Emma turns 3!

Emma turns 3 this Saturday and we had her first "friends" party this last Saturday. It was a lot of hard work but it was fun too! We had 13 kids (call me crazy) and a lot of cupcakes. Emma loved having her friends over so it made all of the work so worth it. We love Emma and all of her crazy antics! A few things about Emma:
- she remembers EVERYTHING you tell her - no getting away with unfulfilled promises!
- she loves to sing songs
- she knows most of her letters, knows all of the shapes and colors and can count to twenty
- she had recently decided her favorite color is purple
- likes to play mommy with Maddie
- loves to be pushed on the swing and will stay there forever (right, Uncle Nathan?)
- will sit and watch movies and Mickey Mouse all day if I let her (which I don't!)
- gives the cheesiest grin when you ask her to smile
- like to wear her pink rain boots
- is the cutest, most lovable toddler I know!

The Kitchen is Complete!

Our kitchen is finally complete!! Jacob and I (Jacob mostly) did the entire kitchen BY OURSELVES! I know.....amazing! I love it. I couldn't ask for a more talented husband. I realize the "before" pic is tiny but I am having problems with it.

Our Trip to the Beach

My sister, MaryBeth, and I thought it would be fun to take the girls to the beach. It ended up being fun but it was so exhausting!! Emma refused to walk on the sand (she hates dirt on her feet) and so it was hilarious watching MB try to hold Emma along with the fifty billion other things that you take with you to the beach with two small children. It was too cold to go in the water and both girls started screaming when we even hinted at going near the water. It was also a lot of fun trying to feed both of them without getting sand in everything! But, all in all, I think the girls really enjoyed it.

Emma Got Her Cast Off!

Yea!!!! It has been the longest 8 weeks of my life but Emma finally got her cast off! The doctors told us that it might take a few weeks for her to start walking again but, with a little bribe of Disneyland, we got her walking the next day! These are pics of her very first time walking and she is on her way out the door to preschool. We are so happy to have our walking girl back!

First Day of Preschool!

Emma has started preschool and it is so much fun! She goes for 3 hours two times a week and she really loves it. They play, paint, cook, sing, color and learn. She still has her cast on which makes it a little hard since she still has to crawl everywhere but she is making it work!

Just Because....

I just have to post this picture because it makes me laugh so much. This is Emma sleeping under her bed with her curlers in. We often find her sleeping under her bed.....don't ask me why. She is Jacob's child!

Emma and The Broken Leg

Yes....you all read it correctly. Emma broke her leg about two weeks ago and it has been crazy. On my birthday (Happy Birthday to me!) we were actually trying to celebrate Maddie's first birthday. Before the party even began, Emma was jumping on the trampoline with her Uncle and her cousin. On a crazy double bounce, Emma just kind of collapsed and starting crying. So her Uncle Nathan carried her in to see her momma and I just thought she was a little hurt and needed some lovin'. But when she didn't stop crying, I started to get suspicious since she is usually a pretty tough girl. I measured her ankles and the hurt leg was 1/2 inch bigger. Poop! So we decided to have Jacob take her to the hospital while I stayed and tried to salvage Maddie's first birthday party so she could at least have some pictures to look back on. It didn't go so well. Jacob called me right when we sat down to open presents to tell me that not only did she break BOTH BONES in her leg, but that they were going to have to "set" it because the bones weren't straight. I was a mess by then so it was probably better I wasn't there. They had to send daddy out of the room while they did it and then brought him back in to be the "hero" and save her. She then got a soft cast with a splint on it for two weeks until the swelling went down and they were able to put a hard cast on her. Jacob had to leave the next day for high adventure for 5 days so my family (thank you!) came to help me until he got home. He also took the camera so I have a few random shots of her with her cast on. She is not able to walk on it at all but now that she has a hard cast on she has no problem getting around. She crawls everywhere, climbs up and down the stairs and can get on to any table or chair. She is quite the little trooper!