Vocabulary

Emma's vocabulary is booming right now. She seems to be learning new words everyday and she will repeat anything I say. She is also very polite. She says "thank you" unprompted pretty consistantly. I will hand her a drink and she says, "Thank you mama." It is so sweet. Every once in a while she will bust out a whole sentence of 7 words or so and I'm amazed. She tries to sing songs and even the ABC song. She only gets A, C and Z but hey, that's a start!

We have been having a hard time with please. She never says please unless I ask her today. Tonight she came up to me and said "Please, mama" while also saying it in sign language. I had no idea what she wanted though! She just said please. So I got up and she said "car!" Her car was stuck and she needed help so she said please. She's getting the hang of it!

I can't wait until I can understand everything she is saying. At this point a lot of what she says still sounds like gibberish to me. She is getting better everyday!

2nd Birthday Bash!

Emma had a great 2nd birthday party. It was small but she had a great time. We took the kids swimming for a little bit then back to the house for cake and ice cream and presents. The kiddos had a great time swimming.





Then we came back for cake and ice cream. I had not taught Emma anything about candles or how to blow them out and did think she would. Well, she was blowing the candle out as soon as we put it down in front of her! She did a great job!

Then it was present time! She got lots of great presents! She didn't have many that she was still playing with because the ones she had were too young for her so all these new ones are great! She is having so much fun playing with all her new toys!

Here is a cute video...

Emma had a great day and mama is exhausted!

Ear Surgery

This morning we arrived at the Greenville Hospital System Outpatient Surgery Center at 6:30. Emma was pretty happy in the waiting room. I expected her to ask for milk since she gets that every morning as soon as she wakes up but she was fine without it. I think it helped that as soon as I woke her up I put her in the car so she didn't have her normal routine to think about the milk.

We got called back to Pre -Op. Emma was not a happy camper. She screamed at everything they did to her. Nothing was painful, weighing her, taking her pulse, etc. The anesthesiologist came in and talked to me for a minute and then her Dr. talked to us as well. About that time my friend Stacy should up for support which was really nice. She took some pictures so I could share them with you. Emma wouldn't let me put her down so I wasn't able to take pictures like I thought I would.

Not a happy baby. :(

Emma was doing her best to convince me to take her home. She kept saying Bye bye and blowing kisses to all the Dr's and nurses. Too bad it didn't work! I had to hand her off to the nurse anyways. That was the worst moment.

They took me to the Recovery Room and less than 10 minutes later her Dr. came to talk to me and told me everything went great. She had some fluid in her right ear but it wasn't too bad. Her left ear was a different story. It was bad. He said there was a lot and it was really thick, like a gummy bear. He got it all out. They took me too her then. She was just waking up, kind of in and out. As soon as the nurse took off all the monitors I picked her up and was sat in a rocking chair while she woke up. She got a big sippy cup of juice and drank every bit of it! Within 10 minutes she was awake and good to go.

Her surgery was at 7:30 and we were home by 8:30 where she destroyed the living room playing with all her toys! She went for her nap a little early today but other than that she is 100%!

Favorite Summer Activity

This kid LOVES the water! We go a couple of days a week in the morning before her nap to the pool and she splashes and swims around for an hour or so. This makes for a really good nap in the afternoon!

First Haircut

Emma had her first haircut today. It didn't make much of a difference, just evened it up. She had some hair that was so much longer than others and it was a bit shaggy.

Front before haircut...


Back before haircut...


She did NOT want to sit in the chair, she was screaming and kept saying, "All done!"...



During the haircut, which was fine in mama's lap...



Front after haircut...


Back after haircut...


CHEESE!

Colors

Emma is getting really good at her colors. She is pretty good with yellow, blue, red, purple, pink, orange, green and white. The following video is about 3 weeks ago when I just started teaching her and she has picked up more since then.

ENT appointment

We went to the ENT today. The Dr. looked in Emma's ears and said that she had mucus/liquid stuck behind her ear drums. Since she has been on several rounds of antibiotics and it hasn't helped then they won't. We also believe that the ear infections and fluid is due to allergies. Emma has been on allergy medicine for about 2 months which has helped her nose and cough tremendously but hasn't stopped the ear infections so he said that's out. Normally they first try antibiotics and then allergy medicine and we've done both without a good outcome. So, the only thing that is going to help is tubes. Emma will have the tubes put in on June 24th I think. It takes about 5 minutes and she will be completely normal later that day.