At the Pool

Today we went to the pool.  It was Emily's first time in a pool since March, and she LOVED it!  We took it slow at first because she did not like Dave's lake last weekend.  We met my mom and good friend from HS Colleen and her son Owen at Travis Pointe.  I didn't get a great picture with both kids in it, but they did really enjoy themselves until it got to nap time and they were ready to go.  Owen is about a month older then Emily and is such a cutie.  I was hoping he would teach Emily to walk, but we ran out of time.  Emily taught Owen the baby sign for hat, he's a quick learner.  Maybe next play date it will be dance steps.  :)

Sights & Sounds

Chelsea is such a great small town, we absolutely love it here.  Last night we went to one of their weekly events called Sights & Sounds.  They have musicians in the street, some vendors, and Emily's favorite the jugglers!  Here is a picture of Emily & her dad with some of our friends - Aaron (white shirt)  - their two boys Christian (on the left) and Jackson (on the right) watching the juggling act.  It goes from 6:30 - 8:30 pm and we just go for about an hour and walk around.  It is the perfect family event, and it's nice because we always see some of our friends there - from the library, MOPS, etc.  Did I tell you the Chelsea Library was awarded "The Best Small Library in the US" award?  It was a very big deal, we do have an AWESOME library here.  Well enough about Chelsea.

This is what I found ...

I was using the bathroom at our house, and I always shut the door because it's not really baby proof - yet!  Emily always fusses and bangs on the door.  Today the noises sounded different, like she was going to open the door and come in.  I thought someone was in our house, there is no way a 13 month old can reach the door handle - wrong!  This is what I found when I came out of the bathroom.  I always use the bathroom that has 2 entrances  - because you never know what Emily is doing on the other side.  Sometimes she sticks her hands under the door like a kitty cat would do, she can be pretty silly.  She is tall for her age, but I had no idea I would find this today.  And guess what her favorite thing to do is?  It's to try and open all of our doors.  UGH!  How do you baby proof door handles?  I only see things for door knobs.  A new challenge, keep her away from the door handles.  We add that to eating random things she finds on the carpet, she can find the smallest thing that I miss with the vacuum.  

Manchester Parade

This morning when Emily was eating her breakfast she kept doing the baby sign for hat.  Finally I realized that her hat from last nights Manchester parade was on the kitchen table.  She is in love with this new hat of hers.  I had to take it away because I thought she was going to snap the elastic band and she had a fit, laying on the floor crying and kicking her legs.  Does this happen at one?  I thought it happened at two?  She is a little stubborn - uh oh. 

Here are a few pictures from the parade, her favorite was the horses/dogs, then maybe the tractors came in second.  The other people in the pictures are my parents and my dad's mom.

On Uncle Dave's Boat

Last week we went to my brother Dave's to celebrate the 4th of July.  Although it rained for the first couple of days, we had a great time with my family.   We did some boating, kayaking, and lots of Euchre after the kids went to bed.  Here are a few pictures from the boating, we actually got a family picture which seems to be rare these days.  Hope you had a good 4th!  :)

Timbertown

Chelsea has this great play area called Timbertown.   We went to check it out last night, there are a lot of neat things - more for older children, but Emily still had a good time.  

She liked going down the slide with her daddy.  

Horsing around with Daddy!

Jim has this week off and Emily is having a ball!  Emily loves riding around on Jim's back as he pretends he is a horse.  Who do you think is having more fun?