Trick or Treat

        

Ghouls, goblins, ghosts, and gremlins.  Just a few of the things that Emma was not for Halloween 2011.  Nor was she a princess, bean sprout, m&m, pumpkin, fairy, basketball, candy bar, or teddy bear.  What was she then?  Oh, just the cutest damn Holstein heifer you've ever seen! 



Moo bitches.

We had a great Halloween and got lots of mileage out of the costume.  She wore it to daycare for their costume day on Friday, broke it out for a Halloween block party down the street on Sunday, and then donned it all night on Halloween.  Melissa and I had a blast taking her around the neighborhood to show her off.  In the past we have enjoyed handing out candy to the little characters that show up at our door.  This year, however, we just left a bowl full of candy on the stoop (surprisingly there was some left at the end of the night) and left the little ones to fend for themselves. 

So, besides being a MOOO-ver and a shaker, what else is Emma up too?  The list is getting longer with each passing week.  Emma keeps checking some small and not so small milestones off her lists of "things to do".  You can put it in the books, Emma has rolled over!!!  The first time she went from front to back right in front of my eyes.  I was stunned, and I think she was too.  This was about a week ago and she hasn't done front to back since.  However, she has been getting pretty good at rolling from back to front.  She showed off this talent to Melissa for the first time this past Friday.  I haven't seen her do it yet but just today I left her in the living room on her back and went into the kitchen for a couple minutes; when I returned she wasn't on her back anymore :)

Lately she has also been pulling up on her knees more in an effort to discover those small five fingered things that are attached to the bottoms of her legs.  Well, today her explorations were successful and she finally wrangled those little suckers.  She has officially "found her feet".  This doesn't seem like a very functional feat (no pun intended) but it is pretty flippin adorable.

We don't feed her bottles very often because, as it's been well documented on this very blog, Melissa is nursing her.  So about a week ago when Emma was eating from a bottle we noticed that she was starting to reach for it and grab it.  That has progressed to the point now where at times she is able to hold her own bottle!  Apparently they have been working on this with her at daycare which is great. 

She continues to smile and laugh more and is very responsive to us and people in general.  She loves to make friends and almost always gives new people that she meets big toothless grins.  One pretty standard comment we get from people who meet her for the first time is that, "she's such a happy baby."  Yeah, she really is and we love it!

Love,

Jason, Melissa, and Emma