Thanksgiving!

Emily enjoyed her second Thanksgiving this weekend. We had turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, crescent rolls, sweet potato casserole, corn pudding, baked apples, cranberry sauce and tons of desserts too. She is really into "housekeeping" (as she calls it - I think because that is what they call the play kitchen area at her school) right now. So as you will see she was thrilled to help me cook her stuffed turkey. She had all my pots and pans and such out all Thanksgiving morning and was none too pleased when I had to reclaim them after her nap to make our feast. We had a wonderful holiday.

Holiday Pics

We went to get our annual family Christmas pictures last weekend and luckily they went really well. The photographer was great and I think she really captured Emily's personality. Stay tuned. Some will be arriving in a Christmas card near you soon.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Make a Smilebox greeting

Happy Halloween!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Top 5 Blog Worthy Quotes

I have noticed more and more here recently that Emily is doing and saying things that just cannot be captured on film or video. So, here are my top five recent Emily quotes:

5. "Soap tastes yuckie." "Shampoo tastes yuckie too, mommy." (Yes, she is still drinking bath water sometimes.)

4. Sunday afternoon:
Mommy: Emily what is daddy doing at home?
Emily: "He's watching football."
Mommy: What is Zoey doing at home?
Emily: "She's playing (p-way-ing)."

3. "It's raining outside. Get umbrella (um-bwell-la) mommy."

2. "Hola mommy. Hola says hi." (She is learning spanish at school, we think.)

1. The number one recent quote was spoken at Wendy's on Sunday afternoon. Daddy kept tapping the french fry box on the table and then on Emily's head. After several "stop it daddys" she finally looked at him and said:
"Hear my words Daddy. No hitting Emily."

Priceless.

Ok, one more video from the beach.

Ok, so maybe one last post. I just really loved watching her reaction to the waves. If you listen you can hear her say "water" and "ocean." I can't recall whether I posted this already or not, but we also taught her about sandpipers. She chased this one poor little bird all over the place yelling "san-pie-ffer." I wish I would have caught that on tape.

Blowing Bubbles

This is the last clip from our beach trip. Emily learned to put her face in the water and blow bubbles. She thought that was pretty neat, but even better than Emily blowing bubbles in the water is watching her laugh at Daddy blowing bubbles in the water.

Especially for grandmas

I shot this little clip at the playground at Broadway on the Beach. It is especially for Emily's grandmas.

Helping with Sand

Emily really loved the sand and ocean...although she had a little trouble understanding that when you dig a hole in the sand you aren't supposed to fill it back up with more sand. This fact not withstanding, she must have made a dozen trips up and down the beach getting more sand to put in the hole. It was just such a treat to watch her little legs running as fast as they could carry her up and down the beach. I felt like I was watching her in fast forward.

Snapshots from the beach!