Emily's Milestones

Well, Emily can now lock and unlock the bedroom and bathroom doors. There are a few that you kind of have to lift the handle on before you can lock it, so that doesn't work, but it's a good thing that we found out how to unlock our doors pretty early. The place we moved into didn't had the handy little key. I called the hardware store and they couldn't get me anything. Finally, after major phone chasing, someone told me just to use a small screwdriver. At one point I lost the screwdriver (it got put into the locked room) so I grabbed a spare pair of tweezers (a set of the cheap ones that don't work anyway) and unbent them and that worked too. So, just in case you lock your doors, there you go.

The second thing is something that I've more recently learned to look for as a milestone. Emily was pointing to a picture of me holding her when she was about Meredith's age. She said, "That's Mommy and Meredith." And I said, "No, that's Mommy and Emily." We went back and forth a few times until she said, "No." She was laughing at me! She thought I was telling her something funny, like I had forgotten who was who. Anyhow, I don't know when children are supposed to cross the milestone, but lately Emily has covered leaps and bounds in her speech. I am so happy about it.