Sweet, Silly Emily

I have done posts in the past about Andrew and the silly stuff he does and says, but I have never written one about Emily.  I wanted to do one now, before I forget all the sweet, silly, and funny things Emily does.

This girl is so sweet and SO nutty! She talks non stop...really non stop, all day long and into the night.  You really have to watch what you say around this one because she WILL be repeating everything!  Kenneth takes advantage of that and now when you ask her "what are we going to do today?" she says "try to take over the world" and then gives you her best evil laugh :)

She is possibly a bit too smart for her own good.  Andrew has started school, which means she gets some alone time with mommy or daddy while he is at school.  Yesterday Kenneth asked her what she wanted to do while brother was at school and she said "go to Target and get me lots of new toys...Mommy said it was OK"

This girl LOVES Target.  Strangers always get a kick out of her in the store because her favorite sections are the shoes and handbags, I may not be able to afford this girl in a few years!  The other day she fell asleep on our way to her favorite store, I slipped her in the shopping cart and she slept the whole time we were there, it was probably the best Target trip I have had in 2 years ;)  She woke up as we were leaving and she was SO mad she had missed it!

She is so smart, but sometimes a bit forgetful.  Take a look at this picture and notice the GIANT cup in her hand (also notice that pirate costume she insisted on wearing do dinner :) )....

We were out to eat at a restaurant and she was drinking from that giant cup.  She had it tucked in her arm just like she does in that photo when she looked around and got an angry look on her face.  Then she yelled "HEY, somebody stole my chocolate milk, somebody stole my chocolate milk!"  I pointed to the giant cup in her arm and she smile "Oh, it's right there!"

In addition to talking non stop, this girl also moves non stop.  She climbs on everything, jumps on her bed, on the couch, off the couch...We got her a new bed with a foot board and she quickly learned that she can climb up onto the foot board and do a flip off of it landing on her bed.  She will be getting signed up for gymnastics in the near future!  She also has some rockin' dance moves :)

Emily has a sweet tooth like her mommy, she will do anything for candy!  And not only is she silly and smart, she is also just sweet as can be.  The other day she woke up before her daddy, she climbed in his bed and gave him a kiss to wake him up and said "you need a princess to wake you up, Daddy?"

She has started calling me "little Mommy", I have no idea where she got that but it cracks me up!  When I get home from work I always get a huge hug from her and she tells me "me luv you wittle mommy" I melt every time!

We got back from our trip to Casey Key last week and Emily is officially potty trained! She likes to meet her big milestones at the beach I guess, last year she was a full time walker after our beach trip and this year she is a full time pantie wearer!  

I just can't get enough of this sweet girl!

First Day of School

This morning we took Andrew and dropped him off for his first ever first day of school!  He is attending Pre-K 4 this year and will be going to school every Tuesday and Thursday morning for 4 hours.  He was so excited, he talked the whole way to school about meeting new friends.  When we got there, he could not stop jumping!  I think he is going to have a whole lot of fun there this year!

Washington trip part 8 - Snoqualmie Falls and more trains

On our last day touring in WA, we went to Snoqualmie Falls.

Jenny and I hopped the fence and climbed down for a closer look.  It was cool, but when we got back, we were in trouble, Andrew put us both in time out for 30 minutes for breaking the rules.

After the falls we saw some more trains.  We stopped by a little train museum.

When we got home we had some cupcakes to celebrate the almost 2 year old.  We sang happy birthday to her and she hated it, then she realized there were cupcakes and she felt better about the singing :)

Washington trip part 7 - Mt Rainier and Trains

This was Andrew's favorite day of the whole trip.  We had been telling him for months about this really cool mountain he would see in WA.  Unfortunately when we got there it was so cloudy you couldn't see the mountain.  On out fourth or fifth day there the mountain was finally out from behind the clouds, I told Andrew to look out the window and see the mountain and he said "ok mom, I see it" without even looking.  When he finally got up to look out the window he was shocked "WOAH MOM! A mountain!!!! We have GOT to go up there!!"

He was so so excited to be going to the mountain, he made up songs and sang the whole drive there.

Here he is touching snow for the first time.

He spent most of the time on his belly, he could not walk more than 2 steps in the snow without falling!

Snow angel!

We took some trash bags to try sledding on, It didn't work as well as I had hoped.

Aunt Jenny taught them all about making snow balls

See those 2 dry spots on the back of Andrew's knees? Those were the only dry spots on his whole body!

And now here is a picture of the happiest boy in the world!

After we left the mountain we stopped at a restaurant that was inside a train car.  Andrew got to eat lunch inside of a real train...happiest boy ever!