Thanksgiving 2009

We hosted Thanksgiving at our house this year. I made the turkey and everyone else brought side dishes. Everything turned out so well! Good food, family, and lots of laughter. We are very thankful for our family, friends and health! Hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving too!

Toddler Bed

We converted Emi's crib to a toddler bed in hopes that she will stay and sleep in it! She had been sleeping on a twin mattress but we wanted her to get to use her little toddler bed...Emi will give you a tour of of newly made over room.

Accessories & a New Do!

Emi and Daddy played at the Kids Quest Museum while Mommy shopped. Emi was really interested in these bracelets and necklaces too, so funny! We've also started trying out pony tails on Emi now that she has some more hair. It's so fun being a girl!
Emi is thinking "Pleeease can I have these?"

Emi: "Hurry up and take the picture! I am not going to smile for you!"

Luca's 3rd Birthday!

We were invited to Luca's 3rd Birthday Party at Gymboree! What a fun place for little ones to run around and explore. We hope Luca has a wonderful year as a 3 year old! Thanks for a fun party!




Birthday smooch :)

Miss Independent!

We took Emi to Crossroads to run some errands. While Erich and Emi waited for me to look around at JoAnn's Emi road the carousel a few times, then before we left she got another ride. It was so sweet, Emi wanted to be like the big kids and hold on without anyone's help! She actually pushed Erich away...our little monkey baby is becoming such a big girl!

Novemeber playdate with Nathan!

we enjoyed our playdate indoors on this rainy day!

Shopping...


Playing...

Hugging...




Reading...

It's always a fun playdate with Nathan!

A little bit of...

Laundry...


Counting practice...


Relaxing!

Happy Halloween!

This was at the Expedia Halloween party, I think Emi will have lots of fun with the activities next year, this year she just enjoyed walking around and watching other kids.



Emi was a little monkey for Halloween, I wanted her to be Hello Kitty of course but when I saw this costume, I knew it would make Erich happy :)

And our little monkey is off...well actually she spent a lot more time out on the drive way looking at other trick or treaters than actually going out...she made 3 stops to our neighbors but didn't get to eat any of the candy...


What should I dress as next year?

Girly, girl!

Emi was exploring with the chapstick, she likes to pretend to use my lip gloss with the cap on of course...this time with the chapstick she knew how to get the cap off. It was rolled down so Idon't think she got much but it's so funny listening to her!

Excuse the mess on her shirt...Emi is self feeding herself yogurt now and obviously the bib wasn't doing a good job ;)

Our little reader

Emi plopped down near her book baskets this morning while I got her breakfast ready...looks like she will be reading her books from the Hello Kitty series, that's my girl!



We visited Spokane to visit Great Grandma Maxine and the rest of the Smick family! Emi was a better traveler this year and had a lot of fun visiting with everyone too!