New Videos of Emma

Below are two videos of Emma. She is growing so fast and learning new words every day. She loves singing her ABC's and I have a video of her dancing, Mommy and Emma love doing dance party!

Our Beach Vacation

We were very lucky to have a beach house rented for one whole week this year. The house was at the Outer Banks and it was ocean front. It was a great little house and we had a blast. My mom and my brother joined us. Emma absolutely loved the beach and the water this time. We were often on the beach by 8am or 8:30am due to Emma waking up by 6am everyday and asking for "water, water". We were lucky enough to see a couple of sunrises due to being awake so early. We had great weather for our trip and did not have any rain. Emma also loved this beach because dogs are allowed on the beach and Emma is obsessed with dogs. Luckily there were two very kid friendly dogs on the beach that Emma could hug and kiss.







The huge crab that was in our backyard...



Emma surfing on the boogie board...

We had to be very careful with Emma because she kept wanting to run into the ocean!

Abby made the trip with us...

We played with Bubbles daily. Emma loves to blow the bubbles herself.


Here are Dad and A.D. (Uncle Dave) in the water.

Here is the turtle that Dad built...

A.D. and Dad playing bocce ball.

Here is Dad flying our Elmo kite.

The view from our back deck...

We visited the NC Aquarium in Manteo. I think we made it through at a record speed of 10 minutes because Emma was running from one thing to another. She especially loved the otters and the turtles.

May 2009

May was a pretty busy month. We had Mother's Day, Emma went to the beach for the first time and we saw Sesame Street Live.

Here are pictures from Emma's first beach trip. We went to Wilmington, NC for Memorial Day to visit with Aunt Sharon and Uncle Lee and Aunt Robin, Uncle Sean and baby Camryn. My friend Christy and her girls, Lara and Caitlin met us there. For Emma's first beach trip she did not like the water very much and kept saying "Mommy, toes, mommy, toes" because of the sand being in her toes. She finally started getting better when we were ready to leave. Emma loved playing with all of her friends though and I couldn't believe when Emma and Camryn were wearing the same bathing suit. They look adorable! Emma took a nasty fall while we were in Wilmington, notice the huge bruise on her face :(

Here is Emma in Wilmington swinging with Aunt Sharon.

Here are Emma and Camryn coloring and playing with their dolls before going to see Sesame Street Live. They were so cute playing with each other's baby dolls and strollers.

I forgot my camera for Sesame Street, but below are some pictures from Robin's camera. The girls had a great time. Emma would tell me everyone's name when they came on stage and she could not get enough of Abby Cadabby (? spelling). When the show was over, Emma did not want to leave!

Emma Counting

Sorry I am so far behind with videos. Here is Emma counting to three.

Easter 2009

Emma had a great Easter. She helped with coloring eggs, got some great gifts from the Easter Bunny and her wonderful family and played almost all day outside since Easter day was so beautiful.

She loves talking on this phone. It is usually Pop on the phone or A. D. (uncle Dave).

She would not let go of the bubbles, it was pretty funny.

She loves the cozy coupe.

She had lots of fun pushing around her bubble mower.

She will push bunny around in the car.

Texting while driving...it already starts!