Week 46-Splash

Two of Em's favorites right now: 

The classic story: The Three Billy Goats Gruff

The Disney movie: The Lion King

She is kind of obsessed with the stinky troll and is sure to help read the part where he SPLASHes into the river. She was thrilled the few times I let her practice some real life splashing!

Sigh,

"Hakuna Matata!"

A few cute common phrases you can hear coming from those sweet lips:

"Crazy Emi! Crazy Emi!" (running around like a hooligan, or shaking her head rock-star style)

"Oh, sigh, I forgot."

"I DID IT!"

"Hakuna matata." (a good theme around this house)

"Uh-oh!....I fix it."

"No like it."

"One more time?"

"High-fi sticker!"

"Thanks though." (to ...just about everything)

"Okay mom? Okay dad?" (if she thinks we're hurt or something is wrong, precious)

Week 45-First baby pictures

 Yay! Baby's heartbeat and first ultrasound!

I was so impatient to have to wait until I was 15 weeks along to hear this little one's heart and have some reassurance and reality really kick in.  I had some insecurities about starting fresh at a new doctor's office and meeting my new doctor. Happy to announce all is well and we're in good hands. ;) We weren't sure how Em would handle the doctors appointment, but she was ADORABLE! Couper held her during the ultra sound and the minute an image popped up on the screen she shouted, "There it is! I see it!" Already a proud big sister.

Hurray for cute "baby" baby bumps in those early months.

15 weeks

Week 44-Halloween

 Halloween was so, SO much fun with Em this year! We tried to incorporate traditions from our childhood and create some of our own. She was a little leery of dressing up at first. But once she got a glimpse in the mirror she was game! She has really liked the original "Winnie the Pooh" movie this fall, and we have watched it countless times! (It is not uncommon for her to be found carefully holding a pencil, intently drawing a little squiggle, with her nose 1/2 an inch from the paper, then pulling away quickly exclaiming with satisfaction, "LOOK! IT'S PIGLET!" "LOOK! TIGGER!" quite the artist we have here ;) ) 

For whatever reason, Piglet has most consistently been her go-to favorite character.

We had access two different pig costumes from family/friends and had a VERY difficult time choosing which one Em would be found trick-or-treating in Halloween night.

You can see why! Oh my cute little piggy!!!

I made sure the day was full of fun, yummy, and mostly healthy food :). When I was a kid, chili and dirt cups were a staple after a cold trick-or-treating night (along with candy sorting/barter & trade of course)!

The Bush's joined us in all of the fun, and these two little buddies were so excited to spend all night together.

Em cracked us up with her sweet innocence as a novice trick-or-treater. We did a little "practicing" 5 minutes before heading out the door.  We left one piece of candy in her bucket, hoping she would get the idea and not be scared (still our sweet shy girl). We knocked at the first door and she mumble/whispered "Trick-or-treat". The nice lady who answered complimented our little Piglet and placed a candy in her pumpkin. Em then politely said a quiet, "Thank you!" Reached into her pumpkin to pull out the candy we had given her at home and tried handing it to the lady at the door! HaHa (Guess some of our lessons on sharing and trading are starting to catch on!) Sure love this little cutie!

Stockton insisted on being in the family picture haha. Sad we don't have a pic of Cody & Kim!

Week 43-A Bump

I made this sign for Couper back in August. 

Many changes have been underway for us!

Love starting to see that bump! Although there have been many insecurities along the way these first three months, we are extremely excited to be welcoming another addition to our family next spring! Been dealing with nausea most of the day and EXTREME fatigue/lack of motivation. All seems well so far, but counting down the days until insurance kicks in so we can here little one's heart beat!

12 weeks

One of our random adventures to soak up any sun left this year. (Also helps to ignore feeling yuck!) 

We ended up at a trout farm and were the only ones there! Em thought she was so grown up feeding those fish and ducks, and walked around like she owned the place. We also landed ourselves at a fun Castle Park for lunch where the swings overlook a field of grazing horses! Pretty sure we covered many of Em's favorite things all in one morning!

Week 42- Pumpkin Patch

Emelia has truly embraced Fall and loves it as much as her parents.

With all of her discoveries and amazements of the changing seasons I was beyond excited to introduce her to a pumpkin patch! Pumpkins have of course been a fall obsession of hers, and orange has become one of her favorite colors (ie. she will only eat breakfast with an orange spoon...)

So, on a beautiful October evening we had a family outing to 

Pack's Pumpkin Patch:

(Love that she has insisted on wearing her "Cars" shoes EVERYday since they day she got them..in August!)

Wow. We love this girl.