Signs for loved ones

We've had a few loved ones sick lately so Emily and I made some signs and then I took pictures of her holding them up.  Then I posted the pictures on the signs and delivered  the posters to the hospital and to the homes of the sick loved ones.  These are only a few of the pictures, if I was sick a cute picture of Emily would cheer me up and brighten up my room!

Emily doctoring Lucy

Lucy hurt her paw a few days ago, so we have been checking on it and Emily has been really into trying to help Lucy feel better.  Lucy has only been walking on 3 legs and holding up her one paw.  I called the vet and they said to give it a few days and give her aspirin, so that is what we have been doing.  Today I think we'll have to call the vet and take Lucy in, which will be a lot of fun with a 2.5 year old and being pregnant.  I'm not even sure if Lucy can get into the car on her own, I don't know if I can lift 80+ pounds - ugh!

Emily got out her doctor bag to "help Lucy feel better" last night, here she is getting ready to give her a shot.

Emily is putting on the blood pressure cuff.

Checking Lucy's blood pressure (boy is Lucy a good patient).

Listening to Lucy's head, I mean heart!  :)

Snow Day!

Hi mom!  I am in here under all of the snow gear.  Note the sun glasses which she has to wear every time we leave the house!

Going down the slide, boy was it fast with the snow on it!

Emily cleaning her house off because there was snow on her cook top!

Peek a boo!

Last week when we got that great snow fall on Thursday, so Emily and bundled up and played outside.  It was so could out we really we not out there for very long before Emily took her gloves off and then fell into the snow and got her hands wet, "Cold mommy!"  The snow was deeper than Emily is used to and she had a tough time walking around, we got close to 4 inches by the time it stopped snowing.  We still have some snow on the ground and tomorrow it will be one week, but I know the temperatures are going to warm up so it might melt soon.

Garden Pictures

This morning I downloaded the pictures off of Jim's phone, and found a few pictures of our first garden which was last summer. 

The above fence keeps the critters out and the weed pullers in.  :)

A close up picture of our summer squash, we had way too many!  This year we will plant less summer squash, more peas, more broccoli, and more corn to name a few.

We had almost any veggie you could want, and I sure miss the fresh vegtables, but I am still using the frozen veggies out of our freezer.  Yeah for the food saver, they taste great!

The sprinkler in the center was key, Jim had it on a timer and it keep our garden moist!

This year we have already worked on an expansion from last year's garden, I can't wait to harvest the veggies!  Unfortunately I don't think I will be doing much planting seeing baby #2 will be arriving around that time, and with a planned c-section, the bending over is probably out of the question.

Having Fun with Friends

On Sunday a friend of mine from my old job and her family came over.  Emily and Luke are two months apart, and have a lot of fun together, it's so cute to watch them interact.

Here is a picture of Emily taking a picture of Luke.  

Who is having more fun with the kids or the dads?  Notice how Brian has one of the remotes to the cars and Luke does not have one?

This ball popper is so much fun!

Wow, you should have heard Emily and Luke screaming with the ball popper, poor Ava woke up to their screams!

Here is a picture of Ava and Emily in their pj's before the Goodman's had to leave.  I can't believe how huge Emily looks compared to Ava, and she is 3 months old.  When we have baby #2 she is going to seem like such a big girl!

I thought Ava was so precious sleeping with her arms up, I forgot how babies sleep like that when they are little.  Ava is cuddled up to her mom Carrie.

Emily had to play in the bouncy seat after Ava left, and she has played in it every day since.  I think when the baby comes she is going to want to play with all of the baby stuff.

It's always nice to get together with old friends, especially when our kids are close in age and they have fun playing together.  We had a wonderful dinner and relaxing time catching up.  Plus we had a talk with Emily about sharing before Luke came over and she did really well; I was proud of her!

Christmas Presents with Grandma & Great Grandma

Emily was so cute opening her presents at Great Grandma's house.  Here she is opening her first present from Great Grandma.

Yeah, gardening tools, which she wanted to take out of the package right away!

Thanks Great Grandma!

Here is is trying out her new camera from Grandma.

After we were done with presents Emily all of a sudden broke out with charades and was pretending to be a Christmas tree in this picture.  

Here is a picture of Emily and I playing with her new baby from Grandma.  Emily absolutely loves it, it cries, laughs, says ma ma, burps, snores, and sucks on a bottle (making noises).  

We had a great time hanging out with Jim's family.  Emily was our entertainment, we did a few puzzles too, but mostly she played with her new toys and we watched her.  Emily can be pretty entertaining!

Also, we had my favorites for lunch, Jim's mom made homemade Chicken & Rice Soup and Orange Rolls, and I brought a salad and cookies, plus a cheese ball that Jim's grandmother had.  YUM!   

Emily likes to be Girlie

I ended up at Gymboree a couple of days after Christmas and bought Emily a lot of summer clothes which she will get for her Birthday in May.  One thing I gave her now which is this little skirt that she has been prancing around the house in.  Right away she put it on over her clothes.  It was funny seeing how she walked with her hands on her hips and with a little attitude, I have no idea where she learned that at?