Elmo & Party

What a week.... Memere arrived, had dinner with friends to celebrate my birthday, took Emmi to Elmo with her cousins, then plenty of prep work for an awesome Cat in The Hat birthday Party on Saturday. The weather was perfect in the mid 70's. Here are the pics that captured the moments.


The Cake that we made, yes Emmi & Memere helped.
Emmi eating it up.
This is her outfit a friend let us borrow. "So cute" as Emmi would say.
The shoes and boa put the present opening to a halt so she could clip clop around the house.

The little chef

The past few days I have found something both Emmi and I love to do. She holds the measuring cups while I pour the ingredients into them. She then dumps them in the bowl to ultimately mix it together.

This is shortly after we got home from our walk yesterday, even though it was in the 60's she wore a hat. We made pumpkin pancakes for dinner.Then we made apple crisp tonight to eat after our walk with Daddy.

The Real Trick or Treat Day

Busy day, started with Emmi and I running in a 5K. It was at the airport so there were planes taking off and landing a short distance from us. So cool. Plus it is very flat so a great easy race to push Emmi in the buggie.


Went to a pre-TOTing party. Emmi had a great time being silly.

Ended with a rainy TOTing night. But she still had a great time as a banana. Here she is in action.

This is after we got home.

Preschool Halloween Par-tay

I signed up to help with the Halloween Par-Tay. It worked out great as we brought in the Purple Jello Jigglers in Ghost & Witches and Pumpkin bread muffins that were made in Pumpkin & Ghost trays. The other mom brought in a game and juice boxes with little treat bags. Here is Emmi enjoying her treats:

We weren't sure if Emmi would put on her costume since she had yet to try it on for me since I made it but when we got there she was wearing it. I have a few minor tweakings to do.
Showing Daddy the Halloween stuff hanging from the ceiling.


Only 2 more parties left before Trick or Treating. Will we last?

Dr Appt

I have the 22+ week check in today. Everything is normal, belly measured 22 1/2 inches. I have put on a total of 14 pounds so far. The baby's heartbeat was 154. So all good. I really liked this doctor as he was newer to the practice. He called my hip discomfort when exercising by its name, symphysis pubis pain. Basically I just need to suck it up so looks like I will be headed out to run this afternoon. They did ask if I wanted the flu shot which I declined due to the package warnings which state testing has not been done on pregnant women. The hospitals here have sanitizer everywhere and masks to protect people especially since kids under 18 are not allowed in hospitals at this time.

Big girl

Here is a picture my friend Ashley snapped of Emmi at a birthday party over the weekend. Check her out if you are in the Charlotte Area and need photos. http://ashleyhortonphotography.blogspot.com/
We may have her do prego shots and post baby shots.

Emmi has now been sleeping in her big girl bed for about 3 weeks. But she still likes to nap in her crib. When we set it up we figured we would just have it as an option but she jumped on it right away. She has only gotten up twice in the morning to come see us otherwise we have to go get her.

She also likes to have dance parties in the car. It comes in handy when we are bringing in the groceries or want to grab the mail. Here is a little video of her playing in the car while listening to Silversun Pickups:

Riverbend Pumpkin Patch

Here are some pics from the Pumpkin Patch that we went to over the weekend. It was beautiful weather.
The ride to go pick out our pumpkins and the one Emmi picking out hers.

The tractor to play on.




They have a bunch of slides there. Here is one that Emmi and her Daddy went down together on.