You love spiders.

Well. YOu love Inky Dinky Spider actually.

You are now an official member of Gymboree. You are almost to Level 2 baby food. You said Dada. You react to jokes. You are so smart and so cute, I can hardly believe that you are my son.

I continue to be paranoid about my mothering skills, realizing that sometimes you just want me to hold you. When I realize that, I can hardly believe it. So often, you daddy adn I will be sitting there and I'll find you're staring at me. As soon as I look at you, you reach out your arms and arch your back to reach me. I feel so important.

Today, you were absolutely perfect as usual. We were visiting with these two ladies (Mrs. Ferarri & Valerie Ferarri) and you were SO CUTE the entire time. I couldn't believe it. You didn't cry. You didn't even need your chompie. I was so proud to be your mom.

Here are some things going on in our lives:
1. Your dad starts work on Monday. He's working at UHS in King of Prussia and will do a great job of supporting us.

2. We are busily planning your Christening. It is a very big deal and your father and I are constantly working on it with help from your Nona and Yaya.

3. I am still doing one job at home, but have stopped accepting work and feel that God has told me not to work anymore. This has been very hard for me as I am very driven to make money, but I realize lately that it makes much better sense. I'm starting to accept it.

4. We watched the final episode of Survivor together and you stayed up to see Amber win, to hear your parents depressed, and then you fell asleep.

5. My clothing is all over the house. For some ODD reason, over the winter your father decided to put moth balls with all of my clothing. All of it. Not that ANY of it was made of wool. So now, all of my clothing stinks like moth balls. Every day there are clothes everywhere as he attempts to get the smell out.

6. We now go to Gymboree officially. Every Tuesday, we head out to Hockessin and YOU LOVE IT. (and that makes me love it too)

7. We are weaning you off chompies slowly. We're supposed to at 6 months.

8. We go to the Gym every day. You go to Kid's Corner and for a little while, you would cry and they would always have to come and get me. But lately, you love it. And they all love you.

9. I'm on the ATkins diet and have lost about 12 pounds. YOu don't notice anything except that we go out more.

10. I smother you with kisses everymoring and you laugh and smile.

11. We have had BBQ's with Yaya and Papou every night on the porch, and you enjoy feeling a part of the family.

12. Aunt Ana is away visiting her boyfriend (possibly future husband) Jason Alan Kuntz in North Dakota. Ana is the only other person that makes you laugh like you laugh with me.

Even at this early age, I can tell you are a morning person, a dreamer, that you have a single track mind, that you have expensive taste, that you are an artist, that you like to watch people, that you can tune out things you don't want to hear, that you are happy, that you are fun.

Cutest thing that happened with Dad:
Dad was sitting on the couch eating shrimp. You were crying wanting to eat some shrimp. Dad said "Emmett! You can't have any shrimp because you are a shrimp. How can you eat shrimp if you are one?

Cutest thing that happened with Mom
You were sitting in your high chair and I was hiding under the high chair and "poping" up adn you would squeal with giggles and delight.