Gracie's B-Day Digital Scrapbook

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Digital Scrapbooking for Emma

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Click on the play button and see pics from Emma's birthday!! Enjoy!!

Emma is Four

Wow! I can't believe my baby girl is four. She is saying four word phrases, climbing the ladder on her swingset and going down the slide, exerting her indepedence by not wanting to hold your hand in the parking lot, and arguing with you by saying and signing "yes" when you tell her "no." (Which is quite cute!!!)

A few pics of the girls a few weeks ago and at Emma's party Monday.

Emma's Likes/Dislikes At Three

LOVES

Doodlebops
Elmo
Bubbles
Nana
Papa
Uncle B
Gracie
Mommy
Daddy
Jazzy
Drawing
Painting
Bath time
Getting her clothes out of the drawer and DRAGGING them all over her room
Saying NO!

DISLIKES

Healthy Food
Getting things on her hands, but LOVES to play in the dirt
Leaving her friends and family
Going to bed

This has been an exciting year for Emma. She starts school in two weeks, and her vocabulary has really increased this year! Gotta love that girl!!

Emma is Three

Friday was Emma's third birthday! I just can't believe that little booger is three!!! It was the last day of school for Craig, but I still have two weeks left. We went to her favorite restaurant for dinner, Olive Garden. She had Pasta Fagoili. She LOVES the pasta only and won't eat the rest! Thanks, Papa for eating the actual soup. Then we had a little cake and the waitresses sang to her. She loved it!! She clapped when they finished. It was a great time. The next day we had our family party. We had a cook out and she played outside on her new swing set. We had an ELMO party and a family friend made the cake. It was the face of Elmo and Emma got VERY upset when we cut the cake! I felt so bad! We finally were able to cut the cake and have a bite! It was delicious!!!


Click on the title of the post to see pics!

Terrific Two

Where has time gone? Why do the years have to go by so quickly? My one and only baby is growing up so quckly that my heart aches for the infant days, but yet loves to see all that my little toddler is doing. When she is singing and dancing in her car seat signing "more" for her beloved french fries my heart bursts with pride, but yet I can't help but miss though baby days.

Her birthday was great! She had a great time celebrating with family. Her great aunt and cousins were there. She loved spedning time with them. Click on the title of the post to see pictures.

Well her likes and dislikes have definately changed over the year..

Likes

to spend time with Libby, Hayden, and Jarrett
Nana and Papa..okay..LOVES Nana and Papa
playing with her kitties
drawing
taking baths
listening to music
reading
playing in her room

DISLIKES

being alone
leaving Nana and Papa
food...except pancakes, puffs, pb&j, french fries, bananas, and strawberries

She can walk.

She can sign "eat" and "more."

She can say kitty, daddy, no, nana, this, what this, and I see.

She has a smile that lights up an entire room.

She is my blessing from God

Daddy's Birthday Blues turn into a Birthday Surprise

Craig has accomplished a major life milestone: he turned 30! He is quite upset about it or I guess I should say he was upset about it. The Skaggs family helped me out by hosting a surprise family party for him and we had so much fun. Emma of course loved seeing Jarrett, Hayden, & Libby. Emma had a special hat that said, "My dad is married to a woman her twenties!" I loved that! I thought it was perfect, myself!:-) But, that wasn't the best part. After the other kiddos went to bed Emma was Queen of the hour we were trying to get her to point to her ears, nose, etc. Well, Jeremy asked Emma to point to his ears and she grabbed his ear. We all thought it was fluke, so we asked her to point to her ear and SHE DID IT. Then she did the same thing for her eyes, ears, moth, et. Of course we were exstatic. We have been working on this for months. Then we showed her pictures of Jeremy and Craig and said point to Daddy. She pointed at Craig. Then point at Jeremy and she pointed at him. She identified all of us in pictures!! Laurie and I are hoping that she will perform well on he IFSP review in a couple of weeks! :-) If you click on the title of the post you will see a video of Emma touching her nose.

I thought that this was a perfect birthday present because Craig has really been working on this with Emma. So, now maybe Craig will change his mind about how horrible turning 30 is.