chin hard on the side of the bathtub

Hit her mouth on the baseboard of our bed

Fallen into a sand trap at a golf course

Gotten a goose-egg on her forehead from falling on a brick walkway

Scraped her nose at a birthday party

Fallen off chairs more times than I can count

Smashed her finger in our door (hard)

Bent back one of her toenails

Fallen off the couch

Headbutted into our ottoman

and about a million other falls that I can't remember

You can see the scrape down her nose in this picture. It looks really bad. (please don't call CPS, I promise I am not abusing her). Her legs are covered in bruises from climbing and I don't know how she is going to survive another week much less another year. We might come to know the emergency room very well over the next few years with this little one.

On top of all this, she is getting about 8 more teeth all at the same time. Her top premolars have just poked through and her top second incisors are just about to poke through too. The bottom ones of both don't look like they are far behind.

On a funner note, remember awhile back when I couldn't get her to eat bananas? Well, now I can't get her to stop. Every meal she says "Nana, nana" and then looks disappointed when I give her something else. She walks over to the counter where we keep the bananas and looks longingly at them even when she shouldn't be hungry. She ate half of another boys banana this morning because she stood by his mom and said "Nana". While cute, she might end up wearing out her welcome.

Somedays I am jeolous of the other mom's whose kids are not quite so mobile yet. We were at a birthday party for a little boy who is only two weeks younger than Ember and he isn't quite walking yet. His mom could set him on the floor or have someone hold him and he was happy and content. Ember was chasing after the kids that were 3-10 years old rather than sitting around with the 1-ish year olds. And she has the bumps to prove it. Oh well.

All Girl

Ember is all girl sometimes. She loves carrying around her purse and packages. She is ready for her first trip to the mall I think.

It's My Party...

Happy Birthday Miss Ember!

We had a pool part with some of her cousins and family last week for her birthday and had a lot of fun. Here are some pictures of the festivities.

Ember, however, wanted no part of the pool. She was much more interested in other things, like rocks (she gets it from her Dad). She spent most of the party climbing on the rocks. It was fine with me but was still a little funny.She loved the cake. She ate the raspberries on top of it right away but then she didn't know what to do with the rest. She patted it a few times then finally got a bite. She was very dainty and clean about it at first. By the end she was pretty messy though. It was cute to watch.

It is hard to believe it has already been a year since this little girl joined our family. We love her so much.

Babblefish

I had been out of town for a couple days for work and I came home and laid down on the floor. Ember walked around me and then proceeded to sit down on my face. Repeatedly. Oh how nice it is to be home.
Ember loves shoes. She is constantly talking shoes out of our closet and carrying them around the house. One day, Josh found her in our closet with shoes piled one top of her and she was happy as a clam.
She has entered the wonderful world of climbing. She can get on almost all of our chairs which means that everything one the tables is within grasp. Oh what an adventure.

She has begun talking up a storm. I call her a babblefish (from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). She loves to turn pages to books and read stories to us. It is pretty cute, especially when she starts to blow bubbles.

Summer Fun

We had a family reunion at my parents house last week and had such a great time. It was so nice to see my family and to spend time with them and have them get to know Miss E a little better. Here are some pictures of our adventures.

Ember loved the swing. She was in heaven. I think we could have left her there all day and she would have been happy. Eating her first Avocado! It was a mess but she loved it.

My parents have an annual hobo party where everyone dresses up and we play all sorts of old fashion games. It was a lot of fun. Ember wanted to be held all day as we were getting ready for the party but as soon as everyone came (about 80 people) she wouldn't let us hold her at all. It was an adventure chasing after her but it was so much fun to see all the friends and family.

She loved the carousel ride at the zoo. I wasn't going to put her on it because I thought she was too young but my mom and sister convinced me to and you should have seen the smiles I got when we went up and down on the lion. She loves the motion.

This is a turtle shell she climbed inside at the zoo playground. She couldn't get enough of all the toys. We are going to have to start taking her to the park as soon as the weather cools off at home. It was so much fun.