What's Emilia up to?

Emilia will be one year on the 22nd of this month.I can't believe it. The time has gone by so quickly. Here is what my little girl has accomplished in the one glorious year she has been with us.


As you can see in the picture above, Emilia is learning how to extract eyeballs.Notice her very serious expression.
She is eating. She will eat anything I give her as long as it's clumpy. For a long time we couldn't figure out why she wasn't eating. She took her bottle beautifully, no trouble sucking. But when I fed her baby food it just all oozed out. I knew she was hungry and wanted the food.That was the worst part. She was hungry but couldn't keep the food in her mouth long enough to swallow. One day I made some thick oatmeal and she did much better. We completely ditched the baby food and started mashing table food. She never looked back. The muscles in her mouth were not strong enough to push the food back. I'm just happy we figured it out, so she is enjoying her food now. If anyone is having issues with smooth food and your baby is old enough for table food, give it a try, of course I'm not a doctor so make sure you consult your pediatrician first.

She is crawling.








She is sitting up and making friends with Butsey our very old and patient cat.



She is pulling herself in to a standing position. Probably only to chew on my couch.
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Emilia can hold her bottle, when she is lying down. she still won't do it if she is sitting.
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Emilia can bring two toys together and bang them. This was a tough one for her, because she has a need to put everything into her mouth. So instead of playing with toys she will just bring it to her mouth. Not much getting done when she is chewing on things all the time. She wants no part of a binky either.She takes it out of her mouth and chews on it. Her PT thought a binky would free up her hands and at the same time satisfy her need to chew. It was a great idea, but Em wasn't in on it. She has special toys to chew on when we are playing, if her need to chew gets out of hand I give her, her "chew toy" so she can get her fix, then we go back to playing with her other toys. Sometimes her urge is so strong it's like a tug of war between us.

Emilia is working on waving. She has the motion but at the wrong time. So cute. She will sit and wave( backwards) at herself.

Emilia is babbling nicely.

Emilia does the best raspberries.

Emilia tries to imitate a horsey noise I make to her.

Emilia loves her books.

Emilia loves to be outside, swings are fun

Emilia plays the piano with Daddy.
and her favorite thing to do is make us smile everyday!