What have we been doing all summer since my birthday?? Well, not much. But I have been keeping up on yard work... lots of hedges to keep in shape and I'm mowing the backyard to help my hardworking husband out. Its actually really fun and only takes me 15 min. I have the easy job vs doing the front yard. But HEY, its something! And keeping our fish alive which we both would say is more of a nuisance than a joy given that there are so many mosquitos that we can't even sit out there and enjoy our pond! But hoping with the cooling of the weather that the end of them is near!
Emery is changing so much every day! Its crazy! Even just today, as I gave in and let her watch some Cars before taking a nap, we were snuggling on the couch and I looked down at her and started to cry. It still hits me every now and again how far we have come and how extraordinary she is to our lives!!! She is the most amazing little person I've ever known! Don't get me wrong, she can be feisty for sure and definitely tests my limits, but its all part of her growing and learning and experimenting and building her character. I just hope and pray I do, at least most, things right so she becomes the person God has created her to be. It is my daily prayer!
So this summer she's been swimming... a lot!! I've taken her swimming every summer since she was 6 months old. And in the winter, I continued to splash her and pour water over her in the bath tub. LOL But it was all for the good because she has never been afraid of the water or getting her face wet. And now, with almost weekly swim times, I have personally had the honor of teaching her to swim. She is on the very brink of swimming on her own! I'm sad that summer is coming to a close. I hope to get in one or two more at the very least. This girl is a fish!!!! Just like her mama, I might add! She is now, jumping off the step or the side of the pool all by herself and swimming to me under water until she finds my arms and pulls herself up. I usually stand about 3 or 4 feet away from her! She will swim under water for as long as 8 seconds so far. Its crazy!! Last swim we did, she would swim to me, come up and take a breath, I would count to 3 and let her go and she would swim to me again. We would do this all the way across the pool! She just can't get enough power to kick her way above the surface. So we have been working on just kicking as well as swimming out and turning around back to the steps. Her least favorite exercise is when I roll her on her back to 'float'. She will cry and cry! But she finally started letting me do it without fighting me, but will still cry. hahaha But she is an amazing swimmer so far!! She's gonna go crazy next year!
Two months ago I had to bring her with me to my 4 hour hair appointment (little did I know it would actually take that long!). But she did awesome! Luckily its a very low key salon and all the girls loved Emery. She just hung out with us the whole time and played on "her rug" with her toys. Then at the end, she finally got to climb up into the big girl chair and got her first, official, professional haircut!! My stylist said it would help her hair grow out by cutting a bob (eek!), getting the unhealthy stuff off, and would prevent it from continuing to break. I'm happy to say I think it really has helped! Her hair is finally growing longer and starting to look more like a kid rather than baby hair. Again, she did awesome as she sat there quietly letting Amber do what ever she wanted! :)
My friend Tyranie watches Emery on the days I'm at work. I'm always begging to take her kid(s) to help her out in return and also give Emery play time. So finally she asked me to watch her youngest, Meagen for the day, who happens to be Emery's little best friend and "sister". We had a super fun time picnicing at the park, playing, eating ice cream and then naptime (yeah for mommy!). It was so fun watching them play!! They crack me up!
Meagan and "mini-me"
I scored BIG TIME on this one!!! A coworker told me about this classic car showroom not far from where we live. So one Saturday morning I took Sean there. I'm not sure who was more excited. Probably him... but I was pretty darn ecstatic and also so proud of myself!!! This place was crazy cool!! Over a hundred classic cars! Sean was in RPM heaven!
We had a family date night one night and went to Las Pinatas. Its a restaurant just down the street from our house and up on a hill. Really cool location and really yummy mexican food! We were not disappointed!! Tonight... Emery had her first full plate dinner ordered for her... aaaaaaallllllll for her!!! Just another small show of how she is growing up!
Just had to share this because she is just sooooooo cool even when
she is going potty in a public restroom!!! hahahahaha
.....And at Target...... and.....
I'm gonna stop for now or this will never get published (still took me a week to complete!) But I will share more pics very soon! Tomorrow Sean leaves me for California to go get our house ready to list and sell! I will be on my own for a week! But not alone.... I'm leaving on Friday and making my first road trip in Texas (and first road trip alone with Emery and only my second road trip by myself ever! ha!). I'm driving to the other side of Houston to Baytown to visit a long time friend from high school. We are so excited to see each other as its been 5 years maybe (?) since we saw each other last! I can't wait to meet her whole family and for her to finally meet little Emery! Gonna be a blast!!
