Emmett can

Emmett can laugh and coo, I call it talking. He just started doing this a few days ago and its adorable. Everyday he talks a little more. This morning he was up at 4:30am to eat and didn't want to sleep after he was done. So I put him on the floor and he just talked away while he was moving his arms and legs. Last night he was talking to Crys while she read him a story and she just loved it.

Emmett can move like a mad man. He has always moved his arms and legs, but his movement has really picked up lately. My dad says its like he's trying to take off. The last couple of mornings when I've gone in his room to feed him, I've found him lying in his crib horizontally when he was put to sleep vertically.

Emmett can put himself to sleep. So this has only happened once...this morning. I was rocking him after we played and before he fell asleep, decided to see if he could go to sleep on his own. I realize my last post said this wasn't something I was in any hurry to do, but I wanted to see if he could do it. And he can. This is something I'm not going to push, if he needs to be rocked, we'll rock him. But when he can fall asleep on his own, great.

Emmett can sit by himself and be perfectly content. Usually when he's awake, he likes to be entertained. Saturday I spent the afternoon playing cards with my mom and sister while my dad played with Emmett. Dad got tired of playing with Emmett before Emmett got tired playing with him so Emmett was put in his vibrating chair (my mom bought one for her house) on the table where we were playing cards. He was perfectly happy talking away on his own for about 20 minutes. He especially likes looking out the window...I really need to spend more time with him outside.

Emmett can sleep through the night. He is consistently sleeping 5-7 hours at night. Lately his night has been ending at 4:30. Today I'm trying to stay up when he gets up (the past few days I've managed to catch a few hours of sleep in the morning). Hopefully I won't crash and burn at 3pm (or earlier). I'll let you know how this works out. Since his day starts so early, Crys has been putting him to bed while I go to bed early and I've been getting up with him so Crys can sleep in a little. So far so good...for me anyway. Twice now Crys has fallen asleep while rocking Emmett to sleep. Last week when it happened, she woke up at 7am in Emmett's recliner, with him in her lap and his bottle on the floor. I woke up at about the same time trying to figure out why I didn't wake up when Crys came to bed. Turns out she didn't. It was my first night of uninterrupted sleep since before I got pregnant (usually, if Crys lets me sleep through the night, I still get up when she comes to bed or has to get up with him) and it was beautiful. The second time it happened was last night. Lucky for Crystal, I woke up to pee at 12:30 and found them sleeping in the recliner together. Otherwise she would have spent another night sleeping sitting up.

Emmett can locate his hands. He doesn't seem to care about them very much yet, but he knows where they are.

Emmett can poop out of his diapers. This happened for the first time on Saturday. It was gross, but not as bad as I thought it would be. Luckily he was wearing a sleeper so it was all contained even though it came out of the diaper. If I had waited too long to change his diaper last night, it would have happened again. On me. Ew.

Emmett can make his mommies smile every day in many, many ways.