Fun

Emily has been having so much fun lately!

I think I like this age the best so far. She plays so well by herself and with her friends now. I love it! It is also really fun to listen to her explanation of what she is doing. She has quite the imagination already!

Emily playing in the "waterfall"

This video is where I found out that Emily thought the dog bowl was a waterfall. A few minutes after I came inside from taking this video I saw Emily and Pebbles playing tug-a-war with something white. I went outside to find out what it was...it was Emily's diaper! I brought her in and gave her a bath after that.

This video is so funny! I think Emily has figured out that her Daddy is a foot doctor.

This has nothing to do with this video but it is a cute little side note. Almost every night Emily wants Daddy to put a band aid on her foot before she goes to sleep. She leaves it there all night too.

Princess Attack!

Emily is really into princesses right now so when she started climbing out of her crib last week we decided to get her a princess toddler bed. She loves it! So far we haven't had any problems with her coming out of her room at night or during nap time. In fact, most of the time she tells me that she wants to go to sleep! This picture was taken the morning after we got the bed.

Here is the bedding set we got to go with it

Yes, we know she is very spoiled, a canopy bed at the age of 2!

Daddy is still not ready to let go of the baby stage. I'm just glad he finally decided it was OK for her to be in a regular bed and not a crib. We have been discussing it for a while now.

Here is the toy box that came with the bed. It's just fabric and the lid is very flimsy. Emily gets very frustrated that she can't put it on by herself.

This bench came with it too. Emily has some of her stuffed animals and dolls in the the little baskets now. She also likes to wear them around as hats! I still need to get a picture of that.

Another princess thing!

This is the princess tent and tunnel we got using some Toy's R Us gift cards we got in the mail.

I'm still surprised that J.R. can fit in there. It's a tight squeeze even for me!

Emily is so pleased that her Daddy is in the tent with her

Looking down the tunnel

My precious little girl

Cute little dress

I made these cupcakes for Valentines day. We were at the store a few days before Valentines Day and J.R. saw some cupcakes with swirly frosting that he wanted to buy. They were $13! I told him I would make some at home and attempt to frost them the way the ones in the store were frosted. Here is how they turned out. I was impressed and so was J.R.! While I was practicing on some wax paper Emily told me I was making pretty flowers.

Baking and Coloring

Emily in a pretty new dress

When I put this dress on her Sunday morning she started screaming and crying because she didn't like it, but when I gave her the option of which dress she wanted, she chose this one. She is definitely a girl!

Emily helped me make cookies!
The white below her eyebrow is flour

Playing with play dough

Yesterday Emily woke up from her nap wanting to make brownies and since we didn't have any other plans I said OK. She was a good little helper too, she helped stir the flour mixture and she watched as the eggs disappeared into the mixture. Then she enjoyed licking the beater and the spatula when we were all done.

She was trying to wash the chocolate off her fingers

Messy little face!

Emily holds colored pencils, crayons and pens like an adult does and she is barely 2 years old. I decided to take some pictures so I would have some evidence that it is really true!

Emily told me that this is a "Moo"
That means it's either a cow or a horse.

This is the other way she holds a pen. This one has only one finger on top instead of two. All of her drawings (or lines) are very deliberate and she concentrates really hard while she is coloring. I wonder if she is going to be artistic...