Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve we drove to Tulsa and went to my Aunt and Uncle's house to visit and open presents. Here is Emily with my mom, grandma, and cousin Bethany. Matt bought this OSU stocking hat and just had to wear it and Emily kept wanting to wear it herself. (BTW, most everyone on my side of the family are OU fans.) Boooo!

Here's Emily with my sister, Aunt Kaci. Emily was trying to open her new My Little Pony herself. After she opened each of her toy presents she would go up to someone and say 'open'.

My sister made Emily this really cute Abby Cadabby fleece blanket. It's really soft and Emily loves it. She won't share with me when it cold in the house.

Emily was really good about taking everyone their presents, but when she took it to them she started opening their present for them. Here she is trying to open one of Papa's gifts.

Here's Matt in his OSU stocking.

Christmas Day

Ok, I had these in a certain order when I uploaded these and I've done this three times and it keeps getting them all out of order. I'm just going to keep going with these pictures out of order.

We stayed overnight with my parents in Tulsa for Christmas and after we got back home from the trip Matt put all of Emily's big presents together. This is her dollhouse we got her and she is playing with the daddy.
Santa brought Emily a big stuffed My Little Pony. She is really into the ponies now and picks the pony dvd to watch more often than Elmo. This picture was taken at the end of the day and you can tell she was just exhausted.

Here she is again playing with the dollhouse.

Daddy is moving the family into the house.

This video was taken Christmas morning. We all had a very late night and were still sleepy that morning. I think Emily didn't even go to bed until 11:30. Santa brought Emily the new Elmo Live too and this is a video of her playing with it. The video is pretty long but hilarious at the end. At least I think so.

Santa's Reindeers

Well, this is the video from Emily's class that sang 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' for their Christmas program. They had moves to the song and her teacher told me that Emily was the only one that does them. This is a really bad video and we couldn't see Emmy with all of the people there. We had a good view of her until her teacher pulled her to the other side. The little boy at the front walking in is Devon. They are best buds and another girl with blonde hair named Lexi. They are always giving each other hugs and kisses throughout the day. I did see Emily peeking around to see us and she was waving at us too. Hopefully I can get her to do the moves on video here at the house.

Christmas Party

Well, Thursday was Matt's Christmas Party for work and it was at Incredible Pizza. We had a lot of fun, especially Emily. She loved the car game and Ski Ball. She kept throwing the balls up high and was hitting the protective covering. I think Matt even got wacked in the head with a ball.

Shh...Emily's Christmas Present

We got Emily this really cute dollhouse for Christmas. I guess it's not really a surprise since Emily was with us when we were deciding which one to get. Hopefully she won't remember it and will be surprised when she opens it up. We bought the big version of it and it includes some furniture for a few of the rooms. The company sells all of the individual rooms of furniture in seperate sets. So, if anyone is wondering what to get Emily for Christmas just let me know and I can tell you what furniture sets we still need for the dollhouse.

Nooo, Mommy, Nooo

Well, Matt and I have been sick this past week. Matt was sick the first part of the week and then around Thursday I got a sinus infection on the left side of my head. The pain started above my eye and went all the way down to my teeth and I got an ear infection in my left ear. So, it has not been a fun week. I think Matt's all better now but I'm still fighting my stuff. Anyway, I tried to get some pictures of Emily on Sunday but she was not being cooperative. She kept saying Noooooo, Mommy, Noooooo and would put her hand up in front of her face everytime I tried to take her picture. She started crying too so I just gave up. Here is one of the non fuzzy pictures.

Emily and Santa

Emily got to visit with Santa two times in one week. We first went to visit him when my mom was here to watch Emily while Matt and I had to work on a Saturday and then we saw him again this past Friday while Matt's parents were here. The first time she wouldn't sit in his lap and she hung onto me so tight and wouldn't get a picture with him. We talked about going to another mall and getting our picture with a different Santa, but we were already at the mall by our house and decided to try again. She let me put her on Santa's lap and the only hard part was trying to get her to smile. They only take up to three pictures and you have to choose the one you like the best. This was the best out of the three. At least she wasn't screaming her head off in the picture like she did last year. The only thing is that she pooped in her pants right before we went to see him so I hope Santa couldn't smell or feel it. Sorry Santa.


Sunday we went to Wal-Mart after breakfast with Matt's parents and we saw a Santa there. He was all the way at the other end of the store walking down one of the main walkways and Emily saw him coming and started yelling 'Santa'. She started waving at him and he waved back at her. When he got closer he said 'ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas' and shook her hand. She was so excited and actually said 'bye' to him instead of just waving goodbye like she normally does to people she doesn't know. She is getting so excited about Christmas even though she doesn't understand it. The house is all decorated inside and out and she says 'pretty' when we see a house with their lights on at night. So far she has done pretty good with leaving the ornaments alone. Every once in a while she'll take one off and bring it to me. It's usually one of her Care Bear ornaments or one of Matt's Star Wars ornament.

Baking with Grandma

On Thanksgiving morning, Emily helped Grandma make a few pies. Unfortunately, we could tell where Emily went through the house. She had flour fingerprints all over the furniture.

New Camera

This is our new camera. It's a Sony CyberShot SH50. It's pretty cool. The screen on the back of it moves around so you don't have to move your camera in a weird position.

Early Christmas Present

For the past few weeks I have been complaining about our camera and how I don't really like it anymore. We bought it right before Emily was born knowing we would take a lot of pictures, being first time parents and all. The other day I asked Matt what he wanted for Christmas and he said, "I don't know, but I have an idea of what I want to get you". I asked him what he was going to get me, thinking he wouldn't say anything. Then he blurted out "a new camera". He had done some research on cameras and asked around at work and already new which one he wanted to get. Over the next few days he was showing me what he had in mind and I started to get really excited. He went out and bought it the other day and said it was an early gift that way we could use it for the holidays coming up. I am soo excited about it and it really does a lot of cool stuff.

Today was a really pretty day and so we went to the park and experimented with the new camera on Emily. This first one is Matt's favorite and mine too. It's amazing how the quality of the pictures are already. They are so much better than with our old camera.

This one with the leaves is my other favorite.

She kept chasing this squirel around and picking the bark off the trees.

Making Cookies

Yesterday, Emily and I went to Target to check out all of their Christmas decorations. We found those cookies that have designs on them and I thought they would be easy enough for Emily to put them on the cookie tray. Once we got home, and after her nap, she helped me put the cookies on the tray. There were a few that she just threw on there and I think she tried to eat one. She had a lot of fun helping me. She also got an Elmo stocking and ornaments for her little tree in her room. I'll post some pictures of them later once we finish decorating the tree.

Lil' Mama

Last weekend Emily came out of her room pushing her baby in the stroller and she had on her play glass slipers and Elmo backpack. She cracks me up. She also got some soft fuzzy socks in hot pink and purple. She kept wanting to wear them with her slippers and she had a hard time walking in them because the socks are a little slippery.

I Did It!!

Last night while we were watching the results for the polls Emily kept taking her pants off and then would put them back on. The first time she did it she had them on inside out and she was so proud of herself. She did it again so I could catch it on video.

Happy Halloween!!

Emily was a cute little witch for Halloween today. They had a big party in her class today and by the time I came to pick her up she was already on a sugar high. Once we got home she was going through everything in her bag and wanted to eat all of the candy she got.

This is some of the candy she got into. We went Trick or Treating to a few houses surrounding our house. She was holding so tight to us and didn't quite understand what was going on until after a few houses. After that we met up with Chris and Mckayla at the mall. Jessi had to work tonight. We ate dinner with them and then let the girls play and run around in the little play area that the mall has.

After we got home tonight, Emily took everything out of her bucket and started checking out all the candy she got. I kept telling her that is was yucky hoping she wouldn't want to eat it all. She was making funny faces and saying that each piece of candy was 'eww gross'.

Dancing with the Stars

Last night Emily and I had the tv to ourselves. Matt had to work late last night and didn't get home until after ten. We watched the Charlie Brown Pumpkin special and then I gave her a bath. When we came back into the living room Dancing with the Stars was on. We don't normally watch that show because we are usually watching a movie that comes out on Tuesdays. Anyway, Emily saw the people on the show all dancing and she was showing me all of her moves. She even had to take her pants off for it. I think she saw some ladies with just tights on their legs instead of pants as their costume. If I was sitting down she kept telling me to get up so I could dance with her. I was so worn out from her last night that I went to bed before Matt got home.

She's also been doing lots of dare devil stunts recently. She'll jump off of chairs and she's been doing somersaults. I think she will be either in dance or gymnastics when she gets a little older.

Fright Fest at Daycare

Last night, Friday night, was Fright Fest at Emily's Daycare. It was a little Halloween carnival. All of the workers at the daycare put a lot of work into it and we were very impressed. They had Trunk or Treat in the parking lot for the kids and all sorts of games inside and a Haunted House. Matt and I took pictures with Emily right after we got there. All of the kids were in their costumes and Emily wouldn't let go of us. It took her a little while to warm up to everything that was going on.

She played a little duck game and each of the ducks had a number on the bottom of them. They got to pick a prize out of different buckets that matched the number to a duck.

They also had face painting. She picked out what she wanted and the color too.

I couldn't get her check cleaned off all of the way once we were home, so it's still stained a very faint purple in the shape of a heart. She sat very still during the entire time and didn't touch it once her teacher was finished.

They also had a booth set up to decorate a cookie. She choose a pumpkin with orange icing and lots of different sprinkles. She kept pointing for another teacher to add more.

She mostly just licked the icing and sprinkles off of the cookie.

They also had a cupcake walk. One of the teachers helped Emily since she was the smallest one doing it. They each got a pixie stick if they didn't win a cupcake. Emily kept bringing it to me and wasn't sure about it once I poured a little bit in her mouth. She kept making a funny face.

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This was one of the tables in the Haunted House. Emily kept saying 'EWWW GROSS' at the brains. Of course she didn't even know what they are. She heard the older kids saying it.

She didn't win a cupcake. The girl walking with her gave one to Emily anyway. It's still sitting in the box. I don't think Emily even knew she got one. We'll just keep it that way. She keeps pointing to the candy bowl and asking for more candy to eat.

We had a really good time. After about an hour and a half, Matt and I were ready to leave. We tried to leave twice and Emily was throwing the biggest fit ever and didn't want to leave. She threw herself on the floor outside and was kicking and screaming. Matt took her back inside to let her go through the Haunted House again. He's such a softie. We tried again and just made a mad dash to the car. Everyone thought she got scared in the Haunted House. I had to explain to her teachers that she was having so much fun and didn't want to leave.

After we got home that night, Emily was walking in the kitchen with a Sonic drink in one arm and rubbing one of her eyes with her other and she kept saying 'I tired'. I have never heard her say that. I guess she wore herself out with all the fun she had.