Singing Girl!

Miss Emmy has really been into singing lately. She has started to remember a few songs like Old McDonald & Twinkle, Twinkle, so she loves to belt out a tune from time to time. Yesterday I caught her singing while I was making her dinner, so I quickly grabbed my phone so I could capture it on video. I had to keep pretending I was checking my email because she kept saying CHEESE (guess I take a lot of pictures) - such a ham she is! Click below to check it out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luQwJV8dqz0

Spending Time with Sadie!

Sara (otherwise known in our house as Sadie) came to visit for a few days before she and Nana & PP headed up to Maine. It was the first time Sara came by herself and it was a fun visit. Andy happened to be out of town for a day so we had a lot of girl time. We went out to ice creams, dinners, made trips to the park, visited friends and even took a trip into the city to meet Corey's (Jared's girlfriends) parents. Emmy loved having Sadie around and so did I! Here are some highlights from the trip.

Playing at the Park

LOTS of Tea Parties!

Hugs for Sadie at Brunch :)

Shopping & Babies!

Miss Em LOVES her babies and she loves to pretend she's going shopping. She especially likes to tell us, she's taking Daddy's car, going shopping or to Emma's house (if you remember, Emma is her imagination friend, who she still ADORES). She loves her babies so much that she even loves to sleep with them. Andy loves to call her the octomom because at any given time there can be at least 3-6 babies in her bed. Thankfully they are small so it still leaves her plenty of room to stretch out.

Today she piled all the dolls in a shopping cart and did her thing. Seeing her do this gave me an idea for our trip later that day to the grocery store. I remembered that they have the small carts for the kids and I had always thought she was too little, but after today I thought why not! When I told her she could push one she got so excited. I then later realized I might regret this decision because the girl is such a creature of habit, that I might have created a monster for when I really need to do a big shop, but I decided her smile was all worth it! She pushed her cart with such glee, stopping each time I needed to put something in and even managed not to knock over one display or run into anyone's feet - I would say that's a successful first trip!

If you look closely you'll see a baby in this shopping cart too!

Playing with Friends

Watching Em and her friends is so much fun to watch! They usually parallel play, but more and more they are starting to play together. They are silly, sneaky and sweet all within a matter of 5 minutes. They are starting to have conversations with one another, Emmy is beginning to remember more and more of their names, even asking for specific people which is really cool. For a little glimpse into the lives of two 2 year olds, please check out the video below...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ySPrPEhOo

Let the training begin...or I guess continue!

So Emmy has been asking to use the potty here and there for the past few weeks. She had some M&M's while we were at the Cape and those seem to be doing the trick. She goes through days where she is totally into it and days when she's not. I'm still not pushing her because she's little, but it certainly does make life a little easier. We are also taking advantage of the fact that it's summer and she can run free in her birthday suit. Some of the perks for me are being able to stare at a really cute tushy all morning long! We recently bought some pull-ups and I was explaining that we don't go pee pee or poop in our pull-ups, which she kind of understands, but we are still working on. She has started singing a really cute, no pee, pee or poop in the pull-up song that I'll work on videotaping soon. Until then, you can enjoy the tushy below :)

San Diego in the Summer!

To end off our whirlwind month of July we took a trip to San Diego for cousin Alex's Bar Mitzvah. I was very excited to go, but very hesitant about the long 6 hour plane ride to get there. Andy and I were thankfully to be traveling with my parents, Corey & Jared just to have the extra hands, plus Em loves all of them so we knew she would be excited to be with them. She was a rock star on the plane both there and home! Besides the Bar Mitzvah festivities and all of the eating we took a trip to the San Diego Zoo, spent the day at the beach, and of course enjoyed the company of our family. Emmy was especially excited and had so much fun playing with cousins Catie, Alisa, Nicole, Jayda, Lucas, David & Alex. She and the girls pretended to paint their nails, do each other's hair and just had lots of fun together. It warmed my heart to see all of them together. Looking forward to the next big family gathering!

Pretending to be Seals at the Zoo!

With Cousins Catie, Alisa & Lucas

Dancing at the Bar Mitzvah!

Birthday Girl!

So I know this birthday post is LONG overdue and I do apologize for that. I was only home the entire month of July for 10 days so you can imagine it was a busy, busy month. I am going to work over the next few days to get caught up on my posts but I am sorry for the delay...

We spent Em's birthday & 9 other days in Chatham, MA with Sandra, Christian, Payton, & Christian's Mom. It was such a great trip and very relaxing. It was nice to be together as a family, but also share wonderful times and memories with some of our closest friends. The girls got a long great (besides a few fights here and there) and were so happy to spend so much time together. We went to the beach and even made some progress there. We now realize that Emmy doesn't like dry sand, but is a huge fan of wet sand and the water, so thankfully we were able to enjoy those parts of the beach. We even had family photos taken by a professional photographer, which came out beautiful. If you want to check them out you can see them here: http://www.kmlphotography.net/pickpic/gallery/jump.php Find Sachs/Camp Families and the password is Ridgevale (case-sensitive). Here is a birthday video of the girl on her special day..

Since we were in the Cape for her actual birthday we celebrated with Mimi, Papa, Nana, PP & Aunt Sadie when we got home. Then throughout the week she would get presents in the mail or while visiting friends that I was beginning to get a bit worried that she thought her birthday was going to continue forever. Thankfully the birthday process has slowed down now and she seems to understand (as well as a 2 year old can) that now her birthday is "far away" as she keeps telling me!