I wish I could say that I have been relaxing, but the house needed to be cleaned, groceries needed to be bought and I decided to make a bunch of meals to freeze for next semester.  Somewhere in the midst of that, I threw my back out.  The rest of the night has been excruciating and of course Emmy wanted "up" (I couldn't resist).  So now I am trying to find things to keep me occupied that don't require me moving (no T.V. at our house, a story for another time).  

It was nice spending the day with Emmy though.  I miss her incredibly for the weeks leading up to tests.  She seems to grow so fast during those weeks.  Here are a few things that Emmy decided to start doing:

-pointing to objects when asked to

-saying "baby", "bear", "elmo", "poo" (hehehe), "potty", "pillow" (or "eeleop") and "NO!".   Up until this point, when she didn't want to do something, she would say "no, no, no, no" in a sweet little voice that was far from convincing.  But last night, when I asked her to come to me so that I could put on her pj's, she told me in no uncertain terms "NO!"  It took me by surprise, and rather than putting on my stern mommy face, I 

laughed.  Hmmm...I'm still trying to figure how to handle this new "skill".

-she decided that she would start pee-peeing on the potty again.  

-and the biggest news, is that she is WALKING!!!!  Ok, it isn't all the time yet, but she is 

really taking off.  It seems like every day, she is walking more and more (it might have 

something to do with having the right sized shoes, another story for another time).  

Pictures to come...