Tucking Elmo In

I caught Emily tucking Elmo in her bed last week. She was even nice to let Elmo have her binky. If only we could get rid of that thing.

Matt told me today after he dropped off Emily at daycare that her teacher said she went potty twice last week in the big toilet. Yay!! I've tried at home, but I guess I am not timing it right because she doesn't do anything when she sits on the potty. When I ask her if she needs to potty she starts pulling her pants down and rips off her diaper. At least she has that part down. She seems so much bigger and older now that she's in the two year old class.

Elmo Hat

Last winter I bought this Elmo hat at Toy 'R Us on clearance. I found it in her closet the other day and she wanted to put it on. She is starting to say a lot more words now. She is also starting to sing the ABC's but will only go to about D or E and then gets quiet and then starts rambling other letters in there. She's also been counting a lot. She just moved up to the two year old class yesterday after being transitioned to the new class last week. They do a lot more stuff in there and they also work on potty training. So, hopefully she'll be more interested in it than before since they have potty breaks all the time. Plus she sees all of the other kids around her age sitting on the potty. I can't believe in less than two weeks we will officially have a two year old.

Baby Kaci

This weekend, Emily was really attached to her baby doll named Kaci. I think it's pretty funny that her baby has the same name as my sister. Anyway, Emily wanted to color in the living room and so I got out a little tray for her to color on and she went and got her baby and set her up next to her in the little carrier. She kept handing the baby crayons to color with. I was just hoping she wasn't actually coloring on her baby.


Here she climbed up in her rocking chair and started to feed her baby. She is such a little mommy. She'll be a big helper when the time comes for a sibling.

The Big Duel

Matt's dad got Emily a little purple light saber last week when we visited them. Later that night, when we got back home, Emily kept slugging us with it. She's pretty brutal and so Matt went and got his other light sabers that light up so we could defend ourselves.

Trip to Texas

What a weekend! We went to visit Matt's parents in Texas this past weekend. Mark's birthday was Thursday and so we went down to visit. Saturday was a busy day. First, Emily and I went with Selina to a nearby park for her work. They were having some sort of walk-a-thon and there were other companies with tents out there. After that we went to a mall in Sherman and then the guys called around lunchtime to see where we were at. They went out on their own to go to 'guy places'. Mostly Best Buy and other electronic places. We ended up meeting back together and drove to Frisco, Tx which is about a 45 minute drive. We have always wanted to go to IKEA and they have one there in Frisco. IKEA is huge. It's mostly modern and streamlined furnishings and storage items that are pretty cheap. I think they are based out of Sweden. We found the kids section and Emily had fun playing on some of the toys. After we spent a little over in hour their we ended up going to the mall. I think we ate lunch before we went to IKEA and Emily passed out in the car. She wouldn't even wake up when we were in the restaurant for lunch.

Carousel

After we went to IKEA we went to this really nice huge mall. This is the same mall that we went to last year and Emily rode the carousel for the first time. This time she really loved it and didn't want to get off when the ride was over. Needless to say, she rode it a couple of times.

She has the Miss America wave down pretty good. Especially when she was riding the horse. This video isn't the greatest, but everytime she would come around to where we were she would get so excited and start to wave.

Ice Cream

After riding the carousel a few times we were all hungry for some ice cream. Emily had a bite of everyone's ice cream but she had her eyes on mine. I think it was because my cone was dipped in chocolate with sprinkles at the top of it.

Pops came back over and Emily started to feed the rest of her ice cream to him.

Star Wars Stuff

Matt's parents went to Wal-Mart just before we got into town Friday night in Texas and he found this Storm Trooper helmet and a Star Wars Power Wheel four wheeler. We've been looking at the power wheels for a while, but couldn't make up our minds of which one to get.

Emily wouldn't put the helmet on for about a day. Finally the next day she picked it up and put it on her head. You'll have to turn the volume up to hear her jabbering under the helmet.

This is the Star Wars four wheeler. She's still trying to figure out that you have to hold the button down all the way to go. She was pretty sleepy so she doesn't act to excited about it.

Sesame Street

Emily loves watching Sesame Street. Since the new season has started, we've been recording it on our DVR. She starts dancing as soon as the music starts playing. She names all of the characters that go across the screen. She won't say Cookie Monsters name but she will act like she's eating cookies like the Cookie Monster. She doesn't do it in this video, but everytime she see's a picture of him she acts like she's eating cookies and says 'Yum, yum, yum'.

Bedtime Update

Well, Emily's first night in her new bed went really good. We put her down around nine that night and she didn't get out of her bed until she woke up the next morning around 7:30. These are a few pictures that Matt got in the morning before she woke up. She was still in her bed, but at the other end of it.

Last night we ended up tucking her in bed around 8:30. Right after we shut the door I heard some rustling noises in there through the monitor in our bedroom and I went to peek in. She was pulling books off of her shelves and taking them to read in bed. I figured she would go to sleep when she was tired. About thirty minutes later I went to check on her again and she was out like a light under her blanket. Around 3:30 this morning I woke up and heard some pitter patter of little feet going through the kitchen and then I heard her go back to her room and get in bed. I guess she figured it was too dark to do anything. Matt said she got up a little after seven and came in the living room and just stood there until Matt saw her (he was on the computer.)

Early B-Day Present

A couple of weekends ago, Matt went out and bought Emily a toddler bed. This weekend I got the brilliant idea to have him put it together to try it out. Plus, I ordered her new bedding last Sunday and got it on Wednesday. It matches her crib bedding and I was excited to put it all together. I feel like my sister at Christmas time. She always wants to tell us what she got us for Christmas or give the present to us early. I was hoping that Emily would transition to the bed pretty good since she sleeps on a cot for naptime at daycare. We tried it at naptime today and then ended up putting her back in the crib. I think she was too excited about the bed and kept climbing out and pulling out books to look at.



We just put her to bed a little after nine tonight and she did so good. I think she was really tired. It is a little after ten now and she didn't even try to get out. I guess we'll see how she does the rest of the night. Usually she doesn't make a peep at night so hopefully she will do just fine tonight.

Open and Close

I watch too much Elmo. In one of his songs he sings open and close to the tune of Jingle Bells.

Well, Emily has figured out how to open doors. She's been doing it for a couple of weeks. Luckily she can't open the doors that go outside, plus they are locked anyway. Matt has also taught her how to give a thumbs up, but she wouldn't do it this time. She was more into Sesame Street.

Elmo Towel

I got a call from the daycare Monday saying that Emily's temperature was around 100 degrees. I had to work late that day so I was able to go by the daycare and give her some medicine for the fever. When I got home that night Emily was still burning up and just wanted to be held. Which was nice for me because she doesn't like to just sit and cuddle anymore. Needless to say we had a rough night that night. Her fever finally broke the next morning and she was fine the rest of the day. Luckily I had yesterday off so she could recover a little longer from it. Anyway I felt so bad for her and I took her to Toys R' Us for some more birthday ideas for her and we found this Elmo bath towel. She loves her yellow duckie towel and loves to run around naked with it on after her baths. She really likes this towel too. She did the same thing after her bath last night.

Kiddee

We have these neighbors, to the right of us, who have a couple of cats and they just leave them outside all of the time. So the cats end up in our yard and everyone else's yard. Several of the other neighbors have complained about it and can't do anything about it because there is no leash law for cats. Anyway, Emily always goes nuts when she sees the cats in the backyard. I think one of them had babies because there are a few kittens I've seen back there.

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I think it's funny that she just walked away at the end.

New Help

Emily made a huge mess all over the floor last night during dinner. Matt went and gave her a bath while I cleaned up the kitchen. I was finishing up some stuff and this is what I found Emily doing.