Emmie's First Christmas

As promised, here are some pictures from Christmas. Emmie had a great time in California, and she's enjoying all of her presents!





Here's Emmie, opening her stocking. It's been helpfully labeled "Emerson", although I suppose she can't read it yet. Daddy has a matching stocking, meaning Mommy is the oddball. Her stocking faces the other way, as if she's snubbing us. (Hey, wait a minute....)





Yes, Emmie got a pony! We don't think she even knows *what* a pony is yet, but she likes it just the same. Here she seems to be more concerned about how she's supposed to fit this thing in the overhead compartment.

We're not in right now...

...We're in California for the Holidays. We will be back up and running and posting adorable Christmas pictures of Emmie in a few days. I hope everyone is having fun.

Emmie's first present

Since we're going to be in California for Christmas, we decided that Emmie would get to open her present from us before we left. We didn't want the airport security guy to have all the fun unwrapping it, so here we go:



Emmie began with some tentative pokes and grabs at the paper, but then her instinctive present-opening reflex kicked in, and she had the present unwrapped in no time! I suppose it helped that a certain Mommy kindly moved the ribbon out of the way...




While Emmie has the unwrapping skill down, she has yet to master the "throw the paper to the side so you can get straight to the toy" skill down yet. She got a bit tripped up on the wrapping paper, but then again when you're her age I suppose the paper is half the fun ;)


We hope all of you have a great Christmas, wherever you are!

Santa Baby

Emmie has been trying to figure out what she got for Christmas. I guess it's good she doesn't understand how to unwrap a gift by herself.

Just ignore the cat's tail in the lower right hand corner...hehe

Our 100th post!!!

Let's celebrate our 100th post with another cute picture of little Emerson.

No, Emerson was not electrocuted by the XMas lights...her hair really is that crazy. :)

Shopping Fun

Christmas is just around the corner, so my sister came down to visit last weekend and do some shopping. Emmie had a good time shopping with her Aunt and Uncle and looks adorable in the santa suit they bought her (pictures to come) Here is a photo of Emmie with her Auntie Nique and Uncle Caleb.

Snow Day!!!

Well, it is officially winter and Emmie got to experience her first snow. She seemed to enjoy the cold and watching the snow fall...it even looked like she was trying to catch the snowflakes on her tongue. Her is a video of Emmie enjoying her first snow day:

More Turkey Day Fun

As promised here are some more pictures from our trip to Arizona for Thanksgiving...

Emmie's first encounter with a dog...she liked Mittens almost as much as her kitties.

Mommy and Emmie enjoying the beautiful weather

Emmie with her Grampster

Just to say Hi!!!!

We've been busy lately, so we haven't had time to post much. Here is a cute picture of Emerson picking out a Christmas tree with mommy and daddy...

Here Emmie is expressing her opinion of the tree that we selected. :)

Airborne Baby

So, I was very nervous about flying with Emmie, but she did wonderfully!!! She slept for an hour or so of the trip and was in good spirits for the rest. Here are some photos of Emmie's first plane ride:

Little Emmie sleeping through the turbulence

Looking outside wondering why the clouds are so low.

Emmie opted for a bottle instead of the tasty plane food.