Happy Birthday, Emma!

Today is Emma's special day!! She turned the big 2 today! I cannot believe it. She is such a special little girl and we are so blessed to be celebrating another wonderful year with her.



Right now she can't go anywhere without a necklace on. She loves to go into my drawer and find my necklace collection. She is very good at picking one out that matches her outfit.

*There will be more birthday blogging later, after we have her parties.

Date Night

As a Hanukkah gift to me, Andy surprised me with a date night to the Melting Pot. It was so nice to get out and enjoy a meal together and there is nothing better then melted cheese and chocolate to dine over. Yum!

Happy Hanukkah!

We have been celebrating Hanukkah for the past three nights (five to go). Emma has been getting a kick out of watching Andy light the menorah and singing the prayer. She has also enjoyed opening up her Hanukkah presents (one for each night) from her Yaya and Grandpa (Andy's parents). Emma sends them a big thank you for all the goodies!


The first night.


Emma watching Andy open her first gift. What is it?!


E-i-e-i dough. Emma is going to love playing with this.


We even opened a gift from our friend Julianna. Thanks for the super cute tutu!!


Night two, Emma got these dogs you clean in the bath. We gave them a test run tonight.
Do you recognize her dress? She wore it for her 1st birthday party a year ago. Can't believe it still fits!


Night three, Emma entertained us with her new tambourine.

Laundry Day

Emma's New Kitchen

Emma received her birthday present early from her Yaya and Grandpa (Andy's parents) so we could not wait to put it together and start playing with it. It was a tough job putting the kitchen all together but the final product is awesome. We are so thrilled and look forward to many activities in the kitchen.


The beginning.


Andy organizing all the parts.


The finished product, almost. Emma likes taking the sink out.





Kenzie came over to check out the new kitchen. I think she likes it!

Snow & Santa

What a busy day for Emma today. While eating lunch today it started to snow. I quickly put some winter gear on Emma and we headed out to the backyard to check out the white stuff falling from the sky. Even though it was not Emma's first time to see snow she was still curious to know what it was. After about a minute she had enough of it and wanted to go inside.


Emma checking out the snow.




Watch out there is white stuff falling from the sky!

Later on in the evening we headed over to a community church to have cookies with Santa. Emma's therapy program hosted the event and it was fun to watch the kids run around and tell Santa what they want for Christmas.

Reverse Psychology

Too bad it didn't work!