18 months

Emma turned 18 months on Sunday. I didn't actually take any pictures of her. Bradley and I went with my parents to check on the cabin this weekend and Emma went with Honey and Granddaddy to the lake. I heard she had lots of fun on the swingset and riding in her wagon.

Oh, and look what Bradley does when he doesn't have to chase a toddler around a construction site. Bradley was testing out the view from the loft.


Everyone was so tired by the time we got home yesterday I didn't even think about getting my camera out. I tried to take extra pictures on Monday to make up for it.
Someone had lots of fun with her pancake plate after breakfast. There was syrup all in her hair-hey, it makes it look like she has lots of hair!

We went for our 18 month checkup yesterday. Emma was cracking herself up in the mirror.

She weighed in at 26 pounds (75% percentile) and height is 32 inches (60% percentile). We don't have to go back to the doctor now until 2 years old and no more shots until 5 years old!

I will be back later with more pictures-Emma actually has a little ponytail in her hair today! I just wanted to write this post to remember her stats.

Hide and Seek

We have a new hiding place in the office. Emma is not the best hider because she likes to call your name once she is hiding. Totally gives away her spot. And if you don't find her in her short attention span then she will just come out. We are going to have to work on the basics of hide and seek.

Sometimes I think I must have the word Sucker written across my forehead. The other day Emma convinced me that she wanted to have her rest time under my desk. I got the great idea in my head how peaceful it would be if she fell asleep under there and I could watch her. There is just something about watching a sleeping baby! Well you can imagine how long this idea lasted. As you can see, she was playing with anything you can find under the desk. No sleeping was going to take place. We soon moved back to our pack and play in her office.

Sneak Peek

I got one picture as a little sneak peek from our Christmas Card session on Saturday. I thought it was definitely worth sharing!

Have fun decoding this one!

She was talking to dada on the phone.

Christmas Cards

I absolutely LOVE getting Christmas cards. Hint, hint...if you know me-send me one! Just kidding!
I have already been on the search for cute cards for this year. We are getting our pictures taken this weekend-lets hope we get some good ones. We are going to do some family ones and ones with just Emma. I will probably make my final decision about my cards after I get proofs to see how many pictures I am going to use on the card and to see if I happen to win any of these giveaways!
1. Magnolias, Marriage and Manhattan has TWO giveaways going on from The Paper Cafe. Super cute note cards and address labels.
2. The Diaper Diaries is giving away a $100 gift certificate to Avondale Paperie. There are some super cute cards on this site that I am eyeing.

Anyone else have any good ideas of places to look for cute cards? I have done Kodak Gallery in the past, but I am thinking of making a change!

Officer Hoshall

I know that I mentioned last Thursday that we were going to our friend, Peyton's, graduation from the Police Academy. I thought it was very interesting to go and see how our policemen were sworn in, hear about their time in the Academy and celebrate their accomplishments. They said that 90 recruits had started with their class and 21 weeks later only 51 graduated! Zed ran up and snapped a picture before the recruits walked into to the ceremony. Sorry if some of my pictures are not very good. I guess my camera did not like the church lighting and some of the pictures were dark-like the ones below! They are of Peyton receiving his badge and getting sworn in by the Director.

Their whole recruit class-actually by this time they are officers!

Little more close up of the group. Peyton is on the front row, fourth from the right or left-doesn't matter which side you start at.

Bradley, Zed, Lindsay, Jeree and myself were really happy to be able to go to graduation and help celebrate with our friend.

Unfortunately, Bradley was taking the pictures so we didn't get one with him.
Congrats to Officer Hoshall

Halloween

Our little bumble bee had a pretty fun time trick or treating this year. Last year, she was only about 5 months old at Halloween so we didn't really get into it! If we had taken her to anyone's house it would have been pretty obvious that Bradley and I were just coming for the candy.

This year we starting practicing saying "trick or treat". She never really got it but would say "treat" and then would say bye when leaving every house.

We started out our evening by going over to CeCe's house. What a great house to stop at first. She let Emma pick out as much candy as she wanted!

Next we ventured over to my parent's neighborhood to trick or treat. I have come to the conclusion that they have a great neighborhood for Halloween. Zero lot line houses allow you to cover more houses in a shorter amount of time! This was a huge plus when you have someone that doesn't walk that fast to begin with!

At every house that had windows Emma would peak in to see if anyone was coming. She didn't really like the houses that had dogs that barked when we knocked. The picture below looks like she is saying "where are they"

Of course, she got her pick of candy and MiMi and Daddy Mac's house also! They were pretty brave letting her pick out all of that candy considering she was spending the night at their house.

After all of that hard work (and some sugar filled candy) our little bee still had the energy to run home!
Emma stayed at MiMi and Daddy Mac's so Bradley and I could go to a party with Courtney and Gaines on Saturday night. The theme of the party was dead celebrities and there were some good costumes! I stole this picture from Gaines' facebook because I didn't take any pictures. Bradley and I were the fired refs from the SEC. You can't really see but I have a sticker that says "I Love FL Gators" and I made us SEC patches for our shirts. Courtney and Gaines put a little more thought into their costumes and went as Wendy and Colonel Sanders. They had cups from their respective restaurants and everything!