Stinky Daddy

    Sometimes on cold and blustery days, Emma chooses to start our morning off with a good laugh!  This morning was one of those days....

Scene:
    Daddy, Emma-Jean, and two Mr. P-doo heads (those are potato heads for those not in the know) sit at Emma's little table eating breakfast.  One of these P-doo heads was dressed as a stormtrooper but that's not really relevant to this story.

Me:  Ok, I need to get a picture of this, where is the camera?  Oh shoot, you took the batteries out to play Wii yesterday didn't you?  And then you played until they died, right?  You stink Adam!

Emma-Jean:  Emma stinks too daddy! (in an "it's ok" tone of voice)

:: cue hysterical laughter on mommy's part ::



* the above picture has nothing to do with this story, except that it is a recent picture of Emma and her daddy being a little goofy.  If my camera had batteries there would be a cute picture, but because it did not have batteries I have a cute sotry instead!

My little two year is….


...Goofy
           as evidenced by the pictures in this post


... Loving

    she has a checklist of places we have to kiss her before she can go to sleep :

         (cheek, “otha one cheek”, hair, nose and chin)

...Stubborn

      she gets this from both mommy and daddy, she is incredibly    persistent

...Frustrated

     when we won’t let her do things like watch TV all day long, or    eat cookies for breakfast

 
 

...Conversational

       she speaks in full sentences now, and is learning so many new  words a day I can't keep track of them

...Possesive

        She is not very good at sharing anything, and labels everything "Emma's" or "Mine" as in "my daddy and my       mommy" or "Emma's toys"

...Helpful

        She wants to help mommy do everything, and is often heard to say " I helping momma! I helping?"

...Imaginative:

       She tells me stories all the time now.  They usually involve      Thomas the Tank Engine and the "bad train"

... Definitely our daughter!

Big News for our Family!

    So I feel that I must apologize once again for neglecting the blog, but I have a good reason this time!  A really good reason!  I've been a little preoccupied because about two months ago we decided it was time to start working on Royling #2! 

    I have to confess that I was a little disappointed when month one came and went because we got pregnant as soon as we started talking about it with Emma! But last week, two pregnancy tests confirmed what we've been hoping and praying for  :)

      Emma's going to be a big sister!

Most people would probably wait a few weeks before announcing this to the world, but not us.  We like to share things.  I'm also possibly the world's most impatient person so the wait would have killed me.

We're hoping for another one just like this, (except hopefully this one will enjoy sleeping)



Photo Courtesy of Katherine McClure Photography
Also if you click on Pawtucket Wedding, that's ours!

   This pregnancy already feels very different to me.  With Emma, the day after I found out I was puking my brains out.  And that continued into the second trimester.  I just got used to getting up, puking, eating breakfast going to work, puking, going to class, puking, coming home and well you get the idea.... 

   So far with this pregnancy, even though we're just a few weeks in, I've just been very tired.  Like going to bed at 8:30 kind of tired. (Hence the lack of blogging)  Chasing a two year old around all day may also have something to do with that.....
   I will definitely be keeping you all informed throughout the pregnancy, and my aim is to update once a week or so.  (when I can stay awake)

Peek-a-Boo!

Sorry these pictures are a little on the grainy side, I really need to take the time to read my camera manual, but I just had to share them! 

They did this for about ten minutes a couple saturdays ago. Adam looks a bit creepy, but look how big Emma's smiles are! :)

Can you tell by my last few posts, that she's a daddy's girl?

Happy Friday Everyone!

Roger Williams Park Zoo

We had a super busy weekend! On Friday we went to the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence, RI, on Saturday we went to homecoming at Gordon College, and yesterday we spent the morning in Boston going to the Harvard Museum of Natural History and Oktoberfest!! We’re all still recovering a little bit from our whirlwind of a weekend.


It was supposed to be a pretty low key weekend, but it was so gorgeous outside that we had to spend as much time as we could enjoying it. Since we weren’t home very much this weekend, the apartment is an absolute disaster. Isn’t it funny how that works?? The less time we spend in it, the messier it seems to get. Of course, last week we spent a ton of time indoors (due to rain and overall gross weather conditions) and it was still a disaster. So maybe housework just isn’t my thing…..



I wish we had taken more pictures this weekend, but I was too busy enjoying myself to take too many. But we do have some pictures from the zoo on Friday, so enjoy!

 

Daddy Love

Peanut really loves her daddy as you can clearly see from these pictures! And I love that she loves him. Sometimes I get a little sad that he gets so much attention on the weekends and when he comes home from work, but I really wouldn’t want it any other way. Seeing the two of them together makes me realize how blessed I really am, in that my husband is a wonderful, loving, fully engaged daddy.

Now if only I could get him to be fully engaged with the housework…..

Ps. Is anyone else having trouble uploading their pictures today? I am having the worst luck, only about half of mine are posting successfully.

Need another vacation!

So Sorry I've been a bit MIA lately.... it's been a bit of a crazy week around here. (and not in the good way)

Peanut has been teething which means waking up frequently at nighttime and lots of tantrum throwing during the day!  This has put mommy and daddy a bit on edge, which makes us one big cranky family.  Also we had to throw over $500 dollars at our car after it failed inspection. (suck) Add to this various other small things (and one  disappointment that I can't talk about on here) and it's just been a stupidly long, emotional week.

We've also been taking lots and lots of walks in an effort to tire Emma out so that we can all get a good nights sleep!  It hasn't really worked, but it's probably good for us anyways... we could both lose a few pounds.

And on top of all that I decided that since Peanut learned how to climb out of her crib it was probably time to switch her over to her toddler bed.  Night one could have gone better.... she may or may not have fallen out of the bed sometime around 3 am, and I may or may not have slept only 2 consecutive hours...

If you want to see her new bedding, we picked up at Target today, click here (I kind of love it!)

Simply put, I've been a bit too drained of energy to do any sort of real blogging.  I apologize.

So in lieu of any real blogging, I will leave you with some more vacation photos.  I miss it so much already!!!

Oh man, that last one makes me want to go back and live there.  Who's with me?