Pedicure #2

All week last week Emma kept asking me if Nana would come over to paint her toenails… so she did!  Nana came over on Friday night and brought a bag of supplies- leave it to Nana to bring Spring’s prettiest OPI nail colors for the 2 and half year old to choose from.  Emma selected a very pretty coral pink shimmery color.  Emma sat very still while Nana trimmed and painted her nails.  She even sat still during the drying process!

She’s even got the fingernails drying pose down!  I think we have a girly-girl on our hands!

Emma Bossing Daddy Around

This has to be one of my favorite videos of Emma to date. The video is kind of dark but you'll definitely get the idea. This video is true evidence that we need another child...quickly! I'm seeing more and more every day that she thinks the world revolves around HER (which it kind of does but that is beside the point!)

She definitely has her daddy wrapped around her little finger- especially when it comes to play time. Don't get me wrong- he disciplines her when necessary. BUT, when it comes to play, he does whatever she asks him to do: hide behind chairs, dance, jump up high, lay on the floor, have tea parties, sit here, sit there.... well, just watch this video and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Mother’s Day

I had a wonderful Mother’s Day on Sunday. I can’t believe this was my 3rd Mother’s Day as a Mom! Here is a picture from my 1st Mother’s Day in 2007 (is it just me or does it look like I don’t know how to hold a baby…. maybe I’ll look more smooth the 2nd time around!)

I’m very sad that I did not get any pictures of Emma and myself this Mother’s Day. It was such a busy day, it just completely slipped my mind! We went to church and then had a great lunch with my entire family at Charleston’s. It was very yummy.

Robin got me a cute Fossil purse (that I picked out and brought home a week ago and said, “can this be for Mother’s Day please?”) that I love. He also got me two sweet cards and some chocolates!

It was a wonderful day- mainly because I just feel so blessed to be Emma’s mommy and to know that we have another blessing on the way.

Here are a few pictures that I took of Emma before church on Mother’s Day.

She is getting her 2 year molars right now so she frequently has her hands in her mouth! Poor girl.

Emma the Entertainer

Emma loves to have visitors to the house and she loves to entertain visitors even more!

Last weekend Aunt Judy came over to hang out and get her “Emma fix.”  Emma suggested that they play in her pink tunnel.  I’m not sure who’s idea it was to have a picnic inside the tunnel???  Emma kept demanding that she and Aunt Judy trade sides of the tunnel- Aunt Judy definitely got a good workout! 

Emma loves it when Aunt Judy comes over to play.

 

Nana came over the very next day.  Emma loves to sit on the bench in our front yard with Nana-it’s kind of their “thing.”  It was about 68 degrees with a mild breeze so Nana wanted her to wear a jacket.  Emma insisted that she wear her winter hat also.  Nana told her that she didn’t need her winter hat but she threw a fit when we tried to take it off.  So here is Emma surrounded by beautiful spring flowers with her snow hat on- silly Emma!

 

Mall Fun

Emma and I went to the mall to shop last week and of course we had to make a pit stop at the playground! 

Emma continues to take a loooooooooooooong time to warm up to environments like the mall playground.  She usually sits right next to me on the couch to watch the other children play for 20-30 minutes before she will even think about venturing out to play.  I’m learning to just “let Emma be Emma.”  I try not to push her.  I kind of enjoy the snuggle time with her and we talk about the other kiddos who are playing.  Her personality continues to be “Slow to Warm” and I love her for that.  She is cautious, inquisitive, and observant. 

 

When she does gear up to play though, she really knows how to play! 

 

Ready to Drive?

Last week I was loading the car with things I needed to run several errands.  I told Emma to wait by her car door for me to put her in her car seat.  I ran back to the utility room to grab 2 sacks and when I returned, this is what I found:

She had climbed in through the backseat door (that I had opened for her) and climbed into the driver’s seat.  She had a very sheepish grin on her face and she said, “Mommy, Emma drive?”  Wow, now that’s a SCARY thought!!!   She can’t even drive her doll stroller without running into the walls!

I told her she could drive in about 13 more years (that’s a scary thought too!)

I did learn from this experience that leaving her in the garage for 30 seconds may not be a safe idea anymore- she’s just too fast and too curious!

Painted Toenails

A couple of weeks ago Emma saw me painting my toenails in the bathroom and asked if I would paint hers also.  I have tried to paint her toenails before when she was about 15 months and it didn’t got over very well.  Apparently, she was READY this time.  She sat very still and did everything I told her to do… except for stay still after I painted her toenails so they could dry.  She was so excited that she ran through the house to show Koby and Daddy, thus resulting in smudged toenails.  She didn’t seem to mind though!

She asked me to re-paint them the very next night but I told her we needed to leave the current polish on for at least a week. (How’s that for a mom rule made up on the spot!)

Since that night she has enjoyed pretending to paint with a fingernail polish bottle (the lid is screwed on VERY tightly!)  She pretends to pain her knees, Koby’s nose, Daddy’s elbow, etc.

I have to admit that her painted toenails look really cute with her sandals… just in time for summer.

Girl after my own heart…

Emma is a natural-born shopper and I love it!  Maybe it has something to do with the fact that she has gone to Target with me every week since she was born and has watched me try on clothes, laugh at myself in the mirror, etc. countless times.

Now when we go shopping, SHE has definite opinions.  Opinions about clothes for her, clothes for me, clothes for daddy, etc.  I think I like it that she has opinions but I can see it becoming a problem in the near future!

We went to Owasso to do some low-key shopping just a couple of weeks ago and she loved trying on sunglasses.  She felt pretty cool as you can tell!

 

After all of this serious shopping, we took a break and each had a yummy Jamba Juice smoothie.  She loved it!

“Where’s Emma?”

One of Emma’s favorite games right now is hide-and-seek.  She thinks it is hilarious!  Daddy is a really good sport about playing hide-and-seek with her in her room- keep in mind there are only so many places to hide in her room: behind the rocking chair, behind the door, IN the crib, behind the curtains, in the closet.  These are the standard hiding places. 

She loves to hide from us too and when she hides she yells, “Where’s Emma?  Come find me!”  Then she usually says something like, “I’m hiding by your bed mommy”, or “Daddy, I’m in your office!”  We are trying to teach her not to tell us where she’s hiding but she just can’t help it.   She giggles non-stop when we find her.

Here are some pictures that were taken after Emma found daddy hiding behind the rocking chair.  She decided she wanted to have her bedtime books read to her from behind the chair… so daddy did just that. 

 

“Under the Big Top”

I’m a little behind on blogging (again) so these pictures are from several weeks ago.  I can’t just skip over some events though, right?

We had fun preschool play day at our church on April 18th called “Under The Big Top.”  Unfortunately it was rainy that day, so we had to move the festivities indoors.  It turned out really great though, and Emma had a very fun time. 

I was working at the event (I popped popcorn for the kiddos!), so daddy brought Emma.  He said that it took her a while to warm up, but once she saw her buddy Aubrey, she came alive and started playing.   Her favorite station was the jump house where she jumped for about 20 minutes straight.  She LOVES to jump.

She was NOT a fan of the clowns though… maybe she’ll outgrow this fear by next year’s carnival. 

Here are a couple of pics from the day.

Emma and Aubrey coloring and stamping:

 

Emma LOVES balloons:

 

The preschool committee right after the carnival:

 

Emma and Dawson the day before the carnival… just hanging out while their mommy’s set up the gym:

Drumroll Please...

Emma is going to be a Big Sister! Baby Curry # 2 due: November 23, 2009

(yes, the video below was rehearsed, and yes, there was a bribe involved...)

Easter 2009

Emma had a very eventful Easter this year!  We started celebrating about a week before the actual holiday. :)  Her first Easter present of the year came from sweet Aunt Judy.

Aunt Judy gave Emma a really funny Nemo book that makes sounds- she LOVES it.  She takes it bed with her every night and we hear the Nemo voices for about 30 minutes after we put her ‘to sleep.’   She also got some cute fish that make bubble sounds and a really cool coral ring that lights up.  Emma was really into the Easter mode after opening these very cool presents.

 

A couple of evenings later Nana brought Emma an Easter basket  (because we wouldn’t get to see Nana on Easter.)  Emma loved the basket and all of the goodies inside of it.  She got some sparkle shoes, a cute pink shirt, a pink bunny, and some stickers.  Her favorite thing was a bunny on a bicycle that had jelly beans inside.  We had to buy refill jelly beans when the initial jelly beans were all gone. :)  She decided that she’s a fan of jelly beans.

 

Thursday before Easter we decided to try on our Easter dress- you know- to make sure it fit. :)  Emma loved trying it in.  She danced in circles and made her skirt ‘swish’ like a princess. 

 

We headed to Arlington on Thursday night after I got off of work.  We had a great weekend with Robin’s family.  (more on that in the next post.)  We started our Easter festivities there on Saturday with and indoor/outdoor Easter egg hunt brought to you by Gigi, Uncle Tommy, Aunt Crystal, and Mommy.  We hid about 40 eggs thinking that Emma would find them in a hurry.  However, she was not in a hurry.  She spotted the eggs with her eyes, but didn’t feel the need to pick them up!  She would have been content to let mommy and daddy do all of the work for her.  Thankfully, she picked up a little bit of steam towards the end of the hunt. 

 

I love this picture of all of the family looking on… she has such an audience! 

 

“Look Mawmaw… more eggs on the piano!”

 

Checking out her loot with Uncle Tommy after the hunt (and after a bath!):

 

This is the ONLY picture I got of Emma in her dress at church on Sunday morning- it was a wild morning I guess!:

 

 After church we had lunch at Cracker Barrell. Here are two pictures of Mawmaw, Emma, and Robin: (we were very thankful that Mawmaw and Wes drove from West Texas to spend Easter with us.)

 

And this was Emma after our Easter lunch- she was EXHAUSTED and fell asleep in Pops’ lap!: