Busy life with the Waffle Monster!

So, we gave Emmy some waffles for breakfest last week, and it was a big hit. She loved it as do I! I have never seen her stuff her face like this before with food, she REALLY liked the waffles. She can be quite passionate about her food.

Its been a busy week for us all. Bekah has been extremely wonderfull as usual as a mom by toggling between a busy mother / housewife and work. Watching Emmy alone can be a handful as she explores everything, and loves to destroy anything. As for me, Im done with my midterms, and I did fantastic! They were harder than I thought, but I overcame that and did well. School is going great and I am enjoying the program.

I went to an ASU game last saturday night with my brother-in-law Layn, and my father-in-law Roger, where the Sun Devils beat out Cal state bears. It was a great game and had a good time with the family.

Haven't posted anything for a while, sorry! Emmy is doing great, she is so on the go! She is such a happy girl, especially when she gets to play with her best friend Tyler! They are so dang cute together, always getting into trouble. They have been giving each other baby hugs lately, they press their heads on the other one's back or shoulder and close their eyes. They are also pressing their heads together, they are so cute! Everything one of them is doing, the other is right behind! Emmy is crawling everywhere, but Ty is still just scooting on his bum, he's really fast, and can keep up with her pretty well. They both light up when they are together, it is great having Celeste, Layn, and Tyler here. Emmy's top teeth are almost finished growing in, but she still won't let us take a picture of them. She has a favorite blanket now, she is so attached to it, just loves to take it everywhere with her. Here is a few pictures of her snuggling her blanket (thank you Cathy Bobby andAnnElise for the blanket:)

She has also started to hold her own bottle - it's great! I can just sit next to her, just a little independence for our little one!

Dan is facing his first set of midterms right now, and I am trying to juggle a full time mom and part time employee. It is a constant battle for balance in my life. I think I'm choosing the correct path? Hope so. I is hard to know the long term outcomes of many of our decisions, but I feel this decision is right, family first.

Emmys first word!!!

Besides mama, and dada, emmy said her first real word!!! And the word is Burp!!!! Shes taking after her father in so many ways!

Super Emmy

I tell you, being a mother is great, always something new and
different. Emmy is getting her fourth tooth, the second front tooth on
the top. It has completely cut through and now just needs to keep
growing in. She is a champ at teething, just gets a bit cranky now and
then.

Lately her favorite thing to do is read. She crawls up to her toy
basket and starts to pull out all her books. She loves to sit on the
floor surrounded by them just flipping through their pages, usually
upside down.

Here is a video of our Sunday mornings. Since our church
doesn't start until 3 p.m. - we have lots of time to read the Sunday
paper and stuff. Emmy really likes to look at all the ads.

I have remembered a very important moment in my young life today. I recall a
day when I was very young, a disappointing day, the day I realized in
my very young mind .....
that Cookie Monster doesn't really eat the cookies, just breaks them up
and throws them around. Yes, that was a sad day.

Love to all, Bekah

Home with a cold

Well, not a lot is going on here. We are supposed to be at an ASU
football game with some good friends, Pete and Rebecca, but Emmy and
Bekah have colds, so we are home. We both have fevers, sniffles, and
congestion. Despite these, Emmy is in a great mood, just a little
tired. We have failed to post some of her recent accomplishments, so we
caught them on tape today and yesterday.

Here is Emmy laughing with Daddy, note the snort in her laugh that is not usually there, just cause she's sick.

Here is a clapping segement.

And the playing of the peek-a-boo.

This is such a fun age for babies.

Emmy the Amazing!

So here is an update for the arizona Dannenbergs.

Emmy has recently picked up two new tricks out of know where. We are not sure where she picked this up, possibly from some friends of ours, but she plays peek-a-boo with blankets, hands, etc.... She also decided to start clapping. This were sure she got from her cousin tyler. In other emmy news, shes still an adventurer and a tough kid. She can take a good tumble. Shes also getting in her third tooth!! Its poking through.

As far as bekah goes, shes busy with watching emmy during the day and working part time at night.

And I (dan) am still cranking it out at ASU. Its crazy busy though. As it should being the 2nd busiest campus in the nation!!!!!! I have usualy an hour and a half inbetween classes which is great for homework and lunch. Lunch though is quite pricey on campus, so I try to bring food or on thursdays the Institute building has $1 lunchs. (The Institute is an LDS building that has gospel classes you can take, its really cool). So far im loving school still. The design college is VERY competitive, but I like that. Out of the 300 students in my class, only 44 will be accepted for the 2 - 4 years of the school!!!! Its REALLY intense. But, I love challanges and their course do that for me.

MONKEYS CAN CLIMB BUT THEY DON'T BITE!!!

Hello again, so soon! Just an update on our little family. Emmy never ceases to amaze me. She is getting her top teeth, one has been cutting through for the past few days. She is wonderful about it. Just a little upset here and there, couldn't ask for a better teether. She is so obsessed with her tooth, she has to chew everything, and sometimes trys to bite things she shouldn't (like my arm, and tyler's head!!!). She has also been climbing everything. Every time I look over at her, she is climbing something different. Here is a picture from this morning, she climbed into her toy basket with one leg, to try to get to Elmo on the tv, and couldn't get the other leg in or her one leg out! She got stuck, and wasn't quite sure what to do about it. I don't even know how she got in there, since its about waist height for her. She is a monkey girl, maybe she should be one for halloween ..... hmmm