Hair cut

Yesterday Emma and I both got haircuts. She sat pretty still during mine...but I brought the iPad so she could watch a movie. And she was pretty good for her's, too. She hasn't had her hair cut by someone other than me in over a year. She looks cute. :)

And since I forgot to take a picture yesterday, here is one from today:

Early morning fun

Emma grabbed her Awana book this morning to practice her verse. Last week they talked about Adam and Eve, or as Emma says, "Adam and Eat'em." :)

Monday outings

Today I had a dentist appointment and Emma came with me. Steven was going to take the afternoon off, but he ended up having a lot to do this week...plus tonight is his final for his EMT class. He wasn't feeling well this morning, and I know he was exhausted after last week, so we will all be glad when it is over. Anyway, Emma came with me to my cleaning. She kept telling me, "They are gonna call you back and look at your teeth and you're gonna be just fine." It was so cute. She watched as they took X-rays, and cleaned. I set her up with Frozen on the iPad, and she was perfect the whole time. She sung along with her movie...and they gave her stickers. Afterward we went to the pet store to get some Christmas treats for Pepper. They had these adorable little carts for kids, so I let Emma push one all around the store. It was so fun to not be in a hurry and enjoy our shopping. She even handed all our things to the cashier. It was a great time...and then we went shoe shopping. It was fun, too, maybe too much fun by the end. Emma loves to try on shoes and then put them back. It is a good system as she doesn't really ever ask to buy anything...except of course the Mickey Mouse umbrella she found. (I definitely have to be careful about her moods when I take her shopping. Sometimes she is perfectly pleasant, other times I wonder what I was thinking and end up being the mom carrying out the crying child.) About that point in the afternoon she started to get a little crazy. And I never really could get her to settle down, so she went to bed early. She is also learning to ask to go potty right at bedtime, just to stay up. Sometimes I let her, sometimes I don't. But at least she goes. 

Her little spot at the dentist office.  Pretty sure they all know her there by now.

Pushing dolly in the cart.

She couldn't figure out what the chinchillas were.

She found some jellys

Also, here is a picture from the base children's Christmas party, the fire trucks bring the grinch. A U-2 brings the 'Christmas guy.' This year they dressed up too...hilarious. Oh, and Emma got a cookie, a stuffed dog, little doctors set and a dolly with a binky at the party. I don't know how they do it, but they always have great toys for every kid there. 

Getting ready for Christmas

Since Steven has been so busy, Emma and I have been finishing getting ready for Christmas...making pfeffernusse, and wrapping presents. The pfeffernusse is extra good this year, probably because of my sweet helper. :) she had fun...and some of your pfeffernusse might be misshapen, but it was made with love. She also enjoyed helping me wrap presents...her job was to pick out and stick on the to/from stickers. She may have also gotten distracted by some shiny ribbon. After lunch we went to the dollar store so Emma could pick out presents for our family. I hated to explain that our family is in Kansas and we were mailing the presents...they weren't coming to our house to get them. But she is 3...she took my explanation and was distracted by all the 'Christmas guy' stuff in the store. 

She like these Christmas guy hats

I had to re-roll two of these, but it wasn't so bad.

Looking out the window for daddy...this girl sure does miss her daddy...especially when I do something she doesn't like.

Getting bigger

The Lately it feels like Emma is getting bigger...asking to sit on the potty, she helps me do chores and is actually helpful. Her new thing is to tell me to close my eyes and then she proceeds to clean. When she is finished she tells me to open them and has a big smile on her face. She usually does a pretty good job, although sometimes she puts things in strange places. But she is a fun girl. 

And for those that don't know...sometime in the near future Steven will be going back on shift...to the other shift, as a battalion chief...back to 48s. I think he has only been on days for a couple months, but that's the military. And we are flexible. Tonight is our only night with him this week, due to classes, graduations, and he has his ambulance ride along on Friday...so it is nice that we will eventually get to see him more than on the weekends.

Trying on daddy's boots, "These are for daddy's big feet."

Playing night night by the Christmas tree with daddy 

We were practicing letters, this is an 'A'

Playground was too wet, so she was running like mommy

And being ridiculous 

Potty training dolly

So Emma has been doing better going potty this week...I know you all are as excited about that as we are, but for Emma it is good. But since Emma is using the pitty more...so is dolly. And dolly is also getting lots of diaper changes, too. I knew I would have to adjust my routine a little when Emma was potty training, but apparently I will have to figure in dolly, too. We were trying to go to the commissary when I took this, but we HAD to change dolly first.  

And here she is being silly. 

Green shirt shenanigans

So Emma has discovered this shirt that Grandma Connie brought for her. She loves it because it has pockets. So she has been wearing it a lot lately...I noticed she had it on in every picture I was going to post, so here you go:

Right after she put it on. She also had real jeans on...for a while.

Resting

She kept getting in trouble for taking the trumpet ornament off the tree, so she finally asked if she could play the real trumpet.

Tonight she went to Awana again. She got her vest and book tonight. 

She also picked a toy and got a sucker. She seemed to have a fabulous time.