29!

On Tuesday Matt turned 29! I am so blessed to have an amazing husband and father to our Emma. We got to celebrate, just the three of us with dinner at home and a quiet night.

We love you Matt,

Happy Birthday!!

The 4th.

I know its a little late, but I could not resist putting fun pictures up from our weekend at the lake celebrating the 4th. Matt's parents were there and Jen's mom was there (Paka was in Guatemala and was missed!). Here are a few pictures from our weekend.

Emma had a blast at the parade...

Well - looks like the grandparents had fun too.

We even had time to throw Matt an early birthday party.

She absolutely loved playing with the pots and pans, sat here cooking her fish for hours.

So silly

I love this picture - so typical....

Asheville!

Last week was such a busy fun-filled week. Jen's family was in town and we got to hang out all week until we went to Asheville for a family wedding. Both plane rides went great, Emma was a gem during all the crazy moving around and tons of people in her space, and there was lots of pool time. What fun - here are a few pics from the trip to North Carolina.

Talking and Walking.

Emma turned 16 months a few days ago and is just learning so much. I think her biggest learning has been in vocabulary.

I think her speaking vocab is around 30, some new ones are: belly, strawberry, girl, flower, eye, bite. No - they don't all sound perfect!

We have been working on animal noises a lot and it has been so cute, we need to get a video... she can do: elephant, dog, giraffe, lion, gorilla (does the fists on the chest), sheep, bear, duck, rooster, horse, cow, turkey (my fav by far, so cute)

And body parts that she knows: eyes, mouth, teeth, tongue, ears, toes, fingers, back, belly button, knees, and elbows (which is again, my fav watching her fold those arms and touch her elbows!)

Let's admit, she's pretty much genius :) or just a girl who likes to talk.

Also, we finally got a video of Emma walking. She has been getting more and more confident and it is just so cute. Yesterday she took a few steps backwards which was fun to watch her figure that out. So - not the best video, its hard to do it with just you and the kid, but you can get the point.

Having a sick day.

Well, I guess we were due a sick day, I can't remember the last time Emma was sick. Last night she woke up with a 102 temp and just crying. It has stayed in the 102-103 all day and she has just been so tired, but so cuddly. I don't mind. I decided to put a video in for some relax sick time:

This is how she started out (notice the bottle of tylenol, ha)

And this is how she looked the next time I walked past, too tired to even sit up.

And here she is waiting at the doctors office - poor thing.

Turns out she has a pretty bad ear infection in both ears so I am glad we decided to take her in and not wait this one out. Good thing because Morgan and Bobby are coming to visit tomorrow! We can't wait.

Well, its nap time again!

Two things Emma loves.

Reading books! She has always loved flipping through them, but now she will pick up a book, come sit in your lap and you get to read to her. We do this for literally hours a day. I love it too!

And... cleaning out her drawer. Isn't that so helpful of her?!? She does pick it up, although it takes a LONG time, and it's not always to my liking, but at least it is off the floor.