Emily has learned my old trick - and without any help from me!
Mom used to tell me that I would take a french fry, dip it in ketchup, then lick the ketchup off and re-use the same fry until it fell apart.
We went to Dixie Dog this afternoon, and she perfected that move. She had her choice of hamburger, zucchini strips, and fries - typically she would eat all of that. But today she figured out that she could stick the french fry in her dad's ketchup, lick, and repeat.
The weekend before Halloween, we went to New Mexico to visit Nana Jo & Grampa. They took us to see a real pumpkin patch in Lincoln, NM. It was so cool! I got to see the pumpkins growing, and there were some that were little enough for me to hold. Mama and Daddy picked some to take home with us. I'm so excited - I just love pumpkins!
No, Emily hasn't suddenly morphed into twins - I just had two really cute pictures and I couldn't decide which one to use, so I put them together.
We picked her up from daycare this afternoon, and I almost didn't recognize her - her teacher had put her hair in pigtails, and she looked like such a big girl! My Baby Emily is now Little Girl Emily...
So anyway, when she sat down in the front door to "color paper" (her all-time, favorite-ever thing to do these days) I had to get a picture, so everybody can see what a big big girl we've got now.
Mama has had a hard time finding time to put pictures up here. See, Mama used to just go to work in the middle of the day (between my morning and afternoon naps.) But now she's at work all day, just like Daddy - and when they come home everybody is always hungry so they have to fix dinner. And then they have to work on their school stuff. Mama keeps saying that one of these days she'll catch up, and then she'll be able to get more stuff done.
Anyway, here are some random pictures of me being cute, that she thought everyone would like to see.
This is Daddy giving me my first-ever typing lesson!
This is from our vacation. My chair had to go on the floor,
and I decided it was time to go, before I got unbuckled.
This is me and Daddy playing with the Hoop-ti-Doo...
which somehow ended up on my foot.
And the last picture is me playing outside with Mama and Daddy.
They were playing something called "Bocce" and I was playing with my Smiley Ball.
Mama says this is one of her favorite pictures of me.
Mama and Daddy went to the grocery store yesterday afternoon, and they took me with them. I love riding in the cart. I twist myself around and look at everything, and Mama and Daddy keep putting more neat things in the back of the cart for me to play with. Today, they got these great big red and yellow peppers. Yellow is my favorite color, so of course that's the one I grabbed.
Daddy kept trying to get me to say "pepper" but all I would say was "yellow." I know that it's a pepper (there's a picture of a pepper in one of my books) but "yellow" is much more fun to say.
After a while though, the yellow pepper got boring, and I decided to see what else was in the bag. So I reached in, and fished out...a red pepper!
Well, if there's nothing in there but peppers, I guess that's ok. I know what to do with peppers - I saw it on Iron Chef!
We went on a mini-vacation for July 4 weekend. We went and stayed in a pretty hotel with lots of things to look at, and nice people to talk to, and fishies!
I had lots of fun exploring. We were up on the third floor, and to get to our room, we had to go on an elevator, but it was made of glass, so even in there I could look around and see all the people! Here's a picture of me & my Daddy riding the glass elevator.
I also had fun just exploring the hallways. Mama let me run up and down to find out what there was to see - but she wouldn't let me knock on all the doors. I'm a big girl, and I know that when you find a door, you're meant to knock on it. I don't know why she wouldn't let me practice, but she kept telling me "that's not our room." It was ok though - there was always plenty more exploring to do.
Finally, after we went all the way around the whole third floor, we came back to a door that Mama said I could knock on - and when I did, Daddy was in there! It was a good thing too, cause after all that exploring I was pooped out and ready for a nap!
The next day, I went downstairs with Mama (Daddy was still sleeping - shhh!) We had a yummy breakfast, and then we went swimming!
I wasn't too sure about the whole swimming thing at first. It was a little scary, because there was so much water, and my feet couldn't find the bottom. But Mama held me up. And when I figured out that I could make splashes, just like I do in my bath at home, then I had all sorts of fun. Before we got out, I figured out how to kick and make splashes with my feet too. I made Mama laugh by saying "Quack, quack, quack" when I kicked my feet - just like a duck!
This morning, when it was time to go home, Mama went and got this big rolly-thing, and Daddy and I played on it. It was kinda scary, but also a lot of fun.
After a while though, we got off and Daddy loaded all our suitcases and things on it, and we rolled the whole thing downstairs and out to the car. By that time, I was ready for my morning nap, so I was glad to get home to my own bed!
It's just occurred to me
that all the pictures I've taken of Emily recently
have been of her in her high chair, eating.
Then I realized why...
Any picture I try to take
when she's not in her chair
ends up looking like this:
Apparently, I need a faster camera.
Anytime I get the camera out to take a picture,
she heads straight for it -
she wants to see the babies
(the displays of the photos I've just taken,
in the back of the camera.)
And when I put the babies away,
she cries and cries,
like her little heart is just broken!
So the camera has actually become
something of a dangerous thing.