Emily’s First Birthday – Part 2

My family arrived mid-morning on Saturday, just as Emily woke up from her morning nap.  We decided to start the present opening process while she was well rested and happy.

She immediately grabbed the pacifier on the ribbon that we left in Utah and played with that for a long time.

After showing her many times, she got the hang of pulling the tissue paper out of the bags.

She loved the baby that my parents gave her and started feeding it the bottle without any promptings from us.

Andrew 3D printed some toys for Emily that are just her size. Here is Pikachu, along with a not pictured charzard and squirtle.

Emily figured out it was easier to move our fingers around to do the unwrapping than to actually unwrap the presents herself, although she did a little of both.

When present opening lost its appeal, we all hopped in the van and went to Exploration Acres, where we went when Emily was two weeks old. Emily loved the pumpkins.  She tried picking them up, climbing on them, rubbing them, and sitting on them. We loved watching Emily love the pumpkins.

There was a corn sandbox of sorts that was fun to explore and play in.

We spent three hours walking around in the corn maze, going to different checkpoints.

Emily went through a lot of effort to get this ear of corn off the ground.

Emily loved to get thrown in the air, and it was exceptionally high.

I got a little nervous with the height, but Emily and Andrew seemed to be enjoying scaring me a little.

Christine can pull off amazing gymnastic feats everywhere she goes.

After we got home we all took naps, ate dinner, finished opening Emily’s presents while skyping with Andrew’s family, and made homemade frozen yogurt as Emily’s birthday treat. We striped her down so that she could get as messy as she wanted and eat by herself.  Instead she would hand us her spoon to put some of the yogurt on it, then we would hand it back to her and she would eat, we would try to get her to scoop some up herself, and she would insist on handing her spoon back to us to refill.