Big girl...

Emmi just amazes me more and more each day.

Her things lately have been:
- I do not have to follow her on the playground equipment. She just walks up to the big slide herself. She also likes to try swinging on the big kid swings. It will be nice when I meet up with some of the moms since I will actually be able to maybe have a little bit of conversation.
- The other thing is she now knows how to open the fridge. This coming weekend when we go grocery shopping I am going to pick up self serve type snacky things to put in the drawers. Then each night stock the drawer for her daily allowance. :) Otherwise we will have a day like today where she took 3 bites of a peach and then went to get another one.
- She also loves to wash her hands. We have set up a little chair in the downstairs bathroom for her to be able to do it herself. Although we keep the door shut most of the time as I otherwise see her soaking the bathroom down.
- Books and more books she just can't get enough. At night we end up reading the same books over and over again. Same with naptime. Although during the day she is perfectly happy reading them by herself. It has been great since she knows a ton of animal sounds now since those seem to be her favorites. The cutest sound she makes is the Rooster, her cock a doodle do is hysterical. Plus she can count to 3 all thanks to reading.

BABY news- Cant forget that. Had my doctor appt this week(15 weeks) where I have only put on 3 pounds and the baby's heartbeat was 156. Our next one will be the ultrasound so be on the look out for the poll to appear in the next month.

Here she is from over the weekend when she was helping Jacob get ready for his trip to Diablo. I am sure it makes Cousin Beau proud.

Helping & updates

Here is Emmi helping wash dishes, also note the hairbow, we are back to those :) :


Other updates:
-I am officially working from home 100% as of this week. We will be cleaning out my desk this weekend and now need to figure out office space and where to put my stuff. One idea I have is to change around our spare rooms due to baby on the way, making a playroom/office and then make the old office a nursery. So we may be living in chaos for a short bit as we figure it out.
-Speaking of baby on the way I am feeling great. I am not as tired as I was with Emmi. Just going about my normal routines. I definitely feel a little bigger as the end of the day comes, my term is the end of day baby bloat. So I am all about wearing comfy clothes and dragged out a few pair of maternity shorts if I go anywhere in the late day. Early part of the day I am still good in normal clothes. But the working from home allows me not to have to dress up much. :)
-Emmi starts preschool in the beginning of September so when Memere was here we went shopping for a few outfits. I think we are ready.

Poopy on the Potty

Last night we had the first time pukey kid in the car. Besides the baby spit up stuff Emmi had never threw up. Of course it happened just minutes before we pulled in to where we were going. We cleaned her up, good thing for spare outfits, and she seemed fine. When we came home she got a bath in the sink. She had naked time and all of a sudden during dinner she said, "Ought Oh" and ran into the living room.

Jacob checked on her and sure enough she went poopy on the potty. Whoo hoo. We have plenty of naked time since we have the little girl that refuses to wear diapers or will take of her diaper at times. Since we have the hardwoods I figured what the heck and put her potty in the middle of the living room where it has been for a few months now. This has been the only time we had complete success.

Here is a pic from last week:

Par-Tay Time

To celebrate Cousin Benjamin's 5th birthday his parents rented him a bouncy house/water slide for his party. Before the party the cousins were able to test it out. Emmi had a blast. We started by lifting her up over the side, her sliding on her bum, and letting her go. By the end she would try to climb up the normal way but then just go down by herself on her belly. No fear. Here are some pics from the day of her just having a blast.


Resting up after all that sliding.

Lazy 5 Ranch again. :)

Not sure who likes to go more, Emmi or I...... Since Memere is in town for Ben-jamin's birthday we figured it was the perfect excuse to have to go again. This time we took the wagon, although I think taking your own car is better, it was still fun to check out all the animals. Check out the pics from the day.

Emmi petting a Giraffe
Chillin on the wagon.
Woj with Emmi and the boys.
This is how close the animals are to the wagon.

Time for another blog?

Taryn and I created this blog in 2007 to celebrate Emmi. Over the past two years we've shared everything from Taryn's pregnancy, to Emmi's birth, to not only how she's grown, but how we've grown as a family. Well, in February of 2010, our family is going to grow a little more. Emmi's little brother/sister will be arriving. I asked Emmi if she would mind if she shared the blog with her little brother/sister and she said she was fine with it. So now it begins. Boy or girl (I say girl)? Names?

Move Emmi out of her room? Will he/she sleep as well as Emmi? So many questions.We're excited. I'm thinking we should start training Emmi on how to change diapers.

So stay tuned for updates as we prepare for baby burns numero 2.

Bubbles

Emmi has been in love with bubbles for some time. We usually play with them while waiting for Daddy to come home from work. She has now mastered blowing bubbles herself.


Of course we cant forget the monster shed almost finished.