Emma at 4 months.

The last 4.5 months have gone by so fast, we can hardly keep up! Emma is growing up before our eyes into a beautiful little girl. On the 8th of March, Emma started laughing for the first time. What a treat! It is so innocent and sweet!

On Monday Emma’s friend, Nora, came over to play for the evening. Ben and I had so much fun watching the girls interact. Nora rolled all around while Emma watched. Nora would steal Emma’s toy, but then Nora would be distracted by Emma’s ear, so Emma would steal the toy back again! We look forward to seeing how close these two will be in the years to come!

Emma (left) and Nora are sporting their matching outfits.

Emma and Nora are finally starting to play together.

Nora thought it would be fun to "play" with Emma.

What a sweet picture of them playing side-by-side.

Yesterday, Emma took her first trip to the Mall of America. A lady on the elevator commented, “Her eyes couldn’t get any bigger!” She had fun playing with Oompa while Nona and I shopped. We went to the Carter’s outlet store and found great outfits for Emma. During her awake time this morning we played dress up!

Emma sporting her new swimming suit and sun hat!

Emma in her new hat!

This weekend we are off to Madison once again. Auntie Sue is here from CA, so we are all making the trip down to see Noah! Also, Uncle Steve and my cousins haven’t met Emma, so she is resting up for the big event!

I ran across a strange conflict today while working with jQuery and a form. My form was doing nothing when I called the jQuery .submit(); function — no errors, but no submit. My code:

$('input.saveApplication').bind('click', function() {
... other code ...
$('#application').submit();
});


The issue was caused by having an element with ID ’submit’:
<input type='submit' id='submit' value='Submit'>


Once I realized what was happening it made sense but it wasn’t immediately intuitive to me. If you have this error double check your IDs and rename as needed!