Everything Emma: Holding a Bottle

Friday, August 6, 2010

Holding a Bottle

In one of my previous blogs I discussed how Emma has been attempting to hold her own bottle. She has been doing this for several weeks and has progressively been getting much better at it. Yesterday while I was feeding Emma her 3:00 bottle she wrapped her little hands around it, as she always does, only this time she did not let go of it for the entire feeding! At one point I decided to let go of the bottle just to see how she would do. She did amazing! She held her bottle by herself for about a minute strait. She then proceeded to gently remove the bottle from her mouth (rather than throwing it and becoming angry) and raise it up and place it back into her mouth as soon as she was ready for more. I was absolutely shocked! Holding a bottle on her own will be a great skill to master because it will make my life much easier. As much as I adore spending time with my little Emma, she sometimes decides that she wants to eat at the most inconvenient of times! It will be fantastic when I can just hand her the bottle and let her take care of business. What a grown up my little Emma is quickly becoming!

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What Emma is Doing

All of her colors.

All of her letters.

All basic shapes and even a handful of more advanced one.

Can name all of her body parts.

Knows the days of the week and can even tell you which activities she has on which days.

She has been doing chores and has been responsible for cleaning her playroom and bedroom for about a year. In recent months she has gotten to a point where she will often begin her cleaning for the day without me having to ask or monitor her while she does it.

Can re-tell many of the stories from the Bible and can tell you all about Jesus.

Knows how to spell her name.

Learning how to write her letters- we haven't really started working on writing number yet.

Learning some basic addition.

Learning about money and the value of different coins. This ties in well with teaching her addition because she is learning simple things like 5 pennies= 1 nickle.

Still a very healthy little eater and typically has no aversion to eating her veggies. She does prefer eating them raw and loves going to my favorite salad spot for lunch after morning gymnastics.

Loves listening to music and enjoys playing piano and guitar with Daddy. We have the keys on our piano labeled so for about the past year she has been learning the notes.

Loves her "Best friend pup" and sleeps with him every night.

Very good at drawing and has taught herself to draw so many things that I did not think a three year old could even draw.

Going to gymnastics three days a week- she can do front rolls, tuck jumps, straddle jumps, and pikes all by herself and is even walking backwards on the beam, doing small jumps on the beam, and doing simple flips on the bars. She is currently working on cartwheels and simple back walkovers using the mat that is shaped like a block.

Fully potty trained- praise the Lord for that one!

Knows all about different types of food and can tell you which foods are healthy and which are unhealthy.