Weekend

Started out with a little Friday morning naked dress up/down.

Friday night at Chuck E Cheese with Ah and Papa.

Saturday morning shopping with Mama.

Yes she still uses her pa (paci). It is only allowed in the car and at night night, but hopefully gone soon.

Ate dinner Saturday night at Casa De Bandini in Carlsbad.

Went for a little walk around the Forum shops.

Had a sweet little treat for dessert.

Sunday after church we had some family pictures taken, I can't wait to share them.

Then off to a spaghetti dinner.

Yummy!

AJ's Kids Crane

Monday night we headed down to Ikea in Mission Valley.

We brought our two big bags of toys to donate to AJ's Kids Crane.

Every year AJ collects toys for Rady Children's Hospital.

This was our 2nd year helping out.

Emma helped pick out all of the toys to donate.

He stays up in a crane/scissor lift until all 102,000 toys are collected.

Emma walked over to the crane and waived Hi and Bye to him.

He was pretty excited to see her. :)

What did she spot?

Her good pal Plex!

1st Desert Trip of the season

We had a great weekend out at the desert!

Douggie and Brigitte

I decided that sand angels were a good idea.

Funny that Wendy and Brigitte decided that they weren't.

Emma slept like a big girl on the trailer bed. No Pack N Play for this kid!

Lucky for us the back rest can flip over to the other side to keep her from falling off the bed.

She LOVED "Indy" (Wendy) all weekend.

Gee, I wonder why...

Maybe because Indy took her for lots of rides in the car.

And she loved Noel as well. :)

But poor Brigitte got hurt flying over her handle bars.

Turns out she fractured it and has to be in a boot for 6 weeks. :(

And the funniest thing of the whole weekend was this little clip.

#1 rule in the desert, NEVER fall asleep with your shoes on, because then you are fair game.

I was actually already sound asleep for this, so I can't be blamed for poor Wendy being duct taped to the chair and having firecrackers lit under her chair.

*** not sure what is going on with this video?! We will keep working on it.***

22 Months

Miss Emma turned 22 months today.

And what a fun way to celebrate because we were at the desert.

She loves being at the "dirt." I try and get her to say desert, but all she does is say DIRT, then she lists off all of her favorite things at the "dirt" like, cars, Indy (Wendy), toys, Bribrit (Brigitte) and toys.

She is such a joy, even when her little temper tantrums start. Makes me worry because the terrible twos might just be starting soon.

In all honesty, her tantrums are not that bad yet, they still kind of make us giggle.

She always has been very independent. Her favorite thing is to say "walk" all of the time, because she doesn't like us carrying her.

She was never a real fan of coloring until recently, and now she loves it.

She runs and grabs her coloring book, and crayons and yells "color."

She now knows when she is really tired. Before she would just cry, but now she tells us "night night" and walks to her room.

Her favorite part of the morning is going to "Ah's." She loves to go and play with JuJu, Papa and Ah, and looks forward to seeing "Aunt" (Aunt Liz) come in the afternoon.

She still goes pee pee on the potty occasionally, but we aren't tackling potty training just yet.

Her favorite TV shows are still Baba (Yo Gabba Gabba) and Beat Beat (Fresh Beat Band).

She sings and dances with everyone and loves to shout out their names in the opening theme songs. She also has a little crush on Twist from Beat Beat. Every time she sees him she she says his name in a flirty little way. Dada is not very thrilled that she already has a flirty voice.

We love this little turkey so much!

Happy 22 months!

AZ trip for GG Margaret's 80th Birthday!

Friday evening 7 of us piled in to our car and drove to AZ.

We were packed in there, but it was worth it!

We arrived late Friday night.

Saturday morning we all watched while Emma and "Bobby" were reunited.

She was so excited to see him, and he seemed pretty excited as well.

The Cougs played ASU, so Douggie and Emma wore their Coug gear.

Too bad they lost.

Douggie took a little drive to meet up with Dave and Brian for a little pre game fun.

Jacob even "drove" the mule.

Emma was pleased as punch sitting on GG Bob's lap.

They are good buddies, they always have been and it is so precious!

We were even lucky enough to get a group photo during the party.

Emma dressed up for the party and to play in the dirt.

White probably was not the smartest color to pack... oops!

She loved helping Aunt Cindy make eggs for breakfast.

It was so nice to have so much family there.

Uncle Mike and Aunt Cindy came from Seattle

Uncle Ron and Claire came from OC

Stacey and her family drove from Chandler

We had such a fun trip, and feel so lucky that we were there to celebrate such a special occasion with GG Margaret.

Carving pumpkins

Since we were gone all weekend, we broke every Halloween rule in the book and carved our pumpkins tonight.

Gasp... I know we are silly for doing it the day after Halloween.

We decided that Emma's pumpkin was so cute, so we decided to keep it as part our Fall decorations.

Emma helped me carve our pumpkin.

It is a an outline of Foofa, and says Foofa.

It didn't turn out like I wanted, and not very creative, but oh well.

At least we had fun carving.

Douggie went for a silly face.

Anybody got any fiber?

I have a funny story that I just have to share.

More importantly, I have to document it so that when we print Emma's Blog Book, she can have this story to treasure forever!

Tonight as we were sitting and eating dinner, we hear Emma saying "Ah eee" (heavy).

She said it a few times and then we noticed her grunting.

As it turns out she was taking a poop.

From the sounds of her "Ah eee," I think she could use a little more fiber in her diet.