New Background

I've been wanting to change the background on the blog for a while now. I just didn't know how. I found a website where you can download free backgrounds and I thought I would check it out.
I really havn't been keeping up with the blog these past few weeks. My mom got me to create a profile on Facebook and I've been hooked on that. It's pretty neat and I've reconnected with people that Matt and I went to high school with. We didn't go to our ten year reunion this past year and Facebook is a great way to connect with people from your past and present and see what they are up to now.

I do have to tell a funny story. I had to work late on Monday and Matt called me that night to tell me that Emily got a french fry stuck up her nose during dinner. Matt had his back to Emily and she started crying all of the sudden. He couldn't figure out what happened and asked her what was wrong. She said her nose hurt. He thought she stuck her finger up her nose and scratched it bad. He decided to give her a bath to calm her down and later saw something stick out her nose. He thought it was a big booger hanging out. Then he looked at it closer and it was pieces of potatoes that finally started coming out. Emily finally figured out how to blow her nose and he told her to blow really hard and more pieces came out. Hopefully she has learned her lesson about sticking things up her nose.

She has also been speaking in full sentences and then has other moments where it's a bunch of jabbering. It's really weird when you can understand everything she just said.

Still not potty trained yet. She does really good at daycare though. Her teacher even told me she thought she would be ready for panties soon. Yeah right. I got a little too excited about that one. I put her in panties last night so she could get used to the idea of them. Twenty minutes later she came up to me while I was making dinner and said 'uh oh'. She was soaking wet and peed on the computer chair. I know, every kid is different and she'll get there on her own time. She's always been that way. On her own time. Anyways, that's the latest update for now.

Happy Valentine's Day!!

This was the valentine that Emily gave out to her friends and teachers at daycare today. I think almost all of the other girls in her class had the same kind that they gave out. Emily was so excited when she saw them all. On the way home she was going through all of her candy and eating the ones she could open easy. I kept telling her 'no candy' and she kept on eating it. Oh, well. She's not a very good listener sometimes.

Here are the rest of the pictures we took of Emily at the park last week. Hope everyone has a good Valentine's Day.

Bubbles

Well, yesterday was pretty exciting with the Tornadoes we had. One was about a mile from my work and then we had some damage next to our neighborhood. Power lines came down and so now they have the roads closed off just past our block. When I went to pick up Emily yesterday, the whole street was out of power where her daycare is. It was pitch black in their building and they had all of the kids piled into their saferooms. A lot of the kids were crying but they said Emily did pretty good considering. She held onto me pretty tight once I got there. After we got home last night, she would come running up to me and yell 'mommy' every time it thundered really loud. It was kind of nice since she actually let me snuggle with her.

On the other hand, Emily was helping me put together all of her little gift bags for their Valentine's Day party at daycare for her friends the other day. We put candy and toys in the bags and Disney Princess cards. We had some extra bubbles left over and I let her play with them. She was so proud of herself when she would blow the tiny bubbles.

Fun at the Park

Yesterday, we took advantage of the nice weather and we ate lunch at the park. It was the first weekend, for the whole year, that is was just the three of us.

Emily was excited about wearing her sunglasses. I always forget to take them with us and remembered that day.

She climbed up this ladder all by herself. Matt was freaking out that I let her do it.

Just playin' around with the features on our camera.

Check back later on in the week. I have more to post from the park, but I think I'll save them for Valentine's Day.