Dopey's Mommy?

Cameron and Emmy went to Target to buy diapers.

He came back with this toy for Emmy. One of the Princesses.

(I couldn't be too angry because it was Belle, my favorite! He must have known...)

She was SO excited to open the box and take her out. Her eyes were lit up like high beams as she looked over every. single. inch. of that doll.

She caressed Belle's dress, her face, moved her arms....then touched her hair, and immediately tried to take off her tiara-somehow I got her to leave that on, and was grateful I never presented the doll to her with the shoes on...OH NO, I do not need a 911 call because she thought Liam needed to know what they tasted like.

Point for me!

So, Monday night, she was holding her and started saying things about the doll....and this word kept coming up: do-pee. And I look at Cameron like, whaaaat?

Finally after flipping through my mental rolodex of Emmy related toys/books/vocabulary....I recall one of her books. Aptly named, Dopey's Bedtime. (It's a book about bedtime routines. And probably the only princess related thing we own. Now, I don't dislike the princesses, but I don't need or want my girl to be a prissy-can't-get-dirty-girly-girl. There will be balance!!)

Snow White is in the book for about a second...and Emmy obviously asked, Dopey's mommy? She really wanted to know if they were one and the same!

So, we enlightened her.

We checked out Beauty and the Beast-fast forwarding only to the songs and skipping over any tumultuous scenes as Emmy is a very sensitive girl that has very real dreams (that keep us, namely Cameron, up at night) and she starts crying if anyone in the movie might be "sad, hurting, or crying" themselves.

The second photo here she is asking about a glimpse she had of one of those tumultuous scenes...she gets concerned fast!

So we straighten out that there is a happy ending and Belle has a prince that she loves and kisses, just like mommy and daddy. They are happy!!

And she says, "Dopey's mommy?"

So much for that!

PS: Please excuse Emmy's hair and clothing....apparently during her walk with daddy and Quincy, she was singing parts of the Sound of Music, and hugged a tree acting out the bedroom scene during the song, Favorite Things. Well, the tree just had some limbs cut off...so she returned from their walk with sap in her hair. Sap on her hands. Sap on her dress.

Speaking of, anyone know how to get sap out of clothing? Mind leaving a comment helping me out??!? Thanks...

Rain Rain Go Away

Like most of you, we've had a lot of rain here.

Even got the fungus to prove it.

Cameron photographed those shrooms. Nice job, huh?!?!

I had to preoccupy this one while he did so.

Nose pressed to the glass-she can't be without her daddy!

Looks

These first two aren't so bad....but this next one.

All I see is Uncle Roger. What do you think, family?

Maybe it is the hair?!?! I don't know...

I am refraining from posting a real photo of Uncle Roger because I think it is more fun going from memory...!!

Sunday Dress Up (from 9/19)

We could only get two shots....then we lost him.

Sundays make for a long day...

Roll Over! LJW

Habits

My boy, we've found, loves to touch his hair/head. (My house is so dark sometimes, it can be difficult to get a good photo-these are proof!)

Emmy actually has a little habit too when she is drinking from her sippy cup. Her left hand always reaches up and grabs her hair. Its not so much a twirl as it is a rub between her thumb and forefinger. I'll have to capture that so you all can see it, it started when she was about 18 months...

Couldn't help but post these, isn't she cute?

She's so Cute...Quack.

U Pick

Headed out to the Apple Orchard yesterday.

Emmy and Daddy got to sit on a tractor. You know up here in the city where we live, we don't see many a tractor! ;)

We rode the train...once with Daddy,

Once with Mommy.

We tried to feed the goats, however, they were so disinterested, these are the best photos we have of that portion of the place. Yes, it does say, "kids for sale... ."

Cameron and Emmy went on a tractor ride that took people out to the pumpkin patch.

Liam was there too...enjoying some sleep. He woke up and looked around every time we stopped rolling him on the gravel paths!

Had us some lunch...we used to think they had really good BBQ pork sandwiches, UNTIL we tried this authentic Texas BBQ place in our own town. Yeah, sorry Emma Krumbees, not even close! That's why I had a brat instead :)

Emmy had an apple on the way home. See that sucker?!?! It's as big as her head! She didn't finish it off, but I have to say for the size of it she did pretty well....I can't blame her for not wanting to stop, ever had a Honeycrisp? You just can't stop eating them. SO. GOOD.

Upon our arrival home, I opened Emmy's door and saw this:

Yeah, she wrote on her FACE with crayon. Something about that just sounds wrong. And the car seat didn't fair too well either.

Ah...life with a toddler.

Nine/Ten Weeks, LJW

He's really coming into his own, huh?

If you read my letter to the kid, you would have known that I thought he weighed 16.5 lbs.

HA! Was I off...he ended up being about 12.5, which is in the 90th percentile. So at least I wasn't just imagining he's heavy. :)

Favorites

One of my favorite outfits to date. And he pretty much was grown out of it by the time I got him in it. These shots were taken at the end of August...

I think he likes it too! :)