January 28, 2011

Naughty Creativity

You may be wondering what a purple doll shoe, a sippy cup of milk, and a $0.49 paintbrush that Ms. Emory had to have from the hardware store all have in common.




Last Sunday morning while I was taking a 7 am nap (Emory woke up at 5:30 both Saturday and Sunday morning bright eyed and bushy tailed, plus she also woke up several times during the night, so Mama was tired) and Bradley was making her breakfast, Emory decided that the coffee table needed to be painted. She proceeded to pour milk from her sippy cup into the purple doll shoe and then use her paintbrush to paint the coffee table. She had also showcased her artistic abilities Saturday afternoon by coloring all over her slide with crayons. When I asked her what she was doing she told me in a "well duh" tone of voice, "coloring mommy." So now we are learning the correct places to color and paint!

January 18, 2011

2 year check-up

Yesterday Emory had her 2 year check up. She weighed 24lbs (16th percentile) on the dot and was 35.75 (92nd percentile) inches tall. Her doctor could not believe how tall she had grown since her 18 month check-up and we both joked about how this was the first time she has been above the 50th percentile in anything and it was in height! I am not sure where she is getting it from but we will take it. She passed her hearing test and her routine blood work came back normal. She had to get two shots which she did not like at all, but McDonald’s nuggets and French fries tried her tears quickly! She is really good at milking her bobo’s.

Such a little priss!


On the go with her baby doll, diaper bag, doggie and I believe Dot is in there somewhere too.

January 17, 2011

Happy 2nd Birthday Emory

Saturday we celebrated Emory’s second birthday with a small party with family. Emory had a great time playing with her new toys, her birthday balloons, and princess tiara. She was definitely a princess for the day! Thank you everybody for coming to celebrate her special day with us!


Emory's balloons!

Pretending to be a frog hopping

Opening presents, which took awhile because she had to stop and play with everything.

Happy Birthday Princess Emory

Yeah Cake!

Blowing out her candles

Playing with her kitchen, she actually climbed inside.

Cooking in her new fairy outfit!

Eating her skillfully prepared meal!

Racing Noah

Princess Emory

Cooking up a storm

January 13, 2011

Pigtails

This morning I decided to put Emory's hair in pigtails since she was being somewhat cooperative and not insisting on brushing and fixing her hair all by herself. I have not put her hair in pigtails much because she has a tricky cowlick and it is hard to part her hair down the middle. Her hair is really long also which makes her look so grown up to me. So here she is just before leaving for Ms. Betty's this morning with her not quite even pigtails!




January 11, 2011

The weekend and my little comedian

This weekend was pretty relaxed due to the nasty weather we were having. It pretty much rained, snowed, or sleeted all day Sunday. Emory decided to pull her chair over to the french doors, snuggle up and watch. She thought the snow was pretty, too bad it only snowed for an hour or so before the sleet began again.



Emory is quite the comedian and does not even know it. She is constantly cracking us up. Saturday night Bradley was reading Spot the Dog to Emory, which is one of her favorite books. In the story Spot is hiding and his mom comes across several other animals while looking for him. Emory had to act out each animal that Spots mom came across. Too Cute! Then the other night she placed Dot, Pooh, and a few of her stuff animals on her piano then started playing for them. When she was finished she clapped her hands and said thank you. It was so funny. She of course had to do it again since Bradley and I laughed. She is so dramatic when she plays too.
Here lately Emory has been insisting that she sleeps with the following, two baby dolls and there toys and bottle, Pooh, Dot, her Minnie Mouse backpack, her cell phone, two baby rattles, and her stuffed lamb and duck. After she goes to sleep I go in and take everything out of her bed. This morning this is what we found.
This baby was sleeping beside the bed with her teddy bear, toys, and bottle.
Minnie mouse and the rattles were by her blankets.

And these were all in bed with her, plus Dot who Emory takes everywhere.

I guess she was busy last night, not sleeping.

January 3, 2011

Happy 2011

Because we had our belated Christmas on New Years Eve we did sparklers New Years Day. Emory really loved the sparklers and was not afraid of them at all.


Lighting a big sparkler with Mimi.

Here she is pretending to be a frog and hopping around. She also pretended to be a butterfly, elephant, horse, and catepiller.

Mckenzie keeping warm in her Daddy's jacket watching the sparklers! I think she liked them.

Emory had a good time playing with the sparklers.

Belated Christmas

New Year's Eve Rachel, Andrew, and Mckenzie drove in and we had Christmas at Bradley's parents.


Little Mckenzie "skydiving" under the Christmas tree.

All wrapped up!

We tried several times to get a good picture of the girls with their bows, but Emory's would not cooperate.

Little Miss Neat made sure and put all the wrapping paper in a pile. Then she decided to sit in.

On her way to the pile of trash.

Mckenzie opening a present.

Emory's first My Little Pony set, or Horsee set as she calls them.

Riding her new horsee. She giddy upped all over the place.
Before Christmas she giddy upped with all my rolls of wrapping paper.