Hanging with the Dogs

Emma really loves hanging out with the dogs and cats. She wrestles with them and when they body check her she just says "I'm ok" and gets up and gets right back in there. They are both so great with her too, letting her climb on them and hang on them as they run, her own personal backyard ride. Morgan and Chet love hanging with her too!

Easter Egg hunt.

We waited to do our hunt until I was on day shift and until it was warm enough for Emma to wear her pretty dress. She had a slow start and wanted to play with all the toys instead of finding eggs. 4 of the eggs talked, they said "yoo hooo I am over here he he he". Those ones helped keep her in the game. After all the eggs were found she helped her Sesame Street characters slide down the slide.

I also set up all her other outside toys yesterday afternoon and it was so nice she just played with them all no chasing her around the yard like last year. When she woke up this morning she was already asking to go outside.

As far as the Binkie going away, I have been sorely tempted to give it back almost every day this week. It isn't that she has asked for it but she has had a meltdown every single day since Monday. It would have been a comfort for her and me to have her not screaming her lungs out. I mean this goes on for 45 minutes at a time, unbelievable!

Chronicles of getting rid of binkie

Day 1 When Em got up this morning I told her to say bye-bye to the binkie it needed to go in the garbage. We walked over to the garbage and she gave it 3 kisses and said bye and Mommy threw it away. Nap time wasn't great only because she was wound up and doing her wake myself up thing, other than that she only asked for it one time and I said remember you said bye and threw it away? She only fake cried for a minute, no real tears. Keeping my fingers crossed for bedtime.
Bedtime she asked for it once, reminded her it went in the garbage and she was fine.
Naptime day #2 never even asked for it.

This was supposed to be a long drawn out ordeal with kicking and screaming and real tears. Maybe it was mommy who needed to be ready to give up the binkie.... Totally not what I expected, but I am happy none the less, and binkie free!

Coloring Easter Eggs

She kept trying to taste the egg coloring. She actually seemed to like it because she kept going back for more.

We colored easter eggs today, to help the Easter Bunny. Only had one minor spill and hopefully the dye comes out of clothes. Stay tuned for pics from our easter egg hunt this weekend.

Sunny and 60 degrees

This little activity entailed Emma to have her head vacuumed and then washed in the shower to get all the pine needles out. They did it again later after the helmets were off. Apparently it is alot more fun than all the expensive toys sitting around them.

Making a funny face trying to say cheese. Waiting on her bike to go outside.

Riding her scooter outside and down the driveway.

Another funny face, she was very entertaining today.

Of course she liked Jada's 4 wheeler better than her own.

Hanging with Jada.

Day to day

She climbed in this chair the other day and pretended to go to sleep. Kept saying nigh nigh and doing a fake snore. She almost has Archie down pat.

Emma playing on the computer with her link machine. The little people go in the slot and it goes to that website. She can't get out of the program without a password. Very cool, it satisfies her need to play on the "forbidden" computer.

Talking

Emma refused to say "Yes" until today. I asked her if she wanted a piece of candy and she shook her head yes, as I usually do I said say yes, and today she finally did. Yeah!!

Her other funny words are :
pappake - pancake
piple - pickle
tia - candy
shoe - phone (tia and shoe have us baffled just like yes I am sure the right words will come soon)
Handy many - me with her nose scrunched up
showee - shower
Mori - Morgan our dog
Meow - for the cats

I find that alot of times when we show her flashcards of pictures especially animals she says the sound instead of what it is, when you ask again what it is she tells you the right word. She does say many other words but she says them correctly and learns more every day.

She is doing great on the potty for her age. We put her on several times a day and she goes pee-pee almost every time now, the other is hard to get consistent results. That is where Handy Maney comes in we let her watch the short episodes while she is sitting there but then she doesn't want to get up... sigh. We tried the rewards instead but so far no go.