Here are some of my best attempts at getting a good picture of me and my sweet babe....some things I want to remember about my little one year old Emily:-Many times when I pick her up, she will push her head into me to snuggle and then grasp her hands open and shut multiple times on my arms…or tummy…like she is just trying to pull me in…I love this.
- She loves blowing kisses…and giving kisses…when she gives a kiss, she will open her mouth, stick out her tongue and go for the lips…I love her juicy kisses.
- She is so petite! I love it. She is my tiniest one yet at this age…already in the 10% for height. Little and sweet.
- She loves to growl. Right now EVERY animal growls…we are trying to teach her other animal sounds, but she just likes the growling.
- One of my favorite recent memories…I use a little sign language with her and have been teaching her the sign for “all done” after she eats…or we change her diaper…or whatever. I’ll always remember the sweet memory of her first time signing “all done.” She was eating and I came over to her…she looked at me and got the biggest, sweetest smile on her face and signed “all done.” She was soooooo thrilled with herself and her smile said it all “Look, mom – I CAN COMMUNICATE WITH YOU! THIS IS GREAT!!” She kept signing “All done” and then would clap and happy scream for herself J That same night after changing her diaper, I told her she was “all done”…same thing – huge grin – signed “all done” with a look of complete joy as she realized I could understand her and then she kept clapping for herself. So sweet.
- Her favorite foods: Rice puffs (the greatest thing at Walmart - $1 for a bag with cereal that is just brown rice puffed up (no added preservatives or sugar or anything), oatmeal, cucumbers, strawberries, blueberries, bananas, beans, and applesauce. NOT a fan of cake. On her first birthday we were SOOO thrilled to introduce her to cake (the girls have been waiting MONTHS for their sister to finally get to taste). She would have NOTHING to do with the cake. Just wanted something else to eat. But she does like icecream – so we know she’s still a Kim.
- She LOVES cars…by far her favorite toy. Her favorite car is one Ponka gave to Angela…it is one you pull back and it goes on its own – she loves crawling around the floor pushing her little car around. LOVES cars – by far her favorite- like I said.
- Favorite song: “Happy and You know it.”
-Loves books…mostly about animals so she can growl at them all.
- LOVES to snuggle. One of my favorite things she’ll do is throw herself to the floor and start getting in the fetal position and then look at me and smile big so I’ll come over and snuggle her.
- Loves soft tickles on the back.
-I know that I am starting a bad habit, but one of my favorite times of the entire day is putting Emily to sleep. I put a pillow out on her floor and we just snuggle and I rub her back as she falls to sleep. I can’t wait for this to end my day with the kids.
-I love how Emily always takes a finger to her lips and pulls her lip down multiple times while saying "awwww."
When Emily turned one, I started doing preschool with her every morning!!
Emily playing with her cars!
Emily playing with her most favorite toy car…in fact, she got another car just like it because she loves playing with it so much.
Emily loves to sign “bird”
Blowing kisses
Gotta love her kisses she blows :)
Mornings with my girl…
We all love snuggling and reading together.
Emily loves to color!
Refusing to eat her birthday cake…
Valentines Day was so fun! Angela, Emily and I got to go to Carolyn’s classroom for a party. The girls loved getting ready for the big day…Carolyn LITERALLY spent SEVEN straight hours (would eat while she worked) on her Valentine cards for her classmates, friends, and family. She loved every minute of it…she did such a great job at coloring her envelopes so beautifully for everyone! Angela also loved getting her Valentines cards together for her friends…she picked out Tangled cards with pencils for her friends. I had the best Valentine in the world. He gave me this very pretty flower with some chocolate milk…Love him
The girls making our traditional Grandma Hardy Valentine cookies!
Carolyn with one of the cards she made during her 7 hour session…
Angela with her pretty Valentines…look at that “A”…she’s getting so good at writing.
More Valentines made by the girlies…
Carolyn being creative and using Conversation hearts in her card she made for her daddy.
Angela being creative with her conversation hearts for her daddy card.
A little bit about my sweet Angela. Some of the things she loves to do…She loves cooking with me. The girls and I all cook together and we just love it. Here we are making our 100% whole wheat vegan low-fat and low sugar muffins.
I just LOVE my preschool time with Angela…and I am so happy we’ve been so awesome and have hardly missed a day of it since the new year.
Angela is my BOOK WORM. She spends A LOT of the day in books. She LOVES listening to books and loves to “read” books as well. For part of our preschool time (and during the day), she loves picking a pile of books for me to read to her and then having a pile of books for me to listen to her “read.”
This is our most played with toy. The girls love playing school with it, drawing pictures on it, etc. (and I use it almost every day for learning with the girls).
Here the girls are using our draw-erase pads (something we also use a ton) to count money.
Angela is getting so awesome at her writing. GREAT website for practicing writing (you can make personalized words to trace - and it's so easy!): http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/
The girls love making collages (such as collages of everything that reminds them of winter).
You can almost always find Angela is dress-ups :)
This picture describes Angela so well. She’s SUCH a helper. Here she is at dinner….Emily wanted more blueberries so Angela took it upon herself to stop eating her dinner for a little bit…get blueberries out of the fridge and smash them up for her little sister. Angela is such a little helper and sweety-pie.
Here I am reading with my sweet girl. I love my Angela!
Angela’s cute pictures. On the right is a picture of her friend, Rowan, and on the left is a picture of me.
Now a little bit about my sweet Carolyn! For starters, she loves kindergarten and learning. She loves coming home and being my “Teacher” and teaching me what she learned at school that day. She loves writing journal entries…here are some sample of her cute journal entries…
Carolyn also loves writing stories. Here a story about 2 frogs that fall inlove. If you can read it, it is a funny book. Carolyn's favorite author is Mo Willems. She says that she always tries to make her books funny like Mo Willems!
Another journal entry…
Carolyn’s creative sentences using some big words.
And another story…
Right now Carolyn is writing a funny story (like Mo Willems) about a birthday! She won't let me see it until tomorrow...I can't wait to read it!Carolyn and I love reading almanacs together...
Carolyn also loves crafts (she spends a good part of each day creating/drawing)…loves gymnastics…is getting good at practicing the piano…loves to sing…loves friends…and being silly and making people laugh. She is a little forgetful. Her teacher and bus driver always have to run after her with gloves, hat, lunch box, etc. One day she got home from school and said, "Mom, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I have one glove. The bad news is I lost the other one."
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