EMBRIE

My little 1 1/2 year old....
Sugar and spice and everything nice.
Look at the innocence in that face! I know that she is still so close to the veil.
At this age and pretty much from 5mo. on she has been a very mellow tempered baby.
But she is growing up so fast that she won't be a baby for long.

She is very independent. She wants to do everything she sees her big brother do. I've heard that girls are very emotional, but so far she doesn't seem phased by much. She is pretty tough. She rarely cries from being hurt. She is able to take the roughness that comes with playing with a big brother. But just in the past few weeks she has started to defend herself more. I think her days of putting up with anything are coming to an end.

She likes to play with cars and makes a great engine sound by the way, which I think is due to watching her brother. But she likes girl things too and I think she is starting to find her own likes. She is very good to keep a bow in her hair, she lets you know if it comes out and lets you put it back in. The words "pretty" and "cute" are part of her vocabulary.

She loves a good laugh and has a a sweet giggle. We call her 'Embrie-do-ba' or just "do-ba" (a name that Garrett started calling her long ago and it stuck) and 'principessa' (princess in Italian). She is not as energetic as Garrett, but she can run around with the best of them. She is a pretty good soccer player already! She is brave not afraid of anything. She is almost always willing to give a kiss and a hug, she does the whole run full speed with her arms open but behind her until she reaches you. It's an art, the running hug.


Things Embrie loves at 1 1/2 :

Toys: anything really- balls, cars, babies, blocks, phones but most especially Buckles! (buckle, unbuckle, buckle, unbuckle) She likes the sort of stuff that you have to figure out, like open and close.

Brother - she loves him! if he will play nicely with her she adores it! You can tell that she is just so excited to be included as something other than the target.

Books: she likes to be read to most of the time but she does go through phases where she wants to be the sole person in control of the book. She will get all of her books out and just flip through them.

Favorite Food: pancakes & cheese

Blanky and Binky nuff' said right?

Favorite color: If she has one, right? She has been able to say the names of the colors for awhile but is barely starting to apply them to the right colors. She is really into this right now.

Quirky things: Her trade mark is to see how many times you can say the word "hello" with different inflections. This is suuuppperr cute! Hellooo , Hello?, Hello!! Hello (said with a sweet little expression and cock of the head to one side) And she knows everyone loves it so she'll just keep it up. I'll be down stairs and she'll call a few hello's to me from up stairs. Or peak her head around a corner with a quick peek-a-boo-ish hello. I will be sad if this ends.

She too is a little shy and takes a little time to warm up unless she see ya often.

She has only been taking one nap since she was about 9mo. old which was odd to me, but she is very rarely cranky. She is usually happy all the time, unless she is hungry ;)

Other Facts:

She weighs in at 26.7 lbs and is 32.7 in. tall. This makes her a good size little girl! But it is sooo cute! She is not far in size behind her brother of 4 1/2.