For a while now, we’ve been watching Emme try to walk. At first, you could put her feet on the ground and show her how to stand there holding your fingers… then in the past month, she would walk around holding your fingers… then pushing her toys everywhere… then reaching from person to person or other objects to get to her destination. She can be pretty persistent when she wants to go somewhere, trying to get your fingers. She will even turn around and hunt for your hands if you try to hide one!
Baby Girl Stokes
stubborn little cus!
- January 21, 2011
- Baby Girl Stokes, Clearing It Up, Comings and Goings
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so, does she listen to mommy’s pleas to slow down??? OF COURSE NOT!!! Tonight she took steps between me and Robbie while we held her fingers. What?!?
Watching Em grow and change so fast has made me wonder about how God sees us. As we grow and learn new things, are there times God would want to hold us back? I look at her trying to pull up on the ottoman and find myself moving all her toys out of the way in case she falls backwards and such. Does he do that for us? Doesn’t that make a bump in the road for others or even us sometimes? I guess that’s why he says “wait” sometimes. I think we tend to relate to this meaning of waiting: “to remain inactive as until something unexpected happens.” What if waiting doesn’t mean to be “inactive”? I think many times God means for us to wait in terms of this meaning: “to be available or in readiness”.
Sure, waiting stops me from ramming my head into the wall over and over in my stubborn nature, but it also doesn’t mean to turn and run the other direction. How do I stay “available” or “ready”? By keeping my line of communication open! I can’t be ready for the call to do what God would have me to do if my phone battery is dead. I’ve got to stay alive in my walk through the Word, through active prayer, through fellowship. The next time I feel like God is telling me to “wait”, I’m gonna have to pray for a little more clarification. 
Oh well, enough rambling… here’s some video footage of Em these days!
playing with Minnie Mouse
stinker playing silly
play time before bath time
Please, oh please,
- January 15, 2011
- Baby Girl Stokes, Comings and Goings
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won’t you please slow down, Miss Em! You’re growing way too fast for mommy this week. You could just about make my cry. This week, you’ve changed to at least 2 sippy cups per day, started to actually eat your puff cereal instead of just throwing them everywhere, crawling forwards instead of backwards and today, YOU CUT A TOOTH! What’s next? Are you gonna crawl out to the truck and drive off to college???? You’re really wearing mommy and daddy out. But, we love you!
Here’s a picture of the booger last Sunday before church, wearing the dress I had made for her first Easter dress (that turned out to be WAY too big at the time).
Why There Will Be No Stokes Family Christmas Cards in 2010
- December 19, 2010
- Baby Girl Stokes, Comings and Goings
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I could write you a list of excuses about long nights at work, busy evenings with Robbie and the baby getting dinners ready and slaving to take care of everyone, but in this case, those are not the reasons.
The reason we have no Stokes Family Christmas cards in 2010 is IN-COOPERATION! And not from Robbie this time!! Different times now I have had Emily dressed in Christmas attire, sitting in front of the tree, and every single time she either 1. makes really strange faces, 2. won’t be still, 3. turns around and pulls ornaments off the tree or 4. grabs the branches and shakes (while making funny faces)!
Here are some examples of what we tried to get this holiday season for you. There are also some pics of her helping me make cookies. Hope they brighten your week as you get ready for Christmas!!!
- All
- the dough-girl face
- almost!!!
- look
- mom
- there’s an ornament back here!
- oops
- i pulled it off
- i found another one! A DUKE ONE!!
- got the eyes
- but what’s up with that lip?
- I’m so excited for Santa!!
- Getting ready to help mom cook
- Mom
- what’s that thing doing?
- What do I do with these?
- So
- I press it onto that?
- I’m not sure you know what you’re talking about
- Mom.
- Check it out!
up and up and up
- October 16, 2010
- Baby Girl Stokes
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This past month, Emily met a growing up milestone: she turned 1/2 of 1 yr old…. 6 MONTHS! She is growing up and changing so fast that I definitely see why someone with a 2nd baby just wants to hold and rock them all the time… cause before long, they don’t want you to hold and rock them!
She’s up to 15 lbs 7 oz, 27 1/4 inches, she’s eating lots of fruits and vegetables (her favorites so far seem to be sweet potatoes, broccoli, peaches and homemade applesauce), trying to sit up and she started rolling over just this week. It won’t be long before she’s moving and shaking so Robbie and I are trying to find ways to baby proof the house.
Here’s some pics and videos of fun things she’s up to:
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