Our Journey to Emma: February 2011

It seems to me that we have been very busy this month but now as I sit to write down all our exciting activities, it does not seem like we have done much at all. Well, I will tell you what we have been up to and post some pictures anyway. Chinese New Year was on February 3rd and it is the year of the rabbit. We went to a Chinese New Year celebration across town. It was very croweded but fun. We met some other families who have adopted from China. They had some dancing, singing and lots of food. Calvin felt like we were back in China with the odd offerings of food. We tried a couple of things.

We have had some beautiful weather this month. I think the high today is supposed to be 73 degrees. I don't think we are through with the cold weather yet but it has been very nice to have such warm weather. I had to dig around in all of the clothes I had purchased for Emma Kate while we waited to see if I had any short sleeve shirts that would fit her. I did find a couple things and we bought a few things too. Little ones just grow so fast! The first pretty weekend we had, we went and bought a wagon so we could have some fun outside time. I was not sure what Emma Kate would think about the wagon or if she would be scared of it but she just sat down and enjoyed the ride. We also bought a potty chair for Emma when we bought the wagon. She has been indicating when she has a dirty diaper so we know we will want to start introducing the potty chair to her soon. I took the potty out of the box when I was in her room and I took the empty box in the other room. When I came back in her room, she was sitting on the potty chair looking at her book. It was so cute, I had to grab my camera.

She is still not saying any words but is babbling more and she loves to point at things and make a sound which means a variety of things such as; what is that? or I want that. Sometimes it sounds like she is saying "Hi". Her walking continues to improve. She is walking all over the place. She will still trip on her own feet or a toy and we cringe as she goes down but she just pops back up and keeps going. She is a very busy little girl but I guess most toddlers are. We are planning a trip to the beach with our friends Brian, Stephanie and Sylvie this summer. It will be so cute to see the girls together again. Okay, here are the pictures!