May 31st

Emma is now over 10 months old and is becoming more mobile every day. Yesterday I saw her move from one piece of furniture to another by holding on to it and taking some tentatively shaky steps! We also discovered that Emma can climb up our stairs (under close supervision). A few notes about the pictures below:

1. I still cannot put up Emma's hair in 2 pigtails. One of the women in Emma's daycare will do it for me so I had to take quite a few pictures that day. I think it's also the first full day that Emma had her shoes on (I wish my shoes cost as much as hers!).
2. Emma has discovered her "pointer" finger and she loves to point out different things to you. She will also describe to you in lengthy detail what she wants you to look at with her. There is a picture below where she is pointing her finger at me as though to say "wait just a minute mom, I need to check out something over there".
3. Since Emma Claire can now stand up while holding on to a sturdy object, we have some new poses! Of course I discovered pretty quickly that this is not something we should try when she's tired since she loses her grip quickly that way and she can land pretty hard on the floor.
4. We took a couple of more pictures with Lulu the Lamb to mark Emma's 10 month "birthday". I'm so glad we have been keeping track of her growth progress with Lulu. Of course it's getting to be more difficult to get a good picture with the two of them. Emma either pulls Lulu over or tries to use her as a teether.