Family

My family got together this weekend for the first time since last Christmas. Here we are after church this morning. I was amazed that we were all looking at the camera : )

Cold Weather

Last night Emily and I played in the leaves. It was so cold that I got out her big thick coat and gloves. She was so cute I had to take a picture! I remember Sarah wearing this coat when she was little and thought how cute she was . . . thanks again Michelle for another hand me down . . . cause we love them : )
Here are the pants that I made in my sewing class. Yea!

22 Months Old

Emily is 22 Months Old Today!!!

Emily enjoys playing with her puzzles, reading books, going thru the letters and matching them to the alphabet cards that we have, watching Elmo's world, "walk away" for walking around, playing outside, etc. She knows several colors and can identify most of the letters of the alphabet. She uses adjectives in her sentences now like "Emily's blue plate" or "Mommy's green shirt".

Here she was last year at 10 months old:


Last night Tara and Taylor came over for dinner. Emily has tried some of our corn on the cob before at restaurants but last night was the first time I ever put the holders on each end and gave her a whole piece. That girl went to town on her corn. She kept calling it "poppy corn". She ate all of hers and then asked me for mine : ) Here are Emily and Taylor enjoying their corn:
Tara kept Emily for me while I went to my sewing class. I've learned how to hem, put in a zipper, make a button hole, and last night I made Emily a pair of pants! I think I'm going to give this a go and try to make Emily some clothes. I will get a picture of Emily wearing them once I've put the elastic in and hemmed them.

Matchy Match

First of all we want to wish Joe's mom a very Happy Birthday! Her birthday was on Sunday and we hope you had a great one!!!

Yesterday at church we decided to be the ultimate nerds and all match for church. It started out as an accident with me dressing Emily in the same color as my sweater. When Joe saw us he said, "well should I put on my dark red shirt?" . . . and I said, "sure . . . we can be the matchy match nerd family" . . . and he did. I got April to take a picture of us yesterday . . . in front of matching curtains in our Sunday school class : )
This morning Emily "helped" me sort the laundry. As you can see my two piles of clothes are getting mixed together. Usually when I sort the laundry, I have to go find bits and pieces of it strewn all over the house as Emily considers sorting to take up the whole area of the house . . . today she decided it was more fun to just roll around in it:
I never got the chance to blog about this last week . . . but we put Emily in her first official time out last week. I had considered trying it several times last week in situations where Emily would not obey what I was telling her to do . . . but I never got to an official, "o.k. I'm going to do this" state. But one night at dinner (and I'm SO GLAD Joe was here when I did it), Emily kept banging her hands on the kitchen table and Joe asked her to stop and she just kept on doing it. So we decided to give it a go. I turned the little chair that is beside our china cabinet to face the wall and told her she had to sit there in "time out" for 1 minute. We had no idea what she was going to do because we had never done that before. That sweet baby girl just sat there with her hands beside her and didn't move or say a word! I felt horrible!!!!!!! She still had her bib on from dinner . . . what a sight to break a parent's heart!!! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!! After a minute I went to her and told her that she could sit at the table with us but she could not bang on the table anymore. She said "ok" in the sweetest little voice . . . oh my. It took me 2 days to get that image out of my head. I'm sure future time outs won't be like that . . . but oh my goodness.

We have discovered that Emily loves to "walk away" in stores which means walk around. So Friday night we walked around the mall and Saturday night we walked around IK%A "eye-key-a" (I don't like to post store names on here). She had so much fun! We bought her birthday present there which is an art easel with a chalk board on one side and a dry erase board on the other. It's so nice to be able to buy her gifts while she is with us. She also wanted to sit in every chair that we walked by!

Picnic

Tonight for dinner we had a picnic and ate pizza while we watched the Auburn Homecoming Game (they always show SEC games on one of our cable channels):

On Saturday, Emily and I attended Adriana's birthday party. Adriana's mom, Janel, used to keep Emily for me. It was good to see Janel again and meet their 2nd daughter Sienna. Happy Birthday Adriana!

Emily's FAVORITE thing to do now is to watch videos of herself on our computer. Yesterday when she got up from her nap the first thing she said was "Emily video" . . . so she watched a few before dinner:
To keep her from becoming completely IN to herself, we watched some videos of Riley (our friends baby from church). Every time a video was over, Emily said "more Riley" while signing "more".

We also enjoyed putting crazy ponytails in her hair on Friday night . . . a fun weekend indeed!
You will notice the smiley face sticker on her shirt. This is the sticker she got from the "sticker man" when we went grocery shopping earlier that day:

Fall Picture

They took pictures at Emily's school last month. I was so good this time and ordered a very small package including this 5x7. It was so hot the day of the pictures but I refused to have her fall picture taken with a summer dress on . . . so I took her that morning, had her picture taken (luckily her class was the first for pictures) and then changed her into shorts for school!

This picture was taken of Emily at 20 months. I found this picture of me at 20 months. I'm digging the 1970s frilly dress:
Wow . . . look at this picture . . . I think this is the same dress but with MANY more accessories. Mom . . . why in the world did you have me in this get up . . . . this is a hoot!!:

History Museum

Yesterday we went to the History Center in Atlanta to see the Jim Hens0n Exhibit. We even ran into our friends the Bramletts while we were there! We thought they were going to show lots of puppets from Ses@me Street and The M uppets but there were only a small selection of those on display. Most were drawings and writings that Mr. Hens0n did . . . which is great . . . but not for a 21 month old . . . we need big huge puppet displays people! The end was the best where they had paper and colored pencils for her to draw with and some hand puppets she could play with.

The rest of the museum was really nice. They have tons of stuff to see and you could really spend all day there. We chose to see the Olympic museum and the Civil War museum before heading home. During these exhibits Emily enjoyed looking thru her new Ses@me Street book that we purchased and eating her goldfish.

Emily is very into hats now so she wore this one to the museum:

Coloring with Andrew:

Playing with the puppets:

Olympic museum

Emily enjoying her new book:

Medals from the 1996 Olympics:

Replica of the medal podium

Trick or Treat

Last night we went "party hopping" to two different churches near our house for Trunk or Treat. Emily loved her lady bug outfit and enjoyed seeing all the festivities. She even got on an inflatable slide and played a bean bag toss game. The first time someone tried to give her some candy to put in her pumpkin bowl, she didn't quite know what to do with it. After that initial attempt, each time someone would ask her if she wanted some candy she would dig around in her bucket and try to hand them some of her candy! Sweet girl. Finally by the end she learned to say "Trick E Treat" (for Trick or Treat) and would select some candy from their bowl. When we got home she enjoyed going thru her bucket to see all of her treasures. Fortunately she doesn't know what candy is yet so she just liked playing with all of the packages. There was one bag of pretzels (smart idea!) and she ate that before bed.