Emily's day care had a local photographer come to take pictures of the kids with Santa Claus. (Emily calls him "Samma Cause.") They were smart not to try to get the little kids to sit with a real Santa Claus - they just brought a little Santa.
We tried to get photos with the "real" Santa Claus on a couple other occasions, with tragic results.
Emily had a bad cold the whole week leading up to Halloween; she had to stay home from day care and everything. So we didn't really plan on doing anything for Halloween - but then Halloween turned out to be a lovely warm, Indian-summer day - so we went ahead and took Emily to the Fall Festival at our church. Our Life Group was in charge of running the bouncy-thing, and Emily loved it!
Our Life Group decided to dress up 80s-style for our costumes. I put Emily in a vintage t-shirt, jean jacket, and legwarmers. The blue-jean skirt I found for her turned out to be too big...and the whole thing didn't really translate as a costume - but she looked cute, just the same.
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.