Hi all!
So yes, I know, I continue to be behind. Here's a quick catch up from September.
Labor Day weekend we went to Greenville. There was lots to do this visit: Big Daddy's birthday, Aunt Mer came to town, AND Grandaddy and DeeDee drove up to visit and go with all of us to see the show at the Cafe, where Charles and I had our rehearsal dinner. Fun! Joanna and Justin kept Emmy while we went to the Cafe, and for that we are much obliged. She had a great time with JoJo and Justin. I took woefully few photos because, well, Granddaddy was around and we all know he's the photographer in the family! Here is one photo of Emmy helping put candles in Big Daddy's cake. She used the whole box! It was a fun weekend.
You've already seen photos of Baby Micah's shower and our apple picking excursion, but then the third weekend in September we went to Durham to see Aunt Mer! And "Uncle" Josh! And "Uncle" Chase! Emmy loves them all. We went up on Thursday so we had extra time so we could visit with Rev. and Mrs. Skinner, our Chaplain from Wofford and his wife. Rev. Skinner is one of the two ministers who married us, and they are very, very special people. They had seen Emmy when she was a baby, but we hadn't seen them in a while, so it was great to catch up. They recently moved to Raleigh from Spartanburg to be near their daughter and her family, so we are so glad we got to have lunch with them. Emmy really took to
Rev. Skinner and had fun playing with him. We ate lots of good food at local Durham restaurants, spent lots of time with Mer, Josh, and Chase and many more of their fabulous friends, and even had a night out while sweet Erika baby-sat Emmy. Erika came with Mer to visit when Emmy was newly home from the hospital and spent much of that weekend working on a paper for her Masters program with a tiny baby Emmy sleeping on her chest. She teaches pre-school, so she loves kiddos and within 2 minutes of arriving Emmy could have cared less that we were leaving. As Uncle Chase taught her to say, "Erika is AMAZING!" Emmy repeated this with gusto.
The only downside of the weekend: this was a week that Emmy was waking up at the crack of dawn every day. Traveling did not make this any better, so she and I were up at 6 am basically every day. Trying to keep a toddler quiet while the other adults are sleeping and you do not have your usual surroundings/toys to keep her entertained is not high on my list of fun things, but so it goes with two year olds and travel. We had a great time with everyone and Emmy really did great, I can't complain. We love visiting Durham!
On Saturday we took Emmy to the Museum of Life and Science and it was fantastic! Emmy loved it and she talked about it for days after. As a nice little surprise, we ran into Jennie, Brett, and Trey who were in town visiting family so Emmy played with Trey and his cute cousin Anne for a little while in the toddler play area. Fun!
My photos from the weekend were almost exclusively taken at the museum, so here are a few. More photos from
September in the Picasa Album!
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| Checking out the fish in the stream of the butterfly house |
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| Whoa! Her reaction to one of the dinosaur models on the dinosaur trail at the Life and Science Museum. |
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| Family photo |
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| It was a long day at the museum! |
You've already seen photos of Baby Micah's shower and our apple picking excursion, but then the third weekend in September we went to Durham to see Aunt Mer! And "Uncle" Josh! And "Uncle" Chase! Emmy loves them all. We went up on Thursday so we had extra time so we could visit with Rev. and Mrs. Skinner, our Chaplain from Wofford and his wife. Rev. Skinner is one of the two ministers who married us, and they are very, very special people. They had seen Emmy when she was a baby, but we hadn't seen them in a while, so it was great to catch up. They recently moved to Raleigh from Spartanburg to be near their daughter and her family, so we are so glad we got to have lunch with them. Emmy really took to 
Rev. Skinner and had fun playing with him. We ate lots of good food at local Durham restaurants, spent lots of time with Mer, Josh, and Chase and many more of their fabulous friends, and even had a night out while sweet Erika baby-sat Emmy. Erika came with Mer to visit when Emmy was newly home from the hospital and spent much of that weekend working on a paper for her Masters program with a tiny baby Emmy sleeping on her chest. She teaches pre-school, so she loves kiddos and within 2 minutes of arriving Emmy could have cared less that we were leaving. As Uncle Chase taught her to say, "Erika is AMAZING!" Emmy repeated this with gusto.
The only downside of the weekend: this was a week that Emmy was waking up at the crack of dawn every day. Traveling did not make this any better, so she and I were up at 6 am basically every day. Trying to keep a toddler quiet while the other adults are sleeping and you do not have your usual surroundings/toys to keep her entertained is not high on my list of fun things, but so it goes with two year olds and travel. We had a great time with everyone and Emmy really did great, I can't complain. We love visiting Durham!
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