My Dancing Monkey

Emma loves dancing to music.  She loves her little music table, and has figured out how to start the tunes by rolling the rattle feature on it.  She knows when a tune is about to end, so will go over and roll the rattle again to keep the music going.  She is hilarious. 

Unfortunately, we could only get a video of the back of her head.  When she sees the video camera, she is so distracted by it that she stops whatever she is doing and comes over to the camera.  Which is why you get the extreme close up of her at the end of this video - you can tell exactly when she noticed the camera!

Black Cherry Boheme

In May, I finished knitting a sweet little vest for Emma.  The free pattern is called Boheme and it is well written and easy to follow.  It's perfect for the San Francisco summer weather, just something to keep the chill away.

Pay no attention to the crazy mismatched outfit underneath! And the fact that I could not get a good shot with her face because little monkey kept squiggling around! 

I made this using hand dyed sock yarn from Mary Jane's Attic which I purchased at Urban Fauna Studio.  It is a bamboo, merino wool, nylon blend.  The bamboo keeps the garment light enough for summer time (at least here in San Francisco) and helps with the color saturation.  I think the colors are gorgeous and subtle, girly, without being obnoxious. 

Because We Can

And because we are cruel parents:

Of course, this will all come to bite us in the ass later because when we are both old and grey, Emma surely will be dressing us up in homemade knitted items, wearing overly large and strange sunglasses, sporting faux hawks, looking ridiculous.

First Pool Party

We were invited to our first pool party last Saturday.  We rushed out to get a little swimsuit for Emma's poolside debut.  She did really well.  She clung tightly to husband at first, but then she wanted to splash and play with the water.

An Older Video Unearthed!

So here's an older video I am just getting around to posting.  This is from April 12, about two months ago, which in baby time is like a million years ago. We finally managed to capture on video Emma standing up. She had been pulling herself up to stand for a couple of weeks prior with varied success. Now, a million years later in baby time, she can pull herself up easily and walk if she is able to hold onto something while walking. Her favorite thing to do right now is to hold onto the bars of her playpen and patrol the border by grabbing the rails and walking around the pen.



In the video, you can also partially see the hideous haricut that husband gave her at the end of March. Her bangs were poking her eyes, so he cut those, which came out ok, but what you can't really see is how he went TOTALLY overboard on the sides. Her hairstyle came out with uneven sides, one side much, much shorter than the other, resembling a sort of lopsided Moe from the Three Stooges bowl cut.  Even he fully admitted the error of the cut immediately after he gave it to her. In fairness, it is pretty difficult to cut baby hair. Her hair has finally evened out now, but for a month or so she had a bad hair day, everyday. Poor thing.

Emma Kicks into Overdrive

Look at Emma, kicking into overdrive and trying to break out of her playpen/baby jail:



What was the trigger you might ask?  Do you hear the strange static noise in the background?  It was husband blowing his nose.  Emma does this almost any time she sees husband blow his nose.  Very strange.

Also, for the past month or so, Emma has developed her own sort of baby sign language.  We have not taught her any baby sign language (although I know that is a popular thing these days), but she seems to have created her own.  Whenever she wants to be picked up from her crib, she will start tapping her chest in short bursts.  When she wants to eat something you are eating, she starts to smack her lips and points or reaches to the food.  And recently, within the last two weeks, she has learned the art of :fake crying when she wants something..  She will sometimes even reach up and rub her eye, all drama style, while she tries to get your attention with her fake crying.  It is so amazing to see her learn something new and to witness her process all the surrounding information in her world each day.