weekly update {17}

can you believe i didn't do a special post for

eddie's dirty 30 birthday ?!?

Happy 30th Birthday Eddie!!

we were actually driving home from san diego on monday

and i wasn't sure how long or how we would feel after our drive

so i didn't really plan anything.

all i really planned was to drive most of the way home

so he wouldn't have to drive, that lasted like 6 hours

and he only had to drive a little over 2 hours.

on our drive home he asked me what i had planned.

gasp! uh...we can go to dinner?

as i hurry and text my mom to see if she can watch emi, ha!

he chose sushi and a little shopping after.

all week emi's cousins were at my parents house

while erik and loren enjoyed their honeymoon for a few days.

emi loved going over and playing.

emi especially loved this goggle thing, can't believe i never found it before.

it was up in the closet with all the other toys.

emi, claire and kaitlyn played cashier

it was hard because they all are only children

and none of them liked sharing 

or having to wait their turn to play with something.

i am sure my mom was referee most of the week, as i was when there.

but of course they loved playing with each other.

we had emi's cousins over for a movie night

so their parents could go out to dinner with their grandparents.

i eventually had to hide that cinderella because kaitlyn also wanted it

and when i went to bed night, i had about 5 toys/dolls 

hide underneath my sheets of toys she must not have wanted them to play with

i thought it was hilarious, emi knew they would be safe there.

i was shocked at how well emi shared her toys in her room

i wish i had 3 of each toy, good thing

we had at least  3 dress up clothes for the girls.

claire (5), emi (3), kaitlyn (3.5)

she kills me! i told her to hold still

and she said, no wait...i'll be a princess

and stands all weird! 

not to mention her hair...she wants to only wear it this way

with two braids, like rapunzel....silly girl.

on thursday during our big ultrasound she went to the zoo

with her cousins, aunt and uncle and grandparents.

she wouldn't ride on the carousel but would ride the train.

emi was lucky enough to have her cousin read to her.

kaitlyn also reads and claire & kaitlyn would correct each other

emi was more like...oh that's what that says?!?

i did also notice emi was trying to 'read' her books at home

probably to be like her cousins.

i don't want her reading yet, i'm afraid she would be bored at school.

but i think it's super neat her cousins read.

on friday emi woke up and said, mom we need to do our chores today

i said ok...well when time came to start our chores

emi said, no mom let's lay in bed all day!

i said ok, sounds good to me.

so we laid in bed until about lunch time and then we started our day.

emi looking at her brother :)

looking for his pee pee to be exact.

each picture she would say, this one?

friday we also had some running around to do

and while at a stop light i saw her doing this in the reflection!

 she has never sucked her thumb, maybe acting like a baby?

she keeps talking about baby, and where will we put the high chair?

and that he needs milk and not a water bottle, ha!

emi loves to help with dinner.

literally every day around 4pm, she says

mom we need to make dinner, and take a shower and go to bed.

i wanted to pre-make some snacks to keep in the fridge so i let her help me.

trying to peel the cucumber.

she ended up holding my hand, even while slicing it.

i thought i might lose a finger or thumb there for a minute.

washing the strawberries.

she seriously loves to help and clean things.

this week she also said a naughty word.

eddie and i each say one: i say crap and he says dang it.

we didn't know we said those until emi started saying them

so now we try to watch what we say.

well emi was playing with my phone, the talking tom app

the cat that repeats what you say

well, it was repeating what she said and she goes:

oh shut up!

i use to think those things were cute, and might have laughed at one point.

now she gets in trouble.

she has only said it once and i hope it stays that way.

i wasn't ready for her to learn those kind of words until she started school.

today we helped with a service project

mormon helping hands...our ward was in charge of a few parks

and trimming bushes along a walking path.

emi and i went to take pictures for the bishopric bulletin board.

but enjoyed the free lunch provided after.

and then we headed over to gma and gpa's to wash the car

emi wanted to help...she did end up spraying eddie on his back

she thought that was hilarious.

i got to clean out her car seat....every single time

i am like, why do i wait so long to clean this

it gets so gross so fast!

another succesful week....next week we leave for utah for ashley's graduation

and visiting gg and jessica for a week....so excited!

the gender reveal

on thursday we had our big ultrasound.

i thought it would be fun this time to do a gender reveal

since just eddie went to my appt. with me

i picked up some pink and blue balloons on the way home.

emi wasn't sure what was going on.

we had each person pick which they thought

only my brother erik chose pink

and kaitlyn chose pink but only because it's her favorite color.

everyone else chose blue.

emi is going to have a little BROTHER!!

we couldn't be more excited.

eddie and i agreed once we have one of each we won't find out the gender

but i have a feeling, i must get sick with boys

so baby #3 might not be such a surprise.

everyone was thrilled!!

this picture cracks me up....

one my mom, hilarious and i'm sure she will be embarrassed by this pictures 

you can't tell by this picture but she was jumping up and down.

and tanner, well he fell to his knees...

he is happy he won't have to be emi's prince charming for much longer.

emi, well she wasn't so sure about the whole thing

and actually was a little upset it wasn't a sister.

the last week or so we have talked a lot about baby brothers and sisters

and every single time she would say sister

but so do all the 'new baby' children books.

after talking with her about it, she is ok with having a little brother.

it was fun to see every one's guess and reaction.

 baby m will be the first grandson on each side.

can you believe i already have his halloween costume all planned out?

the wedding

on saturday april 21st erik and loren were

sealed in the san diego temple

for time and all eternity.

they had planned on the 21st but some paperwork

which was to take 6-8 weeks, took less than 3 weeks!

they basically found out the week before that the 21st was a go!!

we are so happy for them!

despite being in sunny san diego, it was far from it

it was overcast and misty basically the entire time

the sun did shine a few times but not much.

emi waiting patiently for them to come out.

emi showing off her princess dress.

she loves that dress!

emi will smile but never looks at me.

drives me nuts....

eventually she will look at me

but it usually ends up looking silly...crazy girl

erik and loren!

ashley, i mean david made the bouquet and all the boutonnieres 

i think they were a great touch!

 

claire and kaitlyn loved taking pictures....NOT!!

they wanted to run around and act like 3 and 5 year olds.

ha! i don't think eddie knows i took this picture.

i was setting up the tripod...well eddie set up the tripod

i was just centering in between all those trees.

loren's dad only took 3 pictures of our family

he must not know you just keep clicking away

and eventually one will turn out.

and of course we had to get a silly picture.

i love emi's face in this one.

my mom wanted a picture of all the girls.

by this time the new sisters were done taking pictures.

i just kept snapping away....too bad no one smiled

they were being instructed to look at me.

emi knows the drill :)

overall the day turned out perfect.

weekly update {16}

this week we did laundry and cleaned to keep us busy

on thursday we left for san diego for the weekend

our activities during the weekend deserve a post of it's own.

emi loves looking at tanner's books in her old room

if we ever can't find her, she is always in there reading

 

every time we come home
emi says: can i play on the playground for just a little bit?
 and makes her fingers almost touch
like a tiny amount of time...
which of course always ends up being like 20 minutes.

emi and her box spring/bed rail had a fight.
emi loves to wear her purple crocs
or her purple crotch as she says it
she basically walks out the back of them because they are too small
every time i have gone to buy a new pair they have been out of her size
after this happened, i decided i would track some down.

after a short strip to the mall
emi now has pink crocs.
poor thing almost split her chin open and has a nice mark on her face
just in time for our trip to san diego :)

i have to laugh at emi
literally a minute before i took this picture
she told me to come check on her.
well i went in to "check on her" and she was asleep!
i wish i could fall asleep in a minute.

oh the road to san diego
we drove half way and emi slept the whole time
friday morning we drove the rest of the way
eddie had never heard her talk so much
and he was able to experience the
mom! every 45 seconds, i experience daily.
he thought it was funny, i think it's annoying.

later that night we met up with the family
and emi saw her cousins.
can you believe every one wanted to eat dinner
where eddie, emi and i had eaten lunch that same day! blah!
at least they had chalk board doors to keep the girls busy.

then we made our way to the temple
where we would be the next day for erik and loren's wedding.
it was freezing, and emi should have had a jacket on.

emi was super excited to hit the beach.
we went to a beach in la jolla
emi loved running from the water and finding sea shells
until a wave took her out and she face planted
coming up with a mouthful of sand.

after the wedding, we headed to old town for mexican food
i have basically ruled out chinese and mexican food.
i can not bring myself to eat it...and i usually love both types of food.
dang baby, making my taste buds all crazy!

after the festivities were over and every one left
 we decided to go to the zoo.
emi loved the map!
it was a little cold, we didn't bring a stroller
but other than that we had a great time.

we also headed to coronado island after the zoo
after her face plant on la jolla
she basically just wanted to stay on dry sand.

after walking along the beach we worked up an appetite for some ice cream
i was trying to get a picture of eddie people watching
but he looked right at me.

i can't believe i didn't really take any pictures of emi during our trip
it was nice to enjoy being involved rather than behind the lens.
i was too afraid to get my camera wet or worse...sand!
i was the photographer for the wedding, so i was able to sneak a few
shots of emi having fun with her cousins.

weekly update {15}

can you believe i didn't take any pictures on easter?!?

i did take a 15 minute video of emi

picking every single jelly bean the easter bunny dropped

she was so nice to give me all the black jelly beans

since she doesn't like them :)

this week has been kind of rough.

emi started showing signs of a cold on wednesday...

totally has to be from nursery since she was on spring break last week

thursday she still had a clear semi runny nose

but friday, oh man....she woke up a crabby zombie.

emi was so nice to share her germs with both eddie and i

even though we have been super careful and clean. boo!

ok, so i took a few pictures on easter

including this one. i thought it was so cute.

emi loves the story the three little pigs.

not sure why i didn't take any pictures on monday

but i guess i didn't? oh well.

emi was super ready for school after having spring break last week

she even went through all the drawers looking for my clothes

so i would get dressed faster after i took a shower.

this was her impatient face.  like come on mom!!

and then when i dropped her off.

she said, ok mom you need to leave!

we had to stop by jamba so i could have something in my stomach.

i am still having food issues, although not everyday thankfully

it is the weirdest thing, nothing sounds remotely good

and even thinking about different foods can cause me to throw up

then when i make or order something, there is no guarantee i will eat it

it either will look gross or smell gross and i can't bring myself to eat it

it's super annoying. so on my days when i'm not feeling like eating

i head to togo's or jamba juice.

emi also loves jamba juice and we usually split one.

this is what emi does sometimes when she "catches" me taking her picture.

she sure can be feisty!

after school we went by gma and gpa's

she actually wanted to go see charlie and ozzy...

gma and gpa were just an added bonus.

one of our blinds stick thing is apparently loose

probably because a certain person who's name starts with an "E"

and i'm not talking about eddie :)

she calls it her flute! she blows on it just like a flute.

and every time i hang it back up, i turn about and she has pulled it down again.

emi is really starting to draw faces.

it's not consistent, sometimes it looks like a blob

like the one on the lower right. but other times

it looks just like a face, with hair no less.

like the one on the left.

 this past week has been really rainy

something funny happened. if you know me

 you know i basically only wear flip flops

there has to be a good reason for me to actually put socks on

so on this rainy day i decided to wear shoes.

i knew emi wasn't use to it, when she told me

that she was going to school, not to the gym

i said i know, we are going to go to school

and she said no! your putting on running shoes.

she must not know, i only run to save my life basically.

so after school, the 'very stylish mom' totally compliments me

 on my "running shoes". 

 they look brand new, i'm sure even the bottom looks new :)

then she asked me where i got them. gasp!

i had to explain i couldn't remember.

but i left out the part that, they were probably at least 6 years old!!

yes...that's how often i wear "running shoes"

emi was excited she could wear her boots and use her umbrella.

then when we got home i let her jump in muddy puddles

until it started raining again, then she wanted to come inside.

this particular jump she got her inner legs soaked with muddy water

she said she needed to go inside and change.

such a girl! i explained to her it's ok

and after she is done we will go inside and change.

this was crabby zombie day! 

even went as so far as to stomping her feet

that was something new

i had to send a little video to eddie cause it was funny.

she was just crabby because she didn't feel good

but it made for a super long day.

emi insisted on helping make cheesy eggs.

then she insisted on helping clean the bathroom

i wasn't going to argue with that offer :)

if you can see the reflection in the mirror, you can see our shower curtain is clear

does anyone know where i can buy a stall sized shower curtain?

besides online, i have basically checked everywhere.

i think i might just make one. this may be my excuse to make a ruffle shower curtain.

victory!!! she took a nap.

so basically she will only take a nap when she feels sick and when eddie is home

since eddie is only home on the weekend, that leaves me with quiet time

she thinks if she talks quietly to me, that still qualifies for quiet time

i've had to explain to her she needs to leave me alone 

so i can be a happy, nice mom.

 

 this was post nap....an even more crabby zombie.

she went back to bed less than 2 hours later.

she wouldn't eat anything, or let me comb her hair

she just wanted to watch kipper, and no talking!

when eddie came home with dinner, he asked her what she had done today

she totally tried tattling on me.

she explained to him, i wouldn't let her go outside because she was sick

he said oh...in his normal....i have no opinion to avoid any type of argument tone.

she wasn't happy with his response...

that is when we established bedtime was right after dinner.

after not leaving the house once on friday 

we were ready for a saturday night date.

i hope this habit breaks when she is a little older.

it's fine cause she is 3, but when she is 13 she better not drink the drips.

hopefully this coming week we can feel better

cause we are going to san diego for my brother's wedding!!

we also plan on going to the zoo on sunday. 

so i might not have week {16} until tuesday or later :)