Trip to the Zoo

Yesterday we went to the OKC Zoo with Jessi, Chris, and Mckayla. We had so much fun even with the wind blowing us around. This picture is of Emily getting ready for the zoo. She is such a girlie girl. You can't see it, but her shirt says 'I am a Glamour Girl'.

This bear was laying on the ground with it's foot on the glass. Emily kept trying to touch it and give the bear a high five.

Mckayla was trying to reach out to give someome a high five.

The zoo had a dinosaur exhibit which was pretty cool. Some of the dinosaurs were animatronic.

We had a lot of fun and Emily really enjoyed seeing all of the animals. She kept wanting us to take her out of the stroller so she could see better, which got annoying after a while because she wouldn't go back in it. At one point she got scared of a small statue of a tiger. I was going to have her sit on it and take a picture and then all of a sudden she started crying. I thought maybe it was too hot, but it wasn't. She wouldn't go by it and started saying "no mommy" when I got close to it. The real ones didn't scare her at all.

Early Easter Fun

We spent this past weekend in Texas to visit Matt's parents. Since Easter is next weekend we decided to celebrate it a little early. This is Emily's Easter dress. It is purple this year and we got it at Cracker Barrel of all places. We went there yesterday for breakfast, after church, and all the workers kept coming over to look at Emily in her dress. They even went to get the manager of the gift shop. I tried to get some cute pictures of her in the dress once we got back to the house. Of course, she wouldn't cooperate and just wanted to get out of it. We handed her this little Easter chick to get her to stay still. It worked for a few seconds.

We decorated Easter eggs yesterday afternoon. It's not one of the best things to do with a two year old. She wasn't very careful with the paints and was sloshing the colored water everywhere, but she did have lots of fun.

Here are the finished eggs.

The Good ole Days

When we were at Matt's parents house, Selina pulled out this picture of Matt and I during high school. I think this was either at our sophomore or junior year homecoming. I remember going to pick out this dress at Dillard's, or some department store. It has sequins all over it and I remember feeling so grown up. I think we were probably 16 or 17 years old. This was our first real dance that we went to together. Who ever thought we would still be together after all these years with a kid now. My, time sure does fly.

Disney IPod

I went to Michael's today to find some beads to make a necklace to go with Emily's Easter dress. I know, I know, I went to H.L. competition. But they do have different stuff than we do. When I was going up to the front to checkout I found this bin that had Disney stuff on sale for 75% off. I found this Princess book that has a little music player with it. It plays cheesy songs but Emily loves it. She carries it around the house listening to the songs. Her ears are too small for the ear buds and so they keep falling out. I told Matt we're gonna have to get her a real IPod soon. This thing has kept her busy for a while today.

Hi Daddy!

Showing off her music player.

Here is a picture of our new Princess Potty Chart. I'm just letting her put stickers on the flowers for everytime she actually goes pee-pee in the potty. It has different lines for pulling down pants and washing hands, but she already does all of that. Heck, she can already put her clothes on without any help. I think this is going to be a slow process. She only has one sticker on a flower and we've been doing this at home for the past several days. She does really well at daycare and she even wore panties on Friday. I think she maybe had two accidents that day in them. One was during naptime. We'll get there sometime.

Here's a video of her using her music player.

Spring Pics at Daycare

We just got these pictures done a few weeks ago at daycare and they came back yesterday. They turned out pretty cute.

Playin' Around

I had this past Saturday off, while Matt worked, and while I was getting ready in the morning I could hear Emily playing in her room. She pretty much trashed it and I found her reading to her baby doll. Here she is trying to take a picture of me with her play phone.

Emily loves wearing necklaces. We went shopping at the mall by us later that day and we found this cute little flower necklace. It's so funny, she is going to be quite the little shopper when she gets older. Everytime we go to the mall she starts saying 'yeah' and gets soo excited when she sees the building. I think she likes going there because they have the indoor play area too.

Here is the video I caught of her reading to her baby. She thought I was taking a picture of her and she said 'cheeeese'. I thought it was pretty funny.

Fun with Papa & Mimi

Whew, what a weekend. Emily and I went to Tulsa this past weekend for a funeral on Friday and a birthday party on Sunday. I had to drive back to Edmond Saturday because Matt and I both had to work and so my parents watched Emily for us in Tulsa.

On Saturday, my parents took Emily to the mall and spoiled her. They rented one of those car strollers and went to the kiddie area and let Emily run around and play. After that they ate some ice cream and went to the Disney store. Emily got an Ariel t-shirt, sunglasses, and flip flops.

Here are some pictures that my mom took at the mall. She wasn't fast enough on taking the pictures on some of them. She kept getting pictures of other people or Emily's feet.

My dad said she was such an angel all day. Towards the end of the trip they said she kept putting her feet up on the car and trying to turn the steering wheel.

She was worn out by the time I got to the house on Saturday...

... and so was my dad.

After church on Sunday we went to eat lunch at Chili's with my parents and grandma. Emily sat with my parents in the booth. She kept taking my dad's pen out of his pocket and coloring with it on the kid's menu. The little stinker wouldn't look up to get a picture.

While I was packing up all of our stuff my mom was playing the piano with Emily. I think I might have a little pianist now.

After all of that we went to Josh and Sam's birthday party. Josh turned the big 3-0 (sorry Josh) and Sam turned the big 3. They had a Cars themed birthday party.

Sesame Street Live

All week Emily hasn't seemed excited about going to see Elmo, until today. She didn't want to wear her Abby shirt. I had to bribe her with candy to wear it. Then later when I took this picture she was finally getting excited.

This year was called 'Elmo's Green Thumb'. The stage was decorated with lots of flowers. I thought it was very cute and colorful. The lights were pretty cool too.

Emily got really excited when the characters started coming out. Especially with Elmo and Abby, those are her favorites.

These last two pictures were during intermission. She just couldn't sit still and had to climb the stairs that were by our seats.

We had lots of fun going this year. Last year was a lot more fun when it was her first time to go. Of course, that was when she was really into Elmo.

Sesame Street...Here We Come

I finally broke down and bought tickets to Sesame Street Live. We've been debating back and forth on whether to take her this year. She's not really into Elmo anymore. She's moved on to all of the Disney Princesses. I think it's almost time for a new copy of the Little Mermaid and Cinderella. I think she will have lots of fun. I've been showing her pictures and videos from when we went last year. I'll ask her is she wants to go see Elmo again. Most of the time it's yes, but then she'll say 'no' too. So, check back late Sunday for pictures. We have tickets for the one o'clock showing.