The South Plains Fair was here this week, and we went to taste the food and see all the things people made. (We don't ride the rides at the fair; they go up overnight and come back down overnight - and I've known some of the people who do that job, and they do not make me want to put my life in their hands!!)
But we had some yummy food, and saw lots of neat people and cool stuff.
I was hoping to document some of Emily's early efforts at crawling...
but she's pretty much content to stay where she is and look around.
Ok, the batteries in the camera were low, so it's a bit fuzzy...
but this is the only way we could get photographic evidence of Emily's teeth!
This makes me think of a celebrity facing off with the paparazzi!
But no...Emily just wants to play with the camera.
We had a garage sale on Saturday and finally got rid of all the old useless stuff that we're tired of moving around.
Emily was a big help. She had the very important job of watching the money - and the doughnuts!
As you can see, she took her job very seriously.
The garage sale was a big success! We sold all the big stuff, delivered the old washer/dryer set to a lady who really needed it, took the rest to Goodwill, and were finished by noon! Then we went shopping with the garage sale money, and got some new clothes and toys for Miss Emily...as well as some books for us, from the Hasting's that's going out of business and had all their books 1/2 off. And by the end of the day, we were all pooped!
Meaghan & Michael were in Plainview this weekend for a wedding, and we had lunch with them after church on Sunday. Emily and Jackson were fascinated with one another, even though Emily was sleepy and Jackson was just ready to get down and practice his new walking skills. The Little League World Series was on while we ate lunch, so we got to see our Lubbock Westerners win the consolation bracket and take their official position as the third-place Little League team in the world. Aunt Meaghan brought Emily some more clothes that she can wear when she's a bit bigger - we like it when Aunt Meaghan comes to visit! After lunch we went outside and Jackson showed Emily how to walk...but I don't think she's quite ready to start practicing just yet.
Now that we're sitting up so well, we decided it was time to try out the duckie bathtub that Mama's friend Kristen got for Emily. It's been lots of fun so far!
We got to spend last weekend at Grampa & Nana Jo's house in the mountains, and it was a lot of fun! Emily had a great time; we took some of her toys from home, and there was lots of new, interesting stuff to look at and explore.
Emily loves her Grampa! He kept her well entertained for the whole weekend.
Of all the pretty things at Nana Jo & Grampa's house, Emily thought Nana Jo's beaded coasters were the yummiest!
She also got to go to the Capitan school, and met all the teachers there who work with Nana Jo, and we went to Grampa's church on Sunday and charmed everybody there! And she got a red shirt with a lizard on it that says Ruidoso (they didn't have any Capitan shirts for little babies.)
When it was time to go home, though, Emily decided she'd had just about enough of being in her carseat for hours at a time. She woke up outside Roswell and let us have it! So we finally stopped at a rest stop just that side of Tatum, had a bottle, changed diapers, etc., then packed it in for the rest of the drive home.
Luckily, after about another half hour, she fell asleep again, and slept the rest of the way. But boy, was she glad to get out of that carseat once & for all!
We had a fun vacation though, & we all can't wait to go back to Capitan again!
Look at that big girl!
(She's playing with her toys on my bed
while I fold & put away laundry)
