Emily is 4 Years and 4 Months Old!

Emily is growing bigger and brighter every day! She is having a great time at preschool with her friends and is learning all kinds of new things.  She also continues to take dance class on Monday nights and was very excited this month to receive her recital costume.  (She wasn't, however, very excited that I put said costume waaaaay up high in my closet for safekeeping, haha!)  Here's a glimpse at what life is like with her right now:

- she is FUNNY! She's really developing her sense of humor now and it's funny to watch her try to make us laugh.  Most of the time she's pretty successful!

- she loves "Healthy Popsicles"-- these Del Monte freezer pops. They ARE really healthy, but I'm pretty sure she'd eat a whole box every day...and I'm not sure that would be so healthy.


- she has been playing her guitar(s) a lot lately, and making up wild songs to sing while she does it.  So funny!

- she wants to help me cook every meal.

- she loves Cinnamon Toast Crunch. A lot.  We're talking, 2- bowls- in- a- morning loves it.

- she's loving this warmer weather and getting to play outside more. :)

- she is super helpful and wants to help bathe Audrey, do laundry, etc.  Mostly everything except picking up her own toys, haha!

 - she adores playing with Audrey and they are (finally!) getting to the point where I can leave them to play with each other for a little while. Emily is loving how Audrey wants to play with her and is always trying to teach her new things.  It's fun for all of us, really!

  Thanks for checking in! Be sure you view the albums to see all the photos from this month.  Have a good day! :)

Audrey is 17 Months Old!

- she is talking more and more!  Now we have:
(new words in bold)
1. dada/daddy
2. dog (gog)
3. bye bye (die die)
4. play (pay)
5. mama
6. boat (this one is so adorable- every time a barge goes by she starts telling us!)
7. night night
8. all done
9. more
10. mommy
11. snack (sounds like duck)
12. baby
13. uh oh  (said as she drops something, on purpose...again!) 
14. go
15. cup
16. shoes
17. pretty (she says this whenever she gets her hands on a necklace and wants us to put it around her neck- so cute!)
18. ball
19. open (as in, open a present!)
20. poo poo
21. up
22. hot
23. cookie
24. cracker
25. car
26. apple
27. snack
28. help



- She is walking EVERYWHERE now- we hardly ever see her crawling anymore!

- She can squat down to pick something up and stand back up (without sitting).

- She can show us toes, nose, belly, and hair. She beeps her nose- so cute!

- She will say "go!" if you say, "Ready....set...____"

She is so delightful and we love her more every day.  SO lucky to have the world's best baby living at our house!

Emily is 4 Years and 3 Months Old!

Emily has had a wonderful month!  She enjoyed her trip to Disney so very much and is growing bigger and smarter every day.  Here's what life is like with her right now:

- she is completely out of size 4 pants- her legs are supermodel long and she needs size 5 pants now or it looks like we're ready for a flood!

- she has a good understanding of healthy foods and unhealthy foods (she still prefers mostly unhealthy though, haha!)

- she got her recital costume for dance class and is IN LOVE with it- wants to look at it, touch it, etc.  She really wants to wear it but I'm not letting her!

- she loves cranberry juice.

- she has re-fallen in love with the green elephant she got from Grandaddy when she was about 8 months old.  I think it's because Audrey found the elephant and was playing with it. ;)

- she is being more gentle with Audrey (thank goodness!)

- she is continuing to insist on changing clothes when she gets home from school and also again before bed.  Because we all know that Mommies love doing laundry, right? :)  I tell Paul it's job security for me!

- she can write every letter and all number up to 20.

- she can read about 15 sight words.

- she sang me an entire song yesterday about Abraham Lincoln being the 16th president.  I guess she hears this stuff at school but seriously? I had no idea she even knew who our current president is!!

There are actually no photos from this month outside the Disney albums... (I know, I know, bad Mommy!)  We have been crazy busy AND it's been super cold and dreary so we haven't been playing outside except for the trip to Florida.  I won't let it happen again! ;)

Disney Trip- Day 4

Today was our last full day at Disney, and we lived it up, for sure!  We had breakfast at the Magic Kingdom- at Cinderella's Royal Table, inside the C-A-S-T-L-E!!  It was so delicious and Emily was overjoyed to meet all of the princesses.  It was a very fancy breakfast and so much fun for all of us. 

Rushing to the castle- we didn't want to be late!

 Meeting Cinderella in the foyer.

 Our little princess going up the red carpet steps to the dining room.

 Waving her wand and making a wish!

 Snow White!

Princess Aurora!

 ARIEL!  Emily was so, so excited to meet her favorite princess!

 Belle!

 After breakfast we started touring the Magic Kingdom again.  We ran into Pinocchio before heading to Tomorrowland- where everything is 'futuristic'. :)

Paul and I took turns riding Space Mountain while Emily met Buzz Lightyear.  So fun!

 We came out of Tomorrowland just in time for another parade!

 After the parade we decided to head to Downtown Disney for our lunch at Wolfgang Puck's restaurant.  It was absolutely POURING the rain and that kind of ruined our time there.  Also, Downtown Disney is really just a large shopping area- I think we'll skip it next time and go someplace with characters, attractions, etc (like maybe Hollywood Studios would have been a better fit). Additionally, it took about 40 minutes each way to ride the buses to Downtown Disney- not the best use of our time. 

Still, there were some very cool things in Downtown Disney-- especially LegoWorld!  There were all kinds of HUGE Lego sculptures (??? not sure what to call them, exactly!) outside.  This was Em's favorite:

 We came back to our resort for a while to rest (one thing we didn't anticipate on this trip was how absolutely WORN OUT we would be.  Disney. Is. Exhausting!  It's GO GO GO all the time and at some point, you will crash!)

After dinner we headed back into the Magic Kingdom to have dinner at Tony's (modeled after the restaurant in Lady and the Tramp- I was in LOVE!)  I was very excited for this dinner as my childhood BFF, Aziza, has worked at Disney for 5 years now and she was able to come and meet us this night!  I have no idea HOW I forgot to take our photo together, but we greatly enjoyed having her join us for dinner.  I hope Emily's wild antics didn't make her too scared of children, lol!

After dinner we came back out to the end of Main Street.  We were in PERFECT position for the end of the last Move It, Shake It, Celebrate It Parade and the Wishes fireworks show-- this night we could watch AND not get stuck in the crowds.  Wonderful!!

I didn't take photos of the fireworks this time, since it was the third time we'd seen them.  I did take some videos on my phone that I'll post in a few days.  It was an amazing evening to cap off a wonderful day!