The discovery of Sound

Four Months is fun! It seems as if Emmeline is discovering new things every hour and her awareness of the world around her grows by leaps and bounds.  This week she discovered sounds and the piano.  Since before she was born Emmie has been hearing music. (No surprise there, right?)  She's been sitting at the piano with us since the day she came home from the hospital. But this week she discovered that if she moves her hands on the keys, sound comes out.  Playing a Beethoven Sonata with Miss E proves quite hilarious.  She's also discovered the sound of cats meowing. And she stares them down.

Emmie is working on a tooth, and to our delight she's discovered some self-soothing methods of her thumb and putting teethers or fingers in her mouth.  She's also rolling over like a champ- in fact, she'll roll 10 x in 2 minutes just for the fun of it I think.

Emmeline met Liz this week! What a fun time we had together- Liz and Jenny were roommates in the good old college days and now Miss E has met our dear friend! Woo hoo.

Look what else we're discovering!  Sweet potatoes and rice cereal.  What a huge help to reflux! And so tasty too.

Such cute booties!!!

On Saturday we had dinner with Emmeline's great grandmother (Nana).  She enjoyed all the new sights and sounds.

And on Sunday we had a nice post church waffle lunch with Granddad before heading back to church for Lenten Vespers.  Its been a busy week exploring, but oh so much fun!

Four Months Old

Dear Emmeline,

Today you are four months old! You are so much fun now with all your rolling and talking.  You have perfected the "Guh"  sounds.  These days you're doing a lot of sleeping and growing and we're taking walks on warmer days, reading a lot of books and you are chewing on everything imaginable. Are you getting a tooth? You've had your first cold and have discovered the fur of your cat siblings. You listen to a lot of piano lessons and music in our house and we wonder what instrument you'll play someday.  With your lungs you could easily be a singer.  You are so strong Emmie and seem ready to take on the world.  I think we'll have to baby-proof our house sooner than we expected.  Sweet baby girl- we love you.  How did we live without you before? 

Miss E Reads

Our house is filled with books. We read.... a lot. Thus it was so much fun to watch Emmeline discover books.  This week she suddenly took to books. Granted she only likes the baby faces and stripes on their outfits.  But she was entranced and quietly looking at each page. Sweet baby girl just wait until you see how many stories are yet to come. When we first were married and setting up house, it was a thrill to join our books together on the shelf- to see who had what books- to grow our library.  Now we have an ever growing Library of Books for Emmeline and the same delight returns to our home again- sharing books together. 

Discoveries

Emmeline has discovered her hands! She loves to conduct with them, to wring them, to wave them, and most significantly, to eat them. She also sometimes folds them politely. We had a fun weekend visit with Aunt Bec, Uncle Mark and Sam.  This time Emmeline saw her first dog and loved playing with Sam.  Last time we were at their place she was only a month old- the difference is amazing! She loved to look at new sights and watch Sam zoom his cars. Yeah for cousins!

She looks like.....

In the past two weeks we've had so many comments from people who think Emmeline looks like J's side of the family and especially like her cousin Sam OR exactly like her Papa. The beauty of watching your baby grow day by day is that you see expressions that remind you of everyone- because, well, everyone is in there somehow. I'm hoping for some more Dieffenbach baby pictures but for now you can enjoy a picture parade of Emmie and some look-a-likes.

Sammy

Emmie

Emmie smile

Sammy smile

Sam

Emmeline

Emmie

Sammy

Emmie

Mama and Nana

Mama

Emmie

Emmie

Mama

Emmie

Mama

Mama and Granddad

Emmeline

15 Weeks!

Just a quick picture of our sweet girl to end the week! Here we are at 15 weeks- how time is flying by. The news around here includes: lots of smiles, the growing of hair, pinching and squeezing, belly laughs and the taking of good naps. Woo hoo!