Having Fun

Yesterday afternoon I put a pillow in Emily's bed for the first time just to see how she likes it. She slept on it yesterday and last night. She looked like such a big girl sleeping on a pillow when I went to cover her up last night!

She also enjoyed taking her baby for a walk yesterday in her stroller and walking in my shoes. Notice that she was still wearing her hat:
And this morning for breakfast she had to wear her Birthday hat again : )

Here are a couple more pictures from last weekend. Below are my mom, cousin Alice, sister Michelle, cousin Laura (holding her daughter), Aunt Betty, and me at the dessert party for Paul and Anna:

And this picture was taken last Sunday at my sister's house. My dad was entertaining Emily and Sawyer while lunch was being prepared. They were rolling their cars back and forth across the table:

Crown

They celebrated Emily's birthday at school today (she will be 2 on Sunday!). When I came to pick her up she had on her Birthday hat. Her teacher told me that so far she has been the only child to want to wear their birthday hat on their celebration day. Emily wore it all day at school and when it would fall off she would ask the teacher to put her crown back on : ) We rode home with it on and I had to get a picture!

Last night she decided that she wanted to run. She looked at Joe and said, "run". . . and then proceeded to run into the kitchen then around the couch and then down the hall into our room and kept doing that over and over again. She must have had some extra energy she needed to get rid of.

Dancing

This past weekend we went to my cousin's daughter's wedding in Birmingham. At the wedding all the kids enjoyed dancing as much as the "big kids". One of the bridesmaids got on her knees and slow danced with Sam. I wish I had caught it on video but by the time I got my camera, everyone had moved to the middle of the dance floor in a big clump. Sawyer later asked my sister if he could dance with a princess . . . how cute! I couldn't get Sarah on video because she had moved to the middle of the clump and had a ball dancing with everyone. Here is Emily and Sam dancing to the music.

Friday night we went to a dessert party with the bride and groom and family and friends. Sarah and Emily wore matching outfits:

Here are Emily and Sarah with my cousin's children:
and we got to meet my brother's new girlfriend Mandy. We think she was pretty brave to come to a wedding and meet our ENTIRE family for the first time:

Got Caught

Last week I was in the kitchen and Emily was playing in the living room. Every now and then I would hear her say "whee". Then silence for a little bit and then "whee". Something told me to go check it out and this is what I found her doing:

I know I know . . .

. . . . I'm sure you all are getting tired of hearing about my sewing projects, but I'm so excited about actually enjoying to sew after trying so many years and flopping . . . so please bear with me. This time I got to repair some pants for Emily. In the past these would just sit in her closet because the pants were gargantuan on her. I honestly think the pants got mislabeled. I was going to pull out the elastic and fit them to Emily's waist but the company sewed the elastic all the way around attached to the pants so I couldn't do that. So I "cinched" up each side of the waist and also cut off the pants and made a new hem because they were so long. Now she can wear this ADORABLE vest, shirt, and pants . . .

I tried to tuck the shirt in but it keeps coming out . . . so the picture looks a little sloppy. Emily enjoyed coloring this morning before school:
Last night my sweet hubby brought me flowers. They are so pretty. Thanks Joe!!!!I went to bed at 9:00 last night which is really early for me. I had a terrible headache . . . and was emotionally drained yesterday. Our friend Karen lost her husband suddenly Tuesday night and I couldn't stop thinking about them yesterday. Brad was only 33 years old. He leaves behind his sweet wife Karen and their two precious boys: Philip and Evan. Please lift this family up in your prayers. They will need it in the days and years to come.

Back to school

Emily's school started back up today and she was SO READY to go! The first thing she said to me this morning when I went in her room was "go to school today". When we got there she ran down the hall and into her classroom before I had even turned the corner. When I got to the door to sign her in she was busy playing at the train table and didn't even look up to tell me bye!

Tonight we went to the D0llar Store and they had these baby bottles . . . so I got her two for her new baby doll . . . what a bargain for $1 each!! She enjoyed giving her baby milk and juice tonight:

New Year

We have been enjoying the New Year by being lazy . . . so nice! We think Bud pretty well sums up what we've been doing the last couple of days:
I think the flash woke him up . . . he doesn't look too happy : )We've been watching movies, running a few errands, and enjoying each other's company. I finished sewing a pair of pants for Emily this afternoon. My sister embroidered her initials on a t-shirt.
I learned how to gather fabric to make a ruffle at the bottom of the pants.
I am going to my first class tomorrow to learn about my sewing machine. When you buy a machine they give you three 2 hour classes to show you everything about it and tomorrow is FINALLY my first class. I'm looking forward to it!

We have discovered if you want Emily to eat something . . . just throw a little dab of ketchup on her plate and she'll eat whatever is in front of her. The other night she wouldn't eat the pork that was on her plate, so I gave her a little ketchup and she ate two whole slices of pork and all of her green beans! She dipped the green beans and ate them like french fries . . . crazy nut. Today she dipped her hotdog, goldfish, and yogurt covered pretzels in ketchup . . . . nice.

We hope you all are enjoying the beginning of your 2009!!!!