Daddy wasn't home on New Year's Day;
he had to go to California for school.
So Emily & I stayed home and ate ham & black-eyed peas
and watched the Rose Parade.
New Year's Day 2009
From the Desk of Emily B.
Another neat Christmas gift that Emily got was a little art desk. The desktop folds up to make an easel, and there's a markerboard on the other side. It's got buckets and cubbies for crayons & markers, and there's even a little stool that goes with it. Emily loves to sit at her desk and color.
Excuse me, I've got to go...it seems the purple crayon is broken, and it's Mama's job to "fixit" whenever any of the crayons gets broken (as they frequently do.) Plus, the coloring looks like fun...I better go see if Emily needs some help!
Christmas 2008
Possibly Emily's favorite present of all was this little piano. She plays with it all the time; some days, she gets as much fun from turning it on and off as she does from playing music on it!
She also got a kitchen set; it has Elmo and Grover and Cookie Monster and the Grouch, and Bert and Ernie all making lots of kitchen noises and silly sounds. It also has food to go with it, and a menu and cash till so that it can work as a restaurant. She likes "cooking dinner" and feeding pizza and milk to me, Ken, and all her babies.
This is MY favorite gift that Emily got - and it's certainly been the most useful. It's the "Color-it" (aka Magna-Doodle) We keep it in the car and it keeps Emily well entertained, and distracts her (sometimes) when she's upset because she wants a biscuit, or some milk, or something else that we don't have in the car at that moment.
Jackson and Emily played hard over Christmas weekend. Jackson had a new Mickey Mouse pillow, which came in very handy for taking brief rests between play sessions.
Jackson and Emily both got lots of books for Christmas, too. One of Emily's favorite things to do these days is to climb up into every chair she can find - so it was great fun for her to share a seat with Jackson and read her new book for Mamaw.
Christmas Child
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.
Halloween 2008
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.
Ketchup is a vegetable, right?
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.
Laughing Sheep Farms
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!
Big Girl with Pigtails
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.
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