Where did a year go?

Emmy is officially 1!!!!! Since we had her big party last weekend, we decided to make today a little more low key. We started off the day in a not so fun way at the doctor getting her one year shots. Unfortunately, we've got ANOTHER ear infection. We're about one away from getting tubes at this point. The GOOD news is that her head is no longer off the charts! It's still growing but we've moved to only 80%! The doctor actually told me that "we don't like to see heads keep growing for too long, so if it's still growing at 15 months we'll start discussions." I assured her that she comes from a family of GIGANTIC nogs so I wasn't all that concerned. In other statistics news, she's now 30.5 inches long (90-97th%) and 23.7 lbs (75-90%). She's growing and growing!

We decided we might try to beat the crowds at the mall and head over to see Santa at the mall. Now at Easter I complained and complained about the Easter bunny picture lady because she let everyone take like 25 pictures and look at each one and pose and stand around. It meant we stood in line for forever. Well I guess they got a crapload of complaints because this lady gave you two shots and that's it. You better be looking because she's taking them and you're paying for wahtever you marked on your envelope rather you like it or not. Well fortunately, we didn't even have to worry about all that becasue Emmy absolutely positvively HATED Santa Claus. But look at the dude, something's just not right. He didn't say one word and I'm pretty sure that Santa is supposed to at least pretend to smile. This guy's just got a wonky eye and a yellow beard.... Emmy's not buying it. Yes, we paid 15 dollars for this picture. We're actually thinking about going ahead and using it for our Christmas card as planned. Man, there's just something not right about that Santa.

So after that fiasco we went home to let Emmy pick whatever she wanted to have for dinner. Right now she's in a phase that we like to call " Noodle-atarian." She refuses to eat anything unless it's a carb. So we decided to give her a gigantic plate full or noodles and a huge honkin block of cheese for dinner. Nutrious! She also polished off her plate of carbs with a sugar cookie. The WHOLE sugar cookie. but she did have a random pack of raisins. Hey, don't say I don't know anything about balanced nutrition.

I had to inlcude this video. Since she is a noodleatarian now, she's developed a very particular way that she eats her favorite dinner. She'll just sit and be completely quiet and slurp and slurp and slurp. And I'm dumb, so I videoed with the camera sideways... just tilt your head to the left and you'll never know the difference =)