October 2009 - Milestones

10/2 – Babbled – Emme’s sweet little coos quickly changed to babbling. When you looked at her and spoke directly to her, she’d lock eyes with you and just babble on and on, sometimes for up to 10 minutes. She acted like she knew exactly what you were saying. She had such concentration on her face when she was talking and her eyebrows would just go crazy with expression. Her favorite conversations were telling mommy about her day at school.



10/4 – Made Herself Smile – Emme had just finished a bottle. I was burping her and bouncing her lightly on my knee. She got really excited and started kicking her legs and waving her arms when she let out the HUGE burp – I mean a daddy sized burp – and some milk came out her nose. I was horrified, but she thought it was funny and grinned from ear to ear at herself.



10/9 – Recognized Mommy – I was no longer working for AFA, so I was home when Eric brought Emme home from school. When they walked into the room, her face lit up and she squealed and reached out for me. Awwwwww!



10/13 – Discovered Her Feet – Eric was sitting in the recliner with his knees propped up and Emme leaning against his legs facing him. Her foot twitched and her eyebrows went up and her eyes got huge. She made her other foot twitch, and her head snapped in that direction still with a look of amazement on her face. She went back and forth moving each foot and watching it. She looked like she was watching a tennis match. This must have gone on for about 10 minutes before she lunged forward and grabbed her right foot and proceeded to stick it in her mouth.

10/17 – Discovered Her Tongue – Emme kept sticking her tongue out. A couple hours later she started slurping her tongue back in her mouth, making it curl as she did. After a couple slurps, she discovered that she could make clicking sounds with her tongue. It was an exciting day for Emme and we even managed to get some of it on video!



10/24 – Emme’s First Laugh – I was playing with Emme while Eric was exercising to his P90X DVD. Eric made some sort of movement that got Emme’s attention. She started watching him intently and all of a sudden started laughing. I guess daddy looked pretty silly jumping around and waving his arms.



10/26 – Emme’s First Piece of Mail – Emme’s first piece of mail, that was actually addressed to her, was an adorable Halloween card from her great-grandpa Jerry and great-grandma Juanette.

10/31 – Emme’s First Halloween – Emme was absolutely adorable for Halloween. Her Nana gave her a “love bug” costume. She greeted the trick-or-treaters at the door with us for the most part, but she had to go to sleep around 9:00pm.