A Trooper

Last weekend JD and Honey came to visit us. We all loaded up and went to the wooden train at the park to play. Emma was having a grand time until a wasp stung her on the foot. It swelled up to twice the size of her other foot. We had to cut the choo choo train playing short and go to the pharmacy on the corner. We immediately gave her benedryl and put some hydrocortisone creme on it. She was such a trooper! After she calmed down with the help of a lollipop that Honey had in her purse, she never mentioned it hurting again. After her nap that afternoon, she said, "Mommy, my foot is allllllll better!" Yay!

On Sunday night, Emma graduated to a big girl bed. She never tried to climb out of her crib and I thought about postponing this, but we decided we might as well go ahead and bite the bullet and make the switch.

She LOVES it!!

I just knew that there would never be another day that we would lift her out of bed because she would climb out. And I just knew that she would never stay in bed at night because she would get down and play with her toys. As usual she proved me wrong. Here is the picture Josh took when he went to get her on Monday morning.

Knock on wood...she has yet to get out of her bed at night or in the morning! I know at some point this fairy tale will end, but for now we're enjoying it.

Also in recent news, Emma is graduating classes at school now that she is 100% potty trained. She moves up August 5. I'm sure she will love her new class but we will miss her current teachers!

Two

Here are two pictures from when we visited my family that I haven't had a chance to post.

Me and my brother

Me and Josh

Movie with Mom

After church on Sunday Emma and I went to see the movie Winnie the Pooh. She did amazing. She sat and intensely watched without a word. Inevitably though, right before the big reveal, she whispered "Mommy, I need to tee tee." Of course we ran down the hall to go to the bathroom and when we returned whatever happened, had already happened. So I have no idea how the plot ended, but I know all was happy and everything was right with the world. If anybody saw the movie, let me know what happend!

Watching the movie...of course Baby had to join us for our trip to the movies.

For the last part of the movie, Emma stood up and watched.

The Last Piece

Emma has been virtually potty trained for a couple of months now. But there has been one missing piece of the puzzle before we can call her "potty trained"...pooping on the potty! Last night we got our last piece!! She told us that she needed to go to the bathroom and then she pooped on the potty. Hello big girl and goodbye diapers. I know that she will still have an accident from time to time, but she is in big girl underwear all day now except while she's sleeping.

We took her to get ice cream to celebrate!

Already?

Today marks eight years that I have been married to the best husband a girl could ask for! Happy Anniversary - I love you!

Going Home

We went to visit my family over the fourth of July holiday. We had a great time - here is the proof:

Showing us her stuff on the 4-wheeler

Josh bought a kayak while we were there and Emma loved it just as much as he did.

My sweet nephew, Jay

I think this is what content looks like

Ready to head back down to the dock to show off the new hat that Mimi bought her.

The only way we could get her out of the water was to promise that Josh would take her on another ride.

Eating watermelon and boiled peanuts.

Mema, Papa and Emma. So glad you could come and visit for the afternoon!

Two of a Kind

We went to visit my family for July 4. Emma and my nephew, Jay, played so well together. They are only 10 months apart so they were perfect playmates. They were adorable and sweet {most of the time} to each other. I have enough pictures of just the two of them for a post. So this post is of these two cute cousins playing together.

Taking turns on the 4-Wheeler

In the water with my brother Johnathan

Splashing each other with Josh and my uncle Vaughn

Eating watermelon and boiled peanuts on the dock

Dancing around to the Princess and the Frog

Showing me what they are eating - it's cupcakes if you can't tell.

Reunion

Our playgroup had a little reunion last week at Chuck E. Cheese. I can't believe how much all of these kids have grown!

Emma climbed up and buckled herself in. She rode this ride about 15 times.

She loved putting the "money" in the slot.

This game took forever because she would throw the ball and it would come right back to us. I had to start helping her throw some of them so that we could move on to the next game.

Girls, I had so much fun - we need to do it again soon!!