our sweet girl

For my own memory bank and to hopefully put a smile on your face, I'd like to share with you some of my favorite things about my favorite daughter. oh me and lists...

• she loves Jessie from Toy Story. she can 'yee-haw' with the best of 'em
• she's understanding the meaning of the word, "much" so she'll tell me she loves me "sooo much" or when we dip her under the shower head she says, "too much"
• she loves to take any opportunity to "scare" you or yell 'peek-a-boo"
• the way she says her name: "emmy roof kitteman"
• she enjoys sweet tea (i water it down) and her favorite way to drink it is in her tea-cups from her play kitchen
• she's seen the original Willy Wonka a couple times. Lately she's taken to singing the Oompa Loompa song intermittently throughout the day. It's like her thinking music.
• she not only recognizes the library building but excitedly exclaims, "liberry!"
• whenever she walks down our hallway she runs her finger along the panelling-just like daddy
• when she thinks she's about to get in trouble or has recently been reprimanded, she instantly turns on the charm. She gets in your face with kisses and hugs tight or whispers, "love you." It's a little ridiculous and I'm totally on to her.
• she asks to "brushy my teef" about 5 times a day (except she doesn't want to when we ask her to at night; that's besides the point)
• she's ours

**post-edit: Recently I've had the "we don't eat our boogers" chat with Emery. I've emphasized the importance of a tissue and she responded well to my message. Today we were running about town and when I was unhooking her seatbelts she said, "i holding it" and looked down towards her legs. I thought she was talking about her seatbelt because I noticed her clenching her legs around it so I simply smiled and said, "good job." She looked proudly at me and said, "yeah, i holding booger". Sometimes there's no word for such pride...

sweet and sour

-the weather has been nice enough to turn off the air and leave the windows open. keep coming, fall!

-i woke up in a great mood despite the fact it was 7:30 and my husband was leaving for a week in Iowa

-emery leaked through her diaper in the night

-i was in super productive mode...it's been a while

-our dang roofers still didn't sweep up all the nails in the backyard

-emery and i got dressed up (dressed up=out of sleepwear) and ran around town to enjoy the beautiful sunshine!

-it is a beautiful day but the sun it hot enough to remind me that it's still August. Not the glory of late September-October. I was reminded around time #7 of getting emery out of her car seat and putting her shoes back on her stinky feet

-every time i put emery in her car seat she kissed whatever part of my arm she could reach and sometimes squeezed my arm in a tight (very tight) hug. she also repeated the kisses when i pulled her out of the carseat wherever she could reach--a lot of mid-thigh kisses were involved. How sweet is she?!

-remember that husband who left us for a vacation in iowa? well he left his nametag on the fridge and needed me to please bring it a.s.a.p.! (he even asked first by saying, "how much do you love me? how is that fair?! also, i thought that only worked when i said it but apparently i've used it enough times that he realized it's power...)

-we ventured to walmart and not only did the bank there replenish their supply of suckers, but Ruffle's Sour Cream & Cheddars were on sale! For $1.98! This is how i know God hears my every thought, even the ones not addressed to him. Two, or possibly three days ago i was also in walmart loathing the fact that Lays is always cheaper than Ruffles and i wish they'd just lower their price so i can eat their delicious chips-it happened! --sale that even surpassed Lay's sale! victory!

-we were in a hurry to get nolan's nametag to him so we stopped by mcdonald's (so glad i'm not keeping a food journal). i ordered chicken nuggets for the first time in a while and asked for barbecue sauce. also, miss em wanted a 'cheebooger' so i splurged to get a happy meal since right now they have cute dolls as the toy. the attendant said, "is this for a girl or boy" i proudly responded, "girl." She got a Batman toy. Not a cute Madame Alexander doll. Don't get me wrong, I love the Bat but...why did she ask me and not listen?

-my mom is coming tonight! it's the Art & Balloon fest around here so we get to see the balloon launch tonight! Emery will love it! Once last week we saw a hot air balloon floating near our house and Em hasn't forgotten about it! She's been loving that we've kept our windows open so she can stand guard of the neighborhood. She climbs onto her little wooden chair and looks for balloons! (as a sidenote, emery is so cute. anytime she hears people talking, kids running, or a train whistle, she perks up and runs to the window to see what's happening! i know it sounds like i'm describing a pet but give her a break, she's two!)

-remember those chicken nuggets i mentioned earlier? remember the barbecue sauce? i pulled over to the gas station before heading to nol's workplace. (by this time, i've also been up for 4.5 hours, ran around town, and haven't eaten anything so those nuggets are manna). I pull open the bag, grab the sauce packets....Sweet & Sour Sauce. Downside: not really a fan of the S & S

Upside: it inspired me enough to come back to the blog!