Daddy's Little Girl

I think all children have a special relationship with their Daddy. This is especially true for Emmy and Dan! I can remember my Daddy when I was a little girl being so much fun, coming home from work and playing games with us. I remember my Dad inventing a game called the Tickle Monster. He would lie on the floor and pretend to sleep, and all us kids would sit on the couch. If any of us dared to leave the safety of the couch and get too close, he would wake up and tickle us until we got away. I remember that game being so much fun for all four of the kids in my family. Really my Dad was probably just tired, and this game helped him get a little rest!

Dan and Emmy have invented so many games, just like I remember my Dad doing when I was little. As soon as Emmy hears Daddy at the door, she looks at me and says "Daddy find you". Then she runs off to hide in one of the bedrooms, and waits for Daddy to come find her! She loves to 'hide' - even though she still thinks just cause she can't see Daddy he can't see her! They have made up countless games - panda bear, Emmy sandwich, puppies, etc. Dan's creativity amazes me. How he can go to school all day long, not to mention ride the bus system there and back, and still comes home and loves to play with Emmy is something I admire in him.

Although kids typically cry for Mommy when they get hurt, are hungry, need a diaper change, or are tired --- Daddy's have the best job and develop a unique relationship through love and play time!!!

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We found Broby!!!!!!

Emmy's long lost best pal has returned from the world of lost toys! Daddy found him between the cushions of the chair in the front room! (I promise I clean my house, don't know how it slipped by!) Best friends are reunited!

Emmy has also started using the potty! One morning she came to me as said 'Mommy poo poo' - and I thought she was talking about the fact that Tigger and Pooh were on TV, but then she started making the poop face, and I got what she was meaning - finally. She used her big girl potty twice that day, but didn't use it again sucessfully for a week or two. The last two days she has been using the potty for #1's and #2's quite regularly. Not to the point that we are buying underwear yet, but she's doing a really great job! We'll see if this sticks, or if it is just a phase brought about by the chocolate reward she gets when she uses the toilet :)

We have all been sick with sinus stuff for the past week, since the weather turned cooler here. Shelly invited us to the zoo with her, Christy and Celeste. It was so much fun to all go with our kids, and the weather was great! Emmy had so much fun! She loved every play area, and animal we saw.

Emmy, Blaine & Ty sitting on a horse bench - Giddyup!

Blaine and Emmy on a dolphin bench. They had so much fun playing together!

Shelly, Karsten, Me, Emmy, Blaine, and Camryn as we were leaving the zoo. Can't you tell Emmy is ready to get out of her stroller?

The Zoo was so much fun - Thanks Shelly and gang!!!!

Random Pictures

Emmy is growing so fast, and is talking so much more! She has been super talkative at home for a while, but she is starting to be just as talkative outside of the home too!

Just a few fun facts and pictures from last week. The picture above is her 80's outfit! I love it though, the bright colors and cotton leggings, totally 80's :)

Emmy is my little beaner! She will eat almost anything that is Mexican food, and here she is devouring a bean and cheese burrito. Loves beans, Cafe Rio rice, tortillas, salsa, chips, etc. etc. etc. She should have been born in Mexico! ;) I went through the Taco Bell drive thru with her in the back seat the other day to get a drink (I needed caffeine) and as I pulled up to the window she starts saying 'Kako Beyl, Kako Beyl' (Taco Bell), and then starts saying 'burrito, burrito, Emmy wants burrito'. Seriously I know she loves burritos, but I had no idea she knew Taco Bell from the drive thru. At least its not McDonald's she loves, right?

She is Mommy's helper lately. She loves to help with laundry, cooking, cleaning, etc. The only think she doesn't help with is the floors, she is deathly afraid of the broom! Here she is helping make waffles on a Sunday morning. At this age she is more work than help, but its better than her crying at my feet while I cook.

Munchkin Say What???

Emmy is such a chatterbox lately! She just talks and talks and talks. More and more I am realizing that a lot of what she says and does is a reflection of what I do or say. I never realized how much I talk with my hands until Emmy started doing it too!!! She just cracks me up with some of the stuff she comes up with.

Sometimes when she hears someone fart, she calls them a dinosaur, because that sounds like the dinosaur at Target to her!

She calls Kix cereal 'Tatum' for a reason completely unknown me.

Several weeks ago we lost one of her favorite stuffed animals, Broby, a charcter from 'Yo Gabba Gabba' (If you've never seen this show, You Tube it, its hilarious!). Everytime she hears me talk about not being able to find something she tells me 'Broby have it' followed up with 'Broby sad'.

Here is just one small clip of our 'conversations', I just love this clip cause she just keeps talking even with her mouth full of a pear!!!