Lately and some pictures

Hey guys. Sorry I haven't been on here in a while... I don't always feel like we've done anything worth blogging about. Chad works, and Emmett and I are either here, at the library, at Smith's, or (very seldom) on  campus. Exciting right?

Stuff recently:

Emmett finally had his 9 month appointment on Wednesday, even though he'll be 10 months old in about thirteen days. He's finally allowed to have peanut butter! And he has eczema, poor dear. So we bought him a big bottle of Cetaphil and he's already looking better. Now if I can just keep my dry, greedy hands out of it, it might last him a while.

The moms in our ward sometimes get together for "mother's week" where we all take our kids and gather at one of our houses so our kids can play together, moms can hang out, etc. Emmett and I went yesterday after our ward took a break from said groups because the organizing mom had moved. Anyway, Emmett had lots of fun. He loves other babies and kids, although they're not always terribly crazy about Emmett's style of showing it. He tends to climb up the kids who can already walk, or grab their face or leg or something. As soon as he learns how to be the right kind of friendly, he'll be set :)

Random sidenote: there's this guy who lives on our street and he looks like he might be part Australian Aborigine or something cool like that. Anyway, he's older, and he's got this sweet long, white beard. The other day, I saw him going down the street on his Moped and his beard was flying behind him over either shoulder. Kind of made my day :D

Emmett's been doing more and more of this lately:

(Standing, not chewing on stuff. He's always done lots of that.)

And now for my customary Emmett picture overload!

These were last night:

He's a bit of a wreck right now; all the standing alone has made him braver, which means that he falls down more, which means he's got scabs on his nose and a big welt under his eye. 

These start from about a month ago and move up til now:

One of his new tricks nowadays is pushing the stroller around the front room. I'll put up a little video of that as soon as I get it on youtube.

More new tricks: he can give fives and high-fives! He loves that. And just now, he even clapped for the first time! But then I got excited and clapped for him, and he stopped and won't do it again :) Ah well. And he loves books. He's even getting better at not automatically tearing them to shreds. He definitely still does it, mind you, but not automatically.

Have a great day everyone!