How old are you?

Emma's response, "I'm one", in a deep, growly voice and she also holds her pointer finger up to show you the number.

The last few weeks, she is putting more words together and "connecting the dots" between objects and numbers.

Her recent phrases:

"I'm ready"- when having a game of roll the ball across the floor, she situates herself across the room and let's us know she is ready for us to roll the ball in her direction

"Come on"- when we are taking walks or in stores and she gives us a hand movement trying to hurry us along to follow her

"1, 2"- while counting her blueberries or noodles

"all through the town"- screaming this phrase as we sing "The Wheels on the Bus"...we have a really cute video I should post because of course she won't do this unless it's just mom and dad

Her language clams up when in a crowd or when we ask her to display her new skills in front of others, so we always end up looking like liars. :)

Emma is now 21 months old and you just "see" her brain sponging up everything, all day long and she is growing in height like crazy. We try to measure her height around the 14th of every month and this month she grew from 32 1/4 to 33 1/8 tall... almost a full inch! I've had several people tell me how much taller she looks but I never imagined she grew this much! She has lost her "baby Buddha belly with all our summer acitivity, just in time for swimsuit season, lol. We had to downsize her diapers since Buddha disappeared.