Thanksgiving

Just a few silly pictures from Thanksgiving!


Emma enjoying pumpkie pie. Watch out for that turkey though!!


Brinkley was so good with Emma, she let her walk her around (and around, and around)!

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Bubble fun!

In the bathtub Emma has this pink elephant that blow bubbles into the tub and plays music at the same time. So, as he produces more bubbles we like to build a bubble wall on the edge of the tub! Daddy got some cute pictures tonight!


Then we blow the bubbles back and forth at each other, which really gets her cracking up!

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Who let the dogs out?

I asked Emma to pose for me so I could get a picture of her cute silver dachshund shirt! She took her own liberties and went pose-crazy!


What a nutter butter!!

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Birthday party

Today Emma helped her friend Paul celebrate his third birthday! He is a BIG Cars fan! I had to admit to the other guests that I didn't know the names of more than one of the Cars (Lightning McQueen, but I thought he was purple!) nor had we ever seen the movie! I quickly explained that we have a little girl, however, I truly do want to see the movie someday!!

Paul blew out his candles before we sang happy birthday to him. He doesn't waste any time!


Giggle fest on the couch!

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Puddle prancing

Emma took advantage of the one minute stoppage of rain today to go stomp in a puddle! Two drinks in hand in case she got thirsty :)

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Making a list, checking it twice!

Emma is already starting to make her Christmas wish list! A few days ago she had the BiMart ad out, and was fascinated by the leaf blower! She was lying on the ground (like this picture) and pointing to it. Then she brought the paper over to Ed and pointed to it again! Yesterday a Hobbytown catalog came in the mail, and she enjoyed reading that as well. She choo-chooed at the trains, and got excited by the remote control cars and airplanes/helicopters! Here she is with the catalog pointing at some zoo animals that she liked.

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Today we had a pediatric development/occupational therapist appointment at the hospital. This could be our last one, unless we want to go back when she turns three. The doctor said that is up to us! Emma weighed in at 25 pounds, 5 ounces. Emma played well with the O.T. while the doctor asked me questions. The doctor really wants us to reconsider getting her speech therapy. We are having a hard time with this one because of the different things we've been told, so we'll have to figure out where to go from here!

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I didn't snap any photos in the room, but as we walked back to the car Emma got up on the bench to excitedly see the tractors below! (They are building a new children's hospital tower!)

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Just the necessities

The bare necessities! That's all Emma takes on a walk with Zoe. Mom's hat, ladybug backpack with doll and FRS radio inside (she never knows when she might need to walkie talkie with someone!!), water and musical lamb. Oh, not pictured is her blankie that I'm carrying! Phew, we need a mule! I'm just glad I had a free hand to hold Zoe's leash. I was carrying a few things by the time we got home :)

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Mooooving along

Meet the newest member of our house! Emma's been a little congested the past few days and so we got her a cool mist humdifier for her room. We hope it will help her sleep better at night! So far so good.


Look out, he's gonna blow!! I love how the mist comes out of his ears! Emma thought he was hot, but I showed her the air is cool. No way could we get one with hot steam! She got to choose between the cow and frog and she picked him :)


Emma likes to "hide, hide" these days. Hmm, wonder where she is?!

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Replay

What was the first thing Emma said when she woke up this morning? "Cacker!!" (That's tractor.) She loves to sit and watch her tractor videos over, and over, and over again. She even knows how to click on it to replay it! Fortunately the city is doing some construction near us right now, so every time we drive down the road we are bound to see a tractor of some sort! That is really exciting stuff, let me tell you :)

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Tractor videos

Here are a few videos of Emma "driving" Papa's backhoe on Saturday! It made a big impression on her and she is still talking about it!

Hold on!!

Emma was not too busy to wave hello to dad and mom :)

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Beaut-i-ful!

Tonight we played beauty salon. I decided I would try to cut Emma's bangs and save ten bucks (plus she's no longer scared or squirmy)! It worked out okay for the first time trying it, but it looks a little high in the center there, doesn't it?! We'll see how it lays after we wash her hair. I will say that some M&Ms were involved during the actual bangs trim!

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Emma had fun playing around afterwards (with all except the scissors of course)!

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The other night Emma was "hiding" in her (see-through) toy bin!

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Zoe found her! Come on out Emma, the gig is up!

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Tractor tracks

Today we went out to Papa John's farm to drive some tractors! Emma was so excited, she talked about it the whole way there (which went something like this: cacker! cacker!).

Emma didn't want Papa to turn on the tractor though. She was a little frightened! I also had to include her first tractor driving experience, all the way back to July last year!

But then she got to go up in the backhoe. Ohh... that was so fun! She let Papa turn this one on, and so she actually got to move it up and down, left and right! She had a blast at the controls.

Emma got to watch the cows eat their lunch! They were as scared of her as she was of them! We also cautiously followed this peacock around for awhile!

We also saw three deer while we were out in the field!

Emma picked some apples in the pouring rain. Hey, looks like someone (or thing!) beat us to this one!!

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Happy Friday!

Emma modeling for you this Friday. She looks ready for school today!!


Fuhgeddaboutit!

I wanted to e-mail Ed a picture of Emma holding some popsicles that we got for his sore throat. She was happy to pose! Then Zoe came into the picture...

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Leaves!

I finally convinced Emma to play in a pile of leaves I had raked. Except, she won't jump in them. She'll just run through them!


She even helped out a bit with her little rake :)

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I dream of trucks

Here's how I found Emma after her nap today. Kicking back on her horse (also serves as a pillow!) and reading her Trucks book that she had slept with. She wasn't too happy that I took her picture though :) Maybe I interrupted her story time!

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