Emilia is growing by leaps and bounds and this girl is always on the move! I am still waiting for her to slow down in the weight gain department as the doctor said she would when she turned 1. She is up 27+ lbs now according to the Wii Fit scale. She was 26 lbs 2 oz at her 18 month check up. Hopefully when the snow goes away we can get her outside more to run around and she will level out.

We took a Family Vacation in November because I had a Southwest Airline credit that I needed to use from when I changed my spring break flight. We took a 4 day Carnival Cruise and went back to Disney World. It was nice to see most of the Christmas decorations up. Emilia had a good time but she was a lot easier to handle when we went in January as she didn’t have an opinion then. Normally she is such a ham for the camera but this trip she pretty much refused to smile so all the pictures look like she is having the worst time ever which is far from the truth. Emilia liked the ride the rides by herself. Here she is on the opposite side of the TTA car as us. She enjoyed the cruise ship very much especially our room steward Anton. She kept flirting with him. We are in for some trouble when she gets older! This is our last vacation for awhile as we traveled a lot this year.

Here is Emilia in her snowsuit in the first big snowfall of the year. She loves playing in her sled and was mad when we made her come in. However since it was only 15 degrees out she didn’t get to play as long as she would have liked. Daddy took her out sledding a couple of days later when it was snowing and actually pushed he down a hill. He tells me that she just looked back at him laughing all the way :).

Christmas went well at our house and Emilia was a very good girl this year! She walked right past the Christmas tree when she got up and went straight into the kitchen for some juice. I guess she needs her juice to get her going! She was a little hesitant opening presents at first but once she got going we couldn’t stop her. She even wanted to open everyone else’s presents. Unlike last year where she wanted to play with each thing after she opened it this year she just tossed it aside and went onto the next.

Emilia (and us) survived our very first weekend apart. Herm and I went to Las Vegas for a weekend and left Emilia with Mema Jo. This is the first time that she has been without either of us for more than overnight and the last overnight was a year ago. We were a little nervous on how she would do but she managed to make it through the 3 days and even spent a whole day with Uncle Brad! Never mind the fact that she had her plug in her mouth 99% of the time and on Monday she thought she needed to carry around her pillow all day. She was excited when she got home though and saw all of her stuff. She couldn't decide with what to play with first!

I am hoping to update this more this year but I am not going to make any promises. Happy 2010 to everyone and we hope that it is a great year!