December 12, 2008

Look, I am writing twice in one week!

Emma is so funny I figured I better tell about our shopping trip and her spending the night before I forget.

Emma spent the night with me on Tuesday. She had so much fun, playing and just being silly. It has been a while so she was not willing to settle down to easy and it was midnight by the time we got to sleep. She is getting a bit independent and will lay down in the bedroom with a movie without me…well between coming out to tell me something over and over. She is also hard to sleep with, I think she spent most of the night laying across the bed so between her and the dog, my queen size bed seems pretty small!

Wednesday my mom woke us up at 8am to see if we wanted to go to Rapid City shopping. We are always up for a good shopping trip and Emma was excited to go. She wakes up so sweet and cute and so happy. It took us a while to get going but we headed out around 10. Brianna and Emma in the back seat, little did they know how squished they will be coming home.
Emma was so good shopping. She wanted a Elmo book she seen. It is called “where is Elmo’s blanket?” We looked inside and I said “oh look Elmo’s room is messy.” She said “Elmo.. Messy room!” and so that is what the book is now called. I asked her if Emma’s room is messy and she said “yes” so I asked what she is going to do about it and she said “clean”. Smart girl, now maybe she can clean my house too!

We were going through the preteen section at Gordmans when she seen the training bras. She got excited when she seen a monkey on one and yelled out “Ohhh! Monkey Boobs!” Everyone around thought that was funny. She is so fun.

We ate at the Olive Garden for lunch. She has a great time with the black olives and they always bring her lots. We had a wonderful waiter that Emma thought was funny but as long as he didn’t try to touch her. At the end he brought us each an andies mint. I keep some of these in my fridge for Emma when she goes potty in the potty chair. She opened her mint and excitedly exclaimed “Potty Candy!!” which really had Grandma Mert laughing.

That night Emma called me on the phone. Brianna showed her what button to push to dial me with the speed dial. She called and kept telling me “Elmo messy room”. It took me a few times to understand what she was saying. She had left the book at my house and she wanted it. I asked Kevin if he wanted to run it over or should I and he said since he hadn’t seen her, he wanted too. I sent her blanket with him since she had also left that here. Seconds after he left I get another phone call from Emma, this time Brianna didn’t know she was calling me. She got ahold of her mommas phone and remembered which button to push. She said “mommy, Elmo messy room?” she calls me mommy and Brianna Momma. I said “yes, papa is bringing over to you, he already left.” and she said “thank you” and hung up. So sweet and polite.

Tonight we went to see the Parade of Lights. Emma was really enjoying that, especially the fire truck and the fire works. She calls the fire works “Pop-pops”. I guess that is what they do though. She was really excited to see Santa in the parade also! They all went to the chili feed afterwards but I came home. I wonder if she got to see Santa there too.
Soon it will be Christmas and I will have loads more to write. Tomorrow is cookie decorating at the courthouse, that should be fun also.

Oh, I almost forgot. When she was spending the night she was so funny. Tara went to the living room window and barked at someone going by. Emma ran up and stood on the step stool I keep there for her and she started barking at people too! She also got a big kick out of the penguins. She was so crazy about it that first Christmas, still loves it. She was dancing with Mickey mouse to it.
She also had to get pictures of Cocoa who loves laying on the wrapping paper rolls. She took a couple pictures of her then wanted me to take one of her… but she wouldn’t get close to Cocoa for the picture. I almost couldn’t take the picture, I was laughing so hard.