Emma is hilarious, constantly chatting and telling us stories.  She LOVES playing dress up…even sometimes in our clothes.  She started out with her own dress up box and then apparently moved on to the pile of clean laundry on our bed!!

A couple of weeks ago Emma got to bring home the “basket” from her preschool class.  Mrs. Howe explained that when each child gets to bring the basket home, they are to bring back a snack for each child in the class and that child gets to be the “leader” for the day.  Emma was VERY excited about bringing the basket home!  We made (well, mostly I made/decorated) cookies for her to take to class.  Apparently, they were delicious because Mrs. Howe said the children inhaled them!  Each child got 3 cookies each; a bat, a pumpkin and a ghost!

Once again I have failed to keep the blog updated!  We have been crazy busy and I am finding it hard to keep on top of this thing.  Anyways, enough of my excuses, here is the good stuff…

Everett Pictures:

First chocolate chip cookie!!

Helping with the laundry!

Picture of Everett refusing to sleep in his crib…he jumps up and down! (poor quality from the video monitor on the tv!)

Everett in the bean bag, his favorite chair!

Emma Pictures:

Dolly “washing”

Emma dead asleep with all of her lights in her room on.  She is refusing to take naps, so some days she falls asleep on her own when she gets bored.

Cheese!

Miscellaneous Pictures

Family dress up time and reading Emma’s favorite book that helped her learn her alphabet, “On Market Street”.

Westin and Summer came to visit on Labor Day weekend.  We had a wonderful time and enjoyed their visit!  While they were here Summer helped me do some craft projects in the house, she’s really talented!  Thanks Summer!!

This is chalkboard paint on the door!

Cakes

I have been doing a lot of cakes recently.  Different requests, some baby shower and some birthday, but LOTS of cakes!  Tim always comes in and tries to get pictures of me working on the cakes.

Razorback Cake

Baby shower cake

Sewing

I have been making lots of Emma’s dresses for the winter!  I made this outfit out of an old pair of shorts.

Emma started pre-school on Thursday.  It was a one hour orientation to meet her teacher and her little classmates.  She was a little hesitant at first, but by the time I came back to pick her up she was crying because she didn’t want to leave! 

The best part about Emma’s pre-school is her teacher Mrs. Howe, an EIGHTY year old lady that has been teaching pre-school at her house for over FIFTY years!!  It really is quite neat.  She lives in a cul-de-sac that has a turn around area in it, so I don’t even have to get Everett out of the car to drop her off or pick her up…she just hops out and then the cars all wait in line when it’s to come back and pick them up again!  She has an entirely different building from her house that the class is taught in and she even has playground school grade equipment for the kids to play on in her ginormous back yard.  Emma was thrilled when she found out there was a bunny and a turtle that needed to be fed. 

The woman is truly amazing and I commend her for the work that she does.  In fact, one of the little girls in Emma’s class found out that her dad was in Mrs. Howe’s pre-school over 30 years ago…same building, same class and apparently same toys!  It is very neat and I am thrilled that Emma is getting the opportunity to go to her.

I didn’t get too many good pictures as Emma was to excited to stand still long enough for me to take them!

Emma got some new “big girl” Carebear puzzles.  She really enjoys putting them together, with some help of course!  You’ll notice she has a head band on, before the puzzles she was playing “dress up” and she’s wearing her waitress outfit.

Emma finally decided that she definitely wanted to ride a horse…so…she did!!  She LOVES it!  She was even riding by herself with grandma only leading the horse.  Unbelievable she’s old enough to do that!  She’s also learning how to take care of them by grooming as well.

Here are the family photos from a couple of weeks ago when Jon and Emily Beaty (http://www.beatyphotography.com) met us at a local church and took outdoor family photos as well as Everett’s 6 month old photos.  We are thrilled with the way they came out!  We love Jon and Emily.

The previous post is Everett’s 6 month photos from the same session.  Let us know if you want any printed copies—we have full rights to print them ourselves and the Beatys also have an online printing service available.