Your love for the upside down world

You crack me up with your silly almost 18-month antics!

Tossing your head and sometimes your whole body backward because you love the feeling of being upside down.

You also love to stand on my legs or on my belly or even on the 4-wheeler or edge of the couch and practice your balance. I must say you're pretty good at it, too!  

You are showing great acceptance and maybe even enjoy being in the water.  Dad has been taking you to swim lessons for a couple of sessions now and you'll dip under without much fuss.  Hooray!

We also play a game in the car every day after we drop Eleanor at school which you ask me "Eleanor?" and point and we talk about Eleanor not being in the trees or in the house (as we pass them on the way home).  I say, noooo... Eleanor is at school.  I'm glad I get to spend time with you independent of Eleanor.  

I miss her while she is at school, too - but I feel so lucky to get to stay at home and be just your mom, too.

Blowing us over has been a new thing you find hysterical, we do, too!

Love you dude!

Mom

Maaaa vs Daaa

Hey Emmett,

Defying the typical path, you seem to have found it easier to call me maaaa, instead of daa or da da. It took me a while to figure out you were actually calling for me sometimes, but now that I know it's fine. However, that hasn't stopped me from trying to teach you da da each time you say maaaa (yes, you say it loud and long - it's cute!). However, the past couple days you seem to be catching on to the da da thing and this morning while I was in the bathroom showering and you were hanging with your mom and sister in our bed, I heard "da. da." and I was like "did he say da da?" and they all said yep and you said it again and I said, "I'm in the bathroom" and you came running into the bathroom. VERY AWESOME! Made my heart so warm.

Thanks little guy for being such an amazing addition to our lives. You fill me with joy every day and I look forward to the many many moments like this we will share together throughout our lives.

Love you!

Dad