Reading with aunt Jen

Yesterday I was just having a really bad day and had NO patience with Emily whatsoever. Jen got home from work and was more than happy to take care of Emmy for the rest of the day for me. Of course Emily was well behaved for her aunt Jen! Jen got her all ready for bed and had her nightly reading session. My parents had gotten Emily a set of Spot books for Christmas of 2006. Emily LOVES the books. Also, she also loves reading Winnie the Pooh. I got her the DVDs and she loves them. And to help her with potty training (keeping my fingers crossed) I got her a book that talks about potty training. It has a button to push that makes the flushing sound and a little girl cheering. She calls it her potty book!
She literally concentrates this hard on "reading" when she looks at a book. She points to words and when she has completed pointing at most of the words, she turns the page. It is really cute.
And of course aunt Jen got her to wave at me while they were "reading!"Aren't they just took cute!

And of course a quick video clip of them reading. Mainly talking about cookies and cake because that is what aunt Jen was hungry for at the time!

Dancing in the car

Whenever a song comes on that Emily likes or has a good beat to it, she just loves to dance to it. Most of the time she will quit when I turn to watch her, but she was having so much fun dancing to it that she didn't stop. Was super excited that I got it on video.

First Zoo Trip

Today we went to the Potawatomi Zoo. This was Emily's first time to a zoo. She was so fun to watch as she wanted to run to everything and see everything all at once!
Luckily, her uncle "Wob" told me to take some quarters to get some fish food so that Emily could feed the fish. She had so much fun doing this. Well, she mainly fed the "quack quacks" but she still had fun!
Emily with her two favorite cousins. Kenny didn't want to sit and take the picture because he is "too cool" for that now, but he humored me and did it!
Tina was looking out over the pond to watch the fish and so Emmy had to as well. This is Tina lifting her up and getting her off of the stand!
And of course we had to look at the aligators. Best that they were inside...even though they were babies!!!

I love Wal-Mart!!!

This amazingly cute outfit I got at Walmart today for a grand total of...$6!!!! The shirt was $1 and the shorts were $5! How completely awesome is that! I LOVE Walmart!!!
Think she is going to be a cheerleader, eh?!
And a random note for this blog...When we went to Canada two weekends ago, I got this quarter back in change from when we had gotten the kids food. It is a Canadian quarter with the breast cancer ribbon on it. Since my favorite aunt was diagnosed with cancer last year, the pink ribbon has meant so much more to me. I kept this for her and mailed it to her this week. I just thought that it was so neat that a country would put this on their money! How completely awesome is that?! Oh, and just a side note...my aunt had surgery to remove the cancer and she has been cancer free ever since.

Guitar Hero

The greatest thing ever...I had gone to the store today and Emmy stayed home with her cousins. Kenny had been playing Guitar Hero when I left and was going to hang out with Emmy. When I got home, this is what I found when I got home! She was rocking her head back and fourth and pretending to play the guitar. It was the greatest thing ever!
And this is what happens when I let her eat her chicken nuggets with ketchup! She is such a messy girl!! But her face was too precious!

Dora Dance

So Emily got a singing doll from Tina and this is her new dance. The very beginning of this video is hysterical.

More Canada Pictures

I love this picture of Emily playing on the playset with the picture of our hotel and the Hilton in the background. She had so much fun.
This picture is just too classic and my favorite. We were waiting outside of the Family Fun Center and Emily was playing with her cousins. She was chasing a bug or something in this picture and it was just perfect timing for this shot.
So much fun in the pool. This is how she swam the entire time!! Would not let go of my neck and wanted to follow the kids everywhere! It was so much fun!
Looks a little mischievous doesn't she?! She was so proud of herself once she learned how to kick!
And we were finally on our way back to the US on Monday...we were so happy to get back to normal prices!!! Canadians are so friendly, but the prices for things there is outrageous!!