Kangaroo's, Chairs, and Soy

We went to the Kangaroo Kingdom with Koben and Riley and had a blast. Emma loved to run and climb and go down the slide. She was too funny to watch. She would walk/run as fast as she could into this peanut ball thing and go flying off of it like a perfect ricochet! She loved the bubbles, would stand and spin and try to grab them. We had a lot of fun just playing there. There are a lot of cute pictures of her with her boyfriends. One with Riley putting his hand on her head/face, he was trying to grab her pig tails. And of course, one of Koben loving on her while they are playing "house".

There are also some pictures from our weekend at my parents house in the mountains. It's almost complete and soon they will be living there full time. Will be a new change for us all to not have my parents living in Fort Collins any longer.

Tracy is on a business trip in CA until late Thursday night so it has been just us girls at home. Tonight when I was cooking dinner, she took it upon herself to rearrange all the dining chairs in various spots throughout the kitchen. This girl will find anything to entertain herself. It was hilarious, watch for those pictures when Tracy's back. This morning when I was getting ready for work, Emma was wandering all around our room and babbling up a story. She kept going to Tracy's side of the bed and pointing and talking and I kept telling her where he was. Then she would look in the bathroom and point at the shower and talk and I told her he was in California. She just shook her head, laughed, and went back to putting her toys and my lotion and brush into the bath tub.

For the past 9 days she has gone without milk and we have switched her to soy milk. This is at the suggestion of her chiropracter to see if she has a milk allergy that could explain her rashy looking skin and frequent ear infections. She loves the soy milk and is flourishing with it. Her skin is clearing up and her typical course would be to have had another cold by now (enough time has passed since her last anti-biotic prescription) and we don't have the sniffles. She also suggested some various vitamin supplements and diet changes to think about so now I just need to figure out what to do with some of them and find some recipes. So far so good, so we'll keep our fingers crossed. She is also getting her alignment better, her foot no longer points out when she walks, her eye has "lifted", and she has no tenderness in her neck when the doctor touches it now. So far, I've been very happy with the doctor and the progress that Emma has been making. The doctor even lets me email her and tells me things all the time to try, which I love!

Gilmore Girls

The cutest thing she started doing yesterday...when the theme song to the Gilmore Girls plays (yes we watch this almost nightly), she immediately stops what she's doing, looks, gets up and starts dancing. She will twirl around, clap and laugh. It is the cutest thing. We'll get it on video and post soon.

Camping Trip

We took Emma on her first camping trip and is was, well, a success. We had originally planned to camp in RMNP but due to cold weather, and no available campsites, we moved on down to Carter Lake. We found a lovely spot surrounded by grass, and a lot of dirt, but few rocks or dangers for a toddling baby. She enjoyed getting dirty, carrying rocks around, taking things in and out of the bin, and just looking at stuff. When it was time to get into the tent, it was like Christmas for the child. She walked around in the tent in circles, laughing, pulling things out of bags, she was having the best time in her life. It was really cute. Got all dressed for bed and then we all climbed into our one large bag and asleep we went. She woke up 3 times during the night, we quickly spoiled her with a bottle to quiet the screaming baby for the neighbors and back to sleep she went. Low and behold, she used her magical inner clock and awoke at exactly 6:20 am, her typical weekday time, and was up, wandering around the tent talking and laughing and making us get up with her. It was very cold that morning, but was fun to have her all dressed up in her gear. All in all, a wonderful trip. No bugs, no injuries, decent sleep for us all. Though I can't remember the last time we had packed up camp and were ready to head home before 8 a.m. And of course, she was sound asleep in the car.

She has been talking more lately and continues with her "words" which are very close to the real ones. "ish" = fish; "geesh" = geese; "at" = hat; "eh" = what is that; "emo" = elmo; and of course "mama" and "dad". The ENT doctor wants to do ear tubes, but I think we'll wait longer. Her speech is just fine and she responds well once we start antibiotics. The chiropracter also wants to keep working on boosting her immune system to try to avoid any cold. We'll see what happens. I'm just waiting for her eustacion tube to straighten out and go down instead of horizontal so we can avoid this in the future!!! She is so smart about things we say to her. I tell her to look out her car window and she looks right out, "time for bath" and she heads for the stairs, when she sees us getting dinner ready, she goes to her high chair, she can look under the couch when we ask where Lucy is, and tries to put her socks on her feet, of course getting frustrated when they just fall off.