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.

Christmas tree

Saturday we went to Lowes in Roseville to get a Christmas tree. Growing up we always went to a Christmas tree farm, but after the Charlie Brown Christmas trees at the farms in Texas, we have just been getting them in town somewhere. I'm always nervous about doing things like this...you know, trying to have a nice family outing to make good memories, but this time we actually did have a nice family outing. Emma said she wanted a tree that was bigger than Daddy, so that's what we got. We looked around at all the Christmas decorations, Emma loved looking at all the giant Frozen decorations. And we finally picked our tree. We put it in the van and went home. When we got home we decorated it, which was also very exciting for Emma, who kept asking to put up the 'starlights.' She loved the ornaments, and is still having trouble leaving them alone. When Landon (he isn't quite 2 yet) she told him, "don't touch our Christmas, we just made it. " We had a good day, and a good, relaxing Thanksgiving weekend. 

Wearing the Christmas guy hat.

Relaxing before heading out. 

That one? Nah

This one!

Helping Daddy

She got to sit by the tree.

Picking a tree is hard work

All done!

Thanksgiving morning

We had a low key Thanksgiving here. Emma helped me make homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast, then we watched the parade. We had pizza for dinner with pumpkin pie. We also watched lots of football and took naps. I got a bad headache about lunchtime so I was glad I didn't have to cook a big meal. 

My little 'helper'

Emmaloved the parade. She danced with every act. 

Watching the parade with her is so much fun. 

She also loved the balloons.

Making faces with Daddy

Emma and Daddy were making faces at each other the other day. Emailed to be a copycat, so Daddy gave her lots to copy. 

She wouldn't make an ice Dave for me.

Tired girl

It appears I spoke too soon...Emma was in fact not done with her 4:30AM wake ups. So she had to get in a couple cat naps to make until the end of the day. But we survived.