Having Fun

Emily finally got to wear the outfit DeeDee had made her for Christmas. The top was a little big so I had to move some buttons over. She enjoyed wearing it today. Thanks DeeDee!:

I had my 2nd ultrasound today and all looks good. Emily was such a sweet girl at the doctor's office today! It was my first time taking her by myself during an ultrasound and she did great. When we got home Emily wanted to go swimming again:Tomorrow Joe and I are going to celebrate our 14th wedding anniversary a little early with dinner and a movie. We are looking forward to it! Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

Swimming

Emily finally got in her pool today with water in it : ) She has played in the "turtle" with no water, but today I put water in there and then went to get her to see if she wanted to swim. She had a good time. The water was SO COLD that it took about 30 minutes before she finally sat down:

I even got down in the water with her. Goodness knows what a sight I was sitting in that pool : ) The next door neighbors were grilling out and it smelled so good, I wanted to ask them to throw a few burgers on the grill for us . . .

In other news, here is a wipes case I made last week. I wish I had one of these when Emily was born. It's so handy! You can fit a wipes case and several diapers in it. I've enjoyed using it this past week . . . since girlfriend has shown NO INTEREST in potty training:

Visiting Grandmama

This weekend we went to Auburn to visit Joe's mom. We had a nice visit!
We saw Joe's sister Leslie and Vann as they headed to the beach. Emily got upset because she wanted to go to the beach with them and during the afternoon she kept telling us that we were going to the beach to meet Uncle Vann and Aunt Leslie . . . we sure wish we were . . . :

We also got to have lunch with our friend Willisia and 2 of her boys and her sister Marion. It was great to get to see them:This morning we visited the church we used to attend in Auburn and it was great seeing everyone! A good visit all around . . .

Happy Birthday Joe!

Today is Joe's Birthday! This afternoon Emily said that "daddy can wear a crown for his birthday"! She remembered that at school this year they all got to wear crowns for their birthday. So we made Daddy a crown to wear tonight . . . and of course Emily needed one too.

Emily enjoyed wearing her crown most of the afternoon:

The other day we went to the store and I let Emily pick out whatever card she wanted for Joe. She loves the cards that play songs so this is the one she picked out. It has a green monster on the front from Gh*stb*sters and all the way thru the store she kept saying, "the green monster is scared of me". Here Joe and Emily are enjoying the card:

More fun at the Zoo

Well guess where we went yesterday : ) Joe was working so my friend Tara and her daughter Taylor and friend Jadin went with Emily and me to the zoo! It was overcast yesterday morning so we enjoyed a pleasant visit.

Emily took a liking to Tara's hat so she wore it for some of the day. I told Tara it looked like I was pushing around an 80 year old lady with her gardening hat on:
Taylor and Jadin played "little moms" to Emily yesterday and showed her stuff, held her hand while we walked and pushed the stroller. I told them I needed them to come with me more often:

The rhino was out for the first time yesterday:
and I discovered for the first time that we have a Bengal tiger at the zoo. Didn't know that until yesterday:

They also had some pigs out yesterday at the petting zoo. The trainer was getting them to do little tricks for us:
Before we left Emily wanted to ride the carousel and train and then we headed home for a late afternoon nap.

Play Time

Emily had been talking about Julia all week last week and wanted to know when she would see her again. Julia is the girl at Emily's school. So we met her and her mom and baby sister at a park yesterday and then went to lunch together. The girls had a nice time and I had a nice time visiting with another mom.

These pictures were taken at 11:30 in the morning and Emily was already beet red. This is the park where you can feed the ducks but once again . . . they weren't there yesterday. So we tried to feed the geese but they weren't interested. But Julia and Emily had fun throwing bread in their direction.

All spread out . . .

Our kitchen was a disaster area this weekend as Joe and I were working on different projects and this is the only room in the house to spread out . . .
We are still hoping against all hope that someone will buy our house so we can move . . . we've given it until July 31st. If nothing happens by then we are starting plan B which is "work with what ya got". Otherwise we might be moving in September and I don't have the personality type to handle doing that so close to Baby B's arrival.

Here are the burp cloths I finished last night for a baby shower I'm going to Sunday. I love burp cloths . . . they are so cute to me. I have fun making them: . . . now I've got to get motivated to finish a top I started for Emily so she can start wearing it!