A taste of warmer weather to come!

Well this last weekend was absolutely beautiful! It got up to the 40's! It made me want to go outside and take EmmaLynn to a park... It is still pretty cold and still a ton of snow that needs to melt so I didn't do it... Soon enough it should start warming up.

 My sister in law had her baby this weekend, which makes 17 grandchildren on the Johnson side of the family with 18 soon to follow this April. It makes it easier to have someone else having the babies that way I am not too baby hungry before we are ready for another. 

The paper route eased up a bit with the roads finally cleared of all the ice and snow. I am hoping it will stay that way.  At least as long as I have to keep it up. 

Dan was so sweet to me the other morning he went and got the papers for me so I didn't have to get up as early! What a guy! He is such a sweety and so good with EmmaLynn too! She gets so excited when he comes home! She loves her Daddy! 

EmmaLynn is all over the place now! It is so fun to have her walking and she is learning words now. She will say "no" and does it so cute... she is a feisty little girl. She was playing with her cousin and anytime he tried to push a button on the leapfrog piano, she would push his hand away and say "NOOOOO"! Time to teach her to share the toys, but it is so cute! That is, as long as she isn't saying it to me when I am trying to get her to eat her food!  She also learned how to say "UH OH" so when something falls she says "uh oh". The other morning I woke up to hear her saying it over and over again.. when I opened her door she was just laying there looking at the ceiling saying "uh oh" it was soooo cute!  Every now and again she will say momma.... but usually when she is upset.  She also has 2 of her top teeth coming in at the same time.... I love watching her grow and learn new things! The next thing I want to teach her to say is "oh no".  

Her birthday is right around the corner I can't believe it. Time has just flown by and faster as she has gotten older. 

There is a group of girls in my ward that started a play date every week so the kids could play and the mommys can hang out and talk. It has definitely made life a little more exciting! The girls are so fun and they also do a girls night once a month! It has made moving here a bit more worth it.. I don't make friends too easily unless they start the conversation. I guess you could say I am shy, but once I get to know people it is easier to have friends. It has never been a bother in the past cause I do have my sisters and sister in laws that I hung out with and every now and again see some of my high school friends...  It just makes it more fun to have other people in the ward to hang out with! Plus EmmaLynn loves to be around other little kids it helps her build social skills... So these are the new things that have come about in my life recently. Life is great! 

EmmaLynn

EmmaLynn just got up and started walking last wednesday at the play group I go to! It was so fun to see her start to just walk around everywhere... she had been going little bits at a time before like I had said before. Now she will walk all around the room... it is so cute cause she has a pivot foot to turn around! It is sooo cute. 

more pictures!

pre smile picture

Here is her famous smile with raised eye brows!

here is her face after the first flash of the camera!
and here is the face after the next flash!!!! she looks angry.. she really wasn't it is just a funny face!

 

here is a video of her first steps we got her to make... lol... she is now standing up and walking several steps at a time... then doing it again.

Snow, Snow, and more SNOW

Well this weekend and now this week is getting pretty old.. It has been snowing practically non stop! It started snowing last friday snowed  most of saturday all day and through the night we got about a foot of snow.... then of course sunday morning we had to get up and do the paper route... so not fun! I have Dan help me on Sundays cause the papers are huge! we got stuck 2 times then had to turn around and go back home, switch all the papers to his dad's huge truck Ford F350 quad cab.  good thing we did that and didn't try to go on with out it... we still didn't even get home till 8 am... We started at 2 am mind you!  We had to get ready for church right when we got home so.. needless to say I could barely function through the 3 hours of church...so it stopped snowing... but monday some of the roads were plowed I tried doing the route in my car.... got stuck 3 times.. then switched to my father in laws truck at the end.. yet another good thing cause the last sub division had tons of cars that were stuck..... there is no way I would have been able to get through it in my car...  but it still took me from 2 am to 7:30 am..... so by monday evening all the roads had finally been plowed.. Today it started snowing again..... but not so bad... got the route done in my normal 2 1/2 hours.  However it is still snowing and supposed to keep snowing all day... we are supposed to get another foot of snow... lol. I don't know what I was thinking starting a paper route in the winter! It is beautiful and all, but I don't like to do my job in it!  Hoping the plows get around sooner rather than later! 

Pictures...

I would have more on this post but for some reason the sight changes some of my photos the wrong way... 

Here is EmmaLynn with her Lauhging hippo and soft doggie! She loves them!
She likes to hug them and pat them on the back like she does to me when I hold her and pat her back.. she started to pat me on the arm too.. SOOO cute!
She likes to wrestle with them too! 

Being a Mom

I was just thinking about it today.... Last time this year I was still pregnant with EmmaLynn... I was so ready to have her.... I was working at T-mobile which had it fun times but also had it's boring days.... It seems like that was a lifetime ago though... I couldn't believe I was going to be a mom.... Now it feels like I have been a mom forever. Time goes by so fast but also so slow at times... 

EmmaLynn has grown so much. she is 10 months old now, and at the start of the year she took her first few steps on her own. she doesn't do it all the time, just when she is in the right mood. All the rest of the time she prefers 1 finger and walks around just holding on to our finger... At church walking down the hall she squeals when she sees another little baby or other little kids... She is so outgoing it is so cute, definitely her dad shining through... I am not the outgoing one at all... it takes someone else to get a conversation going then it is a lot easier for me to chat...  She is waiving and saying hi and bye.... kinda hers sounds like "hhha hhhah" and "ba ba ba bbba" as her little voice goes up! Soooo cute...  also every now and again she will pick up the phone and say "hhha hhah"

Just the other day she was handing me things and I kept telling her "Thank You" then when I handed her something she said "Knk Kyu" then today I was handing her Cheerios and she kept saying "knk Kyu" ( I am not sure if it was coincidence or if she was really saying thank you but i like to think that is what she was doing!) It was sooooo adorably cute! I can't believe how quickly they learn. I am going to start teaching her sign language... 

I am still working on getting pictures downloaded in the mean time.. I need to have Dan teach me how to do it and then find them after they are downloaded. So sorry but I am working on it! 

Happy New Year

 Well it has been a quick start to the new year. I can hardly believe a new year has already come again. EmmaLynn is 10 months old now and she has taken her first few steps on the start of the new year... she took 3 steps to mommy... she has only done it a couple of times since then... She has to be in the right mood, and also have something she really wants to have. 

The paper route is getting tougher. Getting up that early in the morning is really starting to take a toll. The snowy weather isn't much fun either. It is even worse when the snow is melting. Even though I complain I am very grateful to be able to stay home with EmmaLynn.  It certainly beats having to find a babysitter.... 

I still havn't got any other pictures up yet, I will get some up soon.