Makeup and Bubbles

Yesterday afternoon we blew bubbles in the front yard. Someone from school had passed them out at their Valentine's party.

Here is Emily trying to blow bubbles:

This face is after she tasted the bubbles . . . not too good:

This morning she helped me (like always) with my makeup. She decided that Big Bird needed some makeup on too:

And then she tried to put some on herself. She also tried to put some eyeliner on Big Bird's eyes!

Every day when I watch her do stuff like this I think it can't get any better than that moment . . . and then she'll do something else that makes me laugh or causes me to be amazed. This is such a fun age!

We also got a coupon for a FREE kid's meal at "Chick a Life" as Emily likes to call it . . . so I bet you'll never guess where we went for lunch today : ). This restaurant is the most kid friendly place I've ever been to. Twice now the manager has brought us our food to our table, gave Emily an extra toy, and one of the employees always brings me kid's straws, place mats, and handy wipes for clean up. She also came back later and gave me a refill on my drink . . . love it!

Also for the first time today, Emily noticed the playground there. She's never noticed it before but did today. So I took her in there for a few minutes after our meal. There was only one other mom in there with me and about 10 kids . . . one of the kids was so little she could barely walk . . . I'm thinking . . . where in the world is her mother!!!! Anyway, Emily had a good time and cried when I told her it was time to go. Guess I know what we'll be doing now every time we go eat lunch there : )

I've also been attending some "Sew What" classes where I bought my machine. It's a class where you bring whatever projects you are working on and the instructor comes around to help you . . . and if the topic is something you are interested in then everyone gathers around to learn. We've had 2 meetings so far and have so much fun! We've decided to start meeting on a regular basis. These gals are a lot of fun!

Happy Friday!

Exhibits

This weekend my parents kept Emily for us on Saturday and Joe and I went to the Kng T*t exhibit and the t@rra c@tta warrior exhibit. We also enjoyed a great lunch downtown at S*uth C(ty Kitchen . . . yum! We decided if we were going to spend all that money we wanted to take the time to read all the information . . . and you can't do that with an active 2 year old!!! Emily had a great time with PawPaw and DeeDee and we had a great day downtown. We enjoyed Egypt's exhibit better than China's just because there was more to see in Egypt . . . but both were worth seeing. You couldn't take pictures inside the exhibits so I took a couple of pics outside. Now I want to go to see the pyramids in Egypt!!!

First Piggy Back Ride

Emily had her first piggy back ride tonight. She loved it and kept wanting Joe to walk up and down the hall:
We got her 2 year portraits taken the other day. Here are a few of them:


She is still just as busy as ever. She loves coloring on her new art board we got her for her birthday. She is also wanting more independence in trying things for herself. It still blows my mind all the things she says to me and the things she remembers.

Overalls

I'm a sucker for a kid in overalls. I think THEY ARE SO CUTE! So of course I had to get a picture of Emily in her overalls today:
Here she is being a ham and holding the snowman she glued together at school today. I guess their teacher gave them some creative freedom on how to glue their snowman to the page:
Her thing lately has been to end everything she says with "right der" or "for a few mo' minutes". For example, every time I say it's time for bed she says, "play with toys for just a few more minutes" or "Emily's milk right there and mommy's water right there". She says "right there" with great emphasis. It's hilarious. She has also started answering our questions with "uh huh" really drawn out and with extra syllables. I sure am going to miss her talking like this one day!

More Talking

Emily has become much more talkative in the last couple of weeks (if that's even possible!). She tries to say complete sentences now and you can tell she is trying to mimic the way we have said things in the past. It's so amazing to listen to her and watch what she does. This past week we gave up having her pacifier in the car. Before she had her "green paci" in the car, and for bedtime and nap time she has her "purple paci, white paci, and A&b&rn Kigers paci". So we are down to sleep time now. Every time we got in the car last week she informed me, "no green paci in car, only paci at bedtime." At some point I want to transition into no pacifiers so we'll see how that goes. I'm still trying to decide if I want to have her go cold turkey or go down to just one paci in the bed and then eventually get rid of that one too. We'll see.

She also had her 2 year checkup on Friday and I'm happy to say that there was no crying during this office visit! She weighs 23 lbs 11 oz and is 36 inches long. She is in the 90% percentile for her height and 15% percentile for her weight. So still long and lean. She also had a vision test that she passed . . . although the white and black flickering lines they kept displaying during the test gave me a headache : )

Speaking of headaches, when I went into her room the other day after a nap she pointed to her head and said she had a headache and then she covered her eyes . . . I don't think she knows what headache means . . . just another attempt to mimic me. I don't even realize half the stuff I say and then I see a mirror image of it a few hours or days later from her . . . it's so wild . . . and the girl doesn't forget a thing!

Robert gave her a tea set for her birthday so she's been having fun laying the dishes out and having a tea party:

We also made our 2nd trip to a local kid's play area for Caroline's birthday party. The first time we went back in August, Emily went down one little slide. But this time, she wanted to get on all of the slides and jumping areas. So here we are going down the big slide on Saturday. You should have seen me trying to climb up those little stairs in the middle while trying to hold her too. Not a pretty sight! But the slide sure was fun:

And finally, here are my first attempts at using my embroidery machine. I've made two t-shirts and 3 burp cloths so far. It's taking me FOREVER to hoop the garments but I'm sure that will get easier with time. As you can see on my first t-shirt I didn't get Emily's name very straight. But that's why I did hers first : ) I realized with Emily's shirt that I would have switched the colors to make her name stand out more and I would have made the name bigger . . . so practice makes perfect:Here is the shirt we gave Caroline for her birthday which thankfully turned out better than the attempt I made on Emily's shirt. You should have seen me with this one before it started sewing the name. I must have checked the spelling of her name 50 times before starting . . . I was so paranoid I was going to mess something up that I started 2nd guessing everything . . . what a hoot!:

Here are some burp cloths I did for a friend who had a baby recently. Bliss . . . if you read my blog . . . stop here . . . your gift is in the mail. I sewed ribbon on the bottom of the cloths and then embroidered.

This one is my favorite. I LOVE pink and green and love the fringe on the bottom that you can add . . . it's so fun!:

Emily's Birthday Party

This past Sunday Emily turned 2. We had a full weekend of festivities with family and friends to celebrate! We first went to the Aquarium on Saturday morning. There were 1.5 million people there that wanted to see the aquarium as well . . . so it was a wee bit too crowded for our tastes . . . but the kids had fun:

Then that evening after naps we had Emily's Birthday Party:

Tara made the Birthday cake:

Robert insisted on eating the eyeball from the cake!
Thanks everyone for making Emily's party so great!!!!

And because we are gluttons for punishment we decided to go to the Children's Museum on Monday. My sister and I tried to keep up with 5 children in a crowded play area. The museum is fun and the kids had a ball . . . but it sure was hard keeping up with where everyone wanted to go. I liked the museum because they allow you to pack a lunch and eat there . . . instead of the fortune that we spent eating at the aquarium on Saturday. Here are a few pics from the day:

Taking a rest and reading some books:

We spent most of our time at this slide. This was Emily's favorite spot:

This was the only time that day that all 5 were in the same place at once:Taylor checked everyone out at the cash register for a long time! Sarah LOVED having Taylor to run around with at the museum.

2 Years Old!

Emily is 2 Years Old Today!!

We had an Elmo party for her on Saturday. I will post those pictures later: