Emmy's Three!

Emmy turned three on May 8th, and then this blog turned three the next day!

Emerson Elizabeth, Friday, May 8, 2009 10:07 am. 2 lbs 10 oz, 14.5 inches long.

Happy 3rd Birthday, Emmy!

Emmy has a book called "Elmo Loves You" that we've been reading a lot lately (even though it is a Valentine's Day book).  At the end of the book it asks what are some things that you love? So we've been naming things Emmy loves and I thought I'd share some of those with you.

Emmy loves mushrooms, humus, olives, pickles, candy, popsicles, spicy jalapeno chips, and chocolate covered raisins.  She still likes beans (especially in chili). She'll loves fruit and loves it when Daddy makes her a smoothie. She likes peanut butter and jelly, yogurt with peach jam, turkey, onion rings, BBQ, french fries, mashed potatoes, chips and salsa,and ketchup. She has also recently decided that indeed, she does love Coke. Her first taste at the Coke Museum in the fall didn't impress her much, but recently, she's changed her mind.  It's more motivation for me to quit drinking it so she doesn't see it and want some. I do love a good Coke, so I can't say I blame her.

Emmy loves Rags.

Emmy loves her family (SuSu and Big Daddy, Granddaddy, DeeDee, Aunt Beth and Uncle Griffin and Aunt Mer are at the top of her prayer list at night). She also loves a certain couple of members of our extended family: Uncle Josh (Aunt Mer's good friend and roommate) and Justin, my cousin Joanna's husband.  Yes, Emmy has a crush or two.

Speaking of family and friends, Emmy loves to Skype.  She thinks seeing y'all on the computer is the best thing.

Emmy loves her babies.  Her favorite things to play with are hands down her babies and baby accoutrements.  Anytime she plays at someone else's house or at hourly care, she's most interested in the babies. She's a good mommy and she changes them, rocks them, shushes them, and feeds them.  She tells me sometimes she has a baby in her tummy and she'll also nurse her babies. I'm glad she has some good breastfeeding role models.

Emmy loves her friends. Sophie and Clayton live next door, as you've seen in previous posts, and she loves to spend time with them.

Emmy loves to sing. Her favorite song is a Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" and she belts it out right along with it.  She also loves her Kindermusik songs, Wiggles, Rafi, and other children's music we listen to. But she will sing along to music that Charles and I like and songs she hears on the radio, which is great.  Oh, and she sings a rousing rendition of Beyonce's "All the Single Ladies",  which cracks us up.

She is a fun girl, for sure, and keeps us on our toes! She had a great birthday party on Saturday (photos to come later) and then today for her actual birthday I made her sausage gravy and biscuits (she also loves sausage gravy) for breakfast and she opened a few presents from family that had come in the mail and one more little thing from Charles and me.  After her ballet class, we went to supper at our favorite Mexican restaurant (she loves Mexican) and we had pink strawberry cupcakes for dessert from a delicious bakery in town.

Her big present from us was a glide bike. She has been asking for a bike, and Charles' recent bike purchase only prompted her to ask us more frequently  We went ahead and gave it to her Saturday morning before her party while AA and Uncle John were here. We thought it would be fun for her to have it over the weekend to play on.  Photos of that birthday fun to come soon, too!