Halloween Party with Friends

Today was our Halloween party with playgroup. Everyone was super cute, but it was impossible to get them to sit still to take a group picture. I did manage to get one of Emerson and jack. I think Emerson was the only one to keep her costume on the whole party. I was fully prepared for her to want it off minutes after we got there, but I guess she must have enjoyed everyone saying how cute she was. I decided to make rice krispie treats for the party, which many of you may know are super easy to make, but I didn't realize how hard the cut-outs were. You have to push down super hard to get the shape out and then they stick to the cutter when your trying to get them out. It took me an hour to do 20. I was going to do them for nick to take to work too, but decided that they will have to be thankful for squares. Tomorrow we will go trick-or-treating...hoping she will get some good candy for me!

October Fun!

Sorry again for the delayed post. We have been having lots of fall fun this month. We have been to three pumpkin patches and emerson would go everyday if we had the time. We also made a trip to Colorado. We had a blast with Mimi, Pa, and Mal. We were on our own during the day so all day I would here "Mimi, Pa, Mal Mal...come home?" We had two first on our trip...one was she fell asleep in the stroller after our flight on the way out and the other was she fell asleep on the plane on the way back to columbus. I know many of you may think that these are silly firsts, but to nick and I it was complete shock. For the past 20 months emerson has never fallen asleep in the stroller or on a plane (and she has been on 9 airplane trips), so I was pretty shocked and excited. We spent time with both our "gg's" (great-grandmas), whom she thought were very entertaining, and our aunt lacey. I think sometimes emerson gets confused when she is around lacey because she looks so much like her daddy. Anyway...I could go on and on, but won't write a novel this time.

Big Mistake...

I decided that it was time to clean up the tornado that went off in my car. I really can't tell you how my car gets so dirty or how it collects so many random things...oh wait, yes I can, her name is Emerson. It took me about 20 minutes to just empty all the contents in my car before I could vacuum up all the Cheerios, goldfish, rocks, leaves, oh yeah and pine cones. After cleaning the inside, which felt great, I walked into the garage and looked at the huge pile I had created and realized that I had to clean that up too. It took me 1 1/2 hours and I was beat when I was done. I thought it would be a good idea to take it to the car wash after emerson's nap and I also thought she would think that was a fun time, but boy was I wrong. As soon as the water started she said, "stop car wash." I tried talking her through the whole experience by showing her the soap and bubbles, but she wanted nothing to do with it. I looked at her little hands and they were shaking. I wanted to jump in the back, but I kept thinking we would be done it a minute and really it did only take two minutes. But that may have been the longest two minutes of emerson's life.
We went for our weekly zoo visit yesterday and had a great time! They have decorated for fall, so emerson is constantly pointing out all the pumpkins. Our new favorite animal is the kangaroo. You can literally be a foot away from them, kinda crazy. We also went down my the river and fed the ducks. Emerson was more excited about all the boats and kept asking to see more.