Updates

Last week I took several pictures to put on the blog . . . but never quite found the time to sit down and actually post them. Here are just a few things that happened last week. I have a basket downstairs of Abigail's toys and Emily enjoys bringing her things. Last week she went a little overboard . . . but Abigail loves Emily so much that she just watched her bring her all these toys with a big grin on her face:
However, Abigail is well aware of what her toys look like and LOVES to go in search of ANYTHING she isn't supposed to have. She kept trying to get the books off the bottom shelf of the book case and also tried to get Emily's soccer ball:
She also discovered the DVD player this week and kept trying to punch all the buttons and did manage to get some of my cookbooks off the other bookshelf. She isn't crawling yet but that hasn't slowed her down. She just rolls wherever she wants to go and can get there really quickly. Here she is rocking back and forth on her hands and knees so she should be crawling soon:
Several weeks ago our friend Carey help us find this princess book that her daughter enjoyed playing with. I tell you . . . this is the best $15 we've ever spent. Emily plays with this book ALL THE TIME. She carries it with her in the car and takes it to each room in the house. It entertains her so well:
And I FINALLY got this outfit done. It's been sitting on my sewing machine for over a month now. I finished the pants a long time ago but couldn't get motivated to finish the top. But here it is!
I made her the capri pants and top because she prefers to wear pants or shorts . . . but wouldn't you know it . . . the past couple of days she has wanted to wear a dress. I can't keep up with this girl!

Lately she wants to wear her "big shirts" because she has been big into getting herself dressed with no help. She can't get most shirts over her head so she really likes the big t-shirts like this one because she can put them on by herself:
Saturday morning she came to our room and announced, "I got dressed all by myself!" She had gotten up, gone to the bathroom, and then got her clothes out of the dresser and got completely dressed in her shorts and big t-shirt and then came to wake us up. Big girl!

Last Thursday Joe and I celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary! We had celebrated a little earlier by going to see a movie together while my parents were in town last weekend and could stay at home with the girls. The last movie we went to see together was last year for our anniversary : ) Thursday was just a regular work day . . . but Friday night we did enjoy grilling out beef kabobs . . . they were yummy!