playing in the mud

Summer fun

July 15, 2009

It has been a busy few weeks. It is hard to believe that the summer is half over now! Emma hasn't gotten as much time playing in the pool as she did last year, seems we are always on the go.

On the 4Th of July we went to Belle Fourche SD to the carnival. Emma really enjoyed herself. She won the water gun fight where you shoot the water in the clown's mouth until you pop the balloon. She was pretty proud of herself with that. She loved the Farris wheel and the roller coaster but the fun house seemed to be her favorite. The funniest was the big bears that had the wheel to make you spin around. She went with her parents on it and when they came off she told me "We were in the big bear and we went round and round and round and mommy said 'stop the bear, I'm gonna throw up!'" I got such a kick out of it all. Cassie had to take her on the big slide which was suppose to be like Raiders of the lost ark. They had to climb a rope ladder which was funny to watch since Emma couldn't do it and Cassie had to hold her while she did, but Cassie was dressed in a long jean skirt and flip flops. I don't think that Cassie enjoyed that as much as Emma. Later we went to Grandma Mert and Grandpa Lee's to shoot off fireworks. We got a tour of their new camper which is bigger then Brianna and Jordan's apartment, well minus one bedroom. It was really nice and Emma thought she should take a nap in it. Of course she had to go potty while in there. It has a electric fireplace in one corner of the living room that is remote control. Emma thought that was really cool and when my mom turned it off, she got upset and insisted it be turned back on. She danced around the living room and checked out all the cubby holes. She even put her dolly in one to see if it would fit.

Last weekend we went to Douglas to celebrate Chloe's first birthday. Emma had a blast being the "big kid" and mothered the two little ones every chance she got. She enjoyed spending the night with Aunt Terri also. On the way down she didn't sleep at all. Aunt Pam rode with us and Emma being in the middle of the back seat put her feet on the arm rest between the front seats. There was a deer that had been hit on the side of the road and Pam saw it and said "ewww.. oh ewww" Emma being in the back covered her face in embarrassment and said "those are just my toes" She thought Pam was saying ewww about her feet stinking. We are still laughing over that.

Emma has been really working up her imagination and so funny with it. She is a smart little one who always surprises us with her outlook at things. She always claims there is ghosts here and there and telling us that daddy doesn't like to fly or telling stories on mommy. In the restaurant yesterday she insisted she wanted salad for lunch. I ordered her her chicken strips and fries and gave her some of my salad. She ate all the salad and all the fries and about half of her chicken strips. That isn't to bad for someone who doesn't like vegetables.... guess she doesn't realize that salad is vegetables. She also was talking about flying. I told her I had flown in a airplane to where Mickey mouse lived. She was especially impressed when I told her that the princesses live there too... and Donald duck.. and pirates and when I told her that there were ghosts there too, her eyes grew big and said "no!" She is so funny.

August 8Th Brianna and I are going to take her to Casper to see Elmo's Green Thumb. I can't wait. We are in the 3rd row in the gold circle so she will get to see the characters up close. She knows we have the tickets to something but she doesn't understand she will get to actually see Elmo! I hope I can get pictures of her with Elmo.

We have had a lot of rain the last few days and I put Emma in old clothes and let her run around in the mud barefoot. She had her shovel and bucket and would scoop up some mud and put it in her bucket. She would show me the shovel full of mud and say "just look at it" I said "what is it?" and she would say "alligator poop" Where she gets these things I am not so sure.

She has to be one of the sweetest little girls there ever was. She will say "I love you grandma" just out of the blue and I will say "I love you too sweetheart" and she will say "I love you to pieces" She is as perfect as they come.

July 3,2009

Emma and Bailey were wonderful as flower girls in Jarrod's wedding. When they made it up the isle Emma yelled "Whewww We DID it!" The girls and Bridger pretty much stole the show, they are so funny.

Emma enjoyed camping out and being able to run and play with all the young kids. She and Bailey get along so good, it will be fun watching them grow. Emma stayed in the camper with us but she wasn't sure about when I turned the lights out on Friday night. She said "it's dark... I can't see you." I said "yes but we are cuddled up together so you can hear me and feel me" She said "hold my hand" I took her hand and she slipped the other hand in mine also. She giggled and said "now you are holding both my hands" She is such a sweetie.

Emma has been enjoying the nice weather and loved it when I filled her pool. She played in it for a while and then we went in the house for a bit. Later on we went back out and she got back in the pool. She said "ohh it is warm now"

I took Tara in and had her groomed. Later that day when Emma and Brianna came over, Tara ran to the door to meet Emma and Emma started backing up unsure. I heard her say "who's that doggy mommy?" Brianna said "why that's Tara" Emma looked at her and said "But she doesn't have any hair!" We got to laughing over that for the rest of the evening.

We all went to the circus a couple weeks ago. The girls loved it. Emma said her favorite part was the Big tigers. I wish we could get her to a good circus with elephants and monkeys also.

This weekend is the carnival in Belle. I think we are all going to go to that tonight or tomorrow.

Wednesday Emma had to go to the dentist. She did great with it, not even a whimper getting her two cavities filled. She is pretty proud of her "silver princesses" but we decided she didn't want to get anymore sugar bugs in her teeth to cause her to have more. Afterwards we went to McDonalds for dinner and to the new Ice Age movie. She really had fun in the movie. I told her we were going to the movie like Annie did. Her eyes grew really big when the movie started and she was very into the movie for most of it. She did very well. I had told her that we could go if she thought she was big enough to sit through it and not want to get up and run around. She promised me she could. She said "see I bigger now, see how big?" while puffing herself up. She was big enough now and it was a very pleasant evening. She was asleep before we got out of Spearfish.

She has such a wonderful imagination and an amazing mind. She really tickles me with the things she comes up with.