Spring Play

It is always interesting entertaining Emma in the hour or so before Daddy comes home. Yesterday, we spent some time in the backyard enjoying the sun and the fresh green grass. Emma decided to do some "acrobatics" on her slide...(I think she might be ready for a gymnastics class this summer since she climbs on and jumps off everything!)

Going down the slide...

Backwards...

Climbing up (who needs steps)

Going down upside down!
Then we played a little soccer

Running, Running, Running
Then we had a little fun rolling in the grass

Posing

Spotting an airplane (Emma is a little bit in airplane withdrawal!)

This is the smile we get when we ask her to smile.. not my favorite

Here is the real smile!

We had a great time until Daddy came home!

"Naptime"

Nap times at our house have been few and far between lately; but Emma is still required to go to her room for a little "rest time". Sometimes she goes to sleep and other times she plays. Yesterday, this is what I found when I went to check on her.


Emma had lined up some of her"friends" at the end of her back and given each of them a book to read to entertain themselves


Then she decided to join them.

We also have a new "baby" in the family. Emma has decided that one of her dolls is her "baby sister" Ian. Emma has fed baby Ian, put her in the swing to rock her to sleep, given her toys, and put her in the crib for night-night time. I keep reminding her that she is actually have a baby brother, but she thinks that her doll is a good substitute for now. She is practicing to be a great big sister. She has also told me that she will burp the baby, but she will not change dirty diapers... that is Mommy's job. What fun days we have to come!

All Aboard!

On Tuesday, we went on a great field trip with our preschool class. We took the train from our town to another town about 15 minutes away. While we were there, we went to a great bookstore for story time and then to a bakery next door from yummy cookies. It was a really fun morning. Emma loved the train and even though it was pouring down rain, she walked all the way to the bookstore and only mentioned a couple of times that she was "soaked".

Emma was excited to see her friends at the train station

No, she is not buying her ticket, she is checking the machine for extra "moneys" :)

Waiting for the train

Sitting with a friend

Checking out the scenery

Reading the paper: what else do you do on a commuter train?

Story time at the bookstore

Cookie time!

In other preschool news, we enrolled Emma in a 2 day a week program at a local church for next fall. We are excited about the programs they offer which include enrichment classes in the afternoon with topics like cooking, art, drama, and gymnastics. Emma is pretty independent and excited to do preschool on her own next year! She does a great job at making friends and is quite outgoing. Dan and I are not sure where she got her extrovert personality from, but we are happy she makes friends so easily and is so confident in new situations.

Emma also had her 3 year check-up this week. She is doing great and the doctor was happy that he hadn't seen since May; especially with her breathing/asthma issues. She is still on the small side; weighing in at a svelte 28 pounds (29th percentile) and standing at a height in 34 and half inches (3rd percentile). I think we can guess which side of our family she is taking after :) Let's hope baby boy gets more of the height genes in our family.

One more thing! Baby boy finally has a name! After a lot of thinking and discussing, we have chosen the name Ian Thomas for our new addition. We are trying to get Emma used to the name before he comes in a few weeks (6 weeks from today; Yeah!)

I guess that is all the news from here! We are participating in a consignment sale this weekend: selling around 200 of Emma's baby/toddler outfits to make room for boy clothes. Please pray that we do well and not much comes back to us!