Monday, February 14, 2011

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day! We had a great day. I made dinner for us and although Jay and I decided not to exchange gifts he still sent me roses. What a good hubby! We also had cupcakes for dessert from Ooh La La Bakery - YUMMY! Emma helped me make Daddy a creative Valentine with candy (see below for the picture - double click on it to enlarge so that you can read it.) She had so much fun making it - she LOVES crafts and asks to use the glue every day! She glued everything (with just a little help) and had so much fun. She kept telling Jay that she had a surprise for him and was so proud to give it to him.
Otherwise we have been enjoying the warm weather. It has been gorgeous this week (mid 70's) and we have been playing outside a lot and going for bike rides, too. The four of us even had a little picnic in the park on Sunday AND I washed my car. Talk about a great day:)
Enjoy the pictures and video. I especially love the video of Anna laughing. There is something so innocent and adorable about those first baby smiles and laughs!
I am a sucker for those darn hooded bath towels:)





Emma riding her bike - she still talks about how Santa brought it for her and it is "Beautiful"



Sliding down the big slide at a friends birthday party

Twirls


That's my girl sucking her thumb. Apparently she was worn out from all the jumping and sliding!

Happy Valentine's Day Daddy!!


The poster the girls made for daddy






Anna's adorable laugh



Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Emma's Latest Stunt

Warning: the following story is a bit gross! Proceed reading for a good laugh.

On Super Bowl Sunday, after our friends had left, I took Emma upstairs for our normal bedtime routine. She got her jammies on, brushed her teeth, and I read her a book. Before leaving the room I decided to do a thorough cleaning of her nose so that she could sleep good that night. She had had a runny nose for a couple weeks and it had recently started to be green and goopy. She didn't have any other symptoms of a cold or sickness so I had written it off to a normal kids snotty nose. This time, for some reason, I decided to clean out her nose as she was laying in bed. This allowed me to get a good look up into her nose which normally doesn't happen. As I look up into her nose I see something WAY up in her left nostril. It is some kind of foreign object.

At this very moment I have a flashback. Ten days ago when I picked her up from school she ran up to me laughing and smiling and said "Mommy, I put a Band Aid up my nose." I laughed it off and said "Emma you know you aren't supposed to put anything in your nose. That's yucky!" Never once did I think she actually shoved it way up in her nose where it couldn' t be seen.

Back to reality - in a panic I sprint downstairs and holler at Jay that Emma has something in her nose and I think it could be a Band Aid. I grabbed my tweezers and ran back upstairs. Jay came up too. I had Emma lie flat on her back as I proceeded to do an extraction of this foreign object. Mind you this "thing" is so far up her nose that when she breathes in I couldn't see it, but when she breathes out I could see just a little bit of "something." Emma knew I was in a panic and stayed extremely still (a true miracle in itself) and just kept asking "Mommy what are you doing?" After several attempts I pulled out a gooey, green, SMELLY Dora the Explorer Band Aid!!! It had been in her nose for at least TEN days!!!

She immediately started crying as Jay and I kept yelling "Emma you DON'T put Band Aid's in your nose!!!" I didn't know how to feel - I was so relieved and thankful that I saw it and was able to pull it out. I also felt terrible that I didn't believe her that day when she told me multiple times that she put a Band Aid in her nose. Who would have thought she was telling the truth on that one?!? I just can't believe that she didn't complain of her nose hurting or headaches. This is definately a story for the baby book:) Poor Emma - hope she thinks twice in the future about putting anything in her nose!