Daddy Time

Emily loves to spend time with her Daddy and he loves to spend time with her too!

They love to read books together

Emily has discovered the joy of living on the edge lately! She has started diving off of things like the couch and our bed. This is one of her favorite things to do with Daddy.

I'm so glad Emily loves her Daddy

Princess Emily

We decided to have Emily be a Princess for Halloween this year. I was going to try and make a princess costume but we got some coupons in the mail for Toy's R Us and we found this adorable little princess set. It was a such a good deal with the coupons that we couldn't pass it up and Emily loves it! I think when we go Trick or Treating we will just have her wear the dress and the tiara. I'm afraid she would take everything else off and lose it somewhere.

Playing with Pebbles

Emily loves to play with Pebbles and this time I caught it on video!

In this one I shut the camera off just as she yelled "MINE!"

Too bad I didn't wait a couple more seconds. Oh well, maybe next time.

Trampoline Fun!

The people who owned this house before us left their trampline for us and we have thoroughly enjoyed it! Emily askes me almost everyday if we can go jump on it. She says "bown, bown" it's so cute

It really wasn't cool enough for a jacket that day but Emily insisted on wearing it.

I had a hard time getting her to jump while she was facing me because she kept wanting to see the video.

Emily loves it when J.R. and I jump with her. She really likes it when I hold her like a baby and jump. She is always trying to get me on there with her!

J.R. and Emily having a ball together!

I love watching them play together.

Emily loves her Daddy so much!

Swinging

Emily loves to swing more than anything else and the park here has a lot of swings. This is the baby swing they have at the park we go to and she loves it!

We usually go with my friend Laura and her kids so she has someone to play with. The phone Emily has belongs to one of Laura's boys but Emily loves it! It plays music and she just loves to hit the buttons and hold it to her ear while the music plays.She was so relaxed here that she almost fell asleep

Fence Project

We decided to build a fence for Emily and Pebbles so I could let them play in the yard without having to worry about Emily getting tangled up in Pebbles chain. Usually when we would go outside I would let Pebbles off his chain so he wouldn't wrap Emily up in it but then I had to keep calling him and sometimes running after him. It was a bit stressfull to spend time outside but now, I love it and so does Emily!

Emily comming out to help!

Playing with a block of wood and a marker
Unfortunatly Emily spent most of her time screaming and crying during this project because, in her oppinion, we were not giving her enough attention. This time the screaming and crying was because J.R. needed to use the marker.
All Better!
She got the marker back

J.R. holding one of our fence posts
Building a little dam in the ditch so the water would hopefully go through our two little pipes instead of flooding our yard. Unfortunatly we needed more pipes. We will be fixing that in a few weeks.
Our first attempt at putting up the pickets.
We didn't like the crooked tops very much.
It's kinda hard to build a fence like this one on a steep slope.

Our second attempt This one left big gaps at the bottom that Pebbles could easily get through

Our third attempt

We liked this one a lot. It looks good and there are no big gaps at the bottom
Finished!
Here is what it looks like now!

The other side of the yard

The pipes are on the grass because it rained so hard last Saturday that it ripped our pipes out of the cement and took them down stream. I should have taken a picture of what our flooded yard looked like. It was pretty bad

Our gate

We think it looks really good

Looking down into the yard

From the time we got the supplies to the time we finished it took 3 weeks. The first 2 weeks we got the posts up and 9 pannels of pickets. The 3rd week we dropped Emily off at a babysitters every evening and worked until 9. We ended up redoing 8 of the 9 pannels we had previously put up. Needless to say we were very tired of the project by the time we were done.

We Love Our Fence!

Going Down the Big Slide!

Emily usually avoids this slide because it is soooo high up but today she climbed the stairs all by herself and went down it! She had so much fun she did it over and over again. We were there will two 3 year olds and a 16 month old and everyone wanted to slide on this slide once Emily did it, so as the kids were going up the stairs Emily would yell, "GO, GO, GO!" and then as she watched their heads dissapear as they went down the slide she would yell "WO WO WO!" Everytime she went down the slide except for when I took this video she yelled "WO!" all the way down. It was so fun to see her get so excited about something!

Random Things

Tuesday J.R. was coloring with Emily and he wrote an 8 on the paper and said eight. Emily then, picked up a crayon and wrote this 8 and said eight! She did another one that looked better but she colored over it before I got a picture of it.
Emily watching "Finding Nemo" while laying on Lamby

Still watching Nemo

Watching "101 Dalmations" with Daddy

Here's an idea of how long Emily's hair really is. Her head was tipped forward so it's not a super acurate picture but you get an idea.

I didn't get the curl pulled out all the way but it was close.

I went to Sam's Club on Monday and when we got home Emily had a ton of fun playing on all the big packages. She especially liked to sit on the toilet paper and read her books. She caught me taking the picture here and she was very excited about it.

On her way to see the picture I just took

The day we went to Sam's Club we got home at 1:30 and then I put groceries away and fed Emily lunch so by the time we were done it was around 2:30 and Emily was very tired. I told her it was time for night nights and she ran and "hid" amongst all her toys and some of the stuff I had not put away yet.

J.R. reading to Emily and her bunny. J.R. wanted to read to Emily but she didn't want to sit on his lap so he started reading to the bunny and then all of a sudden Emily wanted to sit on Daddy's lap and be read to as well!

Eating frozen peas

J.R. was sick last week and was taking a nap on the couch when Emily piled a bunch of books on his head and said "read, read" over and over again.

Emily has a friend named Ben. He is 16 months old and they get along great! Right before I got this picture Emily was laying on the floor in front of him trying to put his shoe on for him. It was so cute!

J.R. reading to Emily and baby Jasmine

Clothes!

Someone gave us a bunch of clothes for Emily and while I was going through the box Emily was trying them on all at once! She had so much fun and she wore them for several hours. By the time she took them off she was pretty hot.

This shirt had tight sleeves and I couldn't get it on over everything else. It took me a while to convince her of that.
She wanted the coat on too but before I got to it she had given up.

Oh, a pretty purple glove with a "princen" (princess) on it!

Looking at the princess

The end product with shoes, socks and blankie.

She had 1 pair of shorts, 3 pairs of pants, 1 short shleeve shirt and 4 long shleeve shirts on by the time we were done. Wow!