Happy Father's Day

Little miss was gone all weekend. She went on a trip with her Granddaddy and Honey to the lake. We had a busy weekend without her as I was busy with Courtney's bachelorette party all weekend. I told Bradley last night that I missed Emmy and was ready for her to come home. When she got out of the car this afternoon and smiled and reached out for me that was all I needed to make my day complete! I was feeling pretty tired today-I can't hang like I used to be able to-two late nights in a row totally drained me! When she got home with her big smile and were so happy to see us it just gave me an extra boost of energy.

Wendy was so nice to send me some pictures from their weekend at the lake. I will try to post in the morning before work.

Happy Father's Day to all the dads in our lives!!!

Show Us Where you Live Friday-Playroom

For a few weeks now I have been participating in home tours over at Kelly's Korner. I have had so much fun doing so and hope you are enjoying your sneak peak into our home. Kelly put a schedule up of things we will be showing off or sharing all the way through September. What a great way to get blog post ideas for Fridays-the day when we are most burned out! After you check out our house, go on over to Kelly's blog and check out some others! P.S. I know it is still Thursday but I might be busy tomorrow because tomorrow starts my sister's big bachelorette weekend!

This week we are touring bonus rooms/playrooms. This might be one of my favorite rooms in the house because recently I have spent the most time in here. When Emma really started moving around I decided to change our back family room into a play room. This room was an addition onto the back of our house and is back behind the kitchen. I love having her playroom back her for 2 reasons: 1)when I am cooking dinner, Emma can play back here and I can see her and 2)since the room is in the back of the house, if someone comes by unexpectedly, we can stay in the front room and no one will see our mess! So let's start the tour.

This is the view from the kitchen. See that fireplace-yeah, it doesn't work-don't ask us why it is there-it was there when we moved in.

I bought this foam tile flooring at Babies R Us and I love it! It is so great for Emma to play on. We used to have a rug back here but it was constantly getting dirty and the foam is so much easier to clean. See the Cozy Coupe blow up ball pit? That was a Christmas present for Emma from Target. She loves it.

We got a new chair last week. Actually, it was my sister's chair that we had before but she now gave it back to us, hopefully for good. The blue chair took the place of the old red one that had seen better days!

I made this corner into a little reading/puzzle area. Some of Emma's books are on the lowest shelf and pillows are stacked up in her Floor Nanny. Does anyone else have a Floor Nanny. I think this is one of the best inventions ever! I highly recommend it. We probably got our money's worth after about 6 months but she is still playing in it. They say on the website that it gives kids confidence in learning how to sit up and I totally agree. It also gives parents confidence to let your little one try to sit up. If they fall, they fall onto that soft side.

Some of our favorite pictures are in our playroom. Below is Bradley's picture of Neyland Stadium that Courtney bought him for Christmas.

My signed Larry Wamble Ole Miss picture. We must represent both schools equally!

The collage of pictures from one of Emma's photo shoots with Mike Logan. This was right around the time she was really starting to smile when we coaxed her and we got some wonderful pictures out of that time!

I hope you enjoyed your tour. Next week is master bedrooms and ours is nothing to brag about but I will try to post anyway. I say try because I am leaving next Tuesday night and will be out of town until the following Tuesday. I will be posting, just remotely, from Dallas. Who knows, I might have other things to talk about besides Emma!

Matchy Matchy

A long time ago...about 27 years ago, before there was digital pictures, this picture was taken of me.

Yesterday I took some pictures of Emma in the same dress! My question is-why were there not those bow headbands when I was little. It is pretty obvious where Emma gets her lack of baby hair!

This little girl loves her daddy!

House tour coming tomorrow. I will be showing off our bonus/playroom.

Corn Dogs+Swings=Happy Baby

Emma tried a new food yesterday. Not necessarily a healthy food but there is always room for a good corn dog in your diet, right? She didn't eat it all but enjoyed nibbling on it.



So the last couple of days have been a little rough in the afternoons. Emma has not been wanting to take her nap in the morning and has been going down around 11:30 or noonish. This really only allows for her to have 1 nap during the day. I know that this is going to happen, but I am just not ready. With this one nap she tends to get rather irritable in the afternoons when we get home. You know, right when I am trying to fix dinner and can't hold her the whole time!

Usually Bradley is home and plays with her while I am cooking but yesterday he went to Home Depot on his way home. He wanted to get some rope to hang the swing that Emma got for her birthday. She loved her swing and seeing those smiles made me completely forget the frustrations that I was having earlier.

Does anyone has any suggestions for transitioning from 2 naps to 1 nap well? I am thinking about still having a "rest time" in Emma's pack n play where she can sleep if she wants or play with toys? I also thought about having a quiet time in her crib when we got home from work but I don't want to mess up her sleeping routine. Any suggestion appreciated!!!

13 months!!

Emma turned 13 months on Monday. Notice I had to edit the picture because she didn't want to show the sign!

Last night we went to the Redbird's game to hear my sister's wedding band play. They were playing in the plaza before the game. We had a great time until it started raining. We listened to the band, visited the kid area of the park and even tried our first snow cone! Once the rain came, we ran over to the cut through the Peabody Lobby (no ducks) and then grabbed a quick bite to eat.

While Mommy was Away!

Emma is starting to learn how to eat with a fork and spoon. I wouldn't say she is ready to be turned loose at a restaurant to use them yet, but we are getting there. Really, since she can feed herself with her fingers, I haven't been too concerned with her spoon and fork ability. Yesterday Bradley gave her some Peanut Butter on a spoon. She had a ball with that! He even snapped some pictures.

Then the other night when we were eating with my parents Courtney was helping her use the fork. I think she was having fun putting those french fries on the fork. Too bad french fries is actually a food you eat with your fingers!

Some more pictures that Bradley took while I was gone yesterday. Emma has this Shapes and Numbers Cookie Jar thing. It sings when you put the shapes in the right spot. Bradley said he looked over and saw her playing with the cookie jar, just like in the below picture.
Next, he looked down and saw this...had to take a double take of what was in the cookie jar.
Oh, did you need a close up of what was stuck in Emma's cookie jar? Baby doll-head down-head stuck in the cookie jar! Guess this baby was not playing well with others.

We are on our way to the Redbird's game...

Yard Sale Success

Most of our weekend revolved around the Yard Sale that myself, Courtney and my mom had on Saturday morning. Friday night we had some bad storms around 5ish. We waited out the storms and then I took a full car load over to Courtney's house.

The weather cooperated and we were able to have our Yard Sale on Saturday morning. We did pretty good and I really got to clean some junk out of our house. What we didn't sale we took to Goodwill, so nothing came back to the house! I know these pictures aren't very good, but the only thing I had to take pictures was my iPhone. I just wanted to be able to show the large amount of stuff we accumulate! It is amazing.

**Tip for anyone out there thinking about having a Yard Sale*** DVDs are big sellers! Gaines and Courtney had two towers full of DVDs and they were all gone by the end of the sale. People really sorted though those DVDs. They started selling them for $3.00 each and then went to $2.00 each and didn't have to go any lower.

After the sale on Saturday we had a naptime around our house. Emma skipped her morning nap because of the sale and since I got up so early I was in desperate need of some rest. Quiet time for about 1 and half hours...so nice!!!

Today I scored some serious me time when I went and got a pedicure today. What a treat! After that I spent most of the rest of the day working on Emma's Closet items.

Bradley sent me this picture while I was getting my pedicure. Emma was really enjoying her lunch of shredded cheese, bananas, grapes and peanut butter. What a combo...she especially loved the peanut butter!

Two special birthdays to celebrate.

Happy Birthday to our friend Nelly. Her birthday is today!

Emma is excited to wish Zed a Happy Birthday tomorrow!

That is our weekend in review. Bradley is emailing me some pictures off his phone as I type this. Supposedly there were some funny antics while I was getting my pedicure. I will try to get them on here soon.