Last weekend Marc and I decided to take Emily over to Lane Farms here in town to get more pictures of our sweet Emily in her tutu that I made for her for Halloween. We had a super fun time so get ready for lots of pictures in this post!
We will get the bad family photos out of the way first...
Next thing we knew she was off and running everywhere - Lane Farms is a great place for kids because they have lots of hay all over which provides a cushion if kids fall down a bit. Emily made her way over ot the big Hay pile where she had tons of fun laughing and giggle while the other kids were throwing hay all over. She did find a small pumpkin which she did not want to share with Daniel, a little 11 month old boy dressed up like a lion.
Then we took her to see all the pumpkins, she hugged them, sat on them, slid off of them, found some lovely dirt clods and basically ran all over!
Ok up next are my artsy photos because I had a camera and was just snapping away like a wedding photographer.
Then it was off for some shots of Emily with the Scarecrow - I won't bore you with to many don't worry.
The other thing about Lane Farms that I love is that they have animals - and Miss Emily loves animals!! they had lots of goats, a donkey, a horse and three turkeys! Emily can make the gobble gobble turkey sound so she especially loved these guys. Although did you know that the Turkey's snood goes up and down when it breathes? it will also change colors when it's upset or when it's in a courting type of mood. I found it altogether creepy!!
Emily wanted one more romp in the Hay so we obliged and then went and bought some scruptious corn for dinner from the Lane Farms main stand. Here is something you may not have known either - I used to work at Lane Farms when I was in High School with my best friend Jenny during the summer! We had some good times there!
Time for a family photo at the farm! Boy does it look like I am sitting on practically nothing! We went up to the valley a few weekends ago to Quacken Farms to pick out a pumpkin for Emily. They had a tiny pumpkin patch, some coloring tables, a little hay wagon ride and a few farm animals.
So since the farm did not have any big pumpkins we decided to try another patch down the road where we went two years ago when I was pregnant with Emily at the time. They had all kinds of pumpkins, squash, gourds, vegetables etc... I was able to get a few more good pictures of Emily here and Marc and I got to buy our bigger pumpkins. I decided to get a white one this year too!
Interesting title eh??
Since getting her Faux food from Meemaw and loving to pretend cook for everyone, Emily also thinks it's supper funny when the pieces of plastic lettuce stick to her feet.
She actually tries to step on them and then walk around - maybe it feels good? I don't know but it is quite funny to see.
On to the Sticks! Magee loves to chew on sticks and bark - he has loved this his whole life so when Emily is over at MeeMaws she likes to find the biggest sticks to give to Magee for him to chew on. Well she seemed to think that since Magee likes sticks maybe she ought to try them out! MeeMaw said it was a hoot watching her walk around with a stick in her mouth like a dog - at least she isn't eating the dog food yet (but she does lick the dog bones sometimes!)
Ok ok so I am probably the worst blogger ever! I have been neglecting my blog and I feel terrible about it. But I do have a good excuse - I'm a super busy working mom! and at work things have been crazy with our last two tradeshows of the year right now. It's hard trying to find the time to fit everything all in these days but rest assured that I am making a concious effort to try and post during the busy time and holidays so no one misses anything.!
Here are some pictures of Emily in her first car that MeeMaw bought for her. She absolutely loves it and will spend hours getting in, getting out, putting her stuffed animals or babydoll in or out etc...
She also loves to put her treasures in the front trunk compartment. I have found rocks from the fountain, pinecones, acorns, feathers, sand?! and much much more!
We have been super busy these days - so I apologize to my blog readers for the lack of updates.
Here is a Random Bullet List of interesting things:
- Emily has Molars! I didn't even know she was teething and just happened to notice them when I was playing with her and turned her upside down.
- Emily has finally given up nursing with Mama. I can proudly say that we nursed for almost 17 months! I will miss our nursing sessions but I am happy to have my "girls" back - I think Marc is happy about the "girls" also!
- I am also happy that I can take things other than just tylenol for my headaches now.
- Emily's feet have grown another size or two - I had to go out and buy her some new tennis shoes and some adorable black patten leather ones for the holiday's coming up.
- Emily has taken to calling Marc's mom "Jo-Jo" (Marc hates it so everyone tell him how utterly cute Jo-Jo is for a grandma nickname)
- Santa Barbara had our first rain of the season (if you can call it rain!) it was quite funny when Marc was driving me over to my parents house and the windshield wipers were on. Every time they wiped, Emily would say "Rain" from the back!
- Emily and I like to play fun games in the car when we are driving. I will ask her to look for Green lights and say "What does Green mean?" and she will chime in "Go, Go, Go". We also count in the car, I say "one" and she says "two", I say "three" and she says "four" and so on... it's quite amusing really!
- We took a weekend jaunt up to Solvang last Sunday and Emily would look out her window and spy cows on the way up followed by "Mooo Mooo"
- Lately Emily's phrase of the day has been "Ohhhh WOW!" she says it to almost everything new, she will also say "Ooops!" when something drops.
- Emily has been obsessed with bodyparts lately - so beware if you see her she just might point out your: nose, eyes, eyebrows, cheek, neck, ears, hair, teeth etc...and as she point out a body part she will tell you what it is!
- Emily's newest Love is her car! (Pictures will come later - I promise) MeeMaw bought her one of thoes little cars that has a handle on the back that an adult can push. Emily loves her car so much that sometimes that's all she wants to play with - getting in and out and putting her babies in and out and putting other small items in the front trunk etc...We have to tell her that the car is going "Nigh Night" and cover it up and have her say good night to it or she will get upset when we put it away for the day.
- Emily has inherited from me holding her breath when she gets upset. She can get so worked up sometimes (Like when she can't play with her car anymore or her play food because we want her to take a bath) that she will do an open mouth silent cry/scream and then get blue and her eyes roll back and she faints a bit till she can catch a breath. Can I just say the first time it was truly scary! But it doesn't hurt her and is actually the body's way of protecting itself. After she has gone all "Limp baby" on me she will sometimes laugh for a few seconds till it sets in again and then she just cries like normal. Emily has only done this about 4 times total to date.
- Emily HATES HATES HATES when I have to cut her fingernails. I have no idea why, I have tried numerous tactics - none of them work so we have to make her suffer a bit while Marc holds her and I cut away. You would think we were torturing the poor child the way she reacts! I have never cut or nicked her - she just HATES it for whatever reason a toddler can have.
Well thats all for now folks!
