Favorite Emmy quote of last week:

While she is looking at Daddy and making her obvious poo face, she says "Daddy, I'm pooping, I need you to change my diaper in a minute, ok?"

Is this child ready for potty training or what? Yeah right, she won't use the potty for #2's for anything, and trust me I have tried many many things!

Easter Sunday

Emmy loved Easter. She talked about it all week as she saw the eggs and candy in all the stores. I asked her one day what we celebrate at Easter and she quickly replied "Emmy's birthday". Not quite honey, what do you think we celebrate at Easter? She thought for a minute, and said, thoughtfully "the candy". Ha! Couldn't argue too much there, to a two year old that's all she sees. We did get to teach her a little about the meaning of Easter though, and she at least understood it was about Jesus.

Sadly, I forgot to take very many pictures. I was busy cooking, hiding candy and eggs, and playing the Easter bunny role. Oh yeah -- and I was growing a baby....... :)

Here is what we got....

Easter Egg Hunt

Loving her new Manny lap desk

Ready for church

Now we are waiting for the sugar rush to end! :)

What's not fun about a two year old?

Seriously, lately everything she does makes me either laugh or want to pull my hair out! Favorite quote of the day. . . .

Dan is sitting with her in the bathroom while she attempts to do a #2 on the big girl potty. Mommy is in the kitchen making dinner. I hear her say to him, "Daddy, I can't do poo poos with you in here. I need you to go to the front room and get Mommy."

She was dead serious.

It took me more than thirty seconds to get in to the bathroom to sit by her, and she starts yelling "Mommy I need you, I need you in here so I can do poo poos!"

Honestly, whose child is this?

A Visit from P-paw & Dan's Birthday

Emmy had a blast while her 'P-paw' was visiting. (that name is what Emmy started calling him when she was a year old, and it has stuck!) She just loved every minute. We went to the park several times, fed the ducks at the lake (or tried to), and just hung out. It was great!

This girl could live at the park!

At the park, Em got sand in her shoes and just couldn't bear to wear them anymore, so Uncle Layn let her wear his flip flops. It was amusing watching her try to play in them!

P-paw and Emmy walking by the lake. We tried to feed the ducks, but they weren't too interested. They must get too much plain white bread.

Emmy helping P-paw tie his shoes. For some reason she is really interested in laces lately.

Dan's Birthday

We celebrated Dan's birthday at a restaurant called Pizza Fusion. It had good food, and its all organic (not that I care about that). The food was really fresh and delicious (or as Emmy said d-yishious). They had a little bench outside that the toddlers were all obsessed with.

Dan requested 'Moon Cake' for his birthday, so that's what he got (thanks Nanny for that recipe, it is a family favorite!). Emmy and Ty helping blow out the candles.

This last picture is Emmy geeking it out with Daddy. She is listening to , what I can only imagine, some really awful 'techno' music that Dan calls 'electronic' or something. She felt so grown up being able to sit at the table with Daddy and listen to his music. She's sporting her new Manny shirt too (thanks OKC Smiths).

Seriously, love this girl. She is so much fun at this age. Don't get me wrong, she's not perfect, but isn't two so much fun (despite the challenges). She is getting all her molars - ha - I thought she was in the clear for teething until she was three, isn't that why they're called three-year-old molars? I guess not so much!

Lately she is just so active. I am glad she likes to be outside so much, she could live at the park in a little tent I think. I actually took the park away for a couple weeks in hope she would do #2's on the potty to earn the park, but that didn't work. She finally did do the #2 on the potty for the first time! We will see if that performance has an encore today :) Really, she's so close to potty training, and could probably be there by now if I weren't so tired! Its my goal to only have one kid in diapers, so I have just a few months to get her set! Wish me luck .........

This pregnancy is going well, I am just soooooooo tired! We have been so busy lately that I haven't been sleeping enough, and I am exhausted all the time. I am having my doubts about the ultrasound results too, for some reason I keep worrying this is a boy! I am having my doctor double check soon, hopefully. I will let y'all know if it changes! :)

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Close the Gate!

My parents took all their kids on a weekend vacation to Winslow Arizona. I am so grateful for my parents, thanks again, you guys are the best! We had a great weekend there. First we stopped at a place called Rock Art Ranch. It is a privately owned ranch with tons of petroglyphs covering the canyon walls in some areas. The man who owns the 7000 acres is the nicest, and he greeted us with his granddaughter who took the kids on horse rides. They are the nicest people!

We had a picnic on a ramada they built over the canyon, and then climbed down and crossed the river to see all the petroglyphs. The bridge was pretty rickety, and the river was really high, but all the two year olds made is across safely in their parents arms!

Down in the canyon it was beautiful and amazing to see all the drawings! We all had fun throwing rocks in the river, somehow that is just fun, don't know why!

This was the funniest petroglyph, its called the 'Birthing Wall'. See the big figure with a little figure coming out of it? Yeah, pretty graphic, right? (be sure to look for the fine details, ha!)

This one is called 'Cinderella'. It was cool to see all the different styles of drawing, it was obvious that more than one Native American tribe had been to this spot, obviously a source of water.

Here is my favorite petroglyph, I think the artist of this one was a Picasso in his own time.

After Rock Art Ranch, we stayed in Winslow at the La Posada. Winslow is obviously a boom and bust town, kinda an eclectic and ghetto place. The La Posada is a beautiful and artsy resort that used to be a train station. They still have trains that come through the property. There were so many beautiful places in their gardens etc to take pictures. Here are a couple.

Waiting for the train ..... and PaPaw is getting the pennies we put on the track to smash.
Is that legal?



Rachel, Jared and family were here for a week, during Spring Break. We had tons of fun just playing at Mamaw's house, going to museums, visiting the train park, and seeing the Morrow clan (always one of my favorite things to do). It was fun to have all the kids together for once. Including the two new sweet little girls, Maren and Mya. They are only 11 days apart. (I know, I missed the deadline!)



We had a great week, and can't wait to see everyone again, hopefully soon!!!