I am back!

It has been a while since I have updated the blog, but I am back. And we also have our camera back! All we had to do was ship it to Canon's repair center, $160 and a week later, it is as good as new. Here are a few pics from when my parent's came to visit with Lucy and also those fabulous pictures we took before the camera dropped :)




Damn goat made us drop our camera



Emmy LOVED Lucy's bed, we may have to get her one :)

100 Degree weather in November is NOT normal

Especially, when you don't have air conditioning at home or work. This is miserable.

School Pics!

Are these not the cutest pictures you have ever seen?! Emmy looks like such a big girl to me. When I showed her the class picture she went through and said each of their names. It is so amazing that she is so young but has so many friends :)

Bedtime

Every night Emmy has to bring all her "friends" to my room for her night time story. She tries to bring all of them to bed but fortunately I am able to convince her to leave a few behind or she'd have no room to sleep!

Happy Halloween!

For the second year, Josh and I decided to have a few friends over for drinks, snacks and to get some great pics of the kids in their costumes. Well, this year no one wanted to wear their costumes! We bought Emmy a lady bug costume but I decided to sew sequins on black spots to add to the skirt. Good thing she wore it for about 4 1/2 minutes before she said "all done" and took it all off. So, she was costumeless. On the actual Halloween night we wanted to take her to a few neighbors houses for fun. Now that she can say "bumble bee", she is really into them so decided she'd rather wear last year's costume. I can't believe it still fit! So, she was a bumble bee for the second year in a row and looked just as cute :)

Coloring on her pumpkin. Josh and I went through the trouble of cleaning the other 2 out, roasting the seeds, but never carved the damn things!



She had her costume on for such a short time, this is literally the only picture I have of her with the whole thing on.



Putting tickers on the pumpkin with Finn and Ava. At least someone wore their costume!



Emmy showing her buddy Jake her favorite hiding spot. Jake is her buddy from daycare, they have gone together since they were only a few months old. It was the first time the played outside of Baldwin. It was so cute to see how excited they got to see each other!



Cute girls in the jammies :)



Come on, I am ready to go!

Pumpkin Patch

Saturday we drove 30 minutes out east to meet Anne, Noah and Finn at the Pumpkin Patch. It was on a dairy farm so it smelled pretty bad, was pretty dirty and there were so many flies I swear there is still one flying around in my car! Unfortunately, Josh dropped the camera while trying to take a picture of Emmy petting a goat :( We are going to try and get it repaired but it does not look good. It was cute to see Emmy and Finn running but next year we are taking a trip to Vons to get our pumpkins!

Emmy did get to drive a tractor and ride in the wagon with Finn. I took these with my phone, they turned out pretty good!

20 months old

I can't believe Emmy is no longer in the "teens", she is growing up so fast it is ridiculous. She continues to amaze us each day with what she learns to say, do and how much her personality is coming through. I love her so much, I can't believe it is possible to love her more until I do each day. At 20 months Emmy:

- Is still a pretty good eater with very mature habits:
- She still LOVES guacamole, tortilla chips are her favorite thing ever to eat
- "Dipping" is her favorite meal pastime
- She likes parmesan cheese sprinkled on her noodles
- She will now only eat the muffins tops
- Her favorite cereal is now mini shredded wheats and she even eats them dry!
- Her favorite vegetable is still asparagus but she is also a big fan of cooked spinach
- She is still obsessed with Elmo and watches "Elmo's adventures in Grouchland" almost everyday
- She has started to like watching "Yo gabba gabba" but only likes when DJ Lance is on the screen and calls him "daba"
- She sleeps with a stuffed duck, elmo and at least 2 babies every night
- Her favorite baby is black with long black hair, I love seeing her carry her around since she is so fair
- She has another baby that her cousin gave her so she calls it "didan" for Dylan
- She LOVES to wash her hands in the sink
- She peed in the potty again today!
- Her favorite books to read before bed are one about shoes and I'll Love you Forever. She makes me read them about 3 times in a row and then "reads" them to me
- She carries our house phone around the house and pretends to call Nanny and Papa
- She is learning 5 new words a day - I swear. She is now saying at least 2 words at a time:
- Bumble Bee
- Bump head
- Thank you Mama
- All done cook
- clap hands
- Where are you?
- Almost home
- etc, etc

She is such an amazing little girl who could not be happier in life. She loves going to daycare and has started to talking about her friends "Mimi" and "Rylie" and looks disappointed when we show up to pick her up. Her favorite buddy is still Finn of course. We have a picture of them on our fridge she see talks about him all the time :) I can only imagine the fun times we have to come as she grows up and learns even more!