Life With a Cute Kid!

One night I was complaining to J.R. that my feet hurt so he brought out the foot bath. I shared it with Emily for a while but then Emily said she wanted bubbles. Daddy put dish soap in the water and put the foot bath on the bubble setting. This is what we got! Emily absolutely loved it!

Emily has been a lot more interesting in babies lately. She has even started playing with her dolls. It is fun for me to watch her little mothering skills develop.

J.R. got me a new camera for Mother's day so I was started taking some random pictures just for fun. This is one of those.

Another random, yet very cute picture of my little one

Mommy and Emily sharing a beater after we made cup cakes together.

I have been working on my scrapbook while Emily naps and then when she wakes up she usually colors for a while. She loves to use all the different colored pens.

She drew this picture and told me it was a dog. She even gave him a tail!

Daddy gave Emily a cupcake!

and she really liked it!

Messy Face!

Emily loves our deck
She likes to bring her books outside and read

Our backyard set up is so good. We have a trampoline that came with the house, a sandbox, and a swing set! It is great! Now all I need is stairs off the back deck so I don't have to worry about her going out in the road while she get to the back yard. I usually go with her but every now and then I let her do it by herself.

Emily looking through her "Princess Potty Box"
She has been potty trained for a little over a month and she has only had one accident!
I still give her treats because she starts to not tell me when she needs to go if I don't

Fruit Snacks are her favorite potty treat!

Daddy and Emily playing in the sand

I started doing a lot of babysitting and this is the little girl I watch on Tuesdays.
Jonet and Emily sporting paper towel shoes!

It all started because they were playing in the rain and they wanted to dry their feet off...then they wanted to wear the paper towels as shoes! Then of course they wanted to go out and play in the rain with them on. They had a lot of fun and I had fun watching them!

Emily is getting so big! She outgrew her car seat so we had to get her a booster seat. She is very proud of her pink booster seat, she tells almost everyone about it. She is also very worried that I am going to put her back in her regular car seat so every time we say we are going Bye Bye she has to make sure she is going to ride in her pink booster seat!

Projects and Fun

It's been a long time since I have posted anything but we have gotten a lot done!

Here's what we have been up to the last 2 months.

Emily and Daddy reading Cars!

Emily enjoying a sucker that Daddy got her.
He's such a sucker when it comes to Emily and those suckers!

J.R. enjoying his new grill!
We got it at a yard sale for $30

Cooking a big steak on the grill!
J.R. is very happy with his new toy!

I love this dress on Emily!

J.R. and I got some new shoes and Emily pulled out the inserts and put them in Daddy's crocks!

Emily really likes to play the piano right now. She wants to sit at the piano like Mommy does so I let her sit in her booster seat. She turns the pages in the book and then she hits every key on the keyboard one right after the other. It keeps her occupied for a long time!

Emily and Daddy "taking a nap" together

Eating M&M's

She's so pretty!

Easter morning!

A little later on Easter morning.

Emily unwrapped every piece of chocolate in her basket and took one bite out of it before she put it on the floor. I never got her to even taste it again after that.

The Easter baskets we got had hats on them!

We planted some grass in a big dirt spot in our back yard and Emily loved to help me water the grass. She also liked to give Pebbles drinks from the hose!

Daddy was helping Emily name all the pictures in the front of the Book of Mormon

She got pretty good at it

We didn't use our grill for about a week and a half and then when we went to use it we found a birds nest inside! I think we need to get a cover for the grill!

Some of the rusty bolts and nails we had to get out of the swing set we bought from some friends who were moving.

Here it is all put back together!

It took us all day one Saturday to get this thing apart because the bolts were so rusted, but it only took us an hour and a half to put it back together. We did get some new nuts and bolts which helped speed the process up a bit.

Emily really likes it. Everyday she asks if we can go swing. It is so nice to not have to go to the park to swing. I love the swing set too!

The next project was the bathroom. This is the hall bathroom because I didn't take any pictures of ours before we improved it. Anyway, there wasn't really anyplace to put anything. There was not a cabinet behind the mirror and under the sink didn't offer much space either.

This is the only place to store anything in the bathroom and it doesn't even have drawers. The two on top are just there for looks.

The mirror was glued to the wall which we didn't know until J.R. started trying to take it off. While he was trying to get it off in one piece the mirror shattered, so he went to work with a hammer and a chisel and he got it off the rest of the way. This is what our wall looked like when he was done. There were two more spots above what is shown in the picture. We had to patch the wall and then paint it before we could put up our new cabinet. I was happy about that because I really didn't like the paint that was in there.

Here is the finished product!

We painted it blue and we both really like how it turned out.

We love having a cabinet above the sink. It makes it so much easier to clean the bathroom since the counter isn't so cluttered. It looks really nice too!
Emily has only fallen asleep somewhere other than her bed or car seat once in her life. This is the second time. I babysat 3 kids aged 18 months, almost 3 and 4 years old for 5 hours and Emily didn't get a nap. When the kids left Emily crashed.

My precious little girl

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.