Adrian College Homecoming

Doesn't Emily look so cute as a Bulldog fan!  Jim went and got this paw print painted on Emily's face yesterday when I was chatting with a few of my friends from college. Emily was so good about it, she did not touch it the entire day/evening until I washed it off last night.

Here is a picture of Jim and Emily waiting for the parade. They had bands, sports teams, sororities, and lots of fun things represented in the parade.

Emily enjoyed being a football player in the picture, she loved going into the game and watching football!

They even had a petting zoo for Homecoming, and of course Emily loves animals!

We got to Adrian a little after 3pm, just in time for the parade, and then we enjoyed the petting zoo, bookstore, dinner, walking around campus and the football game.  We only watched a little bit of the game because Emily was getting tired.  Emily was a real trooper running around campus and was very good at the game.

Running Up & Down the Hill

It's amazing the little things that entertain a 2 year old and us parents too!  We had a last minute dinner with our friends the Cabble's.  I called to see if they wanted to go out to dinner and they invited us over for Beef Tenderloin.  That was a real treat.  

After dinner Blake and Emily enjoyed running up and down their hill in their yard, squealing, and rolling around in the grass.  It was only 7:30pm but it sure does look dark in these pictures.  I think the dads had just about as much fun running up and down the hill too.  Megan enjoyed watching Emily and Blake be silly, here is a picture of her with Jim.  And with no nap yesterday, Emily sure was tired when we got home last night.  I'm praying that today she naps, she needs lots of energy for the events at Adrian College Homecoming today!

Big Leaf & Stickers

Thursday we went to storytime at the library and Emily made this big leaf.  I was so impressed that she could rip all of the strips of paper into squares and then she glued them on with a glue stick.  It's amazing how quickly kids learn how to do things.

In the afternoon mom watched Emily when I went to my hair appointment.  They took a nap, of course she sleeps when I am not home!  Grandma brought stickers which Emily put every one of the stickers on her shirt after grandma left.  That kept Emily busy for a little bit.  I had to take a picture of Emily with all of her stickers.  Then Emily wanted me in the picture, so there is a picture of us together per Emily's request.

A little funny story, we went for a walk after the stickers and stopped to see the neighbors horses and cats next door.  Emily held the kitties like she always does and then we ran into a few neighbors on our way home including meeting our neighbors new puppy Lola who is 3 months old.  Anyway that evening I get a call from our next door neighbor, did Emily put a sticker on one of the cats?  I laughed, one of their cats had an orange smiley face sticker on it when she got home.  She thought her son who is in High School put the sticker on the cat and blamed him, which made me laugh even harder!  I confessed it was probably Emily.

Picking up Apples, I mean Kitties

On Sunday we went to Lesser's Farm to pick up some apples, cider, soap, honey, etc at their store in Dexter.  Emily was much more excited about the cats they had and carried them all around the farm.  We also checked out the chickens and pigs when we were there, and Emily enjoyed eating a fresh apple that we bought.  I am excited to make apple sauce, some apple crisp and maybe I'll even tackle a apple pie.  We'll see how Emily naps the next couple of days.

It's been hard to post pictures on the blog because Emily hasn't been napping much and every second I can I am trying to squeeze in work for teaching at Adrian College or help my brother with his Sun Towels business.  I sure hope Emily doesn't give up naps yet, she is not even 2.5!

I had to share the last picture of my dad with Norm Lesser, it looks like the older farmer is giving advice to the younger farmer (farmer at heart heart - seeing my parents don't farm anymore, but do live on the centennial Weber family farm). 

Dinner at Travis Pointe

Emily looks just like; I can't believe looking at this picture how different we look!  She looks and acts like her daddy, she likes to joke around, is stubborn and gets into mischief!

Emily was so funny at dinner at Travis Pointe on Saturday night. She ate her meal great, which is rare when we aren't at home and so we said they could bring the ice cream that came with her meal.

Emily enjoyed the ice cream sitting on my dad's lap and hamming it up for the camera. Of course she got cookies n' cream ice cream with hot fudge and the waitress added sprinkles too! Can you tell how excited she was in these pictures!

Caleb's Soccer Game

We surprised Caleb and went to his soccer game last Saturday. My parents and brother Dave came and picked up Emily an I a little after 7am!  So I had to wake up Emily for the big game.

Emily loves soccer, of course she wanted to go play too, so standing on the side was a little bit challenging at times.



Here is Emily and Joshua cheering for Caleb, Emily was saying "Go Caleb Go!"



Caleb and Emily kicked the ball around near the end of the game when he sat out for a few minutes. Even though he was tired, he still had time to play with his little cousin Emily.




After lunch at Linda's, the kids played outside on the swing set. Emily kept wanting to "catch" the boys when they came down the slide. Of course the last time Joshua came don't a little to quick and knocked her over, and that was the end of that game.

We had a great day, and of course I wished we live closer when we left to drive home.

Storytime (Baby Time Plus ages 1.5 -3)

Wow, there were 22 kids at Babytime plus yesterday at the library.  Emily had a great time singing songs, learning about the letter N, putting numbers on the felt board and learning her colors.  Of course at the end when they brought out toys for open play she got the drum first and was banging away as you see in the top picture.  And we can't forget that we read some great books too.

Holding Haley at Bible Study

Thursday I started a women's Bible study with a few mom's from church who either work part-time or stay at home full-time with their children.  I was a little leery how it would go seeing the kids were going to play quietly while we studied the bible.  The kids did much better than I thought, and I am anxious to see how our next meeting goes.  I think the snack helped them stay quiet for the first 30 minutes.  Here is Emily holding Haley who is 4 months old after our study.  It looks like there are going to be 8 children 4 and under "playing quietly."  It will be interesting.  I am looking forward to being more accountable and spending more time with God at home too.  

Cider Mill in Northville = Good Thinking!

One of Emily's new sayings is "Good Thinking!" When I say something she likes, she says "Good Thinking Mommy!" It's so adorable!   When I told her we were going to the Cider Mill and having fresh apple juice and donuts she said "Good Thinking Mommy!"

Here is Emily and her buddy Luke playing on the wooden truck with slide.

Here is Emily with Luke and Jada sitting together on a beach, Jada is 18 months old and Luke is 4.

Emily had her first donut at the Cider Mill, with a little cider too. Unlike the Happy Meal, she loved the Donut!

Here is Emily and Luke watching the ducks in the creek.

Here is Kelly, Jada, Luke & Emily with the ducks.

We had a great time, what perfect fall weather, 60 and sunny!

Peace Play Group on Tuesday

Yesterday we had the best play group at Peace Lutheran church.  We started with open play and Emily enjoyed playing with play dough, playing peek-a-boo with baby Megan, building this tower with Matthew, and so much more.  Emily was funny saying she is "a big sister now" and that her baby sister is Megan.  Everyone kept looking at me when she said "I'm a big sister now" and I kept telling her to not start any rumors.  

After open play we had a snack, then heard a story about God creating the world.  Emily created a sunset with paint and a marble that rolled around in a box as she tipped the box the marble rolled throw the paint spreading it.  She did a good job with the craft.  

Then it was bubbles, and circle time with songs, fun, fun fun!  I think that was the best Peace play group we have been to yet!  I am looking forward to the rest of our fall activities.  I didn't sign up Emily for preschool, so I made my own schedule filled with many fun activities and play groups.  She will not be lonely or bored!

Creative Play

Monday we started Creative Play, which is a free play group at a church in Chelsea.  I wanted to do it because several of my friends from MOPS are in it and I thought it would be nice to get to know them better and Emily get to see their kids too.  

We had open play, snack, we learned that the Bible is true (which of course I knew, but we had a lesson on it), heard a bible story, did songs in a circle, tossed a beach ball around telling our name and just had a great time.  

Above is a picture of Emily with Addison and Luca (next to her) in a small wooden boat.  They were so cute rocking it up and down.  The bottom picture is when the kids were learning about the Bible.

First McDonald's Happy Meal

On the way home from Seth's wedding we stopped at McDonald's and Emily had her first happy meal.  We got chicken nuggets, french fries and chocolate milk.  I would have thought she would devour it, but she only eat like one nugget, a few fries and drank most of the milk.  She was a little tired, so maybe that is why she didn't eat well, but I will mark it up as something we don't need to do again.  :)

Breakfast Sunday September 13th

Sunday morning we were so glad we stayed in the same hotel as everyone else.  We got up and when we went down to breakfast we saw several of Jim's cousins.  I wish I would have taken more pictures, but here a few of Emily and Jim with Robby Heiss (he was the ring bearer).  Robby is 2.5 and he is a lot of fun, I could see him and Emily being great friends if we lived closer together.  Robby and his family - Josh & Carisa live in San Antonio TX.  Josh's brother Seth (groom) lives in Indianapolis and so does my brother Dave so we talked about getting together the weekend of the Indy 500 next year.

We were also fortunate to get to the wedding reception early (because we forgot about the time change) and enjoyed talking with Jim's cousins outside before the ceremony at a picnic table and we walked throw the beautiful cemetery.  

Wedding Reception

During the reception Emily had a blast dancing, she hardly ate because she was on the dance floor the entire night. In fact it was hard for her to watch the first dance because she wanted to go out on the floor. Here is Emily dancing with her new friend Aiden.

This picture is of Emily and I dancing.

Emily is giving her cousin Tristan a high five here. I heard that Tristan takes after his Uncle Jim with lots of energy. Tristan was all over the dance floor!

Here is the garder removal.

Tristan caught the garder, he jumped so high and it was such a hoot.

Emily started to get tired, here is Jim, his cousin Johnnie and Emily.

Pete, Aunt Sue (Jim's sister) and cousin Matt

Jim and his dad waiting for dinner, looks like Jim is hungry!

We left the reception at 10:40 PM which was 11:40 our time, we thought Emily was tired but it took us almost 3 hours to get her to go to bed which ended up around 3:30 AM our time.  UGH!