Happy 5 Month Birthday!!!

Hard to believe that Emory is 5 months old, but here we are!! We have such a happy little girl and we love learning the different things that make her giggle. Every month we have taken pictures of Emory sitting in her rocker and for some reason this month she seems so much bigger to me.

Emory is enjoying a snack on her jumperoo.
Here Emory is showing how good she is at eating oatmeal. (Notice the food smeared on her cheeks).
This is Emory's new way to roll. I refer to it as her "slow roll." She allows gravity to finish the job once she gets half way. I guess you could say its intelligent and lazy.

First Trip to the Zoo!!!

Emmy and I took our friend Angela lunch today at her work, which happens to be at the Dallas Zoo. I would like to say that Emmy really enjoyed her time there, but she fell asleep half way through. So I kept taking pictures because what else was I going to do at the zoo with a sleeping baby?!? Thanks so much to Angela for letting us come visit her and walk around the zoo.

"Mom I don't like the way that bird is looking at me."

Here Emmy is looking at the big turtles behind her. She is very interested.



"That's enough monkeying around mom!"Thanks again Angela and Abi!!
Back at home Emmy thought her jumper looked tasty.

Missing Daddy...

On Monday, Grant went to Kansas City for work. And yes it was just for one night but Emmy really missed seeing her daddy. This was me and Emmy's first night alone and everything went well. When she got up today I told her daddy would be home today and she was SO happy. Emmy just lights up to see her daddy and I can't wait to have him home either.

Thanks for the new outfit Nanny! I can't wait to show my daddy how cute I am.

Yummy!!!

It's rice cereal time!! We get excited over the strangest things since having Emmy. This week we started to feed Emmy rice cereal, and it has been going well. She started by sucking on the spoon and now opens her mouth when the spoon is close.

So unimpressed...

Here is the next night of rice cereal, it looked like Emmy liked it more this night.

What happens after you smear rice cereal all over your face? A bath of course!!

As mentioned before Emmy is really enjoying her feet. On Friday morning Grant went in to get her out of her crib and noticed her the feet of her pajamas were wet. Which can only mean one thing...
She can now put her toes into her mouth! We are so proud.

Emmy would like you to meet...

HER FEET!!

Emmy is very entertained with her feet and keeps busy with trying to grab them. Lately she has been trying to put them in her mouth, but she hasn't gotten there yet. It has been so fun to watch her see her feet, then grab her knees and now get her feet. On Thursday, I took Emmy to the Cooley's house. This picture just about sums things up. Emmy is in the purple pants, Carson is sitting in the middle and Jacob is in the brown outfit on the right. Carson is crying in the picture but that is VERY atypical for him. At one point, Emmy was laying there looking at Carson crying and then she just started crying. She is our little sympathetic baby.Here is a video of Emmy rolling. She was on a roll strike for a while and refused to roll over for us, but she is back again.

Donald and Angela (and Abi) came over for dinner Sunday night and Emmy was very comfortable laying by Abi. I guess Emmy wanted to talk to Abi about what the outside world was like.
"Trust me Abi, your parents are so fun!"
We saved the best video for last. Saturday night we went to Uncle Ryan's and Aunt Jenny's house for dinner. Emmy loves being tossed into the air and this was the most we have heard her giggle. It was so sweet to watch!!

Grandma Zimmerman Visit...

This past weekend, Grandma Zimmerman came to visit. Emmy loved having her here to play with. Grandma enjoyed pushing Emmy around in her stroller and reading her stories. Emmy was the center of everyone's attention. What did we do before there was a baby to play with?Someone was very excited to have her grandma, uncle and aunt to entertain her. We call this phase "crazy eyes" and obviously it's when she gets super happy.Here is Emmy and Grandma on Sunday going to church. Emmy likes to sit in her bumbo and play with toys, especially her glow worm which makes her smile every time she sees it. As you can see, she also likes to snack on it.Here is a video of our little girl in her swing and letting everyone know just how much she likes it. Sometimes we can't tell if all her noises are happy but then she just smiles.

Happy Little Baby!!!

Not much has been going on this week around the Dess house. Wednesday we went to the Cooley's new house and played with Carson and Jacob. Emory was very glad to see her friends. Other than that we have been busy getting ready for Grandma Zimmerman's visit this weekend.
Since finding her thumbs Emory wants to make sure they stay in her mouth. She has started holding onto her hand to make sure that thumb doesn't go anywhere. Silly baby!!
Here is a picture of Emory's favorite thing to look at. We thought everyone should see exactly what is making her so happy in the video.