Hello Warm Weather

This weekend we welcomed the warm weather and went to play at Parker's house on the slip 'n slide. I know this is shocking, but Emma didn't want to get in the water. She just wanted to put her hands in it and watch Parker slip, slide and fall. I don't blame her though because the water was cold!

This is about as close as she got for the first thirty minutes.

The grass was turning into mud quickly so we cut the hose off. Emma and Parker practically had just as much fun playing with the hose as it ran out of water as they did with the whole slide.

Once the water was completely off and her feet AND the slide were cleaned off from where Parker had tracked dirt in, she finally sat down to slide. She got a few scoots in and decided that was enough.

She decided she'd be much better off just walking to the end and putting her feet in.

She is so girly! Parker just couldn't understand why she wouldn't get in the water. And it really baffled him when she walked around the mud puddles instead of through them like he did. They play so well together, but they are so different. I guess that is part of what I have in store for me if Emma ends up with a little brother! Should be interesting after my prissy little girl.

Life's Little Updates

My girl is getting so big! She is Miss Independent. These are some updates as of late:

1. Loves to dress herself including underwear, pants, socks, shirt (she mostly gets it on the correct way), and shoes (she can't tie them yet, but can wiggle into them if they are still tied and she knows which goes on which foot).

2. Gets up on and down off of the potty by herself. She still won't get out of bed on her own until Josh or myself walks upstairs and opens the door. Once we open the door, she will crawl out of bed. Why she won't get up by herself, we don't know. We have tried. I think it stems back to her first time in a big girl bed when I told her not to get up unless Mommy or Daddy was there to help her. At the time, it was a good idea.

3. Although she is prissy and very much a girly girl, she often is against me putting her hair in a ponytail or pigtails. Most mornings if I ask her, "Emma, do you want your hair up in two or one tails today?" Her usual response is, "Nothing. I don't want my hair up." And she's very adamant about it too. Don't try to tell her you're "just brushing" her hair because she KNOWS what you are up to!

4. She is really into BIG hugs and kisses lately which we just eat up. There is nothing better than walking in a room and seeing that little face light up and run towards you at light speed with a tackle and a hug. She also has started saying "I love you" much more frequently to us. We'll just be sitting there together eating and she'll say, "Mommy, I love you all the way to the sky." LOVE!

5. Responds with Yes Ma'am, No Ma'am, Yes Sir, No Sir (finally). We have been working on this one for a while and although she would say it, she wouldn't say it the first time on her own. We would have to say, "Do we say yeah to Mommy?" to which she would respond, "No, we say Yes Ma'am." Now she just responds with Yes Ma'am first which is a big step.

6. During meal times, her favorite thing to say is, "I'm going to make a happy plate and I'm not going to save Daddy ANY." It's just so funny because she really thinks it's hilarious. We think it's great because she usually cleans her plate or at least eats a really good bit of it.

7. She found a Looney Tunes DVD that I bought Josh before she was even born. Josh loves Looney Tunes. I put the DVD on for her this weekend and I have never heard her laugh like this before. She definitely has her father's sense of humor! It is so sweet to see them watching it together because they laugh at the same parts.

8. She is very excited about being a big sister. We find out if she is having a little brother or a little sister on April 9, so stay tuned!!

Here is a picture from Sunday on our way to church - this was a rare time when she allowed the pigtails!

Day of Fun

March 15 was our deadline at work so I've been working around the clock lately. The week of 3/15 we worked until about 2:00 or 2:30 every morning so I didn't get to see Emma before she went to bed. Saturday was my second day off since January 7...and I spent the WHOLE day with my girl. We declared it our day of fun.

I made cinnamon rolls for breakfast.

Emma ate them both with a glass of chocolate milk. What a way to start your day.
Then we went to visit Jaime, John & Christian.
Look at that sweet face!
Then me and Emma went to have pedicures! I know, she's a little young. But seriously, she was so excited when I suggested it to her. She sat perfectly still and the girl who did her pedicure said she was more still than some of the adults who come in!
She picked out blue and decided that I should get purple. Everybody who saw her told her how cute and adorable she was. That just made her more shy. She didn't open up until the very end and then she started telling them how she was going to be a big sister. So cute!

Juice box break

Last minute touch up before we attempted to get her shoes back on.
I took an after shot of our pedicures the next day. How grown up are her navy blue toenails in those little white shoes? Mine turned out more silver once it was out of the bottle, but Emma said that she "loves my toenails" so I take that as a job well done.After our pedicures, we headed to Chick-fil-A for lunch and ice cream. Since it was St. Patrick's Day, the ice cream was green. She thought that was pretty cool. And against my normal judgement I let her eat it in the car on the way home. I put some napkins down and surprisingly, she was still clean when we got home!

After nap time, we relaxed at home, colored a ton of pictures and played. It was definitely a day of fun for us both!

Jaime's Baby Shower

We are all so happy that God has blessed Jaime and John with baby Christian. We threw her a baby shower to welcome him into our lives and he even made an appearance at the end of it!

Hostesses and Jaime

Daddy and baby. Isn't he so tiny and cute? Actually, he isn't that tiny...he is already over 11 pounds! Good appetite on this one.
Look at all of this great stuff that Jaime got! Can you spot little Christian in the middle of it all?

All hands on deck
This was a cute one but blurry...I'm posting anyway!

Congratulations, Jaime and John. We are in love with Christian already!!

Bounce, Bounce

This weekend was ML's third birthday party. It was at a bouncy house. It always baffles me, but for some reason, Emma does not want to go into the bounce houses and bounce! She is a monkey at home and will bounce on anything. But this is the second time to a birthday party here and she resisted again. She went down the big slide one time with me and it was all over.

She found a big mat and bounced on that the whole time.

The birthday girl with Mommy and Daddy as we all sing Happy Birthday.

Rhonda sneaking some time to feed ML's new little brother.

On our way home she couldn't resist taking some licks of her lollipop.

Happy Birthday, ML!

Yeehaw!

Yeehaw Y'all!