31 months old

This month we all had the chance to go visit my Mom's side of our family in Texas. We had a great time and Emily really enjoyed her flying experience. She kept asking "are we going fast"? Also, much to my surprise she actually took about a 30 min. nap on the flight home, but that was probably because I had to wake her at 4:00am in order to make it to our 7:00am flight. The first thing we had to purchase upon arriving in Ohio was a tube of Dora toothpaste because that's what her cousin Jack used. The question now is how to get Emily to learn to spit?

I know patience is a virtue that even adults struggle with, but I think toddlers especially seem to have difficulty learning this lesson. Emily thinks if she says something once and I don't respond immediately that she has to repeat the request another 10 times. I have heard Emily say "you need to be patient", but I don't think she really comprehends the concept.

Emily's latest entertainment has been playing in the bathroom sink. She loves to fill it up "by herself" and play with her bathtub toys. We'll step away for a couple of minutes and then hear her down the hall having a full blown conversation with her toys.

Family Vacation to Texas March 2-12, 2009

We all had a chance to visit my snow-bird family at the beginning of March. We played outside the majority of the time, played board/card games, went fishing, went to Sea World and Charlie and my 2 Uncle's had the opportunity to go hog hunting. Thank you Neva for making that happen.

Emily and I had the chance to travel with Mom to visit Mark, Randa, Jack and David while in Texas. We had a great time and really enjoyed getting to see their beautiful new home. Of course, if we ask the cousins they'd probably say their favorite thing was playing in the bathtub or sharing popcorn before bed.





This is a stray cat that found his home at the "big house" and Emily naturally gravitated to him, even after an episode where Emily accidentally stepped on Pewter's paw and he scratched her foot. Today in Ohio while talking about our neighbors cats she recalled when Pewter scratched her foot and said "it's ok, God healed my foot".
This is a picture of one of the newly born calves on the farm of the very nice gentleman that gave us the gate key in order to fish in his fishing hole. I think this belongs on Pioneer Woman's site. hee hee
Emily's first fishing lesson. She was more enthralled with the bobber.

We had a great time at Sea World. Emily could not take her eyes off of Shamu. (More pictures from Sea World to come.)



Like Father, like Daughter.....check out the tongue while concentrating on the lawn.