Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Merry Christmas etc.

Things have been a bit crazy around here lately! I went on a work trip to Disneyland for a couple days, and it was Emmy Daddy time while I was gone!!! They had a great time together, of course. What's not to love about Daddy time? Daddy's are way more fun than that tired and nauseated Mommy!!!

A few happenings around here, Emmy had a birthday, and I have not yet

posted pictures. Its on my list to do, but I need to download the pictures still. I know, procrastination! She got lots of fun toys, and had a small party with family. Here is a picture of her with her favorite friend from her birthday. She got this Mickey from Peepaw, and just loves him, he goes everywhere with her!!!

Aunt Nanny sends so much fun stuff for Emmy. Here are a couple pictures of some of the fun things. At Halloween she sent a bunch of orange and pumpkin stuff, and for some reason Emmy loves these pumpkin slippers. She can't walk on our hard floors without sliding all over, but she still loves to put them on and try to walk around in them!

I think she loves that she can put them on herself too, she is obsessed with trying to dress herself lately. She will go in her room and get all the piles of clean folded clothing, bring them into the front room and spend the next hour trying to dress herself with them. Its too funny, Daddy calls it fashion show, even though she is rarely successful at actually getting dressed. I'm all for the independence though!!!

This next picture is of the gingerbread house Nanny and Grams Fae sent for Christmas! Emmy had so much fun putting it together for FHE! The directions say you have to let the house sit for 15 minutes after putting the walls up, and that was hard for Emmy to do. She was so excited to decorate it! She loved it. Thanks so much Nanny and Grams!!! It was so fun to do!

Yes, Emmy is licking her fingers. Although that icing does not look the least appealing to me, she couldn't keep her fingers out of her mouth!

Emmy loves anything that has to do with Christmas, which is really good for me, cause I have the tendency to be a bit of a scrooge when it comes to Christmas. I love the meaning of the holiday, and all the traditions, I just dislike the crowds and how everyone is extra stressed, and everyone in the malls, on the roads, etc. are just plain rude to each other. Emmy is a good reminder of the good about the holidays to me. Every time she hears Christmas music, sees lights, spots someone sporting a Santa hat, or sees a Christmas tree she comes right up to my face and says 'dats Cismiss Momma, dats Cismiss (Christmas)'. Its cute, and definitely puts everyone in a better mood around here.

Hope you all have happy holidays! We sure will! Merry Christmas!!!!!!

Thursday, December 4, 2008

So, on a side note.


What does this mean? First of all, it means that I am not immune to pregnancy tests!!! Hooray! For those of you that haven't heard the story, lets just say I have a 1 win 15 losses record with pregnancy tests, and all of the tests were taken when I was at least 3 weeks pregnant!!! So I am happy to know I don't have to get several blood tests to figure out I really am pregnant and not just going crazy! :)
Second, this means that all the tiredness and sleeping in I have been blogging about does not mean I have mono!!! With Emmy, the first trimester was the most difficult, cause I was so tired. It gets easier for me from there, even the last few weeks I am not as tired as the first few months!!!
We will be having another baby next summer, isn't that the greatest time to have a baby here? Yeah, I didn't exactly plan that very well, did I? But its okay, I will take it!

Thanksgiving -- finally!

I know, the holiday was over a week ago! HA!

We spent our holiday in fabulous Baton Rouge, Louisiana! Thank you again, Bill for having us out. We had a great trip, very relaxing. I slept in every morning, I really took advantage of Dan being around!!! Emmy had a blast with her PeePaw (that's what she calls Grandpa).

We visited Mike the Tiger at LSU (seriously, still shocked at how many people were there just looking at the tiger).



Had Thanksgiving dinner with Dan's Aunt Donna and Uncle Scott - delicious food! My favorite was the cranberry chutney over cream cheese with crackers to dip and eat. Yum-oh!!!



Visited with Dan's mom a lot, including going to Baskin Robbins - Emmy loved it. Ate almost an entire scoop of ice cream!


And just hung out! Emmy had so much fun, and just loved spending time with PeePaw. We can't wait to visit again, hopefully sooner than later. :)