Fun Friend Birthday Party

Kira, Emily, and Kayla

Emily's prize after winning the mummy game

Darling Kira

Sweet Kayla

Best Buds

Silly friends

Dream BIG Kayla Gui

Hope all of your wishes come true Kira Mei

Emily LOVED being part of the group!



 I have to start out by complimenting the wee one! She has had her issues lately, and I must admit I wasn't sure how she would do at a party for twin 8 year olds with 20 children running around, but...SHE DID GREAT!! She was outstanding! My dear, sweet girl only had to be reminded two times in a three hour period of what was expected of her! Way to go EMILY!!!

We went to our friends, Kira and Kayla's, 8th birthday celebration Hawaiian Style!  It was great!  They had grass skirts, leis, games, prizes, two pinatas, limbo, The Chicken Dance, an egg race, the mummy game, plus lots of food, candy, and two cakes! WOW!!

Everyone loved Emily, (many students from my school at the party), and Emily thought it was funny that there were four Emily's at the party!

Emily enjoyed all of it! She participated in all of the party games, from walking with a hard boiled egg on a spoon race, to the Chicken Dance Freeze game, to the limbo, and the best game of all, the mummy game. Emily let Mommy and Auntie JuJu wrap her completely like a mummy, as did all the other teams of three, and then the twins' dad was the judge. He narrowed it down to four mummies and then the kids all clapped for their favorite. Emily and another boy Dylan WON!!! She was so excited! It was so cute! She had a blast sharing popcorn with Tom (Kira/Kayla's dad), watching the girls open gifts for a long time, having a turn hitting the pinata, getting candy, and having cake. She was even able to leave the party without ANY problems...said goodbye, gave kisses/hugs, and seemed to be OK with leaving after a three hour party on only a 20 minute nap in the car on the way to the party!

Overall...I would say she did absolutely MARVELOUS!! I am so proud of her!

Enjoy the pictures! More to come tomorrow; Father's Day with Grandpa!

Love,
Kathy

The four Finalists

Doing the Chicken Dance Freeze

Walking so carefully with her egg

Waiting for her turn at the egg race

My little Mummy



Limbo Fun



Random thoughts and photo update...

Emily and Kylie at Kylie's graduation party

Oh my goodness...so sorry for the lack of updates on Emily and I. As some of you know, life as a teacher at the end of the year is SO BUSY!!! Report cards, packing up the room, end of the year testing, talent shows, assemblies, field days, picnics, lots of meetings, etc.  Emily has been busy as well; she has had her bangs cut again, been to another speech therapy appointment (1 1/2 hours long), been working on her behavior choices at home and school, talking more and more, going to her friend Kylie's graduation party, getting invited to her first friend birthday party, and the most important item on Miss Emily's agenda, how many times can she watch Cinderella???  Each time we watch this classic, she wants to know, "Mommy, where my prince?" Mommy's answer is usually, "I don't know babe, where is mommy's prince?"  She then usually replies, "On the PB" aka TV. So I guess what I am trying to say is...Emily and Mommy are waiting for our  Prince Charming!!!


I am including some random photos from the past two weeks. I am sure you will all enjoy seeing the little beauty in her cuteness.


I'm sure we'll have lots more photos after this Sunday when we enjoy the day with my dad, Emily's Grandpa! The Portland Zoo and PF Chang's here we come!


Love,
Kathy

Reading to Doggy before school one morning

Emily and Doggy before heading off to school for the day

Auntie JuJu and Emily built this Dr.'s office together

Sitting so still for Monica and a bang trim

Getting some of the ends trimmed as well

So Cute..balloon fun! (blurry though)

Fun at Kylie's Graduation party

Yummy Cake!

Chillin' with Panda and watchin' Cinderella!

First Movie Theater Outing/Nana's Organ



Fun at Nana's house



Well, found out that Emily has an ear infection so now is on medication for the next ten days! She still has a bad cough that the doctor says may hang around for 2-3 weeks! YEESH!

Friday evening we headed to Nana's house for a nice spaghetti dinner, visiting, playing games, and best of all Nana's fun organ to play! Emily played MANY lovely tunes using many or all of the buttons or gadgets! She LOVED it! Maybe piano lessons are in our future!

Today, Emily, Auntie JuJu and, Mommy went to the movie theater for Emily's first movie experience! She was a little anxious at first, not knowing what to expect for anything new always tends to bring out the anxiousness in her! As soon as we walked in the lobby, her first words were, "Wow, mommy". It was priceless!

We went to the movie RIO. She enjoyed herself immensely, ate popcorn, candy, goldfish crackers, soda, dance in the aisle, and watched the entire movie, all 90 minutes and all!

It was a great first experience at the movies for all of us! Cute movie too!

Enjoy the pictures of the wee one!

Love,

Kathy

At the movies with Mommy to see RIO!

All ready to watch her first movie

Sick Day

Well, we were all ready for work and school this morning, when right after I did Emily's hair, she said "Mommy sick", and proceeded to throw up all over the bathroom floor. Made it to the toilet for the next two times...ugh!! Needless to say I had to scramble to get Auntie JuJu over here as soon as she could, call my school secretary to get a sub, drive out to school to leave a very quick sub note, and then back home to take care of the wee one so JuJu could go to work!

Emily has had a bad cough for a couple days with all of the drainage, and I believe this is what made her sick. No fever and no loss of appetite, but she is going to stay home one more day tomorrow with Auntie JuJu because Mommy has a field trip scheduled at school!

Tonight Miss Emily was drawing at her easel with her new markers and drew Mommy a picture of a person's face and at the bottom she signed her name. She has drawn faces before, but tonight was the first time she drew a face and then when I said to her, "Where is the hair?" she proceeded to add the spikes of hair at the top all on her own!!  I'm sure in the picture you can pick out the letter E, but all of the rest of the writing around the E she says is her name. As she was writing it, she said "E," then mumbled some names of letters," as if she was spelling Emily. She then proceeded to take the picture off the easel and gave it to mommy with a big kiss and an "I wuv you." Talk about a tear jerker moment!

Great moment for Emily and Mommy!
Enjoy,


See the face with hair and her name at the bottom

 Kathy

Bike Riding and the Park

Well, we finally had some nice weather around these parts...nothing like months of rain to get you excited for a dry, yet, overcast day.

Such a big girl!

Emily, Auntie JuJu and I headed to the park and to a nice walking trail for Emily to practice riding her "bike" aka tricycle!

Let's just say, "Man oh man, has she come a LONGGGGGGGGGGGG way" since last summer when she first tried to ride a trike by herself. Last summer she had no leg strength to even push the pedals unless she was pushed from behind.

This is serious business...

Now that some time has passed, AND that she gets to practice riding trikes at preschool, the girl can pedal with the best of them. She only needs help steering ooccasionally and if there is any kind of incline on the path. Other than that she did FANTASTIC!!! She did quite a bit of riding and her little legs were plum tuckered out, but she made it all the way back to the car.

We then headed to another park that had swings for her to play on! Swinging is by far and above her favorite outdoor activity! Today though, she did venture onto some of the different toys at the park. She did the teeter-totter (with doggy of course), rode on some other bouncy toys and did the slide a few times, and most incredible of all was to see her climb up the rope ladders. She could have never done that before with what little strength she had. Today she just had mommy or Auntie JuJu standing behind in case of any tumbles! It was FABULOUS to witness her climbing and playing so  differently than last spring and summer! WOW...what a difference a year makes!
Enjoy the pictures!

Love,

Kathy

WOW...I have the whole trail to myself!!



Heading back to the car

Whew...made it back to the car!

Look at me go, go, go

Shirt, Pull-up, and dress-up shoes...

Need I say more than the title??? Emily has been playing all afternoon in just her pull-up from her nap, her shirt, and the ever popular dress-up shoes!! She absolutely LOVES, LOVES, LOVES the new desk and chair from Grandma Judi and Kylie! It is supposed to be for a stuffed animal, but Emily thinks it was meant just for her! She hasn't stopped playing with it since they came for a visit this past Thursday. Thank you Grandma Judi and Kylie!!

Eating at her new favorite spot, notice the shoes

Enjoy the pictures and the rest of your weekend!

Love,
Kathy

My big girl, LOVE this photo, just a little blurry

Future Chef

Future Food Network Star???

I just couldn't resist a post on Emily cooking in her kitchen wearing all of her new cooking gear from Titi. She is such a crack-up and loved wearing the bandanna once we showed her how to wear it! She loves using her hot pads just like Mommy when she takes her creations out of her play oven! Auntie JuJu and I were laughing up a storm, it was way too CUTE!!

Enjoy,

Kathy



Oh...my timer went off...





Don't ya just love the ensemble...PJ's, pink sparkle shoes, and cooking gear...



My darling little cook!!!