Long time, no post!

Wow!  It really has been a while!  I have just been so exhausted lately, hmmmmm.....

Anyway, we are in Louisiana right now, Baton Rouge, visiting Dan's Dad, and having a blast.  Here is a picture of Emmy's favorite thing to see here:

This is Mike the Tiger, LSU's current mascot!  They have the most amazing tiger enclosure for him, and he is visited by thousands and thousands of people each year.  LSU blood runs deep!  I am constantly amazed at what great fans there are here in Baton Rouge, and the entire south.  Although they had a pretty sad game yesterday!  We were at a rest home for the last five minutes of playing time, and it amazed me that all the patients were actually focused on the game, and knew what was going on!  The south is the place to have a football team, they have the best fans!  

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!  We sure did!  Post more soon.

Happy Halloween!

I know, its a little late. I have been playing catch-up around the house. Every weekend I seem to get really behind, and every Monday I have to try to get everything done at once! I guess I am just a true procrastinator, down to the core :)

This year Emmy was a butterfly. She had the most adorable wings, and two really cute curled pigtails. She loved being a butterfly actually. When we first got the wings, she didn't want anything to do with them. One night her Papa was over for dinner, and told her that when she wore the wings she would get candy. She immediately let him put them on her and turned as said I want "candy, cah-ket (chocolate)." So, for the past week every time she saw them she would ask for 'cah-ket' and want to put them on. The night of Halloween she was so excited to get candy! We went to my parents ward Trunk or Treat. She walked up to each person and said 'cer teat' (trick or treat), even the scary ones. This girl has her priorities right, candy over being afraid of scary people! Ha! She got tons of candy, and probably would have eaten it all that night if I let her!

Here are a few pictures of the night.

Ready to go Trick or Treating!

At the Trunk or Treat with Uncle Roger.

Ty and Celeste, didn't he make a great Joker?

He was acting so funny, he kept hiding and scaring me, totally in character!

It's so hard to be so little and not be able to go down the big slide :) They watched for a good half an hour!

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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Oh -- did I mention . . . .

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!!!