Emma's Updates

It has been way to long since we have posted new pictures or updates.  So many things have changed.  Emma had her 2 year old pictures taken, you can see them here.  Emma had a great birthday party and got lots of fun stuff.  You can see her awesome birthday cake that was made by Grandma (better known as obama by Emma).  And yes that is a real fish and the fish is still alive so far.  The rest of the cake is long gone though.  You can tell that she loves her gold fish.

Emma is growing up very fast.  She has now officailly been transitioned in to the new 2 year olds room at DayCare.  She started in the new room full time today.  I am sure her old teachers will steal her from time to time.  She was very excited last friday.  Her new teacher let her play on the slide outside.  That is the first time she was able to play on the big slide.  She would not stop going up and down it I guess.  Hopefully she will share it with the others

Emma has a new Toddler bed also.  She did not like it as much as we thought she would but we will try again soon.  Naps were fine, going to bed at night was to much fun though.  Having full access to all of her books could keep her up all night.  She is a very loud reader.

Saturday we took Emma to get her first hair cut.  She did great.  Sat in the chair and pretty much just looked around.  We were only there for about 5 to 10 minutes.  Didn’t have much to cut.

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After:

A few weeks ago we made some changes to Emma’s room.  Her changing table was starting to fall apart.  We felt it was time to get rid of it.  Mostly for Emma’s safety.  So we took it out of her room and put two cuby style shelving units in it’s place.  Below(had to remove them from picasa to save space) is a picture of Emma helping Dad put one together.  It may be time to get Emma her own tools set.  As you can tell Dad was only able to use the hammer.  She would not let go of the screw driver.  She wanted to help.  It was so cute.  She loved that she could be in the center of the cabinet while dad was putting it together.

We have been horrible at updating Emma’s site. We will try to post update a little more often as the summer goes on. We have a new memory card for our new camera. It automatically uploads the pictures to our picasa website. You can see the new pictures as soon as they are taken for the most part. The picasa website is http://picasaweb.google.com/jnewcastle

I can’t believe it’s been 3 months since we’ve updated here.

We had new pictures taken today. They are her 18 month (even though she’s nearly 19 months old now)/Easter pictures. We were supposed to go last week but she got a big bruise on her left cheek the day before her appointment. It’s mostly faded now, if you look closely you may still see it.

She had her 18 month well child exam a few weeks ago. Emma is 32 inches tall (50th percentile) and weighs 22 pounds 13 ounces (25th percentile). She’s talking up a storm now, we can tell what she’s saying some of the time! It seems like she has a new word almost every day.

James ordered a new memory card for the new camera this week. Supposedly it will upload pics to the gallery automatically. Hopefully this results in new pictures more often than every 3 months because I assure you, we still take a lot!