Splash Park and Playground of Dreams

I took Emma, Kaylee, Colby and cousin Rilee to the splash park and playground. I thought this park was more of a "misting"park so I didn't take suits or towels. By the time I had finished putting on Emma's water shoes all 3 other kids were soaked thru. Good thing it was 90 degrees outside! They all had a great time.

Our Soccer Stars

Kaylee has been playing soccer I think since she was 4, Colby started then too. They both love it and have so much fun playing. Here are a few pictures of their games during mine and Emma's visit. I also included a video of Colby scoring a goal.

Kitty see, Kitty do

If you have spent any time with Emma you know the 3rd picture she is making the kitty clap, like she does to everyone and then of course the kisses.

Baby Talk

Old and New Friends

Last time we were up to visit Greg and Kelly, her high school friend was passing thru town. We all met up for dinner. They adopted a biracial baby that was born one week exactly after Emma was. Her name is Destiny. It was alot of fun seeing them interact, they have quite similar features, very different personalities and very similar skill levels, all that combined made for a very entertaining mixture.

Learning new things

It is amazing how fast kids pick things up. I was worried Emma wasn't learning things fast enough because we don't spend alot of time working on Academics. It is not like there is a playbook that says hey you need to teach them this now.... So anyway one of Emma's favorite songs has been the ABC's mainly because it is one of the only one's I sing to her since birth. Archie has a more expanded repertoire of songs than I do. I realized the other day she is starting to chime along here and there saying ABC, P, W and so on when she wants. She also picked up "ring around the rosy" pretty quick and of course loves it. She wants to play it till I am almost getting sick from spinning, luckily I am in better shape these days for the falling down and getting up endlessly parts. All in the same week I decided to start counting to 5 and using my fingers, and she started doing it too! She already had the "2" down whenever I would tell her to do something and then have to say "1, 2", now I only have to say "1" my echo says "2" for me. Needless to say that doesn't work anymore because I end up laughing when she says 2.

The pictures are from my weekend, I gave her a bunch of kid dishes to play with and it kept her busy forever, feeding herself, her baby and me. Only she didn't like when I pushed the baby close to her, she had a little tantrum till the baby was returned to her original position. Always fun times !!

Happy Girl

Saturdays are always hard for myself, Archie and Emma. They are like a limbo day, is mommy going to be tired or not? Usually it is yes. Today, like all Saturdays I was optimistic that I could go full speed ahead the whole day. I knew Arch and Em were still sleeping when I got off work at 8am so I decided to go shopping at Kohls. 2 1/2 hours later I headed home. At this point Emma had been up probably about an hour so I had a 2-3 hour window to do some errands, the problem with that though is I am very hesitant to drive especially long distances after working all night. I used to think nothing of it and drive straight thru to Hermiston, but having someone else in the car who is totally dependant on you makes you think twice. So I attempted to recruit a couple friends to go shopping with me, no go that late on a Saturday morning. I needed something to keep myself awake and wanted to spend time with Emma, what came to mind was move her room around. Had I not been to the point of exhaustion I would have remembered why I couldn't do this. I moved the bed, then the changing table and went to move the big dresser and it wouldn't budge. I didn't remember it being this heavy, usually her furniture just slides around. I looked behind it and duh! It is strapped to the wall so that if my little monkey figured out how to climb it, it wouldn't tip over ..... So I left the bed and changing table where they had ended up on opposite walls and fed Em lunch and laid down for my long awaited nap. She wasn't having it, if I was in her room laying with her I felt like a gym mat, if I wasn't in there she was crying. Finally after removing all the toys from her room (because she kept playing with them) and putting the furniture back, 2 hours later she crashed. I could finally go to sleep, till she woke up 1 hour later. Ahhhhhhhhhhh. The rest of the story will have to wait, I need to pass out now. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz