More May Fun

Here are a few more photos from May, after Emmy's birthday and before our big trip home to SC and GA!

Dancing in the rain with Sophie

Sweet friends

Relaxing on the porch and happy Daddy is home!

After supper at Homer's Diner.

She fell asleep on her new birthday carrot pal. We were dropping Rags off to be boarded while we head to Omaha for Mother's Day weekend!

We checked in to the hotel Friday night and while we were unpacking and getting things ready for bed, Emmy sat herself down to open a few birthday cards we'd forgotten to hand her from the mail. The whole ensemble/pose just cracked me up.

First day at the zoo!

Cool statue outside the aquarium

Taking the train around the park (she's getting sleepy).

Holding her new penguin pal she named Mumble, after the Happy Feet character.

Cheesy grin after the train ride.

Lunch at a delicious brewery, then an attempted nap, and back to the zoo!

I think the gorillas were Emmy's favorite. This one had a boo-boo on his foot and she was so concerned about him.

I loved this view of the tiger gazing down into the "moat" that separates him from us. Omaha is interesting the way it's built with the hills so you can view animals from different levels. Obviously here, we are looking down on him.

Petting the goats!

Carousel ride!

Happy Mother's Day!

Rags and Emmy were so happy to see each other!

Picking strawberries

Supper at the Weston Brewery

Back again another day in Weston for supper with our neighbors before we all leave for our 2 week break!

That wraps up May before we head out for our big trip.  All of the photos (and more than you could ever want to view) are in the May Picasa album.

Emmy's third birthday bash - the rainbow party

We celebrated Emmy's birthday on the Saturday before her actual birthday, which happened to be Cinco de Mayo. We had decided to have a rainbow themed party, which Emmy was super excited about. And of course, I was too, because I love planning a party with a fun theme!   While planning the menu, I realized that a rainbow theme would lend itself well to Mexican food, so we could celebrate Cinco de Mayo, too!  But more about that later.

Our dear friends April and John (AA and Uncle John) came up for Emmy's birthday. That's been one of the best things about being in KS, they are stationed only about 4 hours away in MO.  We decided to give Emmy her big gift from us on Saturday and AA and Uncle John gave her their gifts, too. 

We spent the morning doing some last minute  party prep and then we all went to lunch.  While Emmy napped, we finished getting ready for the big par-tay!  I'm sooo thankful for John and April's help.  We would have never gotten everything done without them!  It was a fun party and I think Emmy had a good time with her pals.  We just had three neighbor families come over to enjoy the afternoon with us and we missed having all our loved ones in SC and GA get to come this year.

Here are a few photos from the weekend, more are posted in Picasa.

 

 

Fabulous invitation, thanks yet again to the talented Aunt Sarah.

Checking out the "guest book" about rainbows in her super cute rainbow party dress.

Taste the rainbow of fruit flavors!

Our Mexican feast.

 

Frozen water balloons to keep the adult beverages cold.

Ribbon wands. I have no idea what I thought the kids would do with them, bu they seemed like a fun idea.

Party guests!  5 kids under 5, this is as close to a money shot as it gets!

Post party, she sat in John's lap and alternated between chips full of (super) spicy cheese dip and ranch veggie dip. Smart girl!

April and I celebrated a fun party with a Cinco de Mayo tequila shot.

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!