Emily is 105 Weeks Old!

Emily is now officially a TWO YEAR OLD!  She will tell you that she is two and try to hold up two fingers also, she is getting better all the time.  We had a very busy week with Emily's birthday, Mike's birthday and all of the celebrating.  It was really nice to get to spend some time with family and friends.  Emily has really gotten the hang of opening gifts and had to help Daddy with all of his also.  She really loves the birthday thing and had a great time at her Curious George Birthday Party.  This girl knows when she is the center of attention and makes the most of it! Here are some pics of our birthday fun!!  We have way too many to post here, but here are the highlights!

Happy Birthday Emily!  She saw "this" right away and got very excited.

Taking present opening very seriously.

If she opened something and she didn't know what it was, she would say "I don't know, but I got it!" and was very excited.

Birthday Girl rocking the Birthday glasses!

The first of many cupcakes this week!

Present opening fun!

All ready to blow out that candle and Pop Pop pulled them away from her.  He thinks he's sooooo funny!!

Emily LOVES her new easel.

Happy Birthday Michael!

Emily is always here to help.

 She'll help blow out those candles too!

All ready for her birthday party!

Monkey cake and cupcakes!

Blowing out the candle.  She loves it!!

The birthday duo!

104 Weeks Old!

Emily is 104 weeks old and only a couple of days away from being a two year old!  We had a fun week starting with Valentine's Day.  Emily and I went to two different parties and had a great day!  We finally got to visit with Kim and baby Tyler for lunch this week, we've been trying for awhile and winter or sickness just seems to get in the way.  We also officially became a mini van family this week.  Emily absolutely loves her "big girl car".    Saturday was Danny's birthday party and Emily had a blast painting on the wall and doing all of the crafts.  Now when we ask her how old she is she answers "Danny three, Emily two."  She's even starting to get the hang of the fingers and tries to hold up only two.  It started as the whole hand, so there is definite progress!  And today Operation Build Office in Basement so baby boy has a room began.  There's a lot more work to do, but it is started!! YAY!!  Next week is another busy one with birthdays and parties, but it will definitely be fun!

Happy Valentine's Day

Eating cookies at the first of two parties!

The last time Mike went for a ride in his car.

Mommy and Emily played hairdresser.

And Daddy came home with this!  New family car!

Painting on the wall at Danny's party.

Making a tye die t-shirt.  Came out really cute!

Emily and Connor

Cool Dude Emily

Emily, Connor, Danny, and some friends.

Happy Birthday Danny!!

103 Weeks Old!

Emily is 103 weeks old.  We had another fun week and one without snow or ice!!!  This was also a big week for Emily who has now been Pa (pacifier) free since Friday!  We were down to only one and Emily lost it somewhere in the house on Friday, so we went with it and she has transitioned amazingly well!  No tears, just some chatter before she falls asleep, hopefully this continues and we are one more step closer to a big girl.  I can't believe my little baby is growing up so fast.  Here are some pics of our week...

Crazy hair!

Fun in the tunnel

Valentine craft time!

Making cookies

Cute girl!

And that is all we get for now.  We have apparently used up all of our free space.  So now to figure out what to do for next week!

102 Weeks Old!

Emily is 102 weeks old.  We had yet another winter storm this week, so we've been spending a lot of time inside at home.  We make it out when we can though!!  We are still slowly working on getting things ready for baby brother to arrive.  I got my desk cleaned out and it is out of the office...soon to be known as Emily's big girl room!  She is loving sleeping in her big girl bed and can't wait until she can sleep in her new bed in her new room.  She is pretty much sleeping through the night and staying put, which is great.  Two teeth poked through on Saturday for Erin's birthday, so we are almost there...and to think a year ago we never thought she'd get her first tooth.  I can't believe my baby is almost 2 year old!!  Here are some pics of our week...

Ready to be a big sister?

Future gymnast?

Tiny Ninja!

There were tons of dress up clothes and this is what she chose.  She later layered a nice skirt on top of it.

Hard at work on her Curious George puzzle.

Ready for the Super Bowl!

We had a great time with friends and Emily stayed up for the whole thing!!