Christmas Eve

I'm slowly starting to update the blog from Chistmas. On Christmas Even we flew to Kansas. Flying with Emma is always an adventure. Last summer she thought it would be fun to run away from me in the San Diego airport. Usually she is good though...and getting better as she gets older. She does not like going through security...having to give up her most prized possessions. ( I now have TSA pre check, so we won't have to anymore.) She loves the tray tables, she thinks they are "such cute little tables!" This time she told me, "Mommy, I can see the whole world! Everything looks like toys!" We have been blessed to sit next to some wonderful people, too....other moms, preschool teachers, etc. Once we got to Kansas, she was so excited, and cold! She said, "it's never this cold in California!" We got to the Christmas Eve service with two minutes to spare!

All ready to go!

We skipped breakfast, since we were so excited. But then we got hungry on the plane. 

Traveling is exhausting. She fell asleep on the ride home from the airport.

Hugs at church.

Buzzy

Emma was Queen Bee this week in her class. So she got to sit at the front and help Ms. Jensen during carpet time, and bring Buzzy, the class mascot, home for the weekend. She brought him home on Thursday, and we made muffins. On Friday we had a tea party with Ms. Holly. On Saturday we skyped with Daddy, and on Sunday we went to church and to the movies with Riley. 

Honestly our weekend was much busier, but that is what we did with Buzzy. We also played with lots of friends and had dinner at Noah's house twice with friends. 

We took a break from baking to check out the rainbow. We had a sort-of thunderstorm...there was no thunder.

Baking with Buzzy.

Dressed up for the 100th day of school with Buzzy. Mario socks are from Korea.

Tea party

So much fun!

Skyping with Daddy...Emma has been carrying this picture with her everywhere.

Taking Buzzy to Chapel.

At the movies. Not a great picture, but the best I got. 

Adorable.

Conceded out on the way home.

Sick week

So....Emma woke up last Saturday morning and said she didn't feel good. We stayed home from Mobile Meals, just in case. We skkyped with Grace and then I laid down on the couch, just to relax, and Emma snuggled up with me. I didn't think it would last long, but she fell asleep...at 9:30 in the morning! That was the first of several naps that day. Honestly she slept more than she was awake. She spiked a 103.8 degree fever, and so we sat in my chair, snuggled and I watched football. Sunday was much if the same. I thought she was feeling better on Monday, but that fever! It came back every single day! And then I caught it, so we just had a lazy, sick week. Usually we would wake up in the morning with no fever, but in the  afternoon I would find Emma asleep on the floor and her fever would have come back, mine, too. We were very thankful for friends who dropped meals on our doorstep for us! And we are glad to be on the mend...yay for school tomorrow! Most of my pictures are of her sleeping, because that's mostly what she did this week. 

Saturday

She laid down to watch football...fell asleep. She had woken up not too long ago.

Then climbed on me and went back to sleep.

I let her sleep with me when she is sick...mostly so I don't have to get up every time she cries or coughs. But this night, she woke up and just wanted me...to hold my arm while she slept apparently.

I thought she was being silly, but apparently she was tired. 

After we came home from the clinic.

Holly dropped off soup and ice cream.

Getting some fresh air on Friday. Her cat friend came to see her...even tried to come in th  house.

Helping make chicke pot pie.

I definitely knew she was feeling better when she started cleaning.

She rearranged the magnets on the fridge. She put the girl standing on her daddy's head. :)

We went to Walmart! We made her 100 days of school project. 

I told her not to worry about cleaning the inside of this trash can. "But mom! (Whining) I'm in a cleaning mood! I only need one wipe!" You could probably eat off of it now. Oh, and Daddy told her he is going to take her on a date day when he gets back. What do you want to do with Daddy, Emma? "Clean! We can do the dishes, the laundry! We can vacuum, and sweep! And got to the park! And cook!" They told me I could go shopping. Sounds like a good day to me!

She brought out construction paper and said we were going to make dresses for ourselves....I was very confused. She was very insistent. She failed to mention that the dress didn't have to fit me until later. I had to watch her make one before I understood. This is mine, that she decorated.

Getting back into a routine

Posting this late...my new app wants me to purchase the full version...you know, the one where you can actually post things? But my debit card got cancelled due to an unauthorized purchase, and I finally have a new card. And, we were sick all week last week, so I am finally updating the blog after a very long break!

I have a blog! I remembered! And I had to get another app because my last one kept crashing on me. :( Hopefully this one works. We are back in CA after our trip to KS for Christmas. I will try to do some posts from that trip this week. But for now, a few funny things from our week. 

Tonight while talking to Steven, who was at the gym, Emma wanted to see where he was. He was in the men’s locker room so he said he couldn’t show her anything. We explained why and so her solution was for him to go into the girls locker room so that then she could see it. But alas, he is a boy and not allowed in there. So she told him he should go put on girl clothes and girl hair and  just walk in and say, “I’m a girl.” Yep, that wouldn’t be suspicious at all. I told him he should probably shave first. 🤣🤣🤣I about died laughing. She has no idea what she was saying, and it was hilarious.

So last Saturday she made me breakfast. Oatmeal with Pb chips, honey roasted peanut butter, and honey...and Andes mint chips. She kept asking me if I could taste the mint. She made me a GIANT bowl of it...which I did not finish. She was so proud of herself. She also made us ‘milkshakes,’ which were vanilla protein shakes, with very little milk and some oatmeal lumps. I mixed my shake and oatmeal and it was edible.

She came home on Monday and dumped out 74% of her toys...this is everything she was gettting rid of before we moved. “We can’t keep everything. This is just what big girls do.” She saw me going through my closet earlier.

Oh and the slime. This was a stocking stuffer that has been her entertainment all week. She and Daddy make things out of slime on FaceTime together. This photo was mid reaction...he was aiming a gross face because she was pretending it was snot.

Trying out her chopsticks.

She loves her new pillow, Aunt Faith!

Kissing Daddy on the pillow. 

Not sure if she was talking to it or just looking at it.

Today was crazy wars day at school. She has also worn these pants 3 days in a row...I guess she likes them. They are soft and fuzzy on the inside.

She learned about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. today in school. It is funny to hear the many different ways she tries to say his name. 

They each made and “I have a dream....” thing. Most of the kids said for everyone to have food or a home. Emma wants a cat. 

She picked green as her favorite color because of Daddy, and her favorite food is strawberries.