Fun and games

I didn't realize I hadn't posted since Tuesday...we got busy, plus I thought I uploaded one and never posted it...but I am catching up now. Anyway, here are some random silly pictures of our girl.

Wearing Daddy's gloves and Five Fingers

This one's for you, Grandma Joy! 

Don't you eat your chicken and  gravy with fruit loops?

Nature walk

The Yesterday Daddy went to Roseville and came back tired...imagine that.  (Roseville is exhausting for those that have never been there.) Emma thought it was funny watching him doze on his chair, but when she wanted to wake him up I figured it would be a good time for a walk...since it wasn't raining outside. So we got the wagon and went and wondered around on the empty streets where there used to be houses...but now is just lush green grass. This is apparently the rainy season here, and let me tell you they weren't kidding. We haven't seen this much rain in years. It is nice, and we are always glad to have a sunny day or hour, to get outside. Sometimes we take 'nature walks' where we let Emma walk around and gather sticks, rocks, leaves, or anything else she finds, like pinecones....she always picks out some sticks to bring home to Pepper. It is fun right now because it is so green and all the leaves on the trees are changing colors and falling. We always find lots to look at and explore...although since it is so wet we couldn't climb trees as usual. Anyway, enjoy!

Taking Saturday afternoon snooze

Riding in the wagon.

Pulling the wagon.

'climbing' the tree

This is my view most of the time.

She found a stick for Pepper!

About 25-30 turkeys in the old park...we also saw about 7 deer, but they ran before I could take a picture

Decorating for Christmas, part 2

Monday we got our tree up, but we have been so busy this week, along with Emma's monster naps, we didn't decorate it until Thursday night. This is one of those things that seemed like a good idea at the time, but afterward I was regretting it. NOTE: If you have a two-year-old, leave the tree bare. Better yet, just get a 2-D tree and tape it on the wall, and use stickers for ornaments or something. Putting up the lights started out fun, but then half of them were dead, and the ornaments....oh the ornaments. Emma thought the round ones were balls she could throw...I mean it is some kind of torture to have shiny toy-like things hanging in front of a toddler that they can't touch. In the pictures they are where I put them the first night...now the bottom half of our tree has nothing but lights on it, which she tried to pull of as well. Oh well, if the tree makes it to Christmas, it will be a success. I think she is starting to get used to it, and she really loves the Christmas stuffed animals that we found. It is fun every morning as she comes down and sees the tree on with its lights. We usually set out a blanket and have a breakfast picnic sort of things on the floor in front of the tree next to the space heater, but apparently when it rains a lot, and it has been raining, A LOT, ants take over the houses. Gross. We woke up this morning and discovered there were ants everywhere, all over the house, even the stairs and in Emma's room. Someone at chapel told me this happens every year when it rains a lot. Yay.

Merry Christmas!

Isn't this how you wear antlers?

Um....Hi, Mom.

The tree!

She looks so sweet, but really she is trying to pull them off.

Christmas presents

We weren't sure if we would be able to leave our Christmas presents under the tree this year, but we have our answer now...

It's just my size!

Don't be fooled by her innocence!

I tried to put it back under the tree. But this is what she thought of that.

And then she did this before I could get to it...I guess our presents will be hiding until Christmas!

Getting ready for Christmas, part 1, age 2

I'm always excited to do new things with Emma, so I was super excited to wrap presents and put up our tree. The wrapping presents part...probably not my best idea...as she ended up putting tape on Pepper saying, "she's a good dog." Oh well. I had to re-roll several rolls of wrapping paper and the pictures below are really after I cleaned a little. But when we brought the tree in, oh my, THAT was exciting! She kept saying "I help you" over and over, and she did help in her cute Emma way. It was so adorable. Everything about the tree was exciting. When we brought a couple decorations in from the garage, she kept saying, "come on guys!" Over and over...I don't know why it's so cute. Then she found this snowman ornament....well, you can see for yourself.

Her Sunday dress

"It's a mess!"

Sorry if your presents look hastily wrapped or like someone was playing with them...

Even Pepper enjoyed the tree

My family will recognize my moose, who is Emma's new best friend.

This morning we went to the BX to get a gift card, and while we were in there the fire alarms went off...they were LOUD. And we could have just left like everyone else, but I knew the FD has to come turn them off. So we sat in our car and waited for Daddy, who came and rescued us all from the horribly loud noise.  We got to watch the fire truck come speeding down the road with its lights on, and then watch Daddy put his gear on (which I taught Emma is heavy), and go into the building. Honestly, it took forever, and we were late to MOPS because we waited to see him afterwards, but we don't usually get to see Daddy in 'action,' if you can call it that. But it was fun for us to get to watch anyway. She was very excited to see him, although not his big scary truck. ;)

Miscellaneous cuteness

Here are a few pictures from the last couple days. Emma's makeshift apron, and stacking stuff at the gym. 

Organizing with Emma

Emma loves to line things up, stack them, and clean up. Apparently some of this is due to her two-year-oddness, but some of it is just her. Today she lined up her books and then stacked them, then went upstairs and did the same thing with her diapers. Oh, and for now, instead of buying a new booster seat, we went old school and used books like we did when I was a kid...only we had to use my giant Bible reference books instead of phone books.

This is what I did for Thanksgiving...