Cutie Patootie

Emily has been such a little cutie patootie lately, both in terms of her looks and her personality. As I mentioned in the last post, the school photographer got some great pictures of her this year. The photos are finally back, and this is one of the four poses that he captured.

Of course, this is a picture of the actual picture that I took with my phone, which is why it is so dark and grainy, but you get the idea. Personality-wise, she has just been such a charmer - very goofy and playful, but also very lovey and cuddly.

We have been working on potty training more diligently lately and she has been doing a great job with it. She has been in big girl underwear pretty much whenever she is awake and seems to be getting the hang of it. Although, we do still have some accidents and I think they are mostly because she just forgets that she isn't wearing a diaper, which I'm sure is probably hard to remember if you have spent your whole life in diapers.

Like Abbie, Emily got a chance to wear her Christmas dress this past weekend when we went to look at lights. Of course, people like to see little kids in fancy clothes, so she got lots of compliments.

Having the tree up (this is not our tree in the picture, by the way), has been lots of fun for Emily. She likes to look at the ornaments, and move them around, and take them off to play with. Frisbee, our Elf on the Shelf, has also been a big source of entertainment. The first morning with Frisbee in the house, Emily sat close by for well over an hour, just drinking her milk and watching very closely to see if she could catch Frisbee moving her hands. The next morning, when she awoke and found that Frisbee had moved locations during the night, she just burst out laughing. She just finds it all so fun and fascinating to have Frisbee around.