Emily's Journey

Center of Attention

2009-07-09T20:50:00.000-07:00

Will, Emily, Luke & Max at the park this afternoon

I think Emily enjoyed being the center of attention and hanging out with Max's cute friends

Will on one side & Luke on the other. Will & Emily make eye contact! :-)

Emily must've said something funny cause Will is cracking up

Will attempts to come in for a kiss

Ahhhhh!! She likes it!

Now, the younger bro tries

2009-07-06T19:32:00.001-07:00

Em had a fun time at Will's BD party. She played air hockey w/ mama.

My baby even went down the slide all by herself!!!

Close-up

She went down the slide forwards & backwards ...

She had a blast!

Luke (Will's younger brother) and Emily enjoying their cupcakes

Emily just licked the icing off the cupcake and then threw the rest of the cupcake on the floor. OH MY!

Few Pics Before Emily's Photo Shoot

2009-07-03T13:59:00.001-07:00

Emily at the pool today

2009-07-03T13:50:00.000-07:00

Emily

2009-07-02T12:58:00.001-07:00

Papa Bee

2009-06-27T12:43:00.000-07:00

We went to dinner last night at a friend's house. My friend, Sarah, was there with her father. He is visiting from Wales. His name is Craig, but we just call him "BEE" which is his nickname. Emily immediately took to him and called him "Paw Paw". She would run over to him with her arms up to be picked up. She snuggled into his shoulder like she'd known him her whole 23 months of life. He is now known as Papa Bee!

Emily has good tastes as he is a handsome, kind, lovely man!

Swimming @ North Star Village in Tahoe

2009-06-23T20:32:00.000-07:00

N I C K

A L E X

C H A R L I E

M A X

E M I L Y

E M I L Y Again

Alex & Charlie playing around

Wallace & Max

Emily's 2nd Haircut

2009-06-23T18:58:00.001-07:00

BEFORE

Natalie, the hairdresser, worked a little too fast so I wasn't able to get a BEFORE picture so I am using one I took a week or so ago to give you some idea of Em's long bangs & crazy hair

She was perfectly good for her haircut as she sucked on many different flavors of lollipops opened and given to her by her big brother. Max would try a lick and then decide that he wanted another one so he would give the used one to his sister.

AFTER

Lookin' cute with her nicely shaped bangs and her cute little barret that made it until right before we got in the car. Emily noticed it and threw it on the ground. "No barret, mommy!"

More on the Cousins!

2009-06-20T13:42:00.001-07:00

Claudia & I bravely decided to take all the cousins to Picture People to attempt to get a cousin shot! To get them all to be still, smile, look at the camera and cooperate took a little work, but the results were pretty good!

Charlie in Orange, Alex in Red, Nick in Green, Max in Blue & Emily in Yellow

Max, Charlie, Alex & Nick

Nick & Emily

Emily @ 23 months old

2009-06-19T11:14:00.000-07:00

Note to Emily from Oma

2009-06-18T09:42:00.001-07:00

Emily's 2nd BD Party Invitation

2009-06-15T12:00:00.003-07:00

Emily & Nick

2009-06-13T21:27:00.000-07:00

Emily & Nick shared a special cousin bond. He enjoyed carrying her around on his shoulders and taking her wherever she demanded! He always carried her around with a smile on his face.

Emily & Nick share and cheek to cheek moment

This was taken on Nick's 1st day in California and Emily is taking awhile to warm up to all the cousins.

Nick turned 12 years old while we were in Lake Tahoe. His parents bought him an iTouch for his BD and he is showing it to Emily. She is mesmerized! He was trying to teach her how to open the screen; however, she is already familar with the iPhone so didn't need any instructions from her older cousin! :-)

Lake Tahoe

2009-06-13T10:45:00.000-07:00

We had a wonderful time in North Lake Tahoe with Claudia, Mark, Nick, Alex & Charlie

We took hikes, went swimming, skipped rocks on the Northwest shore of Lake Tahoe, rode bicycles around the Truckee River, devoured smores multiple evenings, celebrated Nick's 12th BD, and took a sailing trip on Tahoe (minus Emily & me). More posts to come on the different activities. Most importantly, the cousins got to spend good, quality time together. 12, 8, 5, 4 and 2 years old! It was a wild 'n crazy bunch! Particularly since 4 of those 5 are boys! Emily held her own and she was completely adored by her older cousins! She was overwhelmed at times, but enjoyed the attention. The Tahoe house exceeded all of our expectations and we had room to spare!! We had so much room that we quickly called the grandparents when we arrived to see if they could hop a flight to Reno that evening! Unfortunately they weren't able to make the trip on such short notice.

View from Master Suite

Livingroom

Emily's Room

Max's Room

Emily & Her Cool Cousins

2009-06-05T21:21:00.000-07:00

Nick & Emily

Alex & Emily

Charlie, Alex, Nick, Max & Emily

Emily is a bit overwhelmed by the 4 wild 'n crazy boys!

Emily's New Lime Green Tankini

2009-06-05T21:03:00.001-07:00

Emily's new skirted two piece lime green tankini swimsuit from Aunt Claudia

Pool SIDE VIEW

BACK VIEW

IN THE WATER VIEW

Cool Cousin Nick, Aunt Claudia & Emily warming up together after a chilly swim this afternoon

Nick, Alex, Aunt Claudia & Emily in a family group huddle

Baskin Robbins

2009-06-04T17:49:00.000-07:00

Kathy & I took the kids to Baskin Robbins yesterday afternoon for a treat! Here they all are enjoying their ice cream! The boys rode their scooters to the ice cream store so they were a bit hot and sweaty

Emily had a plain vanilla soft serve in a cup

Christian had a vanilla soft serve with M&Ms

Max had a vanilla soft serve chocolate dipped cone! I thought that Emily might freak out when she noticed that hers didn't have chocolate, but she just looked and made a little grunting noise and quickly got busy eating her own

2009-05-30T21:37:00.000-07:00

Max & Emily were invited to Max's preschool friend's 4th BD party this afternoon

Emily made a friend rather quickly

Her new friend's name is Scarlett

Emily watches a little boy, Luke, blow bubbles at her

Scarlett, Emily & Luke all at the bubble maker together

Emily takes a snack break and enjoys tortillas & a carrot

Interesting snack combination!

"Pat in the Hat" ... the entertainment ... a clown magician and animal balloon maker

Emily sat and watched "Pat in the Hat" intently for the entire show (30 minutes +)

CAKE!!!

And, this wasn't just cake! It was ice cream cake!!!

Scarlett & Emily happily devouring their cake together

CHEESE!

Mint chocolate chip ice cream!

Splish Splash, I was Takin' a Bath

2009-05-29T20:20:00.001-07:00

Emily featured in local publication

2009-05-29T09:34:00.001-07:00

Emily featured in The Los Gatos-Saratoga Community Education & Recreation Activities Guide for Summer 2009. She was at her Art Class playing with colored shaving cream.

Close-up of published picture

Happy Memorial Day!

2009-05-25T20:59:00.000-07:00

Emily getting ready for a Memorial Day BBQ Picnic

She even let me put in a black and white matching barret for a couple minutes

Emily petting Butterscotch

Samantha, Matthew, Max & Emily eating hot dogs and watching "Over the Hedge"

Los Gatos Town Plaza Park

2009-05-22T19:09:00.000-07:00

A few more shots of The Emster at the park this afternoon. The Oma & I found this adorable hot pink outfit at Nordstrom Rack while she was visiting. I can't remember who bought it, but it is stinkin' cute if I do say so myself!

Running with Puppy

2009-05-22T18:10:00.000-07:00

Emily enjoyed running with puppy at the Los Gatos Town Plaza Park this afternoon. "Puppy" was a gift to Emily from Wanda.

Playdate with Megan

2009-05-21T11:20:00.000-07:00

Emily wore her new French Poodle dress to her playdate this morning with Megan

She absolutely loved wearing her dress and kept pointing to the poodle saying, "PUPPY"

Megan & Emily posing for a picture on the couch

Emily holding her puppy! She loves puppies!!

There were so many cute shots from this morning's play that I couldn't decide which ones to post so I just included a bunch of them!

2009-05-20T21:26:00.000-07:00

Emily playing foosball this afternoon for the first time! She did GREAT! She even scored a few points off of her mama!

Emily loves to push people in swings, push her pink car, push matchbox cars on the floor, push her brother, etc.

Here she is happily pushing Christian in the swing at the playground

She took this job very seriously. Christian was less than happy though 'cause he wanted to go super fast and preferably straight.

Emily walking home from the playground wearing a cute outfit from her Oma