Emmi Update

Here is a little update on Emmi. She has been growing up so fast and doing such funny things I thought that maybe I should post some of them. We just got her a new toddler bed to sleep in and she has been doing GREAT. She has no idea that she can get out. When she wakes up she just calls out to me or Clint until we come and get her. It is so nice. And every morning when she wakes up she points to the crib and says "Eaton" (we told her that is baby Easton's new bed) and then she points to her bed and says "Emmi".

She loves to talk to Easton. She will get really close to my tummy and say "Hi Babya" and then give it kisses. It is so cute. She also goes to every Dr. appointment with me and she loves hearing Easton's heartbeat. She just got a DR. kit to play with and loves listening to everyone's heartbeat.

She still isn't very good at talking yet. We have an appointment in Oct. with the speech therapist so hopefully that will help her out. She can say all of her words and she repeats everything you say, but she won't put the words together in a sentence. She has also mastered her colors and we are working on counting and the alphabet. She is really good at both of them and is starting to recognize some letters.

When we have been doing Family Night we have been talking about things that we can do that make Jesus happy because she is in the stage right now where everything is "No" or if I don't look at you while you are talking I can't hear you. So I put her on time out the other day and when I got her off I asked if Jesus was sad. So now everytime I ask her to be happy or to help she asks "Jesus?" meaning is this making Jesus happy? It is really cute. She also loves to pray. She uses her sweet, quiet voice and loves to pray with her animals.

She also loves outside, riding her new bike, her sunglasses, putting on my makeup, coloring, reading books, singing, pretending bunny is a baby and she wraps it up in a blanket and rocks it to sleep, loves putting on her backpack and going to work like dad, being thrown up in the sky by Clint, nursery, playing with her friends Livy and Kate, doing puzzles, and her newest thing is chewing gum.

We love our sweet little Emmi and think that she is the cutest thing ever. We wish we lived closer to everyone so they could see how cute she is. But I guess I will just have to be better at blogging so you can be updated.

Wrestling with Daddy

Talking on the phone before going to
"work".

This is my FAVORITE picture. Her happy face.

At the temple for a wedding.

Fourth of July with Daddy's hat on.

Grandma's Visit

This past week my mom came and visited us. It was SO much fun. I always love when she comes out because A: it is so much fun to have visitors, B: I miss my momma, C: she spoils us like CRAZY!!!, and D: Emmi had so much fun with Grandma.

So while she was here we went to Gettysburg, we went to Baltimore and to the Inner Harbor which also included the National Aquarium, paddle boat rides, the Cheesecake Factory, and the Lexington Market. We also went out to eat a lot...Panera...yummy, and we went shopping for baby "Slam". It was so much fun having her here and I miss her already. But I guess I get to look forward to the next time she comes. Little baby Easton will be just a few days old and get this.....My Dad will be coming too!!!! Yahoo! And any other visitors that want to come are more than welcome.

At the ESPN Zone in Baltimore

Paddle boating in the Chesapeake Bay

The Dolphin Show at the Aquarium.
(If you look close there is a dolphin right in front of Clint and Emmi)

You can't really tell but we are in a giant shark mouth.

Grandma and Emmi at Gettysburg.

It's a ????

We went to the doctor today to find out what we are having and it turns out it is a...?? Well before I tell you, Clint and I had made a bet. I for sure thought it was a boy and Clint was 100% positive it was a girl. So Sunday we made a bet that if it is a boy I get to name him and if it was a girl Clint got to name her. So anyways we thought we would start writing down names. If it is a boy we both really like Easton, Jackson, Jack or Thunder. I love Easton the most but I still really like the other ones. Girl names were a little harder for us. Clint started coming up with names like Sugar, Candy, Cookie, Rainbow and Starburst. We can't decide on any of those so we will have to wait until later to narrow it down. (By the way Thunder is a joke name...I wouldn't do that to my kid.) So we were really excited going into the doctor just so we could know who won the bet. And the winner is...??? Oh I forgot. It is Clint's birthday today so it was a great birthday present for him and he was so excited. What a fun thing to get on your birthday. I love Clint more than anything and he is the best Hubby, daddy and student. He works so hard to make sure Emmi and I are taken care of. I am so glad to have him in my life and I love him more than anything. Happy Birthday Clint!!!! We love you.

Okay...I think I have stalled long enough. We are having a...

Beautiful baby...

BOY!!!!!!!!!!

What was I thinking???

Emmi has been curious about the toilet lately and is always getting undressed and trying to change her diaper by herself so we thought we would buy her a little toilet for her and try to potty train her. The minute we got home from the store we opened the potty and she wanted to try it right away. So all afternoon Saturday she was naked and sitting on her toilet. The problem is she thinks it is a toy and not something you don't play with. As you can see in the picture she thinks the toilet is a hat and the seat is a purse. Don't worry...she hadn't used it yet. She also doesn't like sitting on it all the way so when she does end up going it isn't in the toilet but on the floor. We were very proud of her though. She did end up going a few hours after we bought it and she was SO excited. She kept clapping and saying "yeah". But now it is a nightmare. She doesn't want to sit on it but doesn't want to put her diaper back on either. What was I thinking? This is going to be such a hassle. Daddy...when I come out there will you potty train her?!?

Sean's Visit

Emmi at the Lollipop Shoppe in Amish Country

Our Amish Buggy and the horse "Geronimo"
At the Warold War II fountain

In the water in DC

We were so excited to have Sean here with us last week. We had such a good time. It is always so nice to have visitors. It was extra special to have him out here a couple weeks before he leaves on his mission. We did lots of fun things. He came on Tuesday and had come by train from Boston. He was in Boston watching my parents run the marathon and then he took Amtrak to our house. We were able to do lots of fun things including:

-going to Chocolate World...anyone that comes to visit us will go there.

-went to Gettysburg and saw all the battle sites. It was cold so we spent a lot of time in the car.

- went to Amish Country and rode on an Amich Buggy ride around an Amish Community. Emmi loved the horse.

-went shopping at the outlets...that one was for me and Sean was a trooper.

-went to the DC temple and did a session together. It was an awesome experience to just have me and Sean together in the temple while Clint stayed outside with Emmi.

-went to downtown DC and explored the National Mall. It was so HOT outside that Emmi and I spent most of our time at the fountains. Emmi also decided that she wanted to run away from me which ended with her face down in the World War II Momnument fountains. She was so excited to be in the water. It was the funniest thing I have ever seen. She is such a little stinker.

So all in all we had a great week. It was so nice having Sean here and can't wait to come home in a week to see everyone else!!!

Easter Egg Hunt #1

Hershey LOVES Easter. We celebrate Easter here for about 2-3 weeks. There are 3-4 egg hunts to go to and then Hershey Park opens for the springtime. We had our first egg hunt on Saturday at a local park. They just throw tons of eggs on the ground and let the kids go crazy. It was really fun and Emmi understood it this year, but it was FREEZING. It had been warm and sunny all week and then the day that we had to go outside it was so windy and cold. But I don't think any of the kids noticed. They just loved getting all the candy. So here are a few pictures of Emmi getting her eggs. I will be posting again soon with more Easter festivities!!

She got a little distracted with all the kids but still had fun.

Bucket Anyone?

I am officially into my 2nd trimester of my pregnancy and thought I would finally post the great news. If you haven't figured it out yet I am PREGNANT!!!! We are so excited to be expanding our family and Emmi is excited to be a big sister, but I do have to say that I am hating life right now. The first trimester of pregnancy STINKS. I have been so sick. Thank heavens for good drugs. I feel like a D- mom because all I do is lay on the couch all day, throw up, and let Emmi do anything/get into anything she wants. I thought I was feeling better these past couple of days but alas....nighttime came and I had to visit my good friend the toilet once again. But after all that complaining I feel SO blessed to even be pregnant. We have a really hard time getting pregnant and I couldn't imagine not being able to. Thanks to the help of a great Fertility Specialist, prayers, and lots of blessings our little addition will be joining us October 1st. HOORAY!!!! I do have three ultrasounds but I won't post them because they were taken at 5, 6 and 8 weeks. So all you can really see is a blob. Emmi does love carrying the ultrasounds around saying "bebe". She is so sweet!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMI

Emmi turned 2 years old yesterday. I can't believe I have a 2 year old. We didn't do a lot because she had no clue what was going on and because Clint has been so busy with this Medicine rotation. So we went and got balloons in the morning and she LOVED doing that. She didn't let them go the rest of the day. We also had our friends come over to have some birthday cake with us. So all in all it was a quiet, uneventful day. We did go to the doctor for her 2 year check up and she weighs 23 lbs. and is 31 in. tall. She is in the 10th percentile with her weight, 5th percentile in her height, and her head is in the 40th percentile. She is just a petite little girl. Other than that nothing else has really happened. Sorry it has been so long since I last posted a blog. Don't count on too many in the future either. I would love to keep it updated but I'm really bot good at keeping my blogging word.

Birthday Cake!! She only ate the frosting off the top.

She was "helping" me make her cake.

Addy, Kyle and Kaysen, and Londyn.

Blowing out her candles.

Her birthday balloons.

Emmi's been Tagged!!

Emmi has been tagged by Alexis...

Name and Meaning: Emmi and I don't know the meaning of her name.

Age: 20 months almost 21 months.

Nicknames: Emmers, Ems, pooh bear, babers, bemmi, bems.

Favorite Activities: Dancing, singing, listening to music, playing mommy (includes pushing her baby in the stroller and wrapping it in her blanket), going outside, unloading the dishwasher, doing the laundry with mom, dusting (I'm teaching her early!!), blowing her nose, looking at pictures and coloring.

Favorite Foods: She isn't the best eater but she loves hot dogs, chicken nuggets, raisins, green beans, cheese, ketchup or "dip", spagetti and rolls.

Least Favorite foods: She hates veggies except for green beans and she doesn't like chicken unless it is chicken nuggets.

Favorite Music: She loves anything fast and loud. She loves Chris Brown's "Forever", cotten-eye-joe, primary songs and the songs on Playhouse Disney.

Favorite Toys: She loves her doll, blocks, the baby stroller and anything that makes noise.

Favorite Books: She LOVES her animal books. But really any book.

Favorite Item of Clothing: She loves all clothes except for socks. She loves to put clothes on. Especially when I am doing the laundry she loves to put anything on that she can find in the dirty piles.

What Makes her Happy: Mommy, Daddy, Bunny, Blanket,Lars, singing, outside, Mommy, playing in the blinds or with the shower curtain, when daddy comes home from work, blowing bubbles on mommy and daddy's tummy, snuggling, and did I say Mommy?!!!

What Makes her sad: When I don't listen to her or get the thing that she wants right away, when mommy leaves, when we have to come inside (what am I going to do all winter?), when she doesn't get her way...she is starting to "cop a 'tude".

Funny words or phrases: When she wants me to get out of bed she points to my glasses and says "glasses, glasses", please, thanks, baby, she loves to pretend baby is sad and so she is always saying "wa, wa, wa" in this cute high voice, "nack" for snack, "bampa" for grandpa, she loves our neighbor girl Londyn and always says "lonin" when she wants to play.

Emmi tags... Olivia (Lindsey), Payton (Kim), Davis (Katie), Ellie (Kristen)... and anyone else who wants to do this.

Emmi's Hair

Everyone keeps asking how long Emmi's hair is. She has cute little curls so you can't tell how long it really is. So I thought I would straighten it and take a few pictures. And of course some pictures of her in the bath with it wet. He hair grows super fast and it is SO cute. I love it when it was straightened but I LOVE her little curls.

I don't have an actual straightener so I used my

curling iron. There is still a little curl at the bottom

but you can get the idea of her hair length.

More Halloween

I couldn't resist putting on more Halloween pictures.

I thought I would be creative and make mini pizzas that

looked like spiderwebs with spiders on them. I got

the idea from my friend Bryn. They were yummy.

Olivia the Ladybug, Sarah the horse, and Emmi the Butterfly.

Kate, Emmi and Lars at the egg hunt.

Emmi and Lars in front of the pumpkins

HALLOWEEN!!!

Here in Hershey they have more fun things to do and more Halloween celebrations than they do for Christmas. They have Hershey Park in the Dark, a parade, trick-or-treating at Chocolate World, a Halloween egg hunt and trick-or-treating. It was so fun for us becasue Emmi was old enought that she understood that when she dressed up in her comstume she got candy. It was so fun. So on Thursday we went to the outlets and did the Halloween egg hunt. It was so fun. They had a section blocked off with Emmi's age group and there was SO much candy all over the place. Emmi loved picking up as much as she could and put it into her bucket. They also gave us boxes and she filled that up with candy too. We had SO much candy but when we were leaving there was still a ton of it on the ground. They had so much that you could pick it all up. Then that night we went around our neighborhood and went trick-or-treating. In Hershey they always do it on the Thursday before Halloween for safety reasons. She loved the idea of knocking on peoples doors and getting candy. She had so much fun. I couldn't figure out how to put all the pictures on without erasing some of them. So we had some really cute ones but I picked some of the cutest. They are a little out of order too, sorry.

Our Haul!! There were two buckets and a box full.

Emmi the "Butterfly"

Emmi and Lars. Emmi is a Butterfly and Lars is
Mickey Mouse.

At the egg hunt.

The cutest trick-or-treaters ever!!

Carving Pumpkins

For FHE we carved our pumkins that we picked from the pumkin patch and Emmi loved it. She was so excited to bring in the pumpkins and she loved sitting on the table. I think she liked sitting in the table and playing with the newspapers more than she did about carving the pumpkins. Clint and I aren't very creatvie but at least we did it right?!? So here are a couple of pictures that we took of the festivities.

Don't you love this pose?

This is what Emmi did the whole time. She just walked around the
table and threw the newspapers on the ground.

Daddy and Ems

Unsupervised Children

So this morning I was getting ready at went into my room to check my email/blogs and I ended up on the computer for a while. After 10 min. or so I realized that the kiddos hadn't come into the room or even made a peep. So I went to go check on them and I realized I had left the bathroom door open. I am usually so good about closing it because they love to get into the cupboard and pull everything out. Well this is what happens when children have freedom and no supervision....

Emmi drew a cute picture with my eyeliner.

I think there are about 150 little rubberbands all over the floor.

More pictures with eyeliner

Lars

Emmi thought she would try to put eyeliner on.

At least she knows the area you put it on.