Emma the Cook

So Emma still thinks at moments that she needs to be by my side every minute. During those times it makes it hard to get the cooking and cleaning done. So I have started sitting her on the counter (as far back as she can go) and talking to her while I cook. She is so cute she just talks right back to me and points and I can tell she is just soaking it all up. Don't worry I am watching her close and only putting her up there when I have everything I need to cook with in front of me. She thinks she is such a big girl with mommy's cooking utensils.

Emma in the Bathtub

Some day I know Emma will kill me for posting pictures of her in the bathtub but until that day....I am posting away.

For her birthday her great aunt and uncle Rosie and Randy got her an octopus that you put colored tablets in and the water changes color. She loves to the octopus and plays with it every night at bath time but I have been too scared to use the tablets because of her ear tubes she had put in, but I finally decided it would all be okay and worse case was we had to give her some ear drops for a couple of nights but we didn't all turned out just fine.

Here is Emma enjoying her blue "ocean-like" bath water. She loved it.....wasn't sure about it at first as it came out of the faucet but loved playing in it.

Back 2 School

Well, I have been an awful blogger these days. The Sheets' household is back in full swing. Oh how we love the days of summer when we are all three off and just laying around the house. It has been over a month since my last post. And I left you hanging to recap what has happened in our lives.
~Emma is now a walking machine. She is gaining her independence and doesn't need me for "everything" anymore. I kind of miss it.
~Emma is now going to her sitter (Ms. Vickie) full time (5 days a week). She loves it even though she cries and reaches for me every morning on the handoff. The hardest thing I have ever done is take Emma to a sitter.
~Victor and I have both started school. Victor is loving it this year and I well let's just say I am adjusting. It has been tough I moved down to 2nd grade and having a hard time getting my feet on solid ground with the kids.
~I am again battling with guility mom syndrome. Where I feel pulled between working and being a good teacher and being at home and being a good mom.
~My birthday is this next week and I will be 27.....whew! Doesn't seem like I should be that old. I know it isn't old, but some days Emma makes me feel about 87. :)
~Three people e-mailed me since it had been so long since I posted and asked if there is a baby sheets yet....as of yet no. Keep saying the prayers. :) I just finished round 2 of fertility pills and are waiting for all of the side effects and icky feelings to go away and then it will be a waiting game to start taking pregnancy tests. When it is meant to happen it will hapen.
~We are slow starting to look for houses in the area between Branson and Ozark, and thought we had found a perfect one ...and found out tonight it was under contract, again when God's timing is perfect it will all work out.

Emma is doing wonderful and loving life. She now says mommy, daddy, no (her favorite I think), up, down, yea, ball, and a variety of babbling that Victor and I are sure are going to get her spankings for back talking once they start to make sense. :)

She is getting wonderful at sign language. She knows the signs for milk, drink, water, eat, more, done, please and then some others that aren't real signs but we know what she needs. I am loving that she knows sign language it has helped so much with her ability to communicate with us and let us know what she wants.

Okay so now I will post this and on my next post put some pictures for you to see of Emma and how big she is getting. Hopefully it won't be another month and a half before I post again but I am too busy these days being mom, wife and teacher......and loving my life. How many wonderful things I have to be thankful for. :)