Ahhh summer....

We have big plans this weekend of being outside the whole time! Emmy's sandbox should get lots of action and we hope to lay down a new patio. Fingers crossed!!!

Emmy's funny for today is that any time she sees Snoopy or any of the Peanuts gang, she always says "Look, Charlie Brown Christmas!" She thinks that is their name!

She's my girl

As I try to go through so very many things and get rid of them, I really want to instill in Emmy Ruth the importance of not keeping all this stuff. So, I told her the other night that she needed to go through her toys and find some things we could give to some kids that might not have as many toys as she does.

So far, there are three things in this pile. And I am pretty sure that one of them is a Transformer that Lucas left over here.

Fun Times

It's not often I brag about Momma's culinary skills, but this is one thing I remember her cooking for me and Neall. Mickey Mouse pancakes. :) Emmy loves pancakes and wants them all the time. I thought I would try it and she immediately knew it was Mickey Mouse and was delighted!!!

This morning, I was getting dressed in my closet and Emmy Ruth was hanging out with me. (I have a lot of boxes because I am going through things to get rid of!) She found a pair of pink heels and had to put them on immediately, then she saw the pink boa that I had on my mirror and grabbed it. She is going to be a great model. Then she found a picture we took the week she came home and ski hat.

Our sweet friend Ian had his fifth birthday party today at My Big Backyard. It was so much fun! Before we left, we wanted to go to see the koi fish pond and on the walk there, Emmy and Lucas wore themselves out. They had run and run and run so on the way there, Emmy laid down on a bench and I didn't think she was going to make it much further. She said her legs were almost tired but her feet were really tired.

What an amazing girl she is. I can't believe how lucky we are to have her in our lives. She keeps us laughing and thinking and imagining. It's absolutely amazing.

Mother's Day

Mother's Day... here it is again. It is such a strange day in that I am so grateful to have Emmy Ruth in my life and to have had such an amazing mother but so bittersweet to remember that she is not here to see this. I can't say that I miss Momma any more today than I do any other day. There are still times now that I will move my arm a certain way and my bracelet catches just so that I remember how she gestured while wearing her sterling jewelry. Or that I will say something and think, Wow... that was so... MOM. Or, that last night, Betty White was on Saturday Night Live and I remember how that twenty years ago, Momma and I talked about how she reminded us of Grandma Ruth; back then, they were both here. Never, ever, ever will it be fair that they aren't now. But, never, ever, ever will it be fair that I am lucky enough to have the people in my life that love us so much, even if they don't have to--they want to love us.


Just today we had these little gems:

--I was putting on my makeup and told Emmy that was my mascara. There were two tubes and she said "This is myscara and this yourscara".

--I heard her telling John that they needed to hide from me and, oh so witty he is, John said, "oh let's go in the backyard, she'll never find us there". A few seconds later, I called out 'searching' for them and she exclaimed, "oh the dragon! She talks!". Cute kid.
--There was a spider statue at the zoo and Emmy said again that Princesses didn't like spiders. I told her when she was a baby, she loved spiders. She looked at me, with hands on hips, and said she was not a baby anymore and that she didn't like spiders!
--She told me she wanted holes in her ears so that she could wear my earrings. Whoa... kid... slow it down a bit!


This morning, John let me sleep in (we decided that me going to church wasn't a good idea since I get so emotional at church anyway and today's sermon was sure to be about mothers) and then we headed to the zoo. Emmy had some money in her piggy bank so she got to buy something at the gift shop and chose a pink panda bear. "Pink is my favorite color."
Carrying Pandy "up top" (on her shoulders).I love this picture that John got of us. She might say she got her blonde hair from AunTee but maybe she'll think she got her curls from me after seeing this. Pandy was safely secured in the boat as well.










The Buddha picture, of course...She has taken so many pictures in her life, that she started posing Pandy....

C'mon Daddy...

Emmy and John were playing in the yard and got really dirty so when they came in, I immediately put her in the bathtub. She asked John if he would take a bath with her and, against his better judgment, he agreed but wore his swimming trunks.

And she talked him into it the next day.

The next day, she said, "C'mon, Daddy, it's time for our bath".