Our Days

Our days these days are pretty laid back and we are still adjusting to our new normal. I've tried a couple things with Emersen for entertainment purposes. Below is Silly String - it freaked Emersen out. Of course.

Dora holds Emersen's rocks for her. Now rocks - that's the REAL entertainment for Em. She LOVES playing with them. Carrying them. Putting them in and out of the bucket. Of course.

Granna (Mindy) got Emersen this Goldfish goldfish crackers carrier. She loves it. Because she LOVES containers - boxes, bags, etc. So she's having her morning snack with her new little friend.

I love this movie setting I discovered in Picasa. Focuses in on that cute little face. She's eating a colorful goldfish, just so you know.

Em loves sitting at her picnic table to hang out. She's lounging here as she eats her snack. This kid is awesome. We make her sit down for her snack - no walking around and eating here and there. That equals choking and dragging out snack time. Usually not a problem because she loves to eat, especially snack time foods. Usually this consists of goldfish crackers, cheeriors, peanuts, chocolate chips, marshmellows, string cheese, pretzel sticks, grapes or craisins. We combine them for a more balanced snack, like pretzel sticks and string cheese.

She is going to bed at 8:30pm, taking one 2 hr nap in the afternoon and gets up around 7-7:30 in the morning. Her favorite things right now are basketball goals, blocks, and "seek" which is hide and seek. She loves to say her prayers and add in her friends names. She loves to say her Bible verse (only parts of it, of course). She has developed some sort of fear/anxiety over the church nursery. The kid who NEVER has crying fits has cried so hard she's coughing the past two Sunday's. I'm guessing it's because I'm home with her now, but who really knows with toddlers. She has started saying the infamous kid phrase "hold you." She's starting cuddling up more. She loves a show called "Boo!" that's on Hulu. She goes around saying "okay" but repeats it over and over again changing her inflection and volume level. She's hilarious.

More updates to come, hopefully without as much time between posts. I have several posts worth of pictures to share so stay tuned.

P.S. who isn't LOVING the impending cooler weather!? I'm counting down to September 1st, because in case you didn't know, that's when I officially start celebrating fall!