Everyone likes new pictures... :o)

Stinkin' cute EmJ and Mav
Dress-up - such a fabulous outfit!

Playing in the leaves at Nana and Papa's

Nana and EmJ- buried in leaves! :o)

Crazy glasses (and hair)! Hahahaa!

Bubble bath - woo-hoo!

no more binks...!

That's right... EmJ is all done with binks (pacifiers)! She's only had them at night for a long time now, but decided she was ready and we're done with them all together! Woo-hoo!!!

We had a special night last night with EmJ - we went to dinner and then got a cookie at the mall. And... she got to pick out a special pillow to have instead of her binks.

This is the cat pillow she picked out:

It's very cool because it looks like a stuffed animal, but it can unfold to a regular pillow...
...like this! She obviously loves it! :o)

She did really well going to sleep last night - she woke up once and asked where her bink was, but I just told her she was a big girl and we were all done with binks and she went right back to sleep! Yipee!!!

Sheesh... she's growing up so fast! :o)

a very happy halloween!

We had a very fun Halloween this year! I was pretty excited for it because it's the first year that EmJ could really, really enjoy everything going on. We went to our church's Pumpkin Patch party where there were tons and tons of super fun things to do! There was a hall of candy filled with lots of fun characters, carnival-type games, a play area, lots of bouncy houses, music, food... all kinds of good stuff. And boy, did we have fun! Our fabulously cute Snow White!!!
There was face paint and Kimmi had the awesome idea of EmJ getting an apple cause she was Snow White... stinkin' cute!

When we walked into the gym, EmJ bolted for the basketball shoot... not sure if she saw candy, or it was just her love for basketball :o) but it was pretty funny!

EmJ and Chloe waiting in line for a game - sharing a kiss... super cute! (Chloe was a "Stinky" (skunk) but her costume got too hot - there's a cute picture of her in it soon!)

Wonder Woman rockin' the ball-toss

(and Jeff was very proud of his picture - notice the ball going in the jar)

The Lil Stinky and the ball-toss

(notice the ball again - 2 for 2 - nice, Jeff!)

EmJ golfing with Daddy

EmJ and Daddy on a very fun (and tiring!) Halloween!

more pumpkin fun!

As promised, here are the pumpkin painting pictures... EmJ having tons of fun painting!
Chloe, Ireland, and EmJ painting away
Ireland - look at that concentration!

Chloe painting her pumpkin
EmJ getting some blue paint - her favorite color :o)

And EmJ with her finished products

Kimmi posted a blog about this too so head over to her page to see more fun pictures :o)

Halloween blog is on it's way... stay tuned!

pumpkin madness! :o)

We had a little fun with a pumpkin the other night...
This picture makes me laugh cause EmJ's face is hilarious - she would stick her hand in and say "eww!" and make this face - but she loved it!


Showing the camera the pumpkin insides...
We kept laughing cause every time she would put it down, she'd say, "my hands are all pumpkiny!" and she'd try to brush it off... haha!

EmJ and Daddy

The finished pumpkin!

We didn't do a traditional carving this year - instead we did these holes all around and rubbed cinnamon on the inside of the pumpkin... it smells so good when the candle is lit!!!

Here's my attempt at a picture of the pumpkin in the dark...

Tomorrow we're painting pumpkins so we'll have fun pictures of that soon... and of course, Halloween is Friday so we'll have plenty of those pictures to share too!

it's fall!

Funny story to go along with this video... So, EmJ asks a lot "what's his (or her) name?" about people on tv. Obviously, with all the political commercials, it didn't take her long to recognize John McCain and Barak Obama. From there, it wasn't too tough to tell her they were running for President. :o) Well, the other day she was looking at books on the couch and a political commercial came on. She wasn't even looking at the tv, and it wasn't the end of the commercial yet, and she just says, "...and I approve this message!" I laughed so hard that I had tears running down my face. EmJ definitely keeps us laughing!!!

Here are some pictures too... :o)

Obviously it's fall and the colors are gorgeous... so we had to take a few pictures!

EmJ looking at books with her duck - and yes, she put his book there for him and opened it and everything. It's so fun to watch her play with dolls and animals now cause she talks to them and pretends with them... so cute!

Big grin :o)

Rockin' awesome - EmJ and mom having matching toes - down to the sparkles! :o)
And for those of you who didn't know... yep, I got a tattoo! Hee hee!

One last shot of EmJ with some awesome fall colors - and a cheesy, but awesome, pose!

lots of fun... and pictures to prove it! :o)

EmJ :o)
We recently got the dress-up stuff from my sister and the girls had a blast with it! Here's Ireland as Snow White...
Chloe dressed up - she put her headband on herself :o)
and EmJ dressed up - awesome scarf!
I LOVE this picture! Ireland adores drawing on the magna-doodle and the other day, she drew these hippos - aren't they fabulous?! And I think her face is just too stinkin' cute in this picture!
Chloe and EmJ reading together

EmJ painting a picture - check out that tongue action!

And the final product- with the proud painter :o)

Yep, we're back at it!

We tried to potty train a couple times already -the first time EmJ just wasn't ready and the second time, she was just too stubborn (hmm, where did she get that?!). Anyway, a huge thanks to Chloe (and Kimmi!) for figuring it out because that made EmJ want to do it too! She adores Chloe and often wants to do whatever Chloe is doing. :o) So... last week she just decided she was ready. She told me she wanted to wear big girl panties and I said then you have to pee in the potty and she said ok... and she has been!!! WOO-HOO!!!! She's been doing so so SO awesome and I couldn't be more excited. She had a rough day yesterday at Kimmi's, but we think it was because she didn't want to stop to pee cause she knew Chloe and Ireland would be playing. :o) She's been great today- no accidents at all! And for those of you who know potty training - she's even pooping in the potty! ROCKIN' AWESOME if you ask me! :o) Yeah!!!

just some new pictures... :o)

Kind of a random mix of pictures, but still cute! :o)EmJ smelling some flowers
With Great-Grandpa Lee and Great-Grandma C on their 60th wedding anniversary! So awesome!!!
EmJ being quite a girly-girl! (She's not always a "tom-girl!")
Dancing on Daddy's shouldersFlying with Daddy :o)

a fun day at the museum!

Jeff, EmJ and I got to spend a fun day together at the WOW Museum and we had a blast! :o)EmJ in the pirate lighthouse
I had to put this one on - EmJ loves coloring (seriously, this is something we do at least twice a day!) so she had to do it at the museum too! And yes, the tongue is always out!
EmJ in a dinosaur (or maybe a dragon) costume
This thing was awesome! It's a huge bubble that goes around the kid - so cool! EmJ could have played with this for hours!
Driving the car... so awesome!

And here's a video of EmJ with tap shoes on... I think she liked them!!!