November 18, 2007

Thanksgiving was nice. I really missed Emma before the day was over though. They went to Grandma Neil’s house for dinner. They did come out to Grandpa Lee’s in the morning so Megan and Laura and Terri could see her. She was cute like always, making us all laugh.
Black Friday we went shopping, brave souls we are. I was buying some stuff at Kmart, Brianna was behind me, waiting to pay for a movie. Emma was in the cart between us. She reached out and took Brianna’s $10 bill and Brianna said “oh you are wanting to pay, ok?” letting her have it. She turned to me then and handed me the $10 bill. I took it and said “Thank you” She then smiled and tried to take the pile of bills I had in my hand… she was trying to trade me the $10 for the $400 I had in my hand! She is a smart little thing.
We took her to see Santa at the mall while we were shopping. She could hardly wait for her turn to go sit on his lap. When it was finally her turn, she sat there and looked up at him, then at me, and was about ready to be down. I said “Oh Emma, Santa is going to get your belly!!!!” and she smiled, they took the picture and then she held out her arms to me to take her, she had enough. She still gets excited when we say “look there is Santa Clause” though.
I had to laugh this morning. Brianna said that as soon as she got up this morning Emma told her “Grandma” Brianna said “you want to go to Grandma’s house?” Emma nodded and said “yes”. So over they came, pajamas and all. Emma got into my bread drawer. She kept getting out the loaf of bread so I set it up on the counter. A short time later, I was in curling my hair and I heard her giggling in her bedroom and figured she was in there playing with the cat. I kept waiting to hear the cat hissing but didn’t, so I went in to check out what was so funny. She had gotten a hamburger bun out of the bread drawer and was hiding behind the bed, eating it! She was so proud of herself for getting away with sneaking that hamburger bun. I told Kevin that she is only 1 year old, she shouldn’t know how to sneak yet! She will be a handful when she is older for sure! I still laugh at her hiding while eating that bun though. What a crazy kid!

November 20, 2007

November 20, 2007
Emma is growing like a weed. She is in size 18 months clothes and a size 5 shoe. I think she is going to sprout up more soon since she outgrew her size 4 shoes so fast. That is how I knew her daddy was going to grow over night… he would eat and eat and eat… then he would outgrow his shoes… then one morning he would wake up 2 or 3 inches taller then when he went to bed. The other two kids grew slowly but steadily, the only way I knew they grew was when their pants were too short. Makes me think if we checked Jordan’s dna and Emma’s they would have almost all the same traits.
Jordan and Brianna and Emma were in Casper all last week. Man did I miss my little “burger butt”. When they came over on Saturday, Emma gave me a cuddle or two then ran after Tara saying “dog… dog… dog…” guess we know who she missed the most! Sunday I worried she would cry when I left to go to work, but Grandpa was here so she hardly gave me a bye-bye kiss. He took her little buggy out to the garage to fix it so it wouldn’t come apart all the time. She wasn’t to sure about that… Brianna said she really freaked out over it until he brought it back in. Sometimes she doesn’t share well. Emma really shares with Tara though. She spends the day giving Tara one toy after another to play with and tries to feed her her plastic play food. Tara takes it all in stride, she sure loves Emma now that Emma is big enough to want to play with her and learning not to pull on Tara’s hair and ears.
Emma doesn’t say much, but talks all the time. She tells you something that is just jabber, but acts like she is telling you something important. She will repeat words and say some words that you can understand too. The other day when I tried to give her baby food, she spit it out and looked at me like “what in the world are you trying to get me to eat??” So I said “oh you want some of grandma’s cooking?” She nodded yes and said “Grandma’s cooking” just as plain as can be. I think she wanted to make sure I wasn’t going to feed her anymore of that jarred baby food!
If I ask her if she wants lunch, she will go get the bread out of the drawer. That means she wants a pb & J sandwich. She likes peanut butter and jelly and also turkey and tuna sandwiches. She isn’t much of a ham eater or even beef she doesn’t eat a lot of.
She had her flu shot booster yesterday. When Brianna brought her into the restaurant afterwards she took one look at me and came to me crying to have me make her feel better. She cuddled up to me and got some loves and then she was all better. She headed in the kitchen and said “Zach?” She loves our cook Zach. He is the same age as Jordan and such a cute sweet young man.
I can’t wait to find out how she likes the snow. Today will be the first day she sees it and can actually play in it. Last year she was to young and was over covered when outside. She is so fun to watch as she learns new things. I love her so much!

November 2, 2007

I can’t believe it is already November and Halloween came and went so fast. Soon it will be Emma’s second Christmas.


Halloween was fun. Brianna brought her over all dressed in her Elmo costume and she looked so cute that Tara felt jealous. We know this because the first thing Tara did was put her front paws on Emma’s chest and pushed her over on her bottom. Emma got her back after I put Tara in her bumble bee costume from last year. Emma thought that was so funny she would bend over with her hands on her knees laughing so hard. It really tickled her to have Tara all dressed up.


Emma thought that Trick or Treating was loads of fun. She really likes the idea that you go from door to door with a little Elmo bucket and people put CANDY in it. Brianna and I took her to the nursing home, Energy Electric, Aro and a couple other businesses and to one of my co workers, Bobbie, who makes the best popcorn balls for Halloween each year. Emma made herself at home at Bobbie’s house. She always has loved Bobbie who is everyone’s Grandma. Cassie came over and while I worked she and Brianna took Emma out door to door. Cassie stayed the night with Emma, well and Brianna and Jordan so I went over to their place when I got off work at 10. Emma was still up and going strong on her sugar high. Cassie tried to rock her to sleep but she wasn’t having it. So I took her and rocked and sang to her, putting her asleep in 5 minutes. Now that I think of it, I think she goes to sleep so she doesn’t have to hear my off-tune singing anymore! Oh well, whatever works!


Yesterday we went to see Grandpa Lee and Grandma Mert since they didn’t make it out there trick or treating. Emma had a good time trying out the dolls chairs and seeing what she could get into. She had a good time having all that attention on her. She always does.