my goofy daddy

7.07.2010

Meet Gary

If you remember back earlier this year Aria lost Doogan, the bear, at the mall and he was thankfully returned to us by the mall security. While we impatiently waited for the call from mall security, Kevin got online and found a Doogan on e-bay and ordered him. So Doogan was returned and the new bear showed up in the mail a couple days later.

Just recently Emmett has been crazy for Doogan. Aria and I came up with the idea of giving the extra bear to him. Emmett LOVES his bear almost as much as Aria loves Doogan. He even named him Gary! ...well he made a sound like "ggaarrrieeee" and the bear was named.

Emmett gets excited when Aria comes down the hall!

7.02.2010

good guess, or incredibly smart?

I'd like to think the latter, but I'm skeptical. Here's what happened: I was looking through a guitar catalog, and happened to be on the Martin guitars spread.

my guitar is larger one on the far right (foreground).

Aria looked over, and pointed directly to my guitar, and said "Look daddy! There's your guitar!" I was shocked at first, but then she was on my right, so that was the first guitar she saw probably. So I tested her. I turned to the Gibson guitars spread and asked, "Which is my other guitar?" without a thought, Aria pointed right to my Les Paul!

my Les Paul is the fifth from the right of the group of guitars on the far right.

On a side note, Emmett now claps when we say bye to him. Either he's happy we're leaving, or he thinks that's how you say goodbye. Backwards boy also claps his feet when we ask him to clap his hands!

6.26.2010

Emmett!

Emmett is starting to really try to say things like daddy, mommy, bottle, ball, cat. He definitely knows what those things are, it's just a matter of time until he can say them a little better!

Today, he pulled himself up to stand for the first time! Then he didn't quite know what to do from there!

6.16.2010

Emmett crawls - for real!

Emmett is 11 months today! Just to mark the day he decided to crawl, a real crawl, not a scoot. The scoot is still his favorite mode of transportation, but I think we'll be seeing more and more of the crawl :-) Go Emmett!

6.11.2010

To the pool with Mom

Yesterday afternoon, after work, I promised Aria I would take her to the pool. Kevin has been spending a lot of time with Emmett in the afternoons lately (and all day too). So, I thought I would put on my multi-tasking mom hat and take both kids to the "little kid" pool. (Aria didn't like me calling it a baby pool.) We had a blast! Since Aria's had her lessons she's more confident in the water. She is great with holding her breath and spitting the water out when it gets in her mouth. (This was not true a few months ago.) She even grabbed the noodle and started floating on her back! I was always right there by the edge with an eye on her, but over all I felt pretty safe about the whole thing. Emmett enjoyed himself too. He took a little dip and splashed around. He even picked up some ladies...haha. There were two 3yrs old girls that came up and started talking to him and showing him their watering can/squirt fish.